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Category: WNIC
WNIC REUNION WEEKEND: THE CLASSIC ’60s WXYZ 1270 LEE ALAN SHOW THEME! MAY 19, 1985
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: WNIC RECALLED! HARPER & GANNON ON THE RADIO
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DETROIT RADIO PHOTO MEMORIES! WNIC: ROY STEPHENS [1970s]
![WNIC-FM [1976] Roy Stephens to the left and Stevie Wonder, then Paul Christie and Steve St John. Stevie was promoting "Isn't She Lovely" at WNIC.](https://mcrfb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WNIC-Roy-Stephens-PIC-2-MCRFB-2023.jpg)
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A special thank you to former WNIC, WMJC, WOMC, and WCZY personality, Roy Stephens, for recently sharing (on March 3, 2023) his wonderful WNIC radio images and memories with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
All featured photos property of Roy Stephens
DETROIT’S ROCK ‘N’ EASY 100 FM: THIS MONTH! SEPTEMBER 1978
Showcasing WNIC mid-day morning personality Jim Harper on the cover.
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above WNIC music chart is courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
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WNIC 100 ‘REUNION WEEKEND’! BACK ON THE RADIO: LEE ALAN
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WNIC SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE LEE ALAN NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY!
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This WNIC recording, having been long-held as part of our Detroit radio collection, essentially was found incomplete in its recorded form. And while the recording’s quality varies, nevertheless its contents is worthy, in my view, for posting today as our featured presentation on this New Year’s Eve, 2021.
The WNIC broadcast was recorded on two 100 minute cassette tapes. In the process of enhancing the audio, I removed, having edited in part, about a half hour of the recording found in the b-side of tape one. This was due to excessive ‘wow and flutter’ having been picked up during the recording process. Also, it bears noting the official ‘countdown to 1983’ (in-studio with Lee Alan) was not found in the recordings as well. What we do have is what you will be listening to today.
Nevertheless, this was a special WNIC New Year’s Eve presentation. The broadcast was taped by our friend Greg Innis. He has kept them in his personal Detroit radio airchecks collection for the past thirty-nine years. As you listen, you will immediately note it is chock-full of listener call-in’s, great memories, stories and sounds, having shared with a large WNIC audience by The Horn on New Year’s Eve night, December 31, 1982.
Lastly, in commemoration of this featured presentation, I also added extensively more to Lee Alan’s exclusive feature (he shared for the broadcast) of Chuck Berry’s live performance at the Walled Lake Casino near the end of the recording.
Enjoy. Lee Alan’s New Year’s Eve Party on WNIC. Happy New Year!
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A special THANK YOU to senior site contributor Greg Innis of Livonia, MI., for having provided this featured WNIC audio gem for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks aircheck repository.
DETROIT FREE PRESS | WNIC RADIO PRESS PHOTO: JIM HARPER
DETROIT’S ROCK ‘N’ EASY 100.3 FM: THIS MONTH! MARCH 1979
—MARCH 1979—
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— 42 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH —
The above WNIC music/concert chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
— In Memory of George Griggs —
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above WNIC music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
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WNIC 100.3: FROM THE PROGRAMMER. A STAFF MEMO
A MCRFB NOTE
— WNIC-FM 100 —
A staff memo from the desk of Joel Lind, WNIC programmer (1986-1988)
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Johnny Williams joined the airstaff in late 1985 and was hired to replace Alan Almond (Pillow Talk; 7-12M) who left WNIC for WMJC (Candlelight) in November 1985.
While I was employed there (1983-1987), Jim Harper, morning host and program director at WNIC, left for WDTX 95.5 in July 1986. Joel Lind, replacing Harper, was hired as WNIC station programmer in May, 1986.
This was a typical memo having affirmed the station’s quarterly ratings – congratulatory in scope – as was penned by the WNIC program director. Attached to the above memo as well was a letter written by a former WMJC listener to Johnny Williams of which Joel Lind alluded to in the memo (see below).
From the programmer. As it was 33 years ago. 100.3 FM WNIC . . . ‘Detroit’s Nicest Rock’.
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