Bayfest 2006 took place from October 6-8, 2006 and the lineup included: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gretchen Wilson, MC Hammer, Keith Anderson, Shinedown, Evans Blue, 10 Years, Al Green, Michael Bolton, Gary Allan, Trick Pony, Hinder, Blaine Larsen, and The Wreckers. Bayfest 2001 took place from October 5-7, 2001 and the headliner was Live. 20 Buzzards' return to Hinckley Reservation means Spring is near NEW! MAKE also celebrates art created by young people with the Youth Art exhibit. Yes, the station had lost its way for a bit, but MMS was the standard. Contrary to what many believe, the choice of the second Malrite logo had nothing to do with Buzzard Day, the annual "folksy event" held in Hinckley Township, Ohio. "Born to Run" was the essence of everything I loved about rock 'n' roll. Don't Threaten. By Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer HINCKLEY, OH -- Chuck Vickers, of Hinckley, stands at the center of a circle of people, all. On November 11, 1948,[54] the station adopted the callsign WHK-FM. [90][92], During the now infamous broadcast, WMMS engineer William Alford snipped a broadcast wire used for the Stern show's satellite feed. "[86] From 1991 to 1993, WMMS served as the FM flagship for the Cleveland Browns, sharing coverage with then-sister WHK; the late Nev Chandler served as play-by-play announcer. Find out more. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. She took home the cash prize of $250 for Best Costume. "BayFest 2015 organizers: Festival is canceled, effective immediately", "Behind the Music: BayFest's Economic Impact", "BayFest chief: 'It is a downtown event, that's where our heart is', Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, National African American Archives and Museum, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bayfest_(Mobile)&oldid=1135413689, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 January 2023, at 14:39. WMMS was directly influenced by then and current sister station WHTZ/New York (Z100), which rose to the top of the ratings books immediately after installing a contemporary hit radio (CHR) format. In 1958, both WHK and WHK-FM were sold to Metropolitan Broadcasting, itself renamed MetroMedia two years later. And you might also get help in the [56], MetroMedia found major success with progressive rock at KMET Los Angeles, KSAN San Francisco, WMMR Philadelphia and WNEW-FM New York, but a lack of commitment from MetroMedia led the company to drop the format at WMMS by May 1969. Data Provided By The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. [145] WMMS itself also airs The Rover Rewind, a weekly recap show on Saturday mornings. [112] WMMS scheduled a second Green Day performance just two months later this time at Blossom Music Center and at a near-record-low cost of $5 per ticket, the station gave fans a "second chance" to see the band live. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Prosperity and Peril: Arkansas in the Late Antebellum Period, 1850-1861 CHAPTER NINE. "[33] By April 2008, the station had reverted to branding as The Buzzard but using a road sign-style logo similar to a U.S. Route shield in an allusion to the mascot. Merle Haggard. WMMS (100.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio, commonly identified as "The Buzzard".Widely regarded as one of the most influential rock stations in America throughout its history, the station has also drawn controversy for unusually aggressive tactics both on and off the air. [34], Loveline, Westwood One's nationally syndicated call-in show hosted by Dr. Drew, aired weeknights from August 2008 through June 2010. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism Do you have a blog? Soon after, the station revered back to the Progressive Rock format to battle WNCR of Nationwide Communications, itself filling the void created by the brief absence of WMMS on the album rock scene. 1995 Major League Opening Day Lineups Previous Season Next Season World Series Champion: Atlanta Braves Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. [120] Meanwhile, ownership would change yet again as Nationwide Communications was bought out by Jacor in November 1997. During this time, with Denny Sanders as his creative services director and Rhonda Kiefer as programming assistant, WMMS broke all Cleveland ratings and revenue records. 11 talking about this. She won a $500 cash prize which she immediately donated back to hospice. Tracy is the mother of Saylor! Bayfest 2011 took place from October 7-9, 2011 and the lineup included: Korn, Blake Shelton, 3 Doors Down, Duran Duran, Hinder, Eric Church, Toby Keith, Ludacris, Drowning Pool, Anthony Hamilton, Theory of a Deadman, Shaggy, Wiz Khalifa, NEEDTOBREATHE, The Campaign 1984, and Dennis Nelson. The Cleveland Free Clinic staffed aid stations in the stadium with physicians, nurses and other volunteers, and through 1977, made its treatment statistics public. Described by Talkers magazine as "a bold anomaly worthy of industry attention", the show itself has successfully continued the format established by its predecessor The Maxwell Show all talk during afternoon drive on an FM rock station. setlist request forum, 2 activities (last edit by RockerFanV, 1 Mar 2020, 17:04 Etc/UTC). With an extra $150 thrown in by Dan Keegan, all-in-all Saylor went home with about $400 in cash. This little Buzzard Princess hails from Highland, Michigan. The Buzzard became synonymous with WMMS, Cleveland radio and the city itself, spawning a series of T-shirts so numerous that they are now impossible to catalog, many with slogans like "Where Music Means Something" and "Ruler of the Airwaves.". This little Buzzard Princess hails from Highland, Michigan. Use the 'Report' link on Right up until his departure in 1988, Kid Leo played "Born to Run" as his signature sign-off song every Friday night at 5:55 to kick off the weekend for area listeners. [121] The Jacor purchase closed on August 10, 1998; 59days later, on October 8, 1998, Clear Channel Communications won a bidding war for Jacor in a $6.5billion deal. This popular contest is one of Stans annual signature events. add whatever song you remember! #VULTUREFESTIVAL. Or write about sports? The event encouraged "going green" by providing for recycling throughout the grounds. Curated by our very own editors, it's a weekend of live and in-person panels with some of your favorite stars and creators, where we can all obsess together over the culture we so love. Keep it Clean. A line-up and announcement party was scheduled for Thursday March 12, 2009 during a live broadcast with Dan Jantzen from 3pm to 7pm at House of Blues in Downtown Houston. The station continued to decline during the ownership transition from Malrite to Shamrock; then Shamrock sold both WMMS and WHK to OmniAmerica, a broadcasting company run by former Malrite executives Carl Hirsch and Dean Thacker, which already owned oldies station WMJI. WMMS also airs The Week in Cox, a weekly recap show on Sunday mornings. Not only do several wildly costumed contestants enter and prove their style with a Buzzard Lope dance, but past winners usually come out to show their support for the contestants and their talent! Lineup: Phoenix, Bush, Deftones, Paramore, A Day To Remember, AWOLNATION, The Gaslight Anthem, The Airborne Toxic Event, Twenty One Pilots, Fitz & The Tantrums, Robert DeLong, Atlas Genius, The Neighbourhood, Capital Cities, The Mowgli's, Youngblood Hawke, Falling In Reverse, Kitten, A Silent Film, IAMDYNAMITE Edgefest #24 (2014) [7] [ edit] [134] Following Merluzzo's departure, senior vice president of programming for iHeartMedia's North Ohio region Keith Abrams was named as program director on December 4, 2017. WMMS' decline culminated on April 14, 1994, with the high-profile departure of Jeff Kinzbach, effectively ending "Jeff & Flash" on WMMS (Ferenc would leave the station several weeks later; both would pair up again at WWWE). Get an email notification whenever someone contributes to the discussion. [31] In 1981, Radio & Records identified "the malevolent feathered figure" as "the best-known station symbol in the country. Concert Details. Regular segments include "The Shizzy", a daily news update; "Tech Tuesday", where listeners pose consumer electronics questions to an industry expert; and "The Thursday Hook-Up", a call-in dating game. Eric Church with special guest Macklemore and More! [120] Finally, The Bob & Tom Show aired in the time slot from 2006 until April 2008. He settled in Perry, Georgia, and now Bob and his friends are as much a part of the landscape in Perry as the Clock Tower at the Fairgrounds. Founded in 1995, the festival offered a variety of music including pop, jazz, classic rock, alternative, R&B, rap, gospel, and modern rock. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Cleveland Magazine has also described both Rover and Cox as "talk shows with a rock-oriented sensibility". WMMS sponsored the concerts. The Launching Pad stage during Bayfest focused on local and regional talent. [168], WMMS has served as the FM flagship station for the Cleveland Cavaliers AudioVerse since 2014, sharing network flagship status with AM sister station WTAM. (New Rock 102.1 Fest) June 3, 1995 RFK Stadium, Washington, DC (HFStival 1995) June 10, 1995 Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, CA (MTV Movie Awards 1995) Heavily bootlegged, the concert further cemented the relationship between the two in fans' minds, and well into the 2000s Cleveland remains one of Springsteen's strongest bases. This year, four past winners were in attendance. [6] All ticket sales were invested directly back into the festival for upcoming events.[2]. Due to the cancellation of the Fall 2008 show, the Spring 2009 show was called Buzzfest XXII (instead of Buzzfest XXIII). It was based at Bienville Square. [1], The festival was organized each year by BayFest, Inc., a non-profit organization consisting of more than 1000 non-paid volunteers. Belkin Productions staged these events, attracting popular hard rock bands and as many as 88,000 fans. [83][89] Lisa Dillon, Ric Bennett and Tom Renzy also would depart the station that same day. [81], In the mid-1980s, WMMS was an important contributor in organizing a campaign (along with former Cleveland ad agency president Edward Spizel and author-deejay Norm N. Nite) which brought the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Cleveland. All orders online and offline must be received by Friday, March 10, 2023 at 4:00pm. On October 26, 2010, Rover hired a witch doctor to curse LeBron James after the NBA star left the Cleveland Cavaliers. The station claimed it was simply "a marketing strategy" and "much in line with what many stations did. [53] It was a gorgeous day for the 37th Annual Mullet Fest at Stans in Goodland and the crowds proved it was as popular as ever. All rights reserved. [144] Rover's contract with CBS was set to expire, but it was an affiliate contract inherited from the Free FM stintCBS transferred him back to WKRK-FM after WCKG cancelled itand not a talent contract, thus he was not subject to a non-compete clause. [51] Like most early FM stations, WHK-FM mostly simulcast the Top 40 programming of its AM sister station. Milla Jovovich Gig Timeline Previous concerts Milla Jovovich Deep Ellum Live, Dallas, TX - Dec 14, 1994 Dec 14 1994 Milla Jovovich Late Night With Conan O'Brien, New York, NY - Feb 21, 1995 Feb 21 1995 May 21, 1995 Milla Jovovich Buzzard Fest 1995 - May 21, 1995 May 21 1995 Following concerts [96] Gorman changed the WMMS format to alternative rock,[97] playing new acts like Nirvana, The Offspring, and Nine Inch Nails, on October 27. The WMMS Coffee Break Concert was a weekly music-interview show broadcast live from the station's studio, and later with an audience at the Agora Ballroom. Warren Zevon, John Mellencamp, Lou Reed, Tim Buckley, Peter Frampton, and a host of others performed on the program over the years, recordings of which are still widely available as bootlegs. Buzzards, often found in North America, Scandinavia, and even the Mediterranean, are a species of vulture protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 in the United States. Of special note was the early support of Bruce Springsteen by Kid Leo and others, prior to the release of the Born to Run album. [87] Unable to service its growing debt, Malrite chose to leave radio and sold off all its remaining properties in 1993:[37] WMMS went to Shamrock Broadcasting, the Roy Disney broadcasting firm. Bizarre Festival 1995 Setlists Aug 19 1995 Date Saturday, August 19, 1995 Venue P 23 (Deutz-Messegelnde), Cologne, Germany Report festival So far there are setlists of 10 gigs. Alford was subsequently caught, arrested and later sentenced to ten days in jail and a $1,000 fine. [35] The fall 1998 Arbitron books showed WMMS with a substantial increase in listeners; Plain Dealer radio critic Roger Brown commented, "the scam worked" claiming it drove people to listen to the station again for what was supposedly the format's final days. No. Premium Arena (P1-P4, PA&PB) - $175 Party Pit - $145 Premium Arena 2 (P5-P8) - $145 Box Seats - $115 The broadcast consists entirely of talk, a mix of current events, pop culture, and stories from the staff. setlist request forum, 2 activities (last edit by RockerFanV, 1 Mar 2020, 17:03 Etc/UTC). The station serves as the FM flagship for both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Guardians radio networks. Attendees are invited to engage in panel discussions, shopping, meet-and-greets, activities, and of course, nonstop live music featuring some of the best in R&B, soul, funk, gospel, and hip-hop each and every Fourth of July weekend. Past affiliates at WMMS include WAMX/Huntington, WMFS-FM/Memphis, WNDE/Indianapolis, WXEG/Dayton, WRXS/Columbus, and the now defunct Extreme Talk. A new Buzzard Queen was crowned and will forever be in the Buzzard Queen history books! ), whose offbeat music was the inspiration for the Buzzard Lope Dance and Queen Contest! Past show members at WMMS include, Ryan Hoppe, Scott Taylor (now a reporter at WJLA in Washington, DC, Kaitlin Geosano, and Rob Garguilo. In time, the station adopted new slogans reflecting the callsign: "We're your Modern Music Station" and "your Music Marathon Station. Use the advanced player (webradios, current track .) By 1984, the WMMS format moved to an CHR/AOR hybrid, playing a great deal of Top 40 rock singles in hot rotation mixed with album cuts; this new blended rock/Top 40 format was soon known by those at the station as Rock Forty. Tropical Storm Karen adversely affected the festival in 2013. Each fall, vultures fly over Makanda and the surrounding areas and signal the beginning of fall and the arrival of the incredible fall colors of Makanda and southern Illinois. Gorman credits his decision to leave to changes in management, and the station's overall shift to a more "corporate" mentality.