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WNBC Radio Alumni Group Author, founder (Mel Phillips Radio Views), former radio programmer (WRKO, WOR/FM, WNBC, KQV)

Dec 16, 2010No longer KingLarry King ends his CNN talk showafter 25 years on television. (One of thehundreds of daily, y...
12/16/2025

Dec 16, 2010
No longer King
Larry King ends his CNN talk show
after 25 years on television. (One of the
hundreds of daily, yearly highlights featured in my
"Timeline Memories" book available on Amazon Books)...

Dec 16, 1773A Spot Of Tea?The Boston Tea PartyAmerican colonists board a British shipand dump more than 300 chests of te...
12/16/2025

Dec 16, 1773
A Spot Of Tea?
The Boston Tea Party
American colonists board a British ship
and dump more than 300 chests of tea
into Boston Harbor to protest taxes. (One of the hundreds of daily, yearly highlights featured in my "Timeline Memories" book available on Amazon Books)...

Buffalo comes from behind to break Pats long 10-game winning streak, 35-31 !!!
12/14/2025

Buffalo comes from behind to break Pats long 10-game winning streak, 35-31 !!!

Dec 14, 2012Massacre at Sandy HookA shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT leaves 28 dead (including 20...
12/14/2025

Dec 14, 2012
Massacre at Sandy Hook
A shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT leaves 28 dead (including 20 children, the shooter and his mother). (Story included in my "Timeline Memories" book, available at Amazon Books)...

Good Morning. It's Sunday Morning, the 14th of December and Winter begins on December 21st. Today is the 348th day of th...
12/14/2025

Good Morning. It's Sunday Morning, the 14th of December and Winter begins on December 21st. Today is the 348th day of the year with 17 days left in 2025. Hope you can make the most of the time left in this year...

Happy Hanukkah. Tonight at sundown. The Hebrew year: 5786...
12/14/2025

Happy Hanukkah. Tonight at sundown. The Hebrew year: 5786...

Dec 13, 1759Where the Music & Money Meet:The first music store in America opens inPhiladelphia by future Treasurer of th...
12/13/2025

Dec 13, 1759
Where the Music & Money Meet:
The first music store in America opens in
Philadelphia by future Treasurer of the U.S.,
Michael Hillegas...

Dec 12, 1896The Roots Of RadioGuglielmo Marconi gives the public the first demonstration of radio in London. (Contained ...
12/12/2025

Dec 12, 1896
The Roots Of Radio
Guglielmo Marconi gives the public the first
demonstration of radio in London. (Contained in my book, "Timeline Memories" available on Amazon Books)...

SoundExchange's CEO Michael Huppe, has been working towards getting artists paid on terrestrial AM/FM radio stations for...
12/11/2025

SoundExchange's CEO Michael Huppe, has been working towards getting artists paid on terrestrial AM/FM radio stations for the last decade. SoundExchange collects royalties for artists on digital and satellite radio like Sirius XM & Pandora since its formation in the 1990's. But for terrestrial radio, artists are not required to receive the same compensation - or any at all. Only songwriters do. Huppe still believes this is an unfair practice that demeans the contribution of artists and the record labels footing the bill to take songs to radio in the first place. "We're the only industrialized country where this is true." Consider this my endorsement. We can only hope that Huppe is successful in succeeding with his quest......MP

Dec. 11, 1964Loss of a music legend:Sam Cooke is fatally shot at an LA motel undersuspicious circumstances. The singer w...
12/11/2025

Dec. 11, 1964
Loss of a music legend:
Sam Cooke is fatally shot at an LA motel under
suspicious circumstances. The singer would have turned 34
in a month. I was fortunate to have met the great singer while I was working at WKDA in Nashville a few years earlier.

Dec 10, 1953Marilyn launches Pl***oyThe first issue of Pl***oy which Hugh Hefner started with aninitial investment of $7...
12/10/2025

Dec 10, 1953
Marilyn launches Pl***oy
The first issue of Pl***oy which Hugh Hefner started with an
initial investment of $7,600 hits the newsstands with Marilyn Monroe on the cover. (The story ran in my "Timeline Memories" book available on Amazon Books).

Dec 9, 19651st "Peanuts" Special:"A Charlie Brown Christmas"The first in a series of "Peanuts" TV specialsdebuts on CBS-...
12/09/2025

Dec 9, 1965
1st "Peanuts" Special:
"A Charlie Brown Christmas"
The first in a series of "Peanuts" TV specials
debuts on CBS-TV...

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