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Rick Gary

May 1975

Rick's return from WMEX in Boston to WOLF. This is May 3rd, a Saturday getting his feet wet before the official start of his morning show the following Monday. Rick continued doing mornings, formerly on NewsChannel 9's morning show "Daybreak", and "Bridge Street", a midday talk show.  From the Lee Goodman collection.
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Rick Gary 

May 1975

Rick Gary's first morning May 5th, 1975 returning from WMEX, Boston. Without question Syracuse's most popular morning team EVER! If you were to ask anyone in their thirties or forties if they remember W-O-L-F, they would say "oh sure…Rick and Ron".
And here is the show's first hour in its infancy.
Rick Gary did 4 tours of duty at WOLF, first in 1968 in the news department, then replacing Howie Castle mid-days in December of 1969. He remained until March of 1971 being replaced by Don Ryan. Then Rick returned again shortly in 1972 only to move on to WMPS in Memphis and eventually WMEX in Boston. There is also a classic Ron Bee newscast with a very amusing Tidy Dydee diaper story. The two were so successful together it eventually became Rick and Ron until the station’s unfortunate sale and format change in late 1981. Well, for "gosh sakes" give it a listen! Another gem from the Lee Goodman collection.
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Howie Castle 

December 1975

Howie came to the Big 15 from Radio Caroline off the coast of the UK. (http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsb.htm) This link has a very nice story of Howie (who used Bud Ballou on Caroline) as well as an aircheck from 1967. What the story dosen't mention is Howie was program director of the very successful 94 Rock (WSYR-FM) until he left Syracuse in 1981. He is currently the weekend news anchor on KOGO San Diego, California. 
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WOLF Sales Presentation

1975

A portion of the station presentation for WOLF sales from the Rockin' Richie Norris collection. You'll hear the line up; Charlie Brown, John Gabriel, Brother Vic and Paul Kelly.
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John Gabriel

January 1976

John replaced Howie Castle afternoon drive 3-7pm. Howie became an "off the air" progran director just doing some fill in work. Big John came from the Albany area where he spent some years at WTRY and returned there after his stay at WOLF. He is currently at WTRY 98.3. There are some airchecks of John at Reel Radio.com on WTRY in the early 70s. This aircheck has a "classic" Jim Sims contest promo near the end!
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Rick Charles
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February 1976

Rick started (as many did) part time on The Big 15, and eventually moving to evenings as "Your Nighttime Companion." Rick stayed with WOLF through 1981 when he joined the sales staff at WHEN radio, and is now a prominent manager at the Clear Channel Group in Syracuse. Here is a Sunday afternoon in February of '76 on WOLF.                                _______________________________________________________________________________

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Brother Vic

June 1976

Vic joined The Big 15 in 1974 coming from WTLB (72-74) in Utica where we were both working part time (Vic/Bob Mitchell). He was a great addition replacing Jeff Laurence 6-10pm. He eventually moved on to bigger things including WTRY in Albany and Program Director at WCHS in Charlston as well as Deputy Sheriff, Kanawha Co. from 1989-94. But radio is in the blood and Vic moved back to the Central New York Area At KISS 102 in Utica (97-99) and on to KLUV and KVIL in Dallas (99-01). He is currently with ABC Radio Services in Dallas.   _______________________________________________________________________________
  
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Bob Elliot & Gary Martin

1976 & 1978

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Mike Frazer-Big John Gabriel

March 1978

 Mike sounding great working weekends on the Big 15. He later moved to Hot Hits WFBL full time. Mike was off air for a while as an Account Executive at WRRB-FM....then it was off to Baltimore at WMAR-FM "Hot Hits 105" with Joseph again (afternoons, then mornings from 83 to 85)...then to Philly at WCAU-FM "Hot Hits". Mornings and Swing at WEGX-FM "Eagle 106" then to Pittsburgh (with Rick Sklar) WNRJ-FM..."Energy 105"...afternoons. WWSW-FM "3-W-S" Afternoons and also briefly WJJJ-FM "The Beat" from April 2000...till September 2001. Mike is currently on afternoons at 3WS in Pittsburgh. www.3wsradio.com 
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Dave Drummond

May 1978

Dave Drummond a.k.a. Bruce Breslau filling in for Charlie Brown in May of '78. Bruce was in sales at WOLF and later moved on as a rep with TM Productions. Dave later moved to Agency's Jim Long, then Frank Gary in New York City. He later moved to Los Angeles where he became creative director on many top television advertising campaigns and helped to launch and promote many networks and cable networks world-wide. Dave/Bruce says "I launched The Cosby Show/Roseanne in syndication. Was at the beginning of Nick-At-Nite, et al. Currently, I'm VP/Sales and Marketing at 5 Guys Named Moe, inc. a North Hollywood-based production, post-production and creative services house -- we create promos for TV, do a lot of post work for HBO (mostly their original series) and do audio production and mixing for television and motion pictures."
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