K-Big-Blunder

The webmaster of WKBWradio.com wants to THANK all the KB fans who have made their thoughts known of the recent format change at WWKB. From great oldies/rock 'n roll to left wing talk radio! The guestbook area was becoming overwhelmed  with so many entries that it has slowed the entire web site to a crawl! For that, we thank you !

Entercom,  please do a favor to all your former listeners and just "PULL THE PLUG!!" If nothing else, give WKBW/WWKB a respectable death! After the first format change, when Entercom bought WKBW, at least they allowed an on-the-air goodbye. On February 6, 2006  the rock 'n roll/oldies format was just cancelled. The door to great radio was slammed into the face of many, many WKBW radio fans! No farewell, no time to wish their radio personalities good luck and good bye. Possibly someone was embarrassed for not promoting and selling a proven format? You need more than old records, familiar personalities...you need promotion! Someone in the corporate hierarchy of Entercom was oblivious to the fans worldwide of WWKB/WKBW and did what they do best... slash! After all...it's just business. Oh what a mistake!

We have removed all the great comments offered in the WKBWradio.com's guestbook concerning the recent "K-BIG-BLUNDER."  We do not want to taint the wonderful guestbook entries remembering the great KB Radio! We have however, preserved these "blunder" comments and present them here!

Thank you...fans of WKBW Radio!
Webmaster

Please contact the following and express your feelings:

Entercom Buffalo, LLC.
500 Corporate Parkway
Suite 200
Buffalo, New York 14226
Phone: (716) 843-0600
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"The radio business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S. Thompson
 

 

Radio station takes columnist back
Published: February 10, 2006 09:30 am
The Tonawanda News
North Tonawanda, NY —

For the first time since the Bills-era Super Bowls, I wandered the shops and businesses around Kenmore this week and heard some consensus in conversation. It was not agreement over the State of the Union, or the state of the Sabres, or the state to which our children are moving. It was a lament about radio.

For those of us of a certain age who grew up here, adolescence came with a common soundtrack, the AM radio station WKBW. Its startlingly inclusive rock ‘n’ roll playlist, hyperkinetic disc jockeys, machine gun-like delivery of the news and genuine commitment to its listeners made it an integral part of growing up in Buffalo. From 1958 to the rise of album-oriented rock radio in the early 70s, it ruled the ratings and won the hearts of its dedicated fans. In more ways than one, we grew up with this stuff.

Renamed WWKB, the radio station everyone called “KB” later foundered through a number of formats and last year returned to its roots. The yappy old announcers with the same chatter, catchphrases and sound effects; the songs we sang while cruising Sheridan Drive; even the occasional jingle for Sattlers and Kobackers; they were all back.

An “all request party” of moldy oldies was presented on Saturday nights. If we 50-somethings needed to hear a certain prom song, a doowop tune we could explain to our grandchildren, or merely needed a dose of Ray Charles, this was our chance to call in. It was as though a radio signal from 1965 was beamed into space, bounced off a planet, and retuned 40 years later. It was as refreshing as a day at Crystal Beach.

Suddenly this week, it all disappeared like a happy, nostalgic dream. KB fired its personnel, junked this remarkable roll down memory lane and installed an all-news talk format. One Web site already is referring to this purge as “the day the music died.” Granted, the ratings were anemic, typically around 1.7 when the most popular radio stations in town snared nines and 10s. But, like half a lifetime ago, the people who enjoyed it, enjoyed it a lot. Thus, I observed plenty of disappointment and overheard plenty of grousing this week in the dry cleaners, in the libraries and in the stores of Kenmore.

This being the 21st century, even we old-timers know myriad ways to capture the music of our youth, and even a few ways to recapture youth itself. Perhaps it was a case study, to see if one could make money catering to the needs of baby boomers by returning them to their past. Nonetheless, it was a joyful experiment. I heard a number of synthesizer-free songs about cars and romance for the first time in years, surprising myself by still knowing all the lyrics (and if I could only have applied that capability to my schoolwork). I heard references to high schools that aren’t there anymore and to places with evocative names like Club Zanzibar and Pat’s Drive-In. And if I didn’t enjoy every minute of growing up, I truly enjoyed this time-warp lens KB was using to give my adolescence back to me. So did a lot of people.
 

 

Thursday 03/23/2006 10:59:21am
Name: Thomas Bigler
City/State Chambersburg, PA
Comments: Very sad

 

 

Wednesday 03/22/2006 11:17:43pm
Name: Tom L.
City/State Clarence, NY
Comments: Was saddened when KB switched formats the first time. Overjoyed when they came back. Great music and a real class act. So bitter to see them go "talk" that I hope the "brains" that made this decision watch as the station goes down in flames!!!

 

 

Monday 03/20/2006 3:11:44pm
Name: Jack Yetsko
City/State W. Charleston, VT
Comments: The demise of WKBW has deeply saddened me. I began listening when I was a kid in NJ back in 1962 and continued listening on and off whenever I was in the States. I was listening the day the station ceased to exist. I will truly miss WKBW's format. LONG LIVE REAL OLDIES!

 

 

Sunday 03/19/2006 5:14:35am
Name: David Edwards
City/State Niagara Falls, NY
Comments: Sad.. My company {Dunn Tire} had been an advertiser.. I will encourage to spend our money with someone other than Entercom.

 

 

Friday 03/17/2006 1:43:47am
Name: Mike
City/State East Rochester, N.Y.
Comments: I sure will miss KB. We lost our oldies station in Rochester and now KB is gone too. For me, it's like a slap in the face. No more oldies stations. As usual, it's all about the money and to hell with the listeners. Does anyone know where Jack Armstrong went. Would love to email him.

 

 

Saturday 03/04/2006 11:32:58pm
Name: Rick Christensen
City/State Greenwitch, NY
Comments: You guys will be missed. Every night I tuned in to hear Jack Armstrong and laugh at his jokes while I'm working at Schuylerville Central schools as a custodian in which I'm getting very tired of. I hope that this so called left radio doesn't last!! So I hope to hear you guys on the air again!!

Thank you for the memories and the jokes that made my job a little more bearable! Rick Christensen

 

 

Wednesday 03/01/2006 10:09:33pm
Name: John Desranleau
City/State Flanders NJ 07836
Comments: I miss you Great Station! What a horrible surprise to here what junk talk radio replace you.

You truly were an American treasure.

I only started listen in the fall of 2005 on my way home from 2nd shift on Interstate 80 heading west each night there after.......

I told my lovely Wife about your wonderful station. She as able to pick in up in our home town of Flanders NJ each morning around 6:30 AM. She also agree that you were the Best AM Radio we ever heard. I miss the God Bless America every night that you played. I just hope that all you fine people found jobs.

God Bless you All
And
God Bless what is left of America

 

 

Wednesday 03/01/2006 8:15:21am
Name: Mary Oberther
City/State East Aurora, NY
Comments: You have taken our GREAT radio station and turned it into RUBBISH... I listened to KB all the time and was really saddened when you changed the format... Now we can no longer get the great tunes we were listening to with all our favorite DJ's.. I will not be listening to your station and have told everyone I know not to turn it on... Shame on you ...

 

 

Tuesday 02/28/2006 8:19:02am
Name: Bill
City/State Rochester, New York
Comments: Hello:
I am extremely disappointed with the station's recent format change. It is very annoying to be forced to listen to much of the incessant garbage that seems to be a product of the AM dials. Whatever happened to be being entertained? I enjoy listen to music while driving in my car, especially the oldies. Bring back the old format!!!!!

 

 

Friday 02/24/2006 10:28:31am
Name: Ken Sullivan
City/State Belmar, New Jersey
Comments: This is a total waste of a 50,000 watt radio station! You serve much more than the Buffalo area and that you are not a local radio station. What a mistake management has made. Maybe if you told potential advertisers that you serve more than the Buffalo region this may never have happened!

 

 

Thursday 02/23/2006 4:19:09pm
Name: Jeff Hollis
E-Mail (will not be published):  
City/State Martinsburg, W. Va.
Referred by: Just Surfed In
Comments: To paraphrase the old WKBW jingle "Now radio comes alive, you're listening to KB"................... Now AM sucks again, KB has gone dead!

 

 

Wednesday 02/22/2006 10:00:13am
Name: Gary Moore
City/State Hillsdale, NJ
Comments: As a resident of N.J. and many friends in Buffalo I would listen to Dan and Tom in the morning where the signal would come in pretty well (except during the summer period) and would not have to deal with the Stern's and Imus's of the world. This Reid dude certainly can't spin records...but can spin the listening public. I remember well when the station did not renew the contract with the Buffalo Bisons and UB hoops he wanted for the station to "concentrate" on the music. Funny how that so called pretzel logic came full circle when SNARP was displaced for Buffalo Bandits lacrosse and UB hoops again....you've got to be kidding. Anyhow if the listening public like myself who would want to stick it to these unintelligent high school grads running a corporation with these stations just do not patronize their sponsors. It really is a damn shame since another corrupt company (Infinity) pulled a fast one with CBS-FM and great people are left out in the lurch.....and the listening public as well.

 

 

Tuesday 02/21/2006 5:04:15pm
Name: Marie
City/State Whitehall, NY
Comments: I cannot believe what has happened!! There are so few stations that play "music" anymore and fewer that play the music I want to hear. I was so happy when I found KB on my long and dark drive home from work. Every night the music of my youth made the ride a lot shorter and more enjoyable. Then one Monday I got into the car at 9PM and turned on the radio. There seemed to be a basketball game on. It said 1520 but one of the teams was Buffalo so I said, OK .. basketball tonight. And turned the radio off. The next night there was some obnoxious female spewing political poison. I don't like any of these loud-mouthed hate mongers: on the left or the right. And this certainly wasn't what I wanted to hear on my drive home. For several days I tuned in hoping I had the "dial" set wrong but all I could find was talk talk talk and venom and trash bashing. This is certainly not my idea of "entertainment" or even of "enlightenment" --- and 1520 is no longer a preset number on my car radio. Sad, but one of the last songs I remember hearing on KB was "The Day The Music Died" ......... Are there really people out there who prefer this trash?

 

 

Monday 02/20/2006 5:10:19pm
Name: Dee Clark
E-Mail (will not be published):  
City/State Rome, New York
Referred by: Friend
Comments: WWKB (WKBW) SUCCUMBED TO LIBERAL TALK. UNBELIEVABLE! WHAT A WASTE OF 50,000 WATTS! ONE OF THE WORST PROGRAMMING MOVES IN THE HISTORY OF BROADCASTING! THIS WAS DONE OBVIOUSLY BY SOME YOUNG UNEDUCATED INEXPERIENCED EXECUTIVE OR TWO AT THE TOP OF ENTERCOM. FOR PEOPLE IN THE BUFFALO-NIAGARA FALLS MARKET IF YOU WANT YOUR 50'S, 60'S AND 70'S MUSIC, AS WELL AS DOO-WOP, TUNE IN TO AM 1440, WJJL BUFFALO-NIAGARA, EACH SATURDAY FROM 3:00 TO 7:00 PM! DR. JAY RICHARDS AND HIS WIFE DEE CLARK, TWO MAJOR MARKET PROFESSIONALS WILL GIVE YOU THE MUSIC AND PERSONALITIES YOU WANT TO HEAR. OF COURSE, AM 1440, WJJL PLAYS OLD TIME ROCK 'N ROLL 24 HOURS A DAY! PLEASE TUNE IN AND SPREAD THE WORD, AND THANKS FOR TUNING OUR WAY! DOC 'N DEE

Webmaster's note: WJJL transmits with 5 KW daytime and 1 KW night time. It's operational area is Western New York and will not be heard on the east coast. But if you live in the Buffalo area...enjoy!

 

 

Thursday 02/16/2006 7:06:47pm
Name: No entry
City/State Rochester, NY
Comments: Thanks for the memories KB. You made us feel young again. I'll miss you more than my high school sweetheart!!!!

 

 

Friday 02/17/2006 7:32:08pm
Name: Chuck F.
City/State Rochester,, NY
Comments: O.K. the high school girlfriend dig was mine. I miss her too but in a different way!!!!!! Long after she was gone you were still there...you've got staying power...have you got one more K-Big Komeback in you...we'll be watching err "listening"! Thanks to all the KB DJ's for entertaining me from the backseat of my "54 Merc" to my kingsize pillowtop in my 4 bedroom cave in status symbol land (the 54 Merc was more fun!). Hope to see (hear) more of you in the future if not, see you in the pasture! Thanks...Thanks...Thanks and more Thanks. "KB FOREVER"

 

 

Thursday 02/16/2006 10:04:23am
Name: Richard Clifford
City/State Milton, Mass. USA
Comments: I'm surprised that Entercom (who owns several stations in Boston, where I live, myself) would do something evil destroying the great time oldies of KB 1520! That liberal s*** sucks! They tried something similar here when they switched Star 93.7's dance music format into something called "Mike 93.7: We Play Everything!" All introed by the same bozo who we can hear on 96.9 FM Talk!
Entercom, you suck! Big time!

 

 

Wednesday 02/15/2006 11:01:50pm
Name: Mike Pratt
City/State Skaneateles, NY
Comments: I’ve been mopping around here like someone died and trying to get over the shock.

I grew up with KB when I found it on the radio dial in 1959 in Pennsylvania. I was 12. It was my favorite radio station all through the sixties in Virginia. I never lived in New York until two years ago when I moved back from the west coast. I learned of some songs that I never knew the titles to or the artists like Timi Yuro and others. It was so great to move back here to the east coast and hear that some of the KB personalities were back and they were playing the great music that I missed over the decades. Back in the Sixties when I was in high school, I loved KB so much I thought of moving to Buffalo and possibly become a broadcast engineer with that great station. Just a dream then. I used to roll on the floor when Joey Reynolds was on, at times.

The DJ’s, the personalities, they didn’t just play records. They knew the music. We’ve learned things about the artists that we didn’t know. They didn’t just play records; they also put on a show. That made most other radio stations boring. That’s the way it was then, that’s the way it was now until last week.

I’ve listened to talk radio years ago. Nothing ever happens from it. It’s just entertainment. You hear stuff. It makes you mad. You think talk radio will change things but it doesn’t. You wake up in the morning all angry. You start hating the world. You hate yourself. I had to stop listening to talk radio. I had to feel good again but there is always some corporation like Entercom that ruins my day. The way they changed formats with no warning has me dumbfounded!!

To make KB a talk radio station again is the lowest thing I can think of on earth. If the wonderful music and the fun can’t broadcast from KB’s transmitter, then it’s a waste to have it on. Save the electricity!

I see that Entercom’s stock has a downward trend starting in the beginning of 2004. I hope it hits $10 a share. If I have Entercom in any of my mutual funds, I’m going to sell.

I could say a lot. I was trying to keep this short. But I feel this will be ongoing.

My special thinks goes to the Webmaster of this website. Many thanks to you.

WKBW-WWKB Rest in Peace ;(

 

 

Wednesday 02/15/2006 10:13:19am
Name: Mary
City/State Avon, NY
Comments: I am disgusted that the oldies format at KB is gone. I grew up in a town 30 miles south of Rochester, NY listening to KB back in the 50's and 60's.
I grew up and still live outside Rochester, NY but have been unable to find a oldies station that only plays those great tunes from 50's and 60's. They mix in 70's & 80's.
I finally found KB several months ago and was delighted. Every time I listened to it I was brought back to a happy childhood time and found out how many good old songs I missed hearing.

 

 

Wednesday 02/15/2006 8:15:43am
Name: Dana Williams
City/State Berlin, CT
Comments: For those interested in registering a complaint about Entercom Buffalo's handling of 1520 and especially 1520's employees, I have noticed that the station's license renewal comes up on June 1 of this year.
I know the chances are slim to none, but maybe we can cause the Entercommies some pain!

 

 

Wednesday 02/15/2006 3:17:55pm
Name: Vendel Boeree
City/State Bay Shore, N.Y.
Comments: Hello all. I can't believe WWKB switched from it's oldies format to liberal talk radio. What a disappointment! I've listened to KB from Montauk Point on west with outstanding signals at night. I actually turn off my Sirius radio to listen to KB on the A.M. broadcast band! Why don't KB's corporate owners try to get a spot on Sirius Radio just like WSM in Nashville did. Take care, Vendel

 

 

Tuesday 02/14/2006 10:47:41pm
Name: Joyce Showvaker
City/State Shippensburg, PA 17257
Comments: What has happened to WKBW Again. In the Last Few days all I can find is Talk Radio and News. What has happened to the music. Big Mistake, Big Mistake!

 

 

Tuesday 02/14/2006 8:58:17pm
Name: Carol Cusmano
City/State Lancaster New York
Comments: Shame on you to take our radio station and give it away. Put 1520 WKBW back on the radio. Get Stephanie Miller off the air. Buffalo wants our station BACK.!!!!

 

 

Tuesday 02/14/2006 9:44:43am
Name: George Pope
City/State Lewiston, NY
Comments: As another fan has already stated, "what a waste of 50,000 watts"! There is nothing on the dial, AM or FM, to match the sound of KB radio, and now it just buzzes with more opinionated blather. In one foul swoop Entercom has alienated listeners from New Brunswick to North Carolina. Given the usual success rate of liberal talk shows, this format might even fail before they can sort out all the angry e-mails (if they have the nerve to read them). Thanks for the awesome website and the means to make our voices heard.

George Pope
p.s. Good luck in CT, Gino!

 

 

Tuesday 02/14/2006 10:47:08am
Name: Mark F. Henning a.k.k Mark Marz
City/State Hamburg, NY
Comments: Are you guys nuts!? Taking an American radio icon and flushing it. Left wing, right wing, what ever diarrhea of the mouth you come up with, it's all S***! LIKE YOUR BRAINS!

This is a disgrace to the radio industry, and a lot of great talent. I take this very personally and wonder what might be your motivation. Not money. This format is never successful and there is no sane excuse to put a clear channel, 50,000 watt station in the trash.

I wish you all well in Hell!

Call anytime...I'm in the book (not at the bottom like you)

 

 

Tuesday 02/14/2006 4:32:43pm
Name: Brian A
City/State Buffalo NY
Comments: I called the corporative headquarters in PA and they tell me their to talk to Tim W or Greg R. I THINK ALL OF US HAVE DONE THAT ALREADY! Why are they telling me to call the Buffalo fools who made the change to the left garbage that’s on! I think all of us should flood the lines in PA. They don’t live here and the people that they left to take care of the Buffalo Stations apparently don’t care about the listeners. The only thing they care about is their own job and making money for the corporative giant. Please everyone call PA and call these Buffalo Cronies and annoy the hell out of them. Let’s get Dan and Tom back in the morning!

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 10:28:42am
Name: Steve Ginn
City/State Sedgwick, ME
Comments: It’s been a week since “the day the music died” … again. The day that WWKB 1520/ Buffalo switched formats. The first time in ‘88 was not unexpected. This time it hurt badly. First, let me state flat out that I don’t live in the area. As a matter of fact, I’m 523 miles away from Buffalo as the crow flies, in down east Maine. So whatever I say won’t influence the powers that be at Entercom or anyone else for that matter.

WKBW is a truly unique station, always has been. Its signal and history will always insure its place of radio greatness. I do applaud Entercom for trying to bring it back to its musical roots for the last three years. The radio “business” has changed so dramatically though, I almost understand why they killed it … again. WKBW was a station for those of us who wanted to keep reliving the glory days of this once great station. The music was secondary compared to hearing Danny and Tom and Jackson and the jingles. And to hear it coming out in mono on the AM band was why I listened. Sure I could hear the same songs on local “oldies”/satellite stations, or on the satellite dish, or remastered CD’s, or burn it off the computer. But that wasn’t WHY I listened to KB. It was for the experience of listening to KB.

As a 48 year old boomer, I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s with the AM band and listening to our local daytimer WGUY 1250/Bangor. After sunset though, the world opened up with WRKO 680/Boston, WBZ 1030/Boston, WMEX 1510/Boston, WNBC 660/New York, WABC 770/New York, WPLR 1540/Albany and THE station that all the ‘cool’ people had on WKBW. I can still recall hearing the Beatles coming through my Dad’s ‘63 Chevy Belair up on Craig’s Pond. Later in ‘76 - ‘77 on my own, KB was playing the latest tunes through my old Chevy Malibu and then my new Ford Pinto. I couldn’t understand why Mom and Dad didn’t like that new music. Now I can understand fully their frustration as the sounds on the current CHR stations make me turn my head and go “huh?”.

In the world of radio, my demographics are quickly becoming unattractive to advertisers. I don’t like it, but I will live with it. I’ve called Greg Ried at 716 843-0600 at Entercom and left my message on his machine. Whether he ever heard it or if he just presses the button to “erase all” each morning, I’ll never know. Either way, it’s not a nice way to treat the public. But then again he’s not hired to serve the public interest outside of Buffalo. Is he even hired to serve the public interest in Buffalo??? It’s too bad that this blowtorch signal that serves the eastern seaboard and Canada is just now another station with programming that is available everywhere else.

Will we see massive campaigning to return the station to what we’d like it to be? Probably not. I think back to the pilot episode of “WKRP In Cincinnati” when the station flipped from “old people” music to rock and roll. I feel like Nedra Volz looking for her cat. No one is going to listen to me anyway because I’m too old. But Entercom will take advantage of any protests to promote the “new KB”. Here just stand underneath this logo while you hold your protest sign.

The powers that be are going to look for that mighty advertising dollar. Will they find it with “Buffalo’s Left Station”? No, but they will use it as a pawn to make one of their other stations in the cluster achieve bigger ratings. And that’s what saddens me the most. The owners have no concept on how to treat this station that was once the crown jewel of radio stations. Or what wkbwradio.com owner David Fill means when he calls it “one of America’s two great radio stations.”

With what I see as programming blunders like this just keeps driving listeners away from terrestrial stations and makes us look harder at XM and Sirius. I was thinking of it before and I’ll look at it even more. I just might wait a little bit longer and see if Jack Armstrong should wind up with Cousin Brucie on Sirius before making a decision.

So long KB. It was nice having you back, even if it was for too short a time and even if it was not at your full potential. I’ll now erase you from my presets but I’ll keep the good memories.

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 11:13:43am
Name: John Craig
City/State Belle Mead, NJ
Comments: First WABC-AM (New York City), then WCBS-FM (New York City) and now, WKBW. The music has surely died. Let's hope and pray that it will return soon. Keep the faith.

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 2:51:51pm
Name: Tina Lewandowski
City/State Lancaster NY. 14086
Comments: Sorry to see the end of a great radio show. The best came from WKBW. I would listen to the station day and night I have three boys who love the oldies, thank god, I am so glad they didn't like rap music. I hate it. I felt like everyone was family. Lets be grateful we grew up with such great music. Now my grandchildren love the music. Thanks for the memories. Tina

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 3:51:48pm
Name: Janice H
City/State Beamsville, Ontario
Comments: I have been listening to KB since I was a teenager. I think it is a disgrace that it has been replaced with a nonsense talk radio show. What where you thinking about? Bring back the oldies, we have no stations to click to now. Sirius radio will be getting all the attention!! What fools you are!

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 4:56:46pm
Name: Nick Stanojevich
City/State Ocala, Florida
Comments: What a shame what they have done "ONCE AGAIN". I'm originally from up there but lived for 30 years in Florida. Then I moved back in 1999 and was glad to hear the music again, especially with Dan and Tom. Moved back to Florida last summer and was shocked when I logged on KB's website. Obviously management and owners have no idea what people are wanting to hear. When I first moved back in 99 I listened to Danny and Tom on the WHTT and I really missed them when they left but was really glad when they resurrected KB which ws my choice for the morning show. I wish Danny and Tom and the other DJ's good luck in all their endeavors and hope to hear them again sometime Online. I've taken to recently listening to WHTT again online as our local Oldies station is lame. Hey we need Danny and Tom down here. Come on Danny, Lake Effect Sun is better than Lake Effect Snow!!!

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 8:28:52am
Name: Gene Madej
City/State Enfield, CT
Comments: I moved from Buffalo 4 years ago because of work. KB was my last connection with Buffalo on the radio. I and other people from Buffalo, living in the New England area, counted on KB to give us the touch of home, that we all miss. Now, they turn a fabulous station, into a bias political format. Don't we have enough of these. Especially one that is so bias in the Democrats and Liberals favor.
It's sickening to see all the history being thrown down the tubes by an ownership that has no loyalty to their radio public and their long term employees. You really blew it. You had a specialized market, with a niche of their own. Now your just an ordinary nobody. One more politically bias talk show with the same repetitive agenda. Goodbye KB. Though I live miles away, it saddens me to remove you from my dial. I can only remember you for what you were.

Sincerely,
Gene Madej

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 8:11:44am
Name: Richard
City/State Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Comments: I will miss listening to KB in the evenings when we could pick it up. Sorry to hear the drivel it was replaced with.
RIP

 

 

Monday 02/13/2006 7:17:59am
Name: Cher DeJac
City/State Bufffalo, New York
Comments: No other radio station played the kind of music we heard on KB. Music from the 50's early 60's is now dead in Buffalo. I will greatly miss KB, Danny Neaverth, Jackson Armstrong, Sandy Beach, Tom Donahue. Steve Mitchell & others. We have no where to go to listen to the greatest music/DJ's. Our choice has been taken away. Black Monday 2/06/2006
Cher

 

 

Sunday 02/12/2006 10:21:14pm
Name: Al Benson
City/State Spencerport, NY
Comments: I can't express in words my contempt to the management at KB for what they have done. I have listened to KB since I grew up in Medina in the fifties. I remember well there switch to the future sonic sound on July 4, 1958. It has been perhaps the greatest radio station in the US. I was so pleased when it came back on in 2003. I listened every morning going to work and on my home at night. What a low life underhanded thing to do to the personalities who worked so hard to make it a success and not even let them say good bye. I like many others hope their new format sinks fast and big Tim and company are out on their asses looking for work soon! I wish all the best to Danny, Tom ,Jack, Steve and hope they find a new radio home soon.

 

 

Sunday 02/12/2006 9:01:59pm
Name: Jeanine Van Voorhees
City/State North Tonawanda, New York
Comments: How sad that we are to be denied a great radio station!! Sorry to see Dan, Tom and all the wonderful people of KB radio gone! 1520 is no longer on my radio.........I was a listener in the 50's and remember all of the personalities. Danny if you're going to be elsewhere, please let us know.

Missing old friends,
Jeanine Van Voorhees

 

 

Sunday 02/12/2006 3:48:15pm
Name: Dave Schmidt
City/State Avoca, PA
Comments: It was REALLY sad to see the plug pulled on the great oldies format, it will be sorely missed. But, now lets put the ball in Entercom's lap, will they even have any GUTS to respond to ANY of the postings here? Prob'ly not. Also, if the sales staff couldn't do their job and SELL KB Radio, they should have also been FIRED! Someone really pulled a boner on this change, I know I'll never listen to talk radio, especially the empty headed talk that's on just about every where anymore.

 

 

Sunday 02/12/2006 12:45:43am
Name: Rob B
City/State Depew NY
Comments: This is Robert Blachowicz from Depew again my e-mail is [email protected] ! I have more information which I think is quite hypocritical. It figures. Follows a pattern with corporative Cronies I meant phonies. Anyway Tim Wenger’s wife is on WBEN in the morning as Susan Rose with John Zack. Wait a moment. Isn’t Tim the one who fired Dan and is the cause of bring in this non-sense on KB! This proves corporative people are only interested in their own job. It is interesting how the manager of these stations saves his wife’s job and throws away a huge legend like Danny Neaverth isn’t it? You think maybe we should holler loudly and make a lot of noise?

 

 

Sunday 02/12/2006 12:17:40am
Name: J. J. Young
City/State Bronx, NY
Comments: Don't forget to write Sen. Charles Schumer in Washington. He criticized WCBS-FM, New York City, after they dropped their oldies format in favor of "Jack". I swear Sen. Schumer put a spell on WCBS-FM, for their ratings dropped dramatically after the format change.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 11:46:09pm

Name:

Frank Johnson

City/State

Arlington, Virginia

Comments:

I discovered KB Radio about a year ago; we get the signal as clear as a bell after sundown here in the DC area. I actually enjoyed my evening commutes and travels listening to the awesome oldies and SNARP; KB's play list was FAR superior to our local oldies station. So I was stunned and saddened to hear on the evening of 2/6 that the oldies format had been replaced. Maybe it's time to switch to satellite radio...

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 10:20:03pm

Name:

Dale Flagler

City/State

Perrysburg, NY

Comments:

Looks like the management at WWKB got "stuck on stupid". BRING BACK THE MUSIC!!! I refuse to listen to that garbage that's on your station now.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 10:19:23pm

Name:

Bob S.

City/State

Middletown, NY

Comments:

What a shame! I believe the management has made a BIG mistake. Regardless of your affiliation, Left-wing talk radio is a proven money loser. Meanwhile, KB was the only AM station I could find that played oldies with any broadcast power. Actually, many of the SNARP callers were not from the Buffalo area. I, for one, will no longer be tuning in to KB. A great loss to music lovers all along the east coast.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 8:59:04pm

Name:

Marty L.

City/State

Hamburg, NY

Comments:

WELL NO MUSIC, NO FUN, LETS ALL HEAD TO SPRINGERVILLE, AND ALL THEM JUDGES SHOWS

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 10:02:16pm

Name:

Carl Tagliabue

City/State

Lake George, NY

Comments:

I CAN'T BELIEVE THE CORPORATE IDIOTS AT ENTERCOM PULLED THE PLUG ON KB AGAIN. GREG RIED, YOU SHOULD BE SHOT, YOU BEAN COUNTING PRICK! I WAS LISTENING TO KB MONDAY MORNING AT 10AM HERE IN LAKE GEORGE, DAN WAS WISHING EVERYONE A GOOD DAY AND CLOWNING AROUND WITH SANDY. I DON'T THINK THEY HAD A CLUE, YOU JUST STABBED THEM AND ALL THE OTHER GREAT KB DJ'S IN THE BACK, ALONG WITH ALL YOUR LOYAL LISTENERS. HAVING LIVED IN BROCKPORT, NY GROWING UP IN THE MID 60'S-EARLY 70'S KB HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAVORITE, COMMUNITY MINDED WITH A FEELING & SOUL ALL IT'S OWN & IT SOUNDED GREAT ON MY COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE RADIO'S. NOT THIS POLITICAL LEFT CHANNEL TALK B.S. REMEMBER WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND AND I THINK YOUR NEW FORMAT WILL DIE! BRING BACK CLASSIC KB! IF YOU WANT TO E-MAIL ME MY ADDRESS IS [email protected]

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 9:16:17pm

Name:

KEN

City/State

EDEN NY

Comments:

WHO NEEDS A ANOTHER NEWS TALK SHOW. WHAT WAS ,WAS GREAT. SOME CORPORATE BUTTHEAD DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD WAS BEST RADIO PROGRAM ON THE AM DIAL ON THE EAST COAST. KB DIES AGAIN.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 2:46:30pm

Name:

Carol

City/State

Kenmore, NY

Comments:

Not happy, not happy, not happy. Dan's been moving my fanny since I was a little girl. Tuning in Tuesday was a HUGE disappointment, and I won't be tuning in again. You've lost a listener in me, and in many others that you probably won't hear from. I understand the cutthroat tactics in releasing your staff, but logical reasons are small comfort.
P.S. I'm a registered Democrat and I STILL won't listen to that one dimensional garbage.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 3:40:49pm

Name:

Rob B

City/State

Depew, NY

Comments:

I cannot believe the disregard Entercom has for the listeners or the best djs that they could have hired but that's what you get with a corporative giant and a monopoly. All they think about is their ratings and the money it can bring them. The point here is I didn’t live in the 50’s but I enjoyed the format immensely. It made my day. I got up in the morning with Danny move your fanny and went to bed listening to all the oldies that my mom and dad grew up with and on the weekend the SNARP show with Tom Donahue the only show in it’s class that no one can replicate. Why is it when something is good and right and fun someone has to pull the plug. Is it because they just don’t give a dam about us listeners or for that matter Danny or the rest of the crew. I hope the new format goes to hell. Wait it already has! Entercom is sealing their own reputation by what they done. Who made this decision? They never asked the listeners they never took a vote and didn’t even tell us. They didn’t even let the DJs say goodbye. Just like in 1988 the music has died. It’s ashamed. I hope Entercom and the stuffed shirts are happy that they made us miserable.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 3:33:59pm

Name:

Lex Luthor

City/State

Upstate New York

Comments:

Sad, but true - the great KB has once again been silenced by the bean-counters. Liberal talk from a satellite lowers overhead and increases profits (but not necessarily ratings). I am applaud Entercom for bringing KB back, but curse them for the decision to abandon the listeners in this format change. KB was a hometown station for all of Eastern America (and Canada) and it sounded great! Cheers to the dedicated staff that returned KB to the air three years ago. You will be sorely missed in this dying industry known as terrestrial radio. And the "suits" in the executive suites have no one to blame but themselves. And thanks to David Fill for this wonderful tribute site to KB!

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 2:42:29pm

Name:

Pat McCall

City/State

Hamburg, NY

Comments:

I am very unhappy with the format change for KB 1520. I loved the oldies, listened often during the day. I will miss Danny, Tom and Sandy. But most of all miss the oldies!!!:)

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 12:36:52am

Name:

Bill Sample

City/State

Plantsville, CT

Comments:

As my wife Sue said, Corporate Culture Crushes Creativity! Entercom, you had something special at 1520 and have squandered it. What a waste of 50,000 watts. I wouldn't be surprised if this new format lasts only a few months. It has been a proven loser in other markets.
I listened to it whenever I could and really enjoyed it when I visited Buffalo twice last year.
I hope that Dan and Tom and the rest of the gang are doing all right. They certainly were a wonderful part of my life over the past few years

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 9:49:18am

Name:

Dave Young

City/State

Reston, Virginia

Comments:

Wow, what a lame decision to go with an all left format. I loved listening to your former evening format and its excellent programming. Advertisers and listeners will never and have never supported whining left wing liberals with their sacrosanct attitudes. Sorry you chose to ruin a great station.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 11:40:59am

Name:

Elmer Schroeder

City/State

ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Comments:

I am not shocked on the KB format change. Surprised?, Maybe! Somewhere before KB had changed their format the first time, the owners of KB must have had an offer they couldn't refuse, and Sold Out,....either that, or they all were scheduled to be hit with an Ugly Stick but the stick was switched to a "Dumb Stick"!, (The same stick used in Government, Corporate America and largely used on the General Public, starting in the 1970's!!!)! For a good 10 years everyone I knew listened to KB. Once in a great while, I would listen to the old Whistle (WYSL), but within an hour, my Transistor Radio was tuned back to KB. Once KB (WKBW) was Busted by the Government for having both of the media (TV & Radio) for a possible monopoly, it all changed the game! Remembering back, KB sank a bundle of money on buying The Newest technology in being the First Stereo AM Radio Station I've ever heard of!, (Bad Move!)!!! Since the first format change from ROCK & ROLL to talk Radio,... I just changed the dial, and Never Looked Back! After that, I moved away from Bflo, to Rottenchester NY, and twice in 26 years, looked for the KB of old,... but never found the ROCK & ROLL, so turned the radio OFF. After moving to ORLANDO FLORIDA in Nov of 2001, and hearing of KB reintroducing their ROCK & ROLL Format, for Me personally, it was Too Late! The newer R&R Format should have had some versatility in the songs played. I had Friends / Family tape some of KB at sporadic times, and it seemed to me that KB continued playing the same old songs from the 1950's, 1960's & very early 1970's, (Too Cheap To Buy New "Song Recordings"!?!). I am Truly Not Surprised that KB lost whatever common sense...their older listeners...and their Advertisers, that they once had. At this time, I would like to THANK THE OLDER CREW OF WKBW RADIO for providing such great quality Radio, the untiring love of this Site's Designer/Operator, Family and Friends for all their help through many of life's happenings, (News, Weather, Sports). God Bless America! For Complaints about KB's Format change, please contact GREG Ried at 716 843 0600!!!!!!! All above opinions expressed herein are Copyright 2006 by Elmer Schroeder, which may be copied, with All Rights Strictly Reserved. Written as News and Information Only. (32854-7476)

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 7:16:59am

Name:

Cindi Craig

City/State

Cowlesville, New York

Comments:

I have enjoyed your Oldies programming since I was a teenager and had to turn my radio in all directions to get the signal back in Cortland NY so I could hear the best DJ's like Danny Neaverth and Sandy Beach. I was so happy they were back and counted on Danny to "move my fanny" in the morning until February 7 when I was so rudely awakened. I am so sorry that the management failed to see their true gold they had and choose to lose with their "trash talk" radio.

 

 

Thursday 02/09/2006 7:16:51am

Name:

Jim

City/State

Bristol , Rhode Island

Comments:

This is like a death in the family. I am still in mourning.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 11:25:45pm

Name:

Karen

City/State

Collins, NY

Comments:

I am now extremely saddened because KB radio, the classic radio station, with Dan Neaverth and friends is once again gone! It is now February 8, 2006 and KB as we knew it is lost to talk radio. I truly do not get this and I know that I am not alone. We need you KB and Dan Neaverth, Tom Donahue, and all the others......You are real people who we have come to love and cherish. Please say this is not the end. Sincerely, Karen

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 11:21:39pm

Name:

Pete Newell

City/State

Glenfield, NY (50 mi. no. of Utica)

Comments:

Terrible decision. Who needs another talk radio station? 1520 will now be erased from my radio's memory. My condolences to the great KB DJ's. Even with local "oldies" stations, I listened to KB whenever possible to get "the real thing." It was the original DJs, the original jingles, etc. that made it special. (Even though I never listened to KB as a kid. Being in Long Island, I listened to the other great radio station, WABC.) A sample of that great format can be heard on 770 AM from 6 to 10 Saturday evenings on the WABC oldies show. See musicradio77.com.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 10:49:18pm

Name:

Fran O'Brien

City/State

Westfield, Ma 01085

Referred by:

Friend

Comments:

I used to listen to WDRC FM in Hartford. They only had oldies from the 60's and 70's and I was looking for music from the 50's also. I was in heaven listening to your station on my way home from work after midnight. Now I find this loud opinioned talk nut on. You have lost a listener.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 10:19:05pm

Name:

Chuck

City/State

Attica, NY

Comments:

Before I start, please read the next paragraph comment. I think it may be worth while (I hope at least).

Please listen to KB for a while (no mater HOW you hate too) and during their commercials, take note and give the advertiser’s a call and explain to them that they are wasting their money with KB because you will no longer listen to KB or hear their commercials as long as they are in the liberal talk format.
~end of comment~

I grew up with KB in the late 50’s and listed to it while eating lunch at Avon High (they played it in the café) in Avon, NY until I went to the Army, then I still listed to it at night time in Alabama. In my professional life, I listened to it as much as I could when I was driving the eastern seaboard until they went talk radio the first time. KB was a well respected classic oldies AM radio station not only in Western New York, but in a lot of other states up and down the eastern seaboard and Canada as well. KB had what no other AM OR FM radio station could provide... and that was "true classic entertainment". With the releasing of legends Danny Neaverth, the man who made KB and Jack Armstrong, the "Mighty Voice of KB" and one hell of a entertainer and the other GREATS, showed us, your former KB die hard listeners that you have became a legends killer Mr. Ried.

Mr. Ried, as the “new” phrase says; “The Day The Music Died In Buffalo” has become a reality, all at your corporate colleagues thoughtless minds with disregard to your listeners. What are you guys thinking? In my conclusion, R.I.P. KB. Sorry to see you die,

FYI: Mr. Greg Ried, AM General Manager/Vice President Entercom Buffalo LLC
Fax # (716) 843-0250 It works.... I sent my Fax already.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 9:50:50pm

Name:

MQL712

City/State

Derby, NY

Comments:

You have got to be joking!! What a classless-clueless decision to change formats at KB radio 1520. First to just do away with Danny and the other jocks without giving them an opportunity to say goodbye to their loyal listeners was terrible. Danny Neaverth, a media icon here in Western NY, and is treated in this manner. Entercom you owe it to Danny to have treated him in a classier way. The music, the fun, the commercials from yesteryear the guests were all wonderful. What a shame. And what a sham.

P.S. To Greg Ried, you had the nerve to make this decision at least have the nerve to answer your phone or return calls. FACE THE MUSIC MR. Ried IF YOU CAN

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 9:35:15pm

Name:

Jim Kula

City/State

Bear, Delaware

Comments:

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MUSIC? THEY KILLED THE GREATEST RADIO STATION AGAIN!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 9:11:52pm

Name:

Gilles Masson

City/State

Beloeil, Quebec

Comments:

The only station worth listening to is no more.....
Talk radio stinks! Going back on Toronto 740 for old-oldies...
T`was good listening, while it lasted.
Ciao!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 9:17:34pm

Name:

Chris Nesi

City/State

Jackson, NJ

Comments:

I am 24 y/o and I found WKBW about a year ago in New Jersey driving home one night from work. I had just lost CBS 101.1FM and now a little over a year later I have lost WKBW. Why don't the execs actually do some quality survey's before making STUPID decisions. Thank you WKBW for the year's worth of memories that will last me a lifetime, and maybe someday I will be wandering the dial again and find the "SAWEEEEEEEEEEEET" sounds of Buffalo again.
Chris

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 8:53:27pm

Name:

Joe M

City/State

Williamsville NY

Comments:

It is bad enough that most of the Buffalo radio market sucks, but at least KB radio 15.20 was a place that we listeners could turn to for the good old radio the way it was intended to be from the beginning. There is to many all talk radio on today, at least KB was not more of the same old thing repeated over and over. Now that is all that it is. You find one talk station you find them all. These guys like Danny and the others have something that is going to be lost for the children of tomorrow if you don’t bring it back.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 6:59:17pm

Name:

Denise

City/State

Ridgeway Ontario Canada

Comments:

I hate that new format already, hopefully all the personalities will find something else. KB has always rocked and I am very sad to see it go.
Take care.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 8:29:32pm

Name:

TIM RESTIVO

City/State

GREENMOUNT, MARYLAND

Comments:

HEY , YOU GUYS MUST BE NUTS. THE MOST LISTENED TO RADIO STATION ON THE EAST COAST AND NOW IT ONLY TALKS. WE DON'T LIKE TALK, WE LIKE OLDIES MUSIC. ARE YOU GOING TO PLAY GOD BLESS AMERICA AT MIDNIGHT , OR IS THAT TOO MUCH FOR YOU LIBERAL LOUD MOUTHS. GOD BLESS OUR DJ'S. BRING BACK THE MUSIC. OR YOU LOST ANOTHER AVID PAIR OF LISTENERS. TIM AND SHEILA FROM MARYLAND

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 7:54:29pm

Name:

Doug Spero

City/State

Raleigh, NC

Comments:

My lst job in radio before moving-on to NBC & CBS News in NY was at a radio station on Long Island (WTHE-1520). We had 10,000 watts and had to get off the air at sundown for Buffalo. The signal from KB was so strong that, 15 miles east of the towers (directional east), toward sunset, the KB signal would over-ride ours. What a great station to grow-up with at night on L.I. Even though we had the rock power houses out of NYC, KB was just as competitive and, at times, sounded so much better. One more great/historic piece of our broadcasting history gone due to the the strip-mining of the industry produced by corporate radio! Best wishes, Doug Spero

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 6:37:36pm

Name:

Wes Farr

City/State

Central Bridge, NY

Comments:

No mention of WWKB at all on ENTERCOM Buffalo's answering machine. I don't think they dare to take any calls. It's bad enough they went to talk, but LIBERAL talk is just too much

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 5:31:08pm

Name:

Mike Miranda

City/State

Charlotte, NC

Comments:

I hope everyone will continue to mail and call Greg Ried at Entercom Buffalo. No it won't change anything but we should be heard. KB was not just an ordinary radio station!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 5:16:02pm

Name:

mj

City/State

Hamburg, New York

Comments:

I cannot believe that you have taken one of the greatest radio stations off the air. I am very disappointed as many of my friends are. I have always been a listener of this wonderful station. It certainly kept all the good times alive and it was very enjoyable. I want it back on the air. What is life without the oldies??

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 3:53:26pm

Name:

Seth Gaines

City/State

Germantown, MD

Comments:

More lame talk, by losers, for losers. Just what I don't need. Doesn't anyone play good oldies anymore? I hope the station goes under.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 2:06:52pm

Name:

Kenneth Butcher

City/State

Randolph, NY

Comments:

Bring back the music!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 12:09:37am

Name:

Carol Bauer

City/State

Baltimore, MD

Comments:

I am EXTREMELY UNHAPPY that the station is now changed to talk. It is the best station I have ever listened to. It brought back so many happy memories. I spread the word to all my friends and family that there was a decent oldies station on 1520 AM. I did not find this station until this past summer so I guess I missed a lot more. I was always amazed at how well I could hear the music after sundown and early morning here in Baltimore. I will call and voice my opinion. Baltimore lost their so so oldies channel to Jack radio back in the spring of 05 because they said that the numbers were not there to keep the station going. Well there are a lot of us Baby Boomers out there that like their music and I hope we ALL speak up.

Carol Bauer
Baltimore, MD

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 12:05:38am

Name:

Joyce Gladd

City/State

Ballston Spa, NY

Comments:

Someone already said this, and it goes for me as well. No music, no listen.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 11:44:52am

Name:

Georgian Davis

City/State

Buffalo, New York

Comments:

I am so disturbed with this talk format - I thought someone changed the station the first thing I do turn the radio on in car and at work - not to even be advised of the change before it happened just don't understand I don't like it - I miss the music - now I have to search for an oldie format station thanks for so many good hours of enjoyment at my work - hope to hear you guys again

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 11:35:41am

Name:

Julius C. Richardson

City/State

Chaffee, NY

Comments:

Please let me know where this format will be moving to. What Happened????

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 11:23:19am

Name:

Chet LaPrice

City/State

Erie, PA

Comments:

Tipping my hat to the memory of a great rock & roll radio station, where the music died TWICE: 1988, 2006. Long live the memory of the Mighty 'KB.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 8:47:56am

Name:

Wayne Smith

City/State

Wattsburg, PA

Comments:

Thanks for the trip to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Special thanks to "Jackson Armstrong, WKBW muuuuuuuusicaaaahhhh"
Wayne Smith - WGR News/1978-85


 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 8:05:35am

Name:

Beverly L Bernacik

City/State

Hamburg, NY

Comments:

I love the oldies format, as I grew up with radio. (TV was a luxury not in the budget.) I miss the "Chickenman" segment of the format. 02/08/06: I truly dislike what you have done with the station now. Who needs another talk show? I hope it fails miserably.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 7:38:12am

Name:

Rosann

City/State

Clarence, NY

Comments:

Can't believe you changed to talk radio, no one is going to listen to that drivel. We want the old KB back!!!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 5:39:00am

Name:

Doug Boundy

City/State

Lancaster, New York

Comments:

Greg Ried!! What is wrong with you??!! No one wants to hear this new format of yours!! We want the Oldies back!! Your station will not survive the change. We want music all day long. If we want "talk" we can go to the TV. It is a disservice to all of your listeners to have this format change. Stop being "politically correct" and use your head. Give us back the Oldies!!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 3:06:35am

Name:

Ken Strackman

City/State

North Miami Beach, FL

Comments:

I miss the old music format. I wish I could still pick up the signal here in FL. Too much interference from Cuba... I lived in Buffalo from 1967 to 1972.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 1:52:37am

Name:

Timothy Michael Rochford

City/State

Catonsville, Maryland

Comments:

Just found you guys in the autumn of 2005. Loved listening to you from sun-down to sun-up. Monday night, the 6th, I was stunned to here some crapolla talk - thought something was wrong with my radio etc. I'll certainly call the GM and voice LOUDLY my opinion. Whoever's responsible has got to be your typical "Genius Idiot". Good Luck - God Bless and Happy Trails!
Tim

 

 


Wednesday 02/08/2006 6:03:29am

Name:

Burt Stein

City/State

Highland Park, NJ

Comments:

Oh, KB, you will be sorely missed here in central New Jersey too! ... I just wanted to share with everyone the following fax message* sent to Entercom last evening:

Date: February 7, 2006
To: Mr. Greg Ried
AM General Manager/Vice President
Entercom Buffalo LLC
* Fax # (716) 843-0250
Ref: WWKB Format Change/Elimination of Classic Oldies Format
From: Burt Stein
Highland Park, NJ

Mr. Ried:

As you surely know deep down, it was clueless bureaucrats such as yourself who put quality radio programming on life support throughout the United States, and Entercom’s sudden transformation of the WKBW classic oldies format to “Buffalo’s Left Channel” just shows there’s no hope of that path ever being abandoned itself.

My family and I knew the “true” classic WKBW decades ago as I grew up in the 1960s/early 1970s, and its brief return in this new century was again cause for celebration, as its signal came in loud and clear even here in Highland Park. Yet, once again, the heart and soul of what once made AM radio great now yields to the counting of beans above all else.

So, let your corporate colleagues now congratulate you and each other for putting one more huge nail in the casket of American broadcasting. It’s a certainty that no one else will do so. And “congratulations” on doing no more or less than what you do best…driving away a large regional audience and firing the finest air staff you’ll probably ever know!

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 0:58:49am

Name:

John Zeke

City/State

Niagara Falls

Comments:

You owners of this station have goofed big-time. I was so into KB this time around and then you go and put this stupid arrogant woman liberal talk show on? I was telling all my friends how your music shows were the best and it was just like when we were growing up. All the oldies. Shame on you.....

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 0:47:33am

Name:

Mike

City/State

 

Comments:

You might want to mention Greg Ried's ext is 302. I'd like to see everyone call him, any time and fill up his voice mailbox (be nice) and tell him what a bad move this is for the station. Will it change anything? NO but it would be nice if he saw how ticked off we are about this dumb move.

 

 

Wednesday 02/08/2006 0:21:28am

Name:

Anthony Fabbiano

City/State

Buffalo, NY

Comments:

I'm 24 and for the past few years this has been my number one station. In my computer room I only have an AM radio just for KB. When I turned it on Monday night after work I was disappointed, very, very disappointed. I will miss my clock radio waking me up to the morning show and listening before bed. I will miss you KB radio, thanks for the great few years I've had with you!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 11:32:31pm

Name:

Henry Michaud

City/State

Campbellton, NB, Canada

Comments:

Listened to you in the early 60's up until the 70's.I re-discovered you about a year or so ago, great stuff guy's. Tuned in Monday Feb. 6th and all I get now is some talk-show. What's happening?

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 8:23:42pm

Name:

Gary Hutchins

City/State

Lebanon, NH 03766

Comments:

Well, we got screwed again! It was such a pleasure to listen to the re-birth of KB only to be dismayed today when I tuned in for my morning KB fix. I'm so glad you maintain this site!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 6:43:57pm

Name:

George

City/State

Buffalo, NY

Comments:

I moved back to Buffalo after an absence of over 40 years. Tuning in to KB made me feel like I had never left. The great sounds and voices of my youth were still there where I had left them. They will be sorely missed. Thanks for everything.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 6:37:28pm

Name:

Woody

City/State

North Tonawanda, NY

Comments:

Hey you dummies at WWKB. Do yourself a favor and just PULL THE PLUG and save yourself some $$$$$. Unreal!!

 

 

  Tuesday 02/07/2006 8:40:47pm

Name:

Arnie

City/State

Lancaster,NY

Comments:

Sometimes in life, change is inevitable, and this is one of them. AM radio will soon all be talk shows of some kind just due to the nature of the signal. FM is where the music will always be due to its clarity. As for KB, it was the best of times in my life as a kid growing up in sunny Cheektowaga (Go Flyers)! The jocks were the best as well, and the music always came first. Great memories were made in high school with KB on the radio providing the background music in every teens car. Every kids bedroom had that AM radio next to the bed so we could enjoy Joey Reynolds and his 'Purple People Eaters' show. FM radio wasn't interesting to anyone our age back then. People like Danny, Don, Rod, Freddie, and Jeff became household names. Now that all of this has ended once again, and probably for good, it's nice to listen to a format where the music is the main thing and really, there is only one radio station on the FM dial that is doing that. Funny that it is also at the end of the dial like KB was! Thanks for the memories. It was a great trip.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 6:43:41pm

Name:

Tom Gaj

City/State

Cheektowaga

Comments:

I heard of stupid moves, but this beats all. Changing KB's format was a big mistake.........I listened to the new format on Feb. 7th 2006, and all I can say is that "it really SUCKED". Who's ever idea this was, must really be a MORON. Danny, Tom, Sandy and everyone else will be greatly missed and KB lost a lot of listeners. I hope everyone boycotts KB.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 5:35:52pm

Name:

Victor Quaglieri

City/State

N. Kingstown, RI 02852

Comments:

Will miss Dan and Tom in the AM. Come on, bring back the oldies! Forget the talk...

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 5:56:57pm

Name:

Trish

City/State

Tonawanda, NY

Comments:

I can't believe that I am even a little upset about the demise of KB as I know it...again. But I am. Are we baby-boomers to be put out to pasture as our parents have been? Imagine my shock to tune in at 6:45 this am to hear how unreasonable the Muslims are in their reaction to Finland's cartoon?! Not how I want to start my morning!!! Radio is entertainment...escape from all crap that is going on. KB took me back to a more carefree time and the personalities could always lighten the mood. WHTT is OK, but it isn't KB. I'll miss it. I'd love to talk to a "real person "about this. I tried calling Greg Ried, but of course I got a recording. So, to Danny, Tom, Sandy, Steve, and crazy Jackson, I'll miss you and hope to find you somewhere on the dial in the future.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 4:15:06pm

Name:

Mel Bernhard

City/State

Williamsville N.Y.

Comments:

I am very disappointed about the program change from music to talk. You had something very special. I was so pleased when you brought back the personalities some time ago & have listened daily since. Obviously you have your reasons, business, revenue, costs etc. I will miss the programming.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 5:25:17pm

Name:

Lauren

City/State

Wallingford, CT

Comments:

I am in shock at the sudden disappearance of oldies on KB. Just yesterday morning, I heard Tom and Danny talking about the snowstorm that was hitting the area!!! Evenings won't be the same without Jackson Armstrong. I hope he and all the great KB personalities will be back on the air SOMEWHERE soon. Meanwhile, thanks to all of you for the 3 wonderful years of fun, music, etc we never thought we'd have. You will all be missed!!
Lauren Esposito
#1 KB fan :)

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 5:49:23pm

Name:

Allan Bowen

City/State

Brockport, NY

Comments:

I came out of work yesterday (Monday 2/6/06) and was crushed and PO'd to find talk radio had returned. I've been in AM heaven since KB and oldies returned and can't believe us old timers (54) didn't have the demographics to maintain the format. Tell Danny, Tom, Sandy and all the rest I'm sorry we couldn't keep them around. They will be missed - again.

My teen years were spent dialing between KB, WLS and WABC on my old All American 5 Silvertone attached to a couple of hundred feet of old electrical fence wire strung through the trees up in the Adirondacks. AM radio was my window on the world when the sun went down. It sure felt good when KB came back...it sure feels lousy now that it's gone again.

P.S. Occasionally I get tempted to go to satellite radio just to hear Cousin Brucie (at least I think he ended up there). Any chance the KB guys will be appearing there to make it worth my while? I know it won't be the same without KB, but we miss them too!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 4:56:38pm

Name:

Gus Fulleborn

City/State

Richmond, VA

Comments:

Stabbed in the heart by a talk is cheap, whinny liberal talk show knife. Entercom has just pissed of the entire east coast of boomers. Understand who has more spending power than any other demographic group. Bring back our KB. Learn how to sell advertising that reaches us. Look into putting KB on the web. There are probably tens of thousands of us who would pay a monthly fee for the music that formed us and made us who we are today. I want to hear Danny in the morning, Jack in the afternoon and Tom doing SNARP on Saturday nights.

PS. What a classless way to deal with great radio people and a great listening audience.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 3:57:54pm

Name:

Donna

City/State

Niagara Falls, New York

Comments:

I can't believe we lost WKBW again! What a loss. You will be missed!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 2:49:13pm

Name:

Karolyn Lauffer

City/State

N. Tonawanda, New York

Comments:

Well You've done it again !! Just when we were enjoying Danny again, you shoot yourself in the foot. We grew up with Danny and love him because he is real and local. Your method of advising a person that his job is gone is unreal. The line up you describe such as Leslie Marshall does not sound too good. I have heard her on your other stations as a sub and tuned her out. She is in California, just what we need, another exported job. I listen to Joey over night and will now tune into another station. You have lost more listeners than you think with this new venue. And yes, I am one of them. Karolyn Lauffer

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 2:30:39pm

Name:

Alan Davidson

City/State

Brooklyn, NY

Comments:

It is sad but true -- I used to enjoy listening to at night too -- no final sendoffs, etc. Anybody remember when the original KB went off in 1988 with Danny playing Who's Sorry Now as his last song and Tom Donohue playing Hello Goodbye by the Beatles?

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 1:57:57pm

Name:

Barbara

City/State

Buffalo, NY

Comments:

So, we say another goodbye to our best radio station, WWKB. What a sad day this is! And what a heartless way to stop the music. They (Dan, Tom, Sandy, Jack and everyone)made me laugh and made the day go by with great music and many laughs. Now what? We'll miss all of it.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 1:09:16pm

Name:

Donna Bruno

City/State

Williamsville NY

Comments:

It is another SAD day in Buffalo when Entercom has decided to change KB format to another useless, garbage talk-radio format canceling our beloved radio personalities. BRING THEM BACK! WE DON'T WANT THIS GARBAGE! GREG Ried AND ASSISTANT LYNN DO NOT RETURN PHONE CALLS, THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR HOW BUFFALO WANTS DANNY AND CREW BACK!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 11:10:52am

Name:

Lorraine Athing

City/State

Hamburg NY

Comments:

I WANT OUR OLDIES MUSIC BACK!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 11:44:55am

Name:

Terry Murphy

City/State

Perry, NY

Comments:

What have they done??? One more great tradition in my America gone. And by lefty talk radio. What a joke. No one will just have fun, anymore, they just want us all miserable listening to that. A part of me died today. Thanks old KB for the memories, and to the greatest bunch of DJ's I ever heard. Miss you already!

 

 

 Tuesday 02/07/2006 5:44:44pm

Name:

Mike Miranda

City/State

Charlotte, NC

Comments:

People please keep in mind that this is not the stations website it is David's tribute to the once great station. It's not his fault they changed the format.

I wish our opinions would be considered by the station owners but it never works out that way. It's clear they went into the oldies format half-heartedly. Small staff and no promotional budget to speak of.

Someone said they saw the KB cruiser at the Fair with no one around it covered in sawdust! This is what you get when a single company is allowed to own so many stations in a market. The once great Buffalo stations WGR, WBEN, WWKB, and what used to be WYSL (now WWWS) are all owned by Entercom and that's not even counting the FM's they own in Buffalo.

Did KB ever do any contests to get listeners excited? NO! They could have done something like "Cash Call" and it would have helped, but no. They didn't even staff the station much of the time it was automated or voice tracked.

With the format shift at WHTT and the format change at WECK WWKB might have been able to pick up some listeners, now we will never know.

WSAI did a good job with their "Real Oldies" format in Cincinnati they had jocks on all hours except after midnight (when they went paid religion). I knew that KB had one thing that WSAI didn't and that was people all up and down the Eastern seaboard that loved KB.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 11:59:07am

Name:

Diane Murphy

City/State

Perry, NY

Comments:

What was the other great radio station? can anyone enlighten me. Thanks. I am going to miss this station and the DJ's. Another piece of Americana by the wayside. Boomers rise up and revolt over this injustice!!! Bring back our station and get rid of that talk radio-enough already, right or left! Where are Danny, Jack and the rest of the DJ's going? Please advise. Thanks for the memories-I'm too sad to continue-the music has died!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 11:31:50am

Name:

Gary

City/State

Buffalo

Comments:

No Music, No Listen

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 10:10:58am

Name:

Patrick Taggart

City/State

North Tonawanda, NY

Comments:

There are tears in my eyes and no music in my heart now that KB and me are apart goodbye and god bless I hope you find a new home soon

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 11:33:15am

Name:

Claudette Matuszewski

City/State

Cheektowaga, NY

Comments:

What happened to the Old Rock and Roll Format of KB? I turned the radio on this morning and all we heard was a stupid talk shiow. The last thing we need in Buffalo is another talk show - call it what you want but my husband and I as well as my many fellow workers will never tune in again - trust me. Danny Neaverth was the best thing going and you blew it. The guy on the radio this morning seemed as ignorant and as backward as both Tom Bauerle and that other Hick, Sandy Beach, on the other "Talk" radio AM show. WBEN AM - and who is that airhead - Leslie Marshall you must be kidding. What an insult - you hurt yourselves. I think these hosts should start looking for another job and Entercom and whatever it is you call yourselves ought to sue the wonderful operators manager or Tim Wenger for his stupidity. It's obvious to everyone already. Also, I'd advise your hosts to do a little research before they go on the air with so much misinformation as they demonstrated the first morning on the air. Shame on all of you. Thanks for ruining it for Buffalo. I hope you get everything you deserve.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 6:28:24pm

Name:

Andy Phillips

City/State

Littleton, NH

Comments:

I was amazed when KB1520 returned to what made it great right around my birthday in January of 2003. It made it even greater for me personally to hear the great Jack Armstrong read e-mails from me on the air, and to talk with the man himself via e-mail over the next few years. A friend of mine and I managed to locate his theme music from his first stay at KB ("Shimmy Shimmy Walk" by Billy Lee Riley & the Megatons) and send it to him and actually hear him use it again underneath that amazing ending to every night's show, and to hear him thank us for finding it was a joy. Nothing but pure class...he's always had it and always will. So you can imagine my disgust Monday evening, Feb. 6th, 2006 to tune in and hear that KB1520 had let everyone go and had returned to a talk format. KB was a huge part of growing up for me, and the return of the classic KB jocks was the coolest thing I'd heard on the radio, bar none. For Entercom to take it all away again is the ultimate LACK of the class that people like Jackson Armstrong, Danny Neaverth and the rest have always had. Jackson responded to my e-mail that evening, saying that everyone received about five minutes notice, when it should have been the sales staff getting that amount of notice for not realizing they had the greatest people they could have on their station and not doing enough to sell the format. There are few people I hold in the same kind of regard in radio that I always held for KB...Scott Shannon is one, Dale Dorman in Boston is another. these people inspired me to get into radio because they were so damned much FUN to listen to, ALWAYS. The talkers that are on KB now may come up with stimulating topics of discussion and they may make you think...but that's hardly the kind of entertainment that the name "WKBW" was always there with, on such a legendary level. Entercom, you blew it. All that talent wasted...no wonder people like Cousin Bruce Morrow are moving to satellite. I'm sure the air staff at WCBS-FM in New York City, one of whom had just gotten started in radio after an amazing career in music, TV and theater (Micky Dolenz), knows exactly how it feels.

So once again KB Radio 1520 is a memory to a lot of music lovers as well as lovers of some of the best personality radio in the history of rock & roll. The people on the air gave it their best. Too bad the people they worked for couldn't do the same.

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 10:38:39am

Name:

Lyle A. Stang

City/State

Orchard Park, NY 14127

Comments:

The station that covered almost all of my needs on a daily basis. Morning fun / stories and entertainment. the best morning team in the bus, Dan Neaverth and Tom Macrea plus when the beach came in .......it's a riot. Jackson Armstrong the wildest DJ in the world. Can't live without them. Don't know what to listen to now.
Lyle Stang

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 10:40:38am

Name:

Kathy Pantera

City/State

Orchard Park, New York

Comments:

What happened? I woke up this AM expecting Danny and Tom, but instead was awakened by a totally different person! It just about ruined my day! How do you fire people without any notice! How do you change your station format without informing us, the faithful fans of years and years! What a disappointment! Please tell us where Danny, Tom, Sandy and all the wonderful DJs are now so that we may follow them! At least tell us that!

 

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 9:55:58am

Name:

Max Shenk

City/State

Lansdale, PA

Comments:

How depressing. Thank God for your site... thank God that I was able to hear and enjoy 'KB for a few months before the switch. PLEASE keep us posted on where the jocks go next!

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 6:36:19pm

Name:

Chuck Hitzel

City/State

Tonawanda, NY

Comments:

What the hell happened? You guys were doing great! Now we're stuck with 104,---again. There are plenty of talk shows. Bring back the "OLDIES"

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 8:04:33pm

Name:

Carl Buckholz

City/State

Lima, NY

Comments:

Who was the nutcase that decided to pull the plug once again on the KB 1520 radio I love with all of my favorite disc jockeys? I just happened to stumble on KB earlier this year and was floored when I heard the old familiar station back on the air. I was telling everyone who remembered the great WKBW. Now, today 02/06/06 I turned on the radio and heard yet another person droning on about some topic of the day. I WANT MY RADIO STATION BACK!! What happened???

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 11:47:28pm

Name:

Gary Walters

City/State

Hamburg, NY

Comments:

It is very sad but true; the music has indeed died at KB Radio. Like what occurred at WCBS-FM in New York City this past Fall, our only surviving AM blowtorch is now just a memory for 50's and 60's music.
This obviously was a corporate decision based upon ratings numbers and audience listening habits. Us Geezer diehards did our best, but when you are up against FM, Satellite, even broadcasting on the Internet, unless you show outstanding numbers in the ratings book, and keep them high, any station format would be pulled. I do not like it either! I will miss Daffy Danny Neaverth, Tom Donahue, Sandy Beach (he will still be on WBEN Talk Radio), Steve Mitchell, Jack Armstrong, Hank Nevins, and the rest of the 21st Century personalities of KB.

Good luck to you all, and thanks for having made KB Radio one of two great radio stations. It was a great ride, while it lasted

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 5:13:28pm

Name:

Roger Hyde

City/State

Hamburg, NY

Comments:

First it was WECK now WKBW. What are you thinking? I am going to get an Ipod. You are going to lose a lot of listeners and not get them back.

  

 

Tuesday 02/07/2006 9:02:17am

Name:

Jay Wolf

City/State

Northampton, MA

Comments:

Hey everyone. I am a DJ at WXOJ in Northampton, MA. It is a station with a mix of programming and talent. My show features rock, soul, R&B, from all decades. I plan on doing a tribute to the KB radio station this Sunday. I’ll probably get kicked off the air for making an affiliation with another station not relating to mine but sometimes you have to what needs to be done. It was a dream of mine to play rock at KB radio and now it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. So I’m going to act like a 4-year-old and play pretend.
I’ll be playing all the great tunes that KB once played and barking and howling into the night while I do it.
I posted a comment on my myspace.com (Also my radio web site for the time being)
Check it out at www.myspace.com/jaywolfradio
Good luck to all
Here is a copy of the message:

WWKB (WKBW) 1520 am has now died!

The Buffalo, NY station that brought the rock 'n roll format from 1958 to 1988, then returned in 2003 to continue this wonderful format, has now changed to a liberal left wing talk station. This is one more stab to the broadcasting industry. WCBS FM from NYC lost there oldies format last year without notice and now this. Many more oldies stations across the US can eventually expect the same to happen to them in the future. As ipods, internet, satellite radio and lack of talented DJ appear in the world, this is not an issue that is going away! WXOJ nor myself has any affiliation with KB radio or with Entercom.
When I read this news online last night I was taken back. I didn’t want to believe it and I tuned to the station and sure enough it was gone. This station is (was) a huge part of broadcast history and will be missed. For those of you who wish to make some noise about this please contact

Greg Ried
[AM General Manager/Vice President of Entercom]
(716) 843-0600

Help save “Real” radio

  

 

Monday 02/06/2006 10:57:25pm

Name:

Jim Curione

City/State

Toms River, NJ

Comments:

I stopped listening to local AM stations one by one as they turned to talk and sports lineups over the last twenty five odd years. I then found the great sounds that just aren't played on the few local FM "Oldie" stations that I can pull in here in Toms River. WKBW. All the local stations play are what I think are the sucky top 40 (really top 10) of the 50's and 60's over and over and over again. They just do not get the fact that plenty of songs that never charted above 20 were really good songs to hear. And should be played. WKBW sure did. Now I have to search the AM dial again for something other than sports talk or liberal and/or conservative political bullshit. Howard Stern just doesn't cut it for me.
Good luck to me and to all of the people involved with the now dead sound of WKBW. (Listening to the UB basketball games also was a memory bringer backer of when I went to CCNY.)
Jim C

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 8:07:42pm

Name:

Martin Hernik

City/State

Hamburg, New York

Comments:

I am in total shock that my one and only radio station is once more taken off the air. I go back with KB to my teen-age years and was so glad when they, Danny and all the KB good-guys came back. If they wanted to make a change to the format than why did "they" have the guts to do it publicly, not like some slime, backyard hide-away individual. This sounds like something someone at the top level of government is doing - secret sabotage of what has so much meaning for all of us baby-boomers. This truely is the day the music died again. Thanks to Danny and all the good-guys from KB. Marty

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 5:31:40pm

Name:

JUDY AND CRAIG

City/State

DUNKIRK, NY

Comments:

CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY DID.... ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS?? MAYBE IF ENOUGHT PEOPLE COMPLAIN, YOU'LL BE BACK AGAIN... WE SURE HOPE YOU ARE...
GOOD LUCK GUYS

 

 

Monday 02/06/2006 3:45:13pm

Name:

Bob Nocero

City/State

Orlando, Florida

Comments:

Wow! I cannot believe that they just changed the format of KB back to "Talk Radio." At least I got to check in to the station last May and see Danny Neaverth and Tom Donahue. Even Sandy Beach. I thought I'd be using the CD player in my rental car, but the radio got locked on KB and stayed there.
Keep up the great website!

Bob

 

 

Friday 02/10/2006 7:14:07pm

Name:

Lorraine Smith

City/State

Lockport, NY

Comments:

I grew up listening to WKBW radio that is over 35 years. I would listen to Danny Neaverth show in the morning on my way to work he made my day and I will miss the music that I grew up on. We don't need any more talk shows give me good old rock & roll any day..

 

 

Saturday 02/11/2006 9:55:40pm

Name:

Roe Spano

City/State

Williamsville, NY

Comments:

Danny,
I'm so sorry, albeit miserable. You're the only one that can move my fanny in the morning. Will miss you, Tom, Cheryl and the rest of the morning gang. Thanks for the memories, the fun and the Elvis CD I finally won after all these years! Morning radio is dead in WNY.

 

 

Saturday 02/11/2006 9:13:11pm

Name:

Robert Blachowicz

City/State

Depew NY

Comments:

Another monopoly Entercom Buffalo are you nuts. You got rid of the best guys you could have had and the Humor and down to earth people that we could identify with. KB was something that we needed Humor and reality that we all need in the morning. Again, are you people at Entercom nuts? What is your problem? Are you so damn conceded in your own corporative growth that you don’t care about the listeners? Apparently, the answer is yes! Tim Winger is the AM director of KB, WBEN and Gr. He was on WBEN trying to justify the foolish and stupid decision of putting as he said “commies on” so then I ask you why the hell did he do it? You had the best Station with the best DJS you could have on the east coast. What a waist of 50,000 watts to listen to garbage that we really need like we need a hole in our head. OH! It’s Entercom that’s got a hole in their head. Like I said Entercom has nothing in their head! Bring the DJS back! Bring them back! We don’t need this. Thank you Dave for this wonderful site. I really think you’re a real fine guy! Thank you for sticking up for what’s right!

 

 

Saturday 02/11/2006 8:22:13pm

Virginia Park

North Tonawanda, NY

SHAME ON YOU!! What a disservice to us. Danny, Tom, Sandy made my day. Buffalo is ruined now, with your stupid talk show format. Lesley Marshall is the pits. NO MUSIC NO LISTEN KB-you will be sorely missed. GOD bless all those who lost their jobs because of this terrible transformation.

 

 

Saturday 02/11/2006 8:11:41pm

Larry Sal

E Amherst, NY

The new format that WWKB has is awful, I used to enjoy the nostalgia of KB 1520, you actually played music from the past, had very knowledgeable DJ's, the best in Buffalo for oldies, probably the best in the nation. You lost me as a listener, I had your station on for a few minutes on several occasions this past week, it is probably the worst talk format I have ever heard. I remover the settings off all my car radio's. I would prefer silence over your new format. You ruined a good thing!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Saturday 02/11/2006 3:21:11pm

Bill Dougherty

Philadelphia, PA

I was listening to WKBW on my car radio one night in Phila. (in 1968?) when the Beatles album, Yellow Submarine, was first released. The DJ played “Yellow Submarine” over & over, seamlessly without breaks for what seemed like an eternity (15 minutes? or longer?). It was fascinating, even mesmerizing - does anyone else remember this? Being an out-of-towner I never heard anything else about it. Was there any buzz about in Buffalo? Was it a gag? Please reply to my Email: [email protected]

 

 

Friday 02/10/2006 9:30:54pm

Kent Kollmer

New Brunswick, NJ

I am totally shocked! We lost CBS FM here in the NYC area, and I was trolling for some music a while ago and found KB! Man, I was set! Now this!
"The horror . . . the horror."
Good luck, Jack Armstrong: I hardly knew ye

 

 

Saturday 02/11/2006 3:06:09pm

Martha Scholl

Hamburg, NY

I was so saddened to find the KB format has been changed. I certainly will not be listening to KB any longer. I feel it is a sad statement on society, as a whole, that people feel the need to verbally complain on talk radio. I realize many, including myself, find our world in a very tremulous state. We don't need to be reminded of this every time we turn on a radio! We have enough avenues that bring us this format! TV, newspapers, the internet, our coworkers, to name but a few. Turning on the radio was something I did to relax. KB was the only station I would listen to. The humor and camaraderie shared by the DJ's was so enjoyable! The crew had the innate ability to make people laugh. This is what our world needs more of. The music may be found on CD's, etc. The personalities of the DJ's cannot. I have read the comments on the web site - several have said the comments will make no difference to the management of Entercom. This may be so - but I am the eternal optimist. Please, Mr. Ried, hear the public. Consider the state of your world, as well as mine. You had something very special. Maybe you were unaware of just how special. It would be nice to see you listen to the many who cannot support the type of radio you have chosen to share with the public.

 

 

Friday 02/10/2006 9:15:48pm

Dennis C.

Williamsville NY

Unbelievable!!!!!
After many years of no KB, a beautiful return to the airwaves in 2003! GREAT MEMORIES...GREAT MUSIC...GREAT DJ'S. And now they are gone again?? Talk radio? Radio has become just like TV, a lot of junk. Just what we needed, another Talk Radio format. KB will truly be missed again. What a shame!!