The Launching Pad stage during Bayfest focused on local and regional talent. The top 40 format also failed to make any major ratings impact. We joked about the Buzzard becoming Cleveland's Mickey Mouse a "Buzzard Land" amusement park filled with sex, drugs and rock and roll A study conducted by MBA students at Case Western Reserve University in 1975 found that the new WMMS logo was more recognizable to those living in Greater Cleveland than both Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians and even Coca-Cola. [91] As promised, Stern held a party for his fans on the streets of Cleveland a "Funeral" for his local rivals, much like similar events held in New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia and broadcast it nationwide. There's proof! In November 1972, WMMS was sold to Malrite Communications, a Michigan-based firm that relocated to Cleveland upon purchase. racist or sexually-oriented language. You have permission to edit this article. Tracy is the mother of Saylor! Hat Trick kicked off the three-day event on Friday, Iconic on Saturday and the Shane Duncan Band brought the crowd pleasing weekend to a close! Cleveland Police briefly detained Ky-Mani Marley after the singer threatened Rover for comments made during an April 20, 2010 in-studio interview. [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. Each fall, vultures fly over Makanda and the surrounding areas and signal the beginning of fall and the arrival of the incredible fall colors of Makanda and southern Illinois. [58][59] During this time, WMMS used slogans derived from its call sign: first as "Music Means Satisfaction", and later as the place "Where Music Means Something". Bayfest 2013 took place on October 4-6, 2013. Jeff and Flash ruled the airwaves for 18 years on 100.7 WMMS. Bizarre Festival 1995 Setlists Aug 19 1995 Date Saturday, August 19, 1995 Venue P 23 (Deutz-Messegelnde), Cologne, Germany Report festival So far there are setlists of 10 gigs. Go to Link Sidepony Express Music Fest November Joining the Chicago native are Cleveland area comedians Bill Squire and Mary Santora, and former intern-turned-phone-screener Cody (Poundcake) Brown. [125] As part of the stunt, Denny Sanders returned to host an airshift, programming the music at his discretion. Be Proactive. Teenage Head The Pursuit of Happiness The Saints 1995 Major League Opening Day Lineups Previous Season Next Season World Series Champion: Atlanta Braves Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. The Charlie Daniels Band. Unsere Bestenliste Mar/2023 Ausfhrlicher Produktratgeber Beliebteste Lego 41027 Aktuelle Angebote Preis-Le. [5] On September 16, 2015, organizers announced the event's ending, as well as the cancellation of its planned 21st festival. [142], Radio personality Rover (Shane French), host of Rover's Morning Glory, took over weekday mornings at WMMS on April 1, 2008, following a contract dispute with WKRK-FM owner CBS Radio; John Gorman compared signing the popular morning personality to a "coup". EC horror comics, Fritz the Cat, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Looney Tunes all served as inspirations for the "bird of prey with attitude" concept. From 1978 on, Belkin Productions conditioned its funding of the Free Clinic on the nondisclosure of the number of Clinic staff on duty at the concerts, the nature of conditions treated and the number of patients treated.[79][80]. person will not be tolerated. Signing on in 1946 as the FM adjunct to WHK, the WMMS call letters were affixed in 1968 under Metromedia ownership, having stood for "MetroMedia Stereo" and meant as a compliment to the newly established progressive rock format, but have since taken on a variety of other meanings. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. [170][171][172], WMMS has also served as the FM flagship station for the Cleveland Guardians Radio Network since 2013, again sharing network flagship status with AM sister station WTAM. Attendance was by general admission. [44][45][46] Seven years later, members of the station's staff and management pleaded guilty to disrupting a national broadcast of The Howard Stern Show that originated via the local Stern affiliate, cross-town rival WNCX. Of special note was the early support of Bruce Springsteen by Kid Leo and others, prior to the release of the Born to Run album. A line-up and announcement party was scheduled for Thursday March 12, 2009 during a live broadcast with Dan Jantzen from 3pm to 7pm at House of Blues in Downtown Houston. John Gorman and Denny Sanders left the station in fall of 1986, leading fourteen staff members with them to start rival station WNCX. [123] WMMS veteran John Gorman has remained a vocal critic of iHeartMedia, once remarking on the company's former Cleveland executive, Kevin Metheny (dubbed "Pig Virus" by Howard Stern during their time at WNBC): "He had a volatile time here. Based on considerably high record sales in the Cleveland market, Bowie (in his Ziggy Stardust persona alongside The Spiders from Mars) kicked off his first U.S. tour in "The Rock Capital" (a term coined by Bass). [113] The Ramones headlined BuzzardFest '95 the following spring (May 1995) at Blossom;[114] other acts included Our Lady Peace, The Rugburns and Face to Face. Created in April 1974 as "an ironic twist on Cleveland's down-and-out reputation as a decaying Rust Belt city," the station's longtime promotional mascot has been an anthropomorphic "Buzzard" cartoon character. Bob the Buzzard was somewhere North of the Mason-Dixon Line, freezing his "feathers" off, when he suddenly decided there had to be a better life. Vulture Festival is a pop culture spectacle where Vulture (the website, not the bird) comes to life right before your very eyes. leslie and whoever else is coming down for the greatest american music festival this side of the . She won a $500 cash prize which she immediately donated back to hospice. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. BayFest was an annual three-day music festival held in the heart of downtown Mobile, Alabama. "[61], Under the leadership of station manager Billy Bass and program director Denny Sanders, WMMS helped break many new rock artists nationally, most notably David Bowie. [51] On July 31, 1947, W8XUB began broadcasting at 100.7MHz. ', Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 19781984, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMMS&oldid=1137903859, The Cleveland Plaza/Statler Office Tower (now, This page was last edited on 7 February 2023, at 00:47. [35] The fall 1998 Arbitron books showed WMMS with a substantial increase in listeners; Plain Dealer radio critic Roger Brown commented, "the scam worked" claiming it drove people to listen to the station again for what was supposedly the format's final days. On October 26, 2010, Rover hired a witch doctor to curse LeBron James after the NBA star left the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Buzzard was the co-creation of Gorman, Sanders and American Greetings artist David Helton.[31]. [148][149] All other air talent heard on WMMS is provided via iHeartMedia's "Premium Choice" voice-tracking service. In other words, the carrion-eating bird represented "death and dying" a darkly comic reflection of the city's decline. The cold snap at Christmas droppe. Play-by-play itself is also limited to over-the-air FM; due to league restrictions, the WMMS webcast on iHeartRadio does not stream play-by-play coverage online. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. [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. Dean DePiero, then mayor of Parma, criticized the song and its accompanying YouTube video: "It's pretty sick. [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. [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. Don't knowingly lie about anyone 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. Official Fantasy Fest Website - Key West, Florida Oct. 20-29 | Key West Photo Gallery So you can get an idea of what really goes on here in Key West during Fantasy Fest we have posted some of the highlights of Fantasy Fests past and present! [78] Concertgoers occasionally fell or jumped off the steep stadium upper deck onto the concrete seating area far below, causing serious injury. REG: $79.50 BOX: $115.00 TICKET SALE DATES REG / BOX Public Onsale: April 22, 2022 10:00 AM to July 9, 2022 9:00 PM All tickets that were not refunded in 2020 or 2021 are still valid for 2022. WMMS does not air additional network programming. [51] Like most early FM stations, WHK-FM mostly simulcast the Top 40 programming of its AM sister station. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. [39][40] Noted filmmakers, including Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) and Paul Schrader (Light of Day), have called on both TheBuzzard and its personnel while preparing for various rock-themed productions. The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues is the newest music venue and beer bar in Downtown Denver. This is a list of Edgefest lineups, sorted by year. Jan 3, 2023 Jan 3, 2023; 0 The tilapia we stock in the spring for weed control and for forage fish to feed the bass typically die off in the winter. On May 13, 1994, a brand new music festival was born in Atlanta. 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. She took home the cash prize of $250 for Best Costume. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? At Bat only for streaming", "iHeart does not stream Indians games. The commemoration of this day is Buzzards Day, a day that celebrates the long return of these birds to their nesting grounds during the beginning of spring each year. Buzzards were first formally described in "Systema Naturae" by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Jeff and Flash were accompanied by a list of other talent over the years which made up the Buzzard Morning Zoo. They are Buteo in behavior Buzzards are Buteo in behavior, meaning they soar in the sky using their broad wings. Past affiliates at WMMS include WAMX/Huntington, WMFS-FM/Memphis, WNDE/Indianapolis, WXEG/Dayton, WRXS/Columbus, and the now defunct Extreme Talk. And for those that just want to relive a year of debauchery and fun.take a look! 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 WMMS Coffee Break Concerts were booked and directed by Denny Sanders and hosted by Len "Boom" Goldberg, Debbie Ullman, and later, Matt the Cat. 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. Sep 09, 1995 Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States [107][108][109][110], During this time, WMMS held a series of sold-out rock festivals that featured many of the new up-and-coming artists receiving station airplay. Bayfest 2009 took place from October 2-4, 2009 and the lineup included: Stone Temple Pilots, 3 Doors Down, Steve Miller Band, Train, Ludacris, Chevelle, Cage the Elephant, Cavo, Halestorm, Pop Evil, and Meat Puppets. Kinzbach and Ferenc had already been a morning team with sidekicks since 1976, seven years prior to adopting the "morning zoo" label, so the basic structure was already in place. It was hot and I got terribly sunburned but it was so worth it. After perceived poor lineups, fewer acts and increasing ticket prices caused some years of diminishing interest, organizers for Bayfest announced its ending two weeks before its planned 2015 festival. Rover regularly takes calls throughout the show, and often interviews guests in studio and over the phone. Exhibition - Gretchen Romey-Tanzer: The Fine Art of Weaving. Stern's ratings exploded and this along with a growing urgency from management not to compete with or mention Stern on the air led to a sudden and steep ratings decline for The Buzzard Morning Zoo. Danny Czekalinski and Darla Jaye teamed up in October 1997 with Liz Wilde holdover Cory Lingus (Cory Gallant) until August 1998. Lineup: Phoenix, Bush, Deftones, Paramore, A Day To Remember, AWOLNATION, The Gaslight Anthem, The Airborne Toxic Event, Twenty One Pilots, Fitz & The Tantrums, Robert DeLong, Atlas Genius, The Neighbourhood, Capital Cities, The Mowgli's, Youngblood Hawke, Falling In Reverse, Kitten, A Silent Film, IAMDYNAMITE Edgefest #24 (2014) [7] [ edit] Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Bayfest 2005 took place from October 7-9, 2005 and the lineup included: Widespread Panic, Grand Funk Railroad, Jason Aldean, The Grass Roots, Hot Apple Pie, Craig Morgan, Dark New Day, Elvin Bishop, The Lowdown, Kool & the Gang, and Adam Holt & The Blues Congregation. [71], From the onset, Helton's streamlined artwork resulted in an aggressive, yet family-friendly symbol for the station, one that continues to endure more than 40 years later. "Between the Hawk & Buzzard": The Civil War in Arkansas, 1861-1865 CHAPTER TEN. 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. A major contributor to the ratings success was an airstaff that remained fundamentally unchanged for many years: personalities like Kid Leo, Jeff & Flash, Matt the Cat, Dia Stein, Denny Sanders, Murray Saul, Debbie Ullman, Betty "Crash" Korvan, Ruby Cheeks (Debra Luray), BLF Bash (Bill Freeman), TR (Tom Renzy) and the late Len "Boom" Goldberg were invaluable to the station's popularity. The station first turned to adult contemporary, big band, the Drake-Chenault automated Hit Parade '69 and finally Top 40,. [131][132], In September 2007, WMMS management chose to "de-emphasize" both The Buzzard and WMMS call letters, referring to the station as simply "100.7", save for the FCC-mandated legal ID at the top of every hour. [147], Described by The Plain Dealer as "testosterone-fueled", the show dominates younger demographics, particularly male listeners ages 1834. The Hinckley Chamber of Commerce Buzzard Day (Sunday, March 17, 2013) The almost clock-like return of the turkey vultures, always on March 15 th, to . each comment to let us know of abusive posts. [51] Seeing a small but significant groundswell of support for the medium in the market, WHK-FM adopted a new progressive rock format on August 15, 1968. It was based at Bienville Square. People in radio say he was not an easy guy, that dealing with him was like a daily root canal. DJ additions included station engineer Ric Bennett as "Rocco the Rock Dog,"[86] Scooter (WMMS music director Brad Hanson), former WRQC nighttime Personality and later WNCX Afternoon Drive and Production Director, Tom "Jack" Daniels (who returned to the Cleveland airwaves after a successful stint as Program Director of WLEV, Allentown, PA), Lisa Dillon[86] and station veteran Matt the Cat,[86] (who returned to the midday slot in 1990 after a two-year absence.) The show itself rapidly covers a range of topics in a comedic format, from major current events to obscure pop culture; regular segments like "Sperm News", "Why Florida Sucks", and "Are You Smarter Than a Dumbass?" The event encouraged "going green" by providing for recycling throughout the grounds. So many future headliners on this line-up, including The Killers, QOTSA, Kasabian, Razorlight, Kings Of Leon, Arcade Fire, Biffy Clyro and, right down on the Carling Stage, a little known group. You can find all show info, beer lineup, food menu and rental information here. [151] In addition to the live broadcast, the show is available on demand through iHeartRadio; and can be downloaded as a podcast through iTunes. Following the prank announcement, station management placed Maxwell on probation for 90 days. Most station imaging is produced out-of-market by national voice talents "David Lee" Olejniczak, Malcolm Ryker,[166] Rena-Marie Villano, and former WMMS creative services director Miles Hlivko; additional voice-over audio is produced on-site by WMMS imaging director Billy Black. The people who put it together aren't even smart enough to know where our city boundaries are." [52] On November 13, 1947, the new FM station transitioned from experimental to commercial status; increased its power; and changed its callsign to WHKX. And dying '' a darkly comic reflection of the city 's decline are Buteo in behavior buzzards Buteo! 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