Gary Blau, Bob Ridle, and in a different context, Ernie Kyger. (More on Ernie in a moment...)

Gary served as WNBC's Chief Engineer around 1986-1987. On at least one occasion, then-WNBC afternoon drive host Howard Stern called Gary at the transmitter on City Island and aired the conversation.

While Gary was CE at WNBC, Dale Parsons was named WNBC's program director. Dale was previously at WTAR(AM)/WLTY(FM) in Norfolk, where Bob Ridle had served as WTAR program director. Dale was having trouble filling a couple of weekend airshifts and invited Tiger Bob to come up to NYC and play some tunes (back then, we did that on AM radio) on WNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNBC!

Neither Gary nor Bob appear on the 66/WNBC Tribute Page. (It turns out that Dale was WNBC's last program director. In 1988, WNBC was sold and 660 in New York became WFAN. Dale narrated a marvelous documentary tracing the 66-year history of WNBC, which was heard on the final broadcast as WNBC October 7, 1988. You can hear it in RealAudio in its entirety here at the Reel Top 40 Radio Repository Aircheck Site.)

(Another footnote on Dale...before working in Norfolk, he was on WROV/Roanoke as "D.J. Parsons".)


As to Ernie's appearence on the Big 66:

"I too was on WNBC. When Howard Stern left DC101 for New York, he still played many of the bits there that were originally recorded by us in D.C. So I appeared on Howard's 'Beaver Breaks', his parody of 'Leave It To Beaver'. I liked the idea of being on WNBC, but DC101 managment didn't, and forced Howard to pull all our material."