In addition to WINS you can chat up the 5 other CBS Radio stations in New York, all of which all connected to AOL Radio. There's also a drop down window containing a listing of CBS Radio stations throughout the country, allowing you to stream each one...
CBS Radio has put together quite the online package for its brand. No doubt, this effort cost tons of bucks but was attainable with the support of AOL. Here's some background history on the marriage of CBS and AOL, based on my time at CBS-FM. Sometime after 2000 when Mel Karmazin was running things at CBS, he was opposed to streaming any of the CBS stations. The general consensus of opinion was that Mel was trying to find a way to capitalize on streaming. Along comes AOL which signed a two-year exclusive contract with CBS radio. From that day forward CBS stations began to stream. That initial deal has created a monster...
10 Timeline Memories:
1.1861] Hardly civil: The Civil War begins as confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter...
2.1877] The tools of ignorance: The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng (it should have been 'Pyng') wears a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It's believed to be the 1st catcher's mask ever used in a baseball game...
3.1938] Blood letting: The 1st U.S. law requiring a medical test for a marriage license is enacted in New York. Drawing blood is no longer required, it's been replaced by fogging up a mirror...
4.1945] 'Happy Trails': President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies from a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs (GA) at 63. Harry S. Truman is sworn in as our new President...
5.1960] Veeck as in Wreck: Bill Veeck and Chicago's Comiskey Park introduce the 1st exploding scoreboard...
6.1966] Rock & Roll Wreck: Jan Barry (Jan & Dean) crashes his car at Dead Man's Curve, (good song title) is seriously injured but survives...
7.1988] Vote For Me: Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs (CA)...
8.1995] Gitchy Gitchy yaya dada: Drew Barrymore jumps on David Letterman's desk, lifts her sweater up with her back to the audience and gives Letterman an eyeful as a birthday present...
9.2004] Concentrated juice: Barry Bonds ties Godfather Willie Mays for 3rd place with his 660th home run. Eventually Bonds sets the all-time record with 762 home runs...
10.2007] Canned Imus: Don Imus is fired for his racial references to the Rutgers' women's basketball team. On the same day New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is seriously injured in an automobile crash. Corzine was on his way to a meeting with the team and Imus...
Commentary...
Tomorrow, April 13, a Hearing Conservation Workshop will be presented at NYU's Steinhardt Music Technology Center, 35 West 4th Street, bet. LaGuardia Place & University Place from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. This Workshop will offer a new approach to promoting awareness of the ever-increasing problem of noise and music-induced hearing loss. The workshop is an open event. Additional information is available here...
Music Memories:
- Recorded on this date: 1954] "Rock Around The Clock" - Bill Haley & Comets. This was the quote from producer Milt Gabler: "I hope you guys don't need any rehearsal time with the 'clock song'. We've only got time for a couple of takes.". Many regard this as the first Rock & Roll song...
- Released on this date: 1954] "Shake, Rattle and Roll" - Big Joe Turner (this is the original version of a song that Bill Haley will cover)...1969] "The Boxer" - Simon & Garfunkel...1975] "When Will I Be Loved" - Linda Ronstadt...
- Number One on this date: 1966] "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" - Righteous Bros...
Jennifer ("House") Morrison (31), Claire Danes (31), Shannen Doherty (39), Vince Gill (53), Andy Garcia (54), David Cassidy (60), author Tom Clancy (63), David Letterman (63), Steppenwolf's John Kay (66), Herbie Hancock (70) and Jane Withers (84)...
Timeline Countdown: 10 days until the NFL draft, 19 days until the Kentucky Derby, 27 days until Mother's Day and 49 days until Memorial Day...
