Legendary New York City Rock Radio Station WNEW-FM Has Returned On The Internet And HD Radio
The late, lamented New York City rock radio station WNEW-FM has been resurrected as a music Web site at http://www.wnew.com/ and an HD radio station in the New York City area on 102.7 FM HD2. The station can be heard on the Web site by clicking the “Listen Live” button on the top right-hand side of the page.
The site features blogs and other information about the artists that are on the WNEW playlist. Also featured on the site are interviews with rock musicians from the WNEW-FM archives. The interviews are listed under the “INTERVIEW WTH AN ICON” section on the homepage and can be heard by clicking on the individual links. Interviews are currently featured with Mick Jagger (pictured above) from 1975, Stevie Wonder from 1976, The Who from 1978, Robert Plant from 1979, and David Bowie from 1986.
I wish they would add some of the interviews that DJ Scott Muni did during his annual trip to London in which he woud present his program for a week from the studios of Capital Radio. They should also post the interview that DJ Dennis Elsas did with John Lennon in the early 1970s.
If you’re from the New York City area and remember WNEW-FM, the Web site is worth a look and a listen.
August 4, 2008 at 9:03 am
This is great! I won’t have to watch the opening credit of CSI to get my daily fix of classic Who songs.
August 4, 2008 at 11:16 am
Too late. I was forced to buy Sirius-XM Radio. It is 100% worth it. Terrestrial radio is absolute garbage. Even Q104 at it’s modern rock peak in the early 90s doesn’t stand a chance against satellite.
August 4, 2008 at 11:25 pm
gearsofrock:
Agreed. I listen to UK music radio on the Web because radio here is so terrible. Music radio in the New York City area is pretty dire, although I do like some of the stuff I’m hearing on New York’s newest rock station, RXP.
August 5, 2008 at 7:15 am
I was raised on the radio. Just an All-American boy, I found my favorite toy!
September 9, 2008 at 4:26 pm
HD radio showed a lot of promise two years ago, but IMHO, it’s dropped the ball. The HD2 channels have been mostly used to broadcast some slight variation of the stations regular FM programming and now these channels don’t even have to be commercial free. Maybe this station will prove to be the exception to this rule.
I really like HD radio but am real qualms about its future