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Past WJR personalities included J.P. McCarthy, Jimmy Launce, Warren Pierce, Mike Whorf, Murray Gula, Joel Alexander, Jay Roberts, Charles Coughlin and many others. WJR Program Directors during the Capital Cities era included Joe Bacarella, Curt Hahn and AC radio consultant Gary Berkowitz. Mitch Albom, novelist and Detroit Free Press sports writer .
Shortly after, he went on to WJR. Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, Whorf was part of a line-up of radio personalities known throughout the region including J. P. McCarthy, Karl Haas, Jimmy Launce and MLB Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell. Whorf's Kaleidoscope topics ranged from religion to politics, from the arts to sports.
WJR: Ernie Harwell: Jim Price: 1998 Frank Beckmann: Lary Sorensen (April–June) Jim Price (June–September) 1997 Lary Sorensen: 1996 1995 1994 Rick Rizzs: Bob Rathbun: 1993 Rick Rizzs Ernie Harwell: 1992 Rick Rizzs: 1991 Ernie Harwell: Paul Carey: 1990
Note: The "A" team covers all home games and approximately one third of away games. The "B" team covers the remaining two-thirds of the away games.
George Arthur Richards (March 9, 1889 – May 28, 1951) was an American radio executive who owned stations WJR in Detroit, KMPC in Los Angeles, and WGAR in Cleveland.From 1934 to 1940, he also owned the Detroit Lions of the National Football League.
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Frank Carl Beckmann (November 3, 1949 – February 12, 2022) was a German-born American broadcaster and talk radio host on WJR in Detroit, Michigan. He also was the radio play-by-play announcer for University of Michigan football from 1981 to 2013.
Charlie spent most of 1953 back with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers working at WJR radio in Detroit. When Ezra brought the band to Pikeville, Kentucky, in November, Charlie rejoined Bill Monroe. In 1954, Charlie played lead guitar on a session with the Stanley Brothers and one on RCA with the Fiddlers, even though he was not otherwise working with ...