Fr Either they weren’t well financed, or had daytime-only signals so weak that they couldn’t be heard throughout the city and all the nearby suburbs.From the earliest days of the internet, Steve has been writing, digitizing, and sharing the stories and images of all the things that make Buffalo special and unique. Liz Lewin: The former WKBW-TV anchor-reporter, who left the station last summer to become the weekend morning anchor and reporter at WILX-TV … He found superb vehicles not only for his own talent, but also put the stars of KB in situations where they could shine brightest. A Lackawanna boy who worked in the Bethlehem plant before turning to radio, his broadcast persona was a deep, melodic voiced blue-collar everyman.
WKBW Radio's Danny Neaverth as heard on Buffalo radio in 1961. Steve's Buffalo roots run deep: all eight of his great-grandparents called Buffalo home, with his first ancestors arriving here in 1827.But eventually, a base of homegrown talent sprinkled with some of the most talented people from around the country, KB built an unprecedented following in Buffalo and around the country. If you watched Elvis shake his hips on Ed Sullivan for the first time, and you then listened to Elvis on the radio– It wasn’t likely KB, even though your memory might tell you otherwise.The proof is in a quick search of WKBW on your favorite search engine. A few of his moonlighting gigs dovetailed more closely with his work as a disc jockey and radio host. Yet, when the station changed formats on July 4, 1958, the Queen City changed forever. Brian Kahle, a former television personality on WKBW Channel 7, was president of his own company -- Magic Marketing in Lockport. Part of the legendary lineup of DJ at WKBW in …
He was the public address announcer for the NBA Braves and the NFL Bills. Remembering former Buffalo radio personality Don Berns who passed away on Sunday March 1, 2015. Calling himself The Wild I-tralian, he was one of the original "screamers," known for his screaming delivery as well as his wild antics on the air and off. The primary difference in each is the news guy, disc jockey and the music at the start of the show.
He remembers playing the two transcription records from which these audio clips came in his grandma’s basement as a little guy.For those who remember listening to Jasinski near the end of his broadcast career as I do, his cadence and voice is amazingly consistent, sounding virtually identical, and very much recognizable, 40 years earlier.Why? Most of the names already mentioned here made their way to KB, and many reading this might not know or remember they worked elsewhere.Best known for his time at WKBW Radio, Fred Klestine spent parts of four decades as a disc jockey on Buffalo radio stations WWOL, WBNY, WADV and WBUF. These Halloween productions are brilliant examples. Anyone who worked at KB in its heyday has stories.