From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1971
Detroit Rocker WRIF-FM Moves Towards 24-Hour Broadcasting
DETROIT — WRIF-FM has added two new broadcasters as they move toward a 24-hour format with live programming — Dan Carlisle and Paul Greiner. WRIF started moving toward full live coverage over a year ago. With the two new personality additions, the FM station now offer 21 hours of live broadcasting and three hours of taped programming. Both voices, Carlisle and Greiner, are familiar to Detroit audiences.
Carlisle was one of the original deejay aces at WABX-FM in Detroit before going to Chicago’s WDAI-FM where he held the 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. time slot. Carlisle will be on WRIF-FM from 3 to 7 P.M. Crossing town from WKNR-FM where he filled in from 2 to 6 P.M. is Greiner. Airtime for Greiner will be from 11 P.M. until 3 A.M. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; May 22, 1971)
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1979
KAREN SAVELLY ACES WRIF-FM
DETROIT — Karen Savelly has joined the on-air staff at ABC’s WRIF-FM in Detroit. She will handle the 6 to 10 P.M. time slot. Savelly comes from WRIF rival WABX-FM, where she also worked evenings. Prior to working both stations she was at WWWW-FM where she worked weekends. Experience at these three progressive Detroit radio stations has prompted WRIF to dub her the “first lady of Detroit FM radio.”
WRIF is also introducing a new concert series called “The Friday Night Late Show,” to run from 11 P.M. to midnight. The show will present “up and coming new talent,” according to program director Tom Bender. “We’re screening the list very carefully, not only to get the best talent, but a recording of them in concert that will show off their music to the fullest.” END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; August 4, 1979)
