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 This, well, bone-chilling news broke over the weekend: KYW 1060 is now the official zombie radio station of Philadelphia. We already knew this town was Zombie City, USA. And now we have more proof, from Michael Klein’s Christmas Day column in the Inquirer:
When Viacom Inc. changed the name of its radio group from Infinity to CBS a few weeks back, KYW-AM (1060) had to tweak its familiar ID, in which announcer Dick Covington begins: “This… is… Newsradio.” You might think such a change would be a challenge because the golden-piped Covington died in March 2004. Program director Steve Butler had an out. Before Infinity took over in the late 1990s, the station owner briefly went by “CBS.” A Covington “CBS Radio” clip was found in the archives, and an engineer laid the music over it.
Then again, it’s not just Philly: this is the zombie newsradio… serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey… and Delaware.
Radio waves [Inky, fifth item]
Zombie City, USA [PW]
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