Dean Anthony, WMCA New York, July 15, 1967 Pt.1 (scoped) (0:26:12)
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[DESCRIPTION BY CONTRIBUTOR and RESTORIAN ROB FRANKEL]
In November 1964, Brooklyn native Dean Anthony was hired away from WPGC/Washington, D.C. (where he was an on-air PD) to take over WMCA’s overnight shift, along with a Sunday evening show. He remained there through December of ’68, and returned as a part-timer from August 1969 until the end of the music format 13 months later.
One of the great things about Dean was the way he used drops in his show. He would instruct his engineer to choose the drops and play them without warning, so Dean could spontaneously react to them. I didn’t know that until many years after the fact, but his use of drop-in tracks influenced my own style of radio, including the one-liners I often dropped into Time Warp with Bill St. James.
Dean was also well known for Actors and Actresses, the no-prizes-just-for-fun game that ran every night on his show. Later in his career, Dean worked for WJRZ/Hackensack (and its successor, WWDJ), WTFM/New York and WHLI/Long Island, where he was the PD and midday personality.