WHK Color Channel 14 Cleveland

28/08/2025

'Radio Broadcasters, and in particular, Top 40 radio broadcasters, have long been creative at promoting their stations, particularly in the early days of the format. When Metropolitan Broadcasting Co. bought WHK AM & FM in 1958, the owners commissioned a Los Angeles jingle production firm named Sande & Greene. They wrote a signature musical theme repeated in each jingle the produced. The produced two tracks that were longer in length and repeated the musical signature many times. They had these two audio tracks pressed on 45 RPM records, labeled it "The Pulse Of The City By Day" and the other side, "The Pulse Of The City By Night", put the name Aurora at the top of the label and had copies sent to KYW, WERE, WJW, WGAR and all the stations in the Cleveland market. The Program Directors of these other stations auditioned the record, liked it and started playing it. About a month into the playing of the record on the other stations in town, WHK revealed their new jingles and the PDs of the other stations realized they had been had. It was the same tune as the record they were playing. They had been promoting the new Top40 format of WHK! Pretty slick idea. Here is "Pulse Of The City By Day".

Before WHK switched to their new Sande & Greene Color Radio jingles in 1959, they had S&G produce two 2:10 instrumentals with their new instrumental logo repeated over and over and over. They had 45s

27/08/2025

Al James was our WHK mid-day Good Guy! Here he is in March, 1965.

Listen to WHK Aircheck - Al James - 3-3-1965 by DonOnTheRadio on

05/08/2024

Beatles tickets for the WHK Cleveland presentation of The Fab Four in 1964!

28/07/2022

Here is a whole wad of Sande & Greene jingles that they created for WHK in the 1958-1964 era, which coincides with the years Johnny Holliday held court first in the overnight show, then morning drive and finally as the king of afternoons from 3-7 PM. The guys running WHK quickly figured out that JH as a rising star...which he became. https://soundcloud.com/user-870283533/d01-01-whk-sande-green-mono

Listen to S&G - WHK Jingles (Circa 1962) by DonOnTheRadio on

28/07/2022

Back in the early 1960s, Sande & Greene, the creators of the incredibly modern sounding (for the time) WHK Color Channel 14 jingles, was asked by an Oldsmobile dealer in the Cleveland area, to create a jingle for their dealership, Pelunis Oldsmobile. As it happens, a gentleman named Dave Peilunis, was a part-time jock on WHK using the name Dave Day. Here is that jingle just as it was heard on WHK way back when... https://soundcloud.com/user-870283533/d01-04-pelunis-oldsmobile-commercial/s-QhJqmrsByt3?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Listen to S&G - WHK - Pelunis Oldsmobile Commercial by DonOnTheRadio on

10/07/2022

If you miss this you gonna kick yourself.

Johnny Holliday's career took off on Cleveland's WHK and as public address announcer for the Browns in the 1960s.

05/07/2022

Soon, there will be new audio on the WHK Color Channel 14 page! Files are being prepared as I type! Meanwhile, WHK newsmen used this mic to report to NE Ohio about what was happening. Honest. This very mic.

29/06/2022

Johnny Holliday is returning to Cleveland at The Music Box for a special event on Thursday, July 14th!