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Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:37 pm
by Mega Hertz
Solid move. It seems Riff is trying to change up from all the other tracked/national/shuck and jive programming found everywhere else on the dial. The formentioned show changes, plus the foreplay at 4, Live at 5, set them apart from everyone else. Sounds good.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 2:19 pm
by MotorCityRadioFreak
Just need to bring back Peter Werbe now.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:51 pm
by bjmcdevitt
I'm a fan of Peter, but the man is 80 years old. That's going to fly on a rock station anymore.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:23 pm
by MotorCityRadioFreak
bjmcdevitt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:51 pm
I'm a fan of Peter, but the man is 80 years old. That's going to fly on a rock station anymore.
I had no idea! I thought he was late 60s or around 70.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:05 pm
by lidoshuffle
bjmcdevitt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:51 pm
I'm a fan of Peter, but the man is 80 years old. That's going to fly on a rock station anymore.
If Peter Werbe had his way, we all would have been living the Amish lifestyle of the late 19th Century...
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:26 pm
by Ben Zonia
We tend to think of people being the way they were and age they were when we first heard of them. Those people with late Sunday night shows circa 1970 are at least 70 now, and if they had experience then, are close to the age MCRF quoted. He had a cousin in Flint who was younger I think. Can't think his first name. Maybe that's who you were thinking of. Oh wait, that Irish guy knows him.
http://www.mycitymag.com/days-in-a-life ... rock-roll/
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:35 pm
by MotorCityRadioFreak
Ben Zonia wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:26 pm
We tend to think of people being the way they were and age they were when we first heard of them. Those people with late Sunday night shows circa 1970 are at least 70 now, and if they had experience then, are close to the age MCRF quoted. He had a cousin in Flint who was younger I think. Can't think his first name. Maybe that's who you were thinking of. Oh wait, that Irish guy knows him.
http://www.mycitymag.com/days-in-a-life ... rock-roll/
Part of it is the way he speaks to those who are younger than him. It is rare(in my experience) that older men speak to young people with the respect that he does.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:14 pm
by Colonel Flagg
Bring back WRIF Sonic Rendezvous.
Anyone here remember it? Other than me?
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:44 pm
by windsor
Colonel Flagg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:14 pm
Bring back WRIF Sonic Rendezvous.
Anyone here remember it? Other than me?
Wasnt the Sonic Rendezvous WRIF's answer to WABX's Dangerous Xposure show sunday nights with Steve Kostan???
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:35 am
by Colonel Flagg
windsor wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:44 pm
Colonel Flagg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:14 pm
Bring back WRIF Sonic Rendezvous.
Anyone here remember it? Other than me?
Wasnt the Sonic Rendezvous WRIF's answer to WABX's Dangerous Xposure show sunday nights with Steve Kostan???
Correct. Sonic Rendezvous was still around long after WABX was gone.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:27 am
by sfpcc
I remember Rif's Rock Cafe overnight program.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:07 pm
by jadednihilist
The programming changes have been great. It's nice to see so much life and energy being pumped back into this legendary station.
I wish that they would resume streaming RIFF2 online again.
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:52 pm
by MotorCityRadioFreak
What was on RIFF2?
Re: Programming announcements at 101 WRIF
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:04 am
by Big Al
Werbe is intensely skilled. Sadly, his ambition is to be an evangelist for the far-left and not to speak to, and for, communities.