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Fred Ronald Lundy (June 25, 1934 – March 15, 2010) was a popular radio announcer in New York City, heard on WABC 770 AM from 1965 to 1982 and on WCBS-FM 101.1 from 1984 until his retirement in 199

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The station, which now had the call sign WHTZ, went back on the air at 6:08 a.m. on August 2, 1983, with new program director and morning jock Scott Shannon. The first two songs ever played on the station were "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, and "America" by Neil Diamond.
 The station's call sign represents the word "hits" with a Z, a fact pointed out in an early station advertising campaign where it was proclaimed that 'finally, there's a new way to spell Hitz!' to advertise the new format.
Within 74 days of signing on, in autumn 1983, WHTZ had climbed from last place to first in the New York Arbitron ratings book.
Over the years, Z100 stayed with a top 40 format, while maintaining high ratings. 
In 1983, Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton was brought in to be WHTZ's first night jock. His show became a huge success, mainly due to his feature called "Hollywood's Midnight Lovelines".

WHTZ 100.3 NEW YORK "Skinny Bobby" July 1985

WHTZ 100.3  NEW YORK   "Susan Lee Taylor"   February 2nd 1988

Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style.It was named after the title song on Smokey Robinson's 1975 album A Quiet Storm.
The radio format was pioneered in 1976 by Melvin Lindsey, while he was an intern at the Washington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM. It eventually became regarded as an identifiable subgenre of R&B.
Quiet storm was marketed to primarily upscale mature African-American audiences. It peaked in popularity during the 1980s, but fell out of favor with young listeners in the golden age of hip hop.

WPLJ 95.5 NEW YORK "Jim Kerr" August 12, 1986 Part 2

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