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WQTE AM 560: A 1967 [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK PAGE AD

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A MOTOR CITY RADIO BACK-PAGE: McKENZIE LEAVES WQTE, 1960

**The Detroit Free Press** March 27, 1960

SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1960

— A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE —

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The Detroit Free Press | Ed McKenzie | WQTE

Above article/ad courtesy freep.com newspaper archive.

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— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —

A special THANK YOU to senior MCRFB consultant Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for contributing the Newspapers.com archives, (Detroit radio related) articles, ads, and images we have featured on this site, since 2016.

Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: WQTE-AM BACK ON THE RADIO!

**WQTE RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS**

**WQTE-AM * 1960 * TOM CLAY**

WQTE TOM CLAY aircheck date: SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1960

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WQTE 560 DETROIT RADIO PAMS SERIES #14: 1960-1961

**WQTE �?PAMS’ Jingle Pak on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS**

WQTE-AM * Series 14 * 1960-1961

PAMS #14 “DRAMATIC SIGNATURES” SERIES

—1960—

A NOTE ON THESE WQTE JINGLES

**A Fred Vobbe** profile sketch (featured on his Facebook page)

While Motor City Radio Flashbacks had this WQTE package (unmarked) in the collection for years now, we didn’t know with any degree of certainly what year and what series this jingles package was initially numbered when it was created by PAMS, 60 years ago.

A special THANK YOU to website contributor Frederick Vobbe for providing the proper numbered PAMS series originally tagged with this classic WQTE jingle package.

Frederick R. Vobbe was the former engineer at Greater Media WHNE/WHND/WMJC in Birmingham, MI., late-70s through the 1980s.

Today he resides in Lima, Ohio, where he is chief engineer for radio and television in that market.

The featured WQTE jingle package has been digitally enhanced in sound by Motor City Radio Flashback

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WQTE-AM BACK ON THE RADIO: TOM CLAY!

**WQTE RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS**

**WQTE-AM 560 * 1961 * TOM CLAY**

Tom Clay WQTE (Johnny Mathis Special) aircheck date: Sunday, March 12, 1961

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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt, of Farmington Hills, MI, for recently donating this WQTE radio aircheck (unscoped) to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

* The Bob Pratt Collection *

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WQTE DETROIT RADIO: ’61 NEWSPAPER AD FLASHBACK

Monday, January 9, 1961

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “’Radio For Everyone On WQTE”

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WQTE DETROIT RADIO: ’67 NEWSPAPER AD FLASHBACK

Monday, July 24, 1967

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “’Who Listens to WQTE?”

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A 1968 DETROIT WQTE RADIO NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK

Thursday, October 10, 1968

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “WQTE NEWS”

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WQTE-AM: TOM CLAY PUSH RADIO “FLASHBACK” . . . OCTOBER 31, 1960

From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1960

Detroit’s Tom Clay Suggests Single Broadcast Day Themed With Music’s Past; Day’s Events

DETROIT — Tom Clay, WQTE, Detroit, suggest that stations utilize a program idea he calls “Flashback.”

He writes: “You turn back the pages of time . . . say October 27, 1944. For one whole day you broadcast as you would have on that day. Your copy department writes hypothetical commercials or — better yet — you local sponsors turn back their prices to that day.

WQTE-AM 560, Tom Clay, 1960 — **TOM CLAY** photographed during a live remote show, WQTE-AM 560, 1960.

For info as to and events of the date check your local library (one week prior date chosen). Find out what movies were playing, info on sugar, rationing stamps, car pools, etc. Your news and sports of that particular date should be pre-recorded.

If you want some fantastic news inserts get the album ‘Hear It Now,’ with talks by the late F.D.R., etc. Your jocks should read requests from the boys overseas . . . play the music that was popular then. You’ll get a kick out of playing a record by Frank Sinatra and quipping: ‘Just a fad with the kids. He’ll never last.’

On my show, during ‘Flashback,’ I read off lists of names of boys who were killed in action. Then I said: ‘I wonder how soon we will forget — 5, 10 or 15 years from now? Our switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree.” END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; October 31, 1960)

ADDENDUM: A previous MCRFB June 2, 2012 post on Tom Clay, ‘CLAY LEAVES WQTE-AM POST September 26, 1960 has been updated. To view update (see post Addendum), go here.

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WQTE LOST 45 - 1960

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