Jeff & Flash were also credited as being major contributors in bringing the Rock Hall to Cleveland, by heavily promoting on-air a USA Today reader poll to decide which city should get it.[82]. 2. WMMS was directly influenced by then and current sister station WHTZ/New York (Z100), which rose to the top of the ratings books immediately after installing a contemporary hit radio (CHR) format. You have permission to edit this article. [26][38][39][75][76][77], The World Series of Rock was a recurring, day-long and usually multi-act summer rock concert held outdoors at Cleveland Municipal Stadium from 1974 through 1980. This popular contest is one of Stans annual signature events. "[110] Studios were moved again to a combined facility in the suburb of Independence, Ohio. This year, four past winners were in attendance. Longtime Blues Traveler scribe Cree McCree wrote in High Times in 1995: A coalition of state officials and antidrug activists had attempted to halt the concert in court, citing the headliners' participation in the NORML benefit album, Hempilation, as proof of their alleged "mission to glorify drug use in a state park." [151] In addition to the live broadcast, the show is available on demand through iHeartRadio; and can be downloaded as a podcast through iTunes. Though the legend dates to the turn of the century, none but a few local historians and story-tellers paid much attention to the now famous Buzzards of Hinckley Ridge, one of Ohio's most fascinating natural wonders. No. Data Provided By 1992 - Sandy Goddard from Ft. Lauderdale Florida 1993 - Lauise Sutton from New York 1994 - Sandy Bryson from Goodland 1995 - Mary Miller from Michigan 1996 - Kellie from New York Watch live streaming video from hughesproductionstv at livestream.com The three-day festival attracts nearly 5,000 people to Goodland. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. WMMS does not air additional network programming, and the station only airs select games during spring training. Rolling Stone named WMMS "Best Radio Station" (Large Market) nine straight years (197987) as part of the magazine's annual Readers' Poll,[26] but the station admitted to stuffing the 1987 ballot following a February 1988 front-page story in The Plain Dealer exposing manipulation. Bayfest 1996 took place from October 4-6, 1996 and the headliner was Widespread Panic. For V's first year, the festival on sites in Staffordshire and Essex opened its doors with a solid line-up, including Pulp, Elastica, Supergrass, The Charlatans Super Furry Animals, and. [143] Born in Chicago but raised in Las Vegas, Rover worked for rock stations KISW in Seattle and KXPK in Denver prior to arriving in Cleveland. [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. Having previously announced headliners John Grant, Nadine Shah and Django Django, today they've confirmed that Self Esteem, The Mysterines, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Bess Atwell and Steam Down will be joining the lineup. [120] Finally, The Bob & Tom Show aired in the time slot from 2006 until April 2008. [145] WMMS itself also airs The Rover Rewind, a weekly recap show on Saturday mornings. With an extra $150 thrown in by Dan Keegan, all-in-all Saylor went home with about $400 in cash. June 23, 1995 Miami Arena, Miami, FL (Boyz II Men, Montell Jordan & Mary J. Blige. John Gorman and Denny Sanders left the station in fall of 1986, leading fourteen staff members with them to start rival station WNCX. Past show members at WMMS include, Ryan Hoppe, Scott Taylor (now a reporter at WJLA in Washington, DC, Kaitlin Geosano, and Rob Garguilo. [128] WMMS again served as the FM flagship to the Cleveland Browns Radio Network from 2002 to 2012, with Jim Donovan and Doug Dieken as announcers. [134] Following Merluzzo's departure, senior vice president of programming for iHeartMedia's North Ohio region Keith Abrams was named as program director on December 4, 2017. For the station's tenth anniversary in 1978, WMMS hosted and broadcast a live Springsteen concert at the Agora Ballroom independent of his concert tour. It was named as one of the Southeast Tourism Society's "Top 20 Events" several times beginning in 1995. Bayfest 1998 took place in October, 1998 and the headliners were Creed and Candlebox. The Alan Cox Show is rated #1 in several key demographics, and readers of Cleveland Scene named Alan Cox the best Cleveland radio personality four straight years (201013). We all have such respect for what this station did back in the day. Belkin Productions staged these events, attracting popular hard rock bands and as many as 88,000 fans. Matt Harris served in the interim until WMMS hired Dick Dale (Bert Morris) from WPLA/Jacksonville. 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. The station also started to devote weekend programming to the classic rock format. In July 1973, John Gorman joined WMMS as music director and was promoted to program director and operations manager two months later where he remained for thirteen years. It was scheduled for Sunday May 10, 2009 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. "[32] "De-emphasized" in the fall of 2007, the scavenger was revived the following spring to coincide with the station's 40th anniversary and with the arrival of morning personality Rover. By 1984, the WMMS format moved to an CHR/AOR hybrid, playing a great deal of Top 40 rock singles in hot rotation mixed with album cuts; this new blended rock/Top 40 format was soon known by those at the station as Rock Forty. [51] On July 31, 1947, W8XUB began broadcasting at 100.7MHz. WMMS also streams it's coverage of selected games on iHeartRadio, even outside of the Cleveland market. [121] The Jacor purchase closed on August 10, 1998; 59days later, on October 8, 1998, Clear Channel Communications won a bidding war for Jacor in a $6.5billion deal. Incorrect? Already strained by ongoing contract renewal negotiations, the incident further alienated the two parties, and by November of that year the show was cancelled. [140] The Maxwell Show gradually evolved from airing mostly music to all talk, with Maxwell joined by WMMS music director Dan Stansbury and Tiffany "Chunk" Peck, the program's phone screener.
The downtown event, hosted by Grand Saline Main Street, featured a cook off, Mr. and Mrs. Old Buzzard Contest, karaoke, car show, a beard and leg hair competition and outhouse races among other. During a June 19, 2012 interview with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, the show broke news of the delayed release for Music from Another Dimension!, the band's first studio album in eight years. Pickup instructions are on the order form. It really was an awesome time.' [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. WMMS-HD2, which relays its signal over low-power FM translator W256BT (99.1 FM), is the Cleveland affiliate for iHeart's all-news oriented Black Information Network. The Hinckley Chamber of Commerce Buzzard Day (Sunday, March 17, 2013) WMMS was the first radio station to employ full-time promotion and marketing directors: Dan Garfinkel and his successor, Jim Marchyshyn. [142], On April 3, 2009, The Maxwell Show went on the air claiming that Metallicain Cleveland for the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony the very next daywas playing a free show in the WMMS parking lot later that evening. Tony Tilford, WMMS program director (19992003), WMMS shifted format to active rock on February 17, 1997, under the direction of Bob Neumann, who had previously programmed WNCX and WENZ. There were other really good rock stations around, but those other stations opted in to carry the live broadcast of the MMS birthday show (in 1978). Be Nice. The Buzzard became synonymous with WMMS, Cleveland radio and the city itself, spawning a series of T-shirts so numerous that they are now impossible to catalog, many with slogans like "Where Music Means Something" and "Ruler of the Airwaves.". During this time, with Denny Sanders as his creative services director and Rhonda Kiefer as programming assistant, WMMS broke all Cleveland ratings and revenue records. 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[122] Closing in May 1999, Clear Channel was renamed iHeartMedia in 2014. In 2003, the festival included over 125 live musical acts on nine stages and had an average attendance of more than 200,000 people during the three-day weekend each year. [51] In order to firmly establish a separate identity, and to reflect the station's ownership,[55] the WHK-FM callsign was changed to WMMS on September 28, 1968. Cleveland Magazine has also described both Rover and Cox as "talk shows with a rock-oriented sensibility". [171][173][174], For the Bath, Maine, radio station which identified as WMMS from 1957 to 1964, see, "This radio station is known for breaking the rules, changing the game, and being successful. WMMS during this period would play a key role in breaking several major acts in the U.S., including: Rush, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny, Fleetwood Mac, Meat Loaf, The Pretenders, the New York Dolls, Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople, Boston, and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. The music structure also was modified at this time as artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince soon found airplay on WMMS. [78] Concertgoers occasionally fell or jumped off the steep stadium upper deck onto the concrete seating area far below, causing serious injury. [41] WMMS also lured popular morning personalities Brian Fowler and Joe Cronauer away from rival WENZthen also an alternative rock stationas the successors to Jeff and Flash (Jeff Kinzbach, Ed Ferenc) on The Buzzard Morning Zoo. Past Lineups - MerleFest Past Lineups From Doc Watson to Willie Nelson to Dolly Parton, here is a complete history of artists who have performed at MerleFest since 1988. Attendance was by general admission. Cleveland Police briefly detained Ky-Mani Marley after the singer threatened Rover for comments made during an April 20, 2010 in-studio interview. We present them here for purely educational purposes. He was best known as the voice for the station's hourly IDs, music segues, sweepers, and commercials, and was also a member of The Buzzard Morning Zoo in the mid-80s. The Charlie Daniels Band. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Threats of harming another The Mullet Festival celebrates Old Florida at its finest, and carries on the traditions established by Stan Gober (may he rest in peace! BayFest was an annual three-day music festival held in the heart of downtown Mobile, Alabama. [96][98] Billboard and Airplay Monitor magazines together named WMMS Rock Station of the Year (Medium Market) in 1995,[103] and Modern Rock Station of the Year (Medium Market) in 1996. Hey, this setlist was played at a festival: Use this setlist for your event review and get all updates automatically! 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). Play-by-play announcers Tom Hamilton and Jim Rosenhaus call games on-site. BayFest was an annual three-day music festival held in the heart of downtown Mobile, Alabama. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism At the same time, the music communicates frustration and a constant longing to escape. Jeff and Flash ruled the airwaves for 18 years on 100.7 WMMS. Curated by our very own editors, it's a weekend of live and in-person panels with some of your favorite stars and creators, where we can all obsess together over the culture we so love. 94.5 The Buzz is Houston's Rock and Alternative with big personalities like the Rod Ryan Morning Show, Theresa, A.D., Karah Leigh and more playing artists such as Muse, Beck, Twenty One Pilots, Foo Fighters, Theory of a Deadman, Cage the Elephant and more! Saturday, Mar 4, 2023 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. [98][106] The sale came almost immediately after passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a time when radio companies nationwide rushed "at a fever pitch" to acquire new properties. [136], From the 1994 exit of Jeff Kinzbach and Ed Ferenc until the arrival of Rover's Morning Glory in 2008, WMMS gained notoriety for airing 13 distinct shows in morning drive. Keep it Clean. [5] On September 16, 2015, organizers announced the event's ending, as well as the cancellation of its planned 21st festival. 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