A WDRQ 1970s DETROIT RADIO PHOTO: PAUL NICHOLAS
A WJZZ DETROIT RADIO PRESS PHOTO: CANDY SHANNON
DETROIT RADIO NEWSPRINT AD: WCAR 1130! 11/13/63
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
— Wednesday, November 13, 1963 —
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DETROIT FREE PRESS
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2020. Newspapers.com
The above WCAR newspaper ad feature was ‘clipped,’ saved, and digitally imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Missed any of our previous ‘Detroit Radio Back-Pages‘ features? GO HERE.
THIS WEEK 50 YEARS AGO: THE HOTTEST HIT IN THE USA!
NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA * NOVEMBER 21, 1970
— NUMBER ONE 1970 —
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NINETEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “I Think I Love You” by The Partridge Family peaked at #1 this month (3 weeks overall) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending, November 15-21, 1970. (Source: Billboard)
For our previous Billboard Number One U.S.A. Hits go HERE
THIS WEEK IN AMERICA! BILLBOARD HOT 100: 11/19/66
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 NOVEMBER 13-19, 1966
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THIS WEEK IN AMERICA! BILLBOARD HOT 100: 11/18/67
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 NOVEMBER 12-18, 1967
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UPDATE! A NEW WEBPAGE ‘THEME’ COMING: 11/19/20
SO LONG, ‘DAILY POST’
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Today, we’ll begin bidding farewell to our WordPress Daily Post theme. It is the very layout on this webpage you have been looking at since the site’s inception (by our late-George Griggs, founder) on January 27, 2012.
Lately, due to several “behind-the-scenes” issues the website has been dealing with in the second half of the year, it is now reality our theme can no longer sustain vital, much required, dated upgrades, apparently.
The “No Comments”, long having been realized on this website for some months now (read here), may just well stem from using our current Daily Post ‘theme’, it is more than likely just “out-dated”, having ran its designed course, not able to handled current website tech fixes as well (as I was recently informed by a Bluehost tech).
And despite the recent WordPress 5.0 upgrades, the theme has failed time and again to uphold the latest updates and several other important WordPress plugins and security changes overall. In short, by keeping the Daily Post theme, it has become more realistic the “missing comments” will not be returning at all — if we continue using the site’s Daily Post theme.
Last week, Motor City Radio Flashbacks went off-line for some extended time (37 minutes!) just after the 2:00 p.m. hour, Friday, November 12 (see below). Unbeknownst to me, Bluhost attempted an upgrade with the theme’s PHP security codes (we have been stuck at PHP 5.6) with their latest version, 7.4. It didn’t work (and this happened before). The tech then had to revert back to the old PHP 5.6 version to get the site back online. PHP security upgrades are essential for all WordPress sites and blogs.
In lieu of that happening, same day, I tried to reach out to the theme’s developers, courtesy of WordPress, to let them know their Daily Post theme needed to be reviewed and most likely needed to be updated (obviously!). I also informed them I still wanted to keep their theme we have been using all these years.
Thus far, not a word in response from their end as of this writing.
As of this coming Friday, the hammer is coming down. Bluhost informed me last week that the PHP 7.4 security upgrade will become mandatory — will take immediate effect, November 20.
Bluhost, in somewhat strong, but kind terms, suggested I should replace our Daily Post with a newer theme. Looks like we have no choice.
Sometime this coming Thursday, November 19, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will have a different look. Our new WordPress theme will be Twenty Fifteen. Having already previewed the selected theme (and the good news — all your posted comments will be visible and back up!!) the layout will look somewhat as close as possible to our (soon-departed) Daily Post theme.
So long, Daily Post. Has it been nearly nine years? It was very good to us . . . indeed, while it lasted.
Jim Feliciano
Motor City Radio Flashbacks
Monday, November 16, 2020
DETROIT’S RADIO BOOM: A ‘RADIO REPORT’, 08/10/65
DETROIT’S RADIO BOOM
— Tuesday, August 10, 1965 —
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RADIO-TELEVISION DAILY
The above article, authored by Gil Faggen (Radio Editor) was published in Radio-Television Daily in August 1965. The report actually became a WKNR two-page spread (18 in. across x 12 in. vertical), having been folded down the middle. It was inserted in a large-envelope, mailed and distributed to sales personnel and station clients by WKNR VP GM Walter Patterson, sometime shortly thereafter the featured article was published at the time.
This website found and obtained this — rare — 1965 WKNR pamphlet (with the actual WKNR large envelope) earlier this year.
This Radio Report is today’s featured presentation on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
The above Radio Report was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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DETROIT RADIO NEWS PRINT ADS: WJBK 1500! 09/14/61
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
— Thursday, September 14, 1961 —
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DETROIT FREE PRESS
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2020. Newspapers.com
The above WJBK newspaper ad feature was ‘clipped,’ saved, and digitally imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Missed any of our previous ‘Detroit Radio Back-Pages‘ features? GO HERE.
— A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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A special THANK YOU to our senior website contributor, Greg Innis, Livonia, MI., for having contributed every single one of these Detroit radio newspaper features for the website.
Thank you, Greg Innis, for your kind generosity 🙂
BILLBOARD BEST-SELLING TAPE CARTRIDGES: 11/14/70
THE NATION’S BEST SELLING TAPE CARTRIDGES
WEEK OF 11/8–11/14/1970
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
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