WOMC: Radio personality
WXYZ – WRIF: FM programming, personality. Retired newsman from WLS radio. aka “JJ in the Morning”
WCSX: Radio personality
WLLC: Radio personality
WWWW: Radio personality.

References:

• The Detroit News, Melody Baetens, September 11, 2023 – Radio veteran Jim ‘JJ’ Johnson to retire Dec. 1 after more than 50 years on air
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• GAD: 1985 “New Wave”

  Liedernacht (aka City Club) and Asylum. Hosted segment by Jim Johnson.

• GAD – Good Afternoon Detroit Anniversary Show 1984

  Help us name the people we are missing from the caption.

  

  Back Row: Dex Sieger, Chris Stepien, Pete, Jim Ochs, ?????, Junie Bond, Tom Cleeves, Randy Silverman, Harriet Rotter, Jillayne Pautsch, Gene Taylor, ?????, Synka Curtis, John Kelly, Glenn Pearson, Gail Parker, Shirley Eder, Geoff Brock, Doug Kole, Bob Dear, Sioux DeOrlow Goodman, Tom McKinnon, Yanni

  Middle Row: Cathy Alfafara, Jackie (Astrologer), Angela Addison, Nate Penn,  ?????, Laurie Leinonen, Cheryl Ross, Suzanne Timma, Don Carter, Claire Carmichael, Marilyn Turner, Barbara Koster, Keith Booth, Kathy Linwood, Lisa Fisco, Colleen Burcar, Debbie Avery Canter, Lynda Hirsch, ?????, TJ Elliot

  Front Row: Dayna Eubanks, Jim Johnson, Al Sieger, Sid Day, Tony Tillman, Dave Riley, Vic Hill,  Del Warner

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WWOL: Disc jockey

WKNR: 1965-67

WXYZ: 1968-78 AM talent and disc jockey on WXYZ-AM.

CKLW:  1978-83Disc jockey.

WCZY: 1983-96

WOMC: 1996-2010

Recent Sightings:

• Dick Purtan – Website

R&R 25th Anniversary

Dick Purtan

Podcasts:

• #183 – Gene Taylor – Part Two – See also Gene Taylor

References:

• Dick Purton Blog – 2010 Reunion Recap
• The Detroit News, November 2, 2018, Sarah Rahal – Gail Purtan, philanthropist and wife of radio’s Dick Purtan, dies at 80

• Media All Stars Hockey Team in 1971

  Playing for charity.

  

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WXYZ: AM overnight disc jockey.

WLS:

CKLW:

KHJ:

WOR: FM

WKBW:

WNIA:

• Media All Stars Hockey Team in 1971

  Playing for charity.

  

• Format Changes

  

  … Jim Davis, formerly of Detroit stations WXYZ, WJR and WOMC… ²

  WXYT program director John Harper concurs… ³

References:

• Motor City Radio Flashbacks, CKLW Makes Upward Surge for Radio Ratings, August 10, 1985

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WXYZ: Sports reporter. Detroit Tiger announcer (1981-1983). Died April 2020.

WWJ: Sports

WCZY: Sports

WOMC: Sports

• Mike Zeko with Chariles White, Larry Adderly

  This picture is from the 1977 Rose Bowl with Charles White, the USC All American Tailback.

  

• Larry Adderley, Dave Prince, John Drew [sic Dew] and Marc Avery

  
  Gary Stevens, Larry Adderley, Dave Prince, Paul Cannon, John Drew [sic Dew] and Marc Avery, Ron Knowles, Dave Schaffer, J.J. Shannon, Eddie Gale (Billboard – April 10, 1965)
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Veteran Detroit broadcaster Dave Lockhart has joined the air staff at WOMC-FM hosting the morning drive program, 6-10 a.m., Monday through Saturday. Prior to his WOMC appointment, Lockhart spent 15 years at ABC’s WXYZ-AM Detroit, Handling both music and news formats. … Dick Stevens, air personality at WMYX-Milwaukee, has exited that station for morning drive and sales work at WFNY-FM Racine, Wisc. He’ll also be using his legal name, Dick Strassburger, effective with the change.

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WXYZ: AM overnight disc jockey.

WOMC: Disc jockey.

References:

• Motor City Radio Flashbacks

• Lockhart and Stevens Moves

  

  Veteran Detroit broadcaster Dave Lockhart has joined the air staff at WOMC-FM hosting the morning drive program, 6-10 a.m., Monday through Saturday. Prior to his WOMC appointment, Lockhart spent 15 years at ABC’s WXYZ-AM Detroit, Handling both music and news formats. … Dick Stevens, air personality at WMYX-Milwaukee, has exited that station for morning drive and sales work at WFNY-FM Racine, Wisc. He’ll also be using his legal name, Dick Strassburger, effective with the change.

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References:

1. Facebook

• Free Concert On The Plaza – June 8, 1982

  Bilboard Magazine – June 12, 1982 – DETROIT — WRIF and Dr. Pepper kick off the second annual “Free Concerts On The Plaza” series Tuesday, set for June 8 (Tuesday) with Bitter Sweet Alley set for the opening act. Nine noontime concerts featuring top local rock bands will follow on consecutive Tuesdays. WRIF personalities Steve Kostan, Karen Savelly and Carl Coffey will host the performances. “Last year’s concerts were attended by a surprisingly diverse audience,” say promotion director Julie Finkel. The 1981 concert series culminated in a highly successful “WRIF Motor City Jam” at the Pine Knob Music Theater, which raised $25,000 for WDET, Detroit’s public radio station. Plans for “Motor City Jam II” are in the works. WRIF took 1,000 listeners for a cruise Wednesday (June 2), the third year the station has run such a cruise. Winners of the cruise tickets were drawn from a station drawing. Local rock band The Urbations played for the three-outing. The station also planned a six-hour concert on Saturday (June 5) in connection with the Detroit Grand Prix. The Urbations and the Automatix were lined up as performers for this WRIF-FM promoted event.

  

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