In addition to Boom's deep pipes being used every hour in the Top of the hour ID's, station sweepers and commercials, he held two on-air shifts on the weekends which he coined the Boom 'till noon. Rachel Elliot - 700WLW He helped launch progressive-rock radio as a DJ and programmer at both WMMS-FM/100.7 and WNCR-FM/99.5. Already strained by ongoing contract renewal negotiations, the incident further alienated the two parties, and by November of that year the show was cancelled. She started at the Buzzard in 1976, and stayed until 1983, working mostly the evening shift. Photos | 100.7 WMMS John Gorman and Denny Sanders left the station in fall of 1986, leading fourteen staff members with them to start rival station WNCX. WMMS also airs The Week in Cox, a weekly recap show on Sunday mornings. Here's a look at some of the most iconic radio personalities to appear on the. He was 64 years old. WMMS-FM started up on Sept. 28, 1968, as a progressive-rock station, and earned fame as one of the country's most successful rock stations in the '70s. 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[167] WMMS also transmits text to compatible analog receivers, such as station IDs and artist and song information, via the Radio Data System (RDS); similarly, WMMS transmits text to HD Radio receivers known as Program Service Data (PSD). Boom also spent time on the Buzzard Morning Zoo and filled in during other air shifts. Other artists that shared the main stage were No Doubt, Patti Rothberg, The Tragically Hip, 311, and the Holy Barbarians. Cleveland Magazine has also described both Rover and Cox as "talk shows with a rock-oriented sensibility". In September 1995, he was hired to do nights at WRKR-FM in Kalamazoo, MI. Bryan Adams Agora photo credit: Janet Macoska, Sammy Hagar Odeon photo credit: Daune Raz. In 2014, Springsteen finally released the Agora concert officially on CD and download. This second show sold out immediately, and was held at the city's largest venue: Cleveland Public Hall.[63]. Rover is pictured in the middle in the 2009 WMMS promo photo above with partners Dieter and Duji. The broadcast consists entirely of talk, a mix of current events, pop culture, and stories from the staff. Matt the Cat was permanently let go in December 1992 due to "budget problems. BuzzardFest 2000 took Place on June 30, 2000 at Nautica on the Flats West Bank. (Halper is at center in the photo above, with members of Rush and WMMS staffers. [148][149][143][150], Radio personality Alan Cox, formerly host of The Morning Fix at WKQX/Chicago and The Alan Cox Radio Show at WXDX-FM/Pittsburgh, took over weekday afternoons as host of The Alan Cox Show on December 16, 2009. 26 memorable DJs and radio personalities from WMMS-FM's past: The [120] Finally, The Bob & Tom Show aired in the time slot from 2006 until April 2008. The other DJs in the photo are, from left: Doc Nemo, Vic Boc, Martin Perlich and Pat Mack. Now Debbie joins Dave Noriega to host a daytime radio broadcast "Dave and Dujanovic" where they discuss Utah news, culture, and . April 16, 1974 the Buzzard was born. He can still be heard on the radio, too. "Those guys who pilot those ships through here? He would go on and on about what is wrong with the world, horrible co-workers and bosses and the daily grind of the work day. It was supposed to be a colorful logo including all the rainbow colors - but at the time, the station didn't have the budget to do multiple colors so they kept it one color. In 1988 The Plain Dealer printed a story which said the employees of WMMS had stuffed the ballot box to reign as 10 year champions. [114] BuzzardFest II was held the very next fall (September 1995) again at Blossom and featured performances from the Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette, Jewel, as well as the Dance Hall Crashers, Eleven, Green Apple Quick Step, Prick and Sons of Elvis. Ross Brittain temporarily filled in prior to the arrival of The Brian and Joe Radio Show on the Buzzard Morning Zoo, hosted by Brian Fowler and Joe Cronauer. "Discover Financial Services (DFS.N), a provider . While both Rover and Alan Cox are primarily "hot talk" programs, rock music airs during regular middays, nights, overnights, weekends and online during Cavaliers and Guardians play-by-play. During the 1990s, he applied the same, take-no-prisoners promotion, programming and marketing strategy as operations manager of WMJI-FM/105.7, pushing the oldies station to the top of the radio ratings. It was the perfect way to keep the party rolling. The announcement came less than two weeks before the show. Spero would go on to become one of Cleveland's early progressive-rock DJs, working first at WNCR and then at WMMS. SiriusXM Channel Hosts | SiriusXM Canada Brian and Joe were moved to afternoons in February 1997 after a change in ownership, with shock jock Liz Wilde (Anne Whittemore) from WPLL/Miami taking their place; her firing less than a year later sparked a successful lawsuit against both the station and then-owner Nationwide Communications. The show was a blend of music, comedy, news and sports, all with a definitively Cleveland sensibility. [105] John Gorman, who has since openly criticized the industry's current state, departed for CBS Radio in Detroit, but soon moved to media consulting. As WMMS celebrates the anniversary, both on-air and online, using archival audio, memorabilia and station-related artifacts to offer a cross-section of the station's diverse history and the. Everything else in Cleveland was going wrong except us," said Gorman about his early years at WMMS in the '70s. "I think it's like a young nation, the changes of the times," said John Gorman, the station's program director during its 1970s and '80s Buzzard heyday. Mama, come get your baby boy! Night on-air personality on The X. The people who put it together aren't even smart enough to know where our city boundaries are." [26] Station employees went on to take director and executive-level positions in the recording industry, namely with labels RCA, Mercury, and Columbia. Kid Leo was actively involved in the campaign in bringing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Cleveland - which lead to the mayor Geroge Voinovich granting him a key to the city in 1990. "The station, like any radio station, it really reflects the people who are running it and the ownership of the station. : Michael K. 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[38][39] Considered "a true radio legend," WMMS DJ Kid Leo was chosen for Rolling Stone's "Heavy Hundred: The High and Mighty of the Music Industry" (1980) and named "The Best Disc Jockey in the Country" in a special 1987 issue of Playboy. Photo: Courtesy of John Gorman), One of the young DJs legendary WMMS program director John Gorman brought to the Buzzard when he took over again as WMMS chief in the early 1990s. Play-by-play announcers Tom Hamilton and Jim Rosenhaus call games on-site. About Stacy | 105.9 The X Those 50 years have seen a lot of change for the station. But after a few years, he wanted to concentrate on being a DJ, so he reached out to an old friend, John Gorman, to come Cleveland as the station's music director. Matt remains one of the most popular air personalities from WMMS fifty year history. In honor of the station's milestone birthday, we've compiled a list of some of the Buzzard's most memorable DJs and behind-scenes personalities, spanning the full 50-year history of the station. Korvan now lives in South Dakota. [122] Closing in May 1999, Clear Channel was renamed iHeartMedia in 2014. [68][69][70] WMMS also began referring to its frequency in promotions as "101 FM", a rounding-off which continued for the next decade. He made his debut on WMMS in 1984. In 1973 WMMS unveiled a new logo The Mushroom. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the station played home to some of Cleveland's most recognizable personalities: Matt the Cat, Denny Sanders, Murray Saul, Betty "Crash" Korvan, Ruby Cheeks, BLF. WMMS' decline culminated on April 14, 1994, with the high-profile departure of Jeff Kinzbach, effectively ending "Jeff & Flash" on WMMS (Ferenc would leave the station several weeks later; both would pair up again at WWWE). iHeart Will Move Cleveland Stations Downtown - Radio World We all got to know Billy Bass pretty good. The first buzzard which has penned the name The Wrath of the Buzzard can be seen sitting atop a mushroom paying homage to the former logo along with the competitors call letters WGCL and WIXY grasped in its beak. You gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta get dooooooowwwwn!, His rant followed Bruce Springsteens Born to Run. The kickoff to the weekend continued with Ian Hunters Cleveland Rocks and Earth Quakes Friday on my mind.. He returned to Cleveland radio in 1997, working at both WMJO-FM/105.7 and WZJM-FM/92.3. WMMS (100.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio, commonly identified as "TheBuzzard". The station serves as the FM flagship for both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Guardians radio networks. "[66][67] Although never used on the air, listeners alternately knew the callsign as an acronym for "Weed Makes Me Smile" and "Magic MushroomS," the latter referencing the somewhat controversial logo used before the Buzzard. Since retiring from WDVE last year, he's been roaming the country by car. Condolences: Betty Korvan - RAMP - Radio and Music Pros He now runs his own music consulting business, LJT Entertainment, and is program director and an on-air host of "Underground Garage" on Sirius XM Radio.