![]() "All I wanted to be was a disk jockey," he said. I would go down with him to the radio station and just hang out," marveling at the console and turntables. He had a 15-minute radio devotional on the local radio station on Sunday morning. "I grew up with my grandparents," he said, "and my grandfather was a minister. Evans began a career in media at age 13 in Meridian, Miss. "She loves radio and is an outstanding businesswoman. Foschi were longtime visitors to the East End before becoming year-round residents of Sag Harbor. You get to find the D.J.s personalities by the music they pick, but we're generally a classic oldies station." We play lots of requests, and, particularly during the pandemic, we had very long listening periods by the audience. "They have a format, but they pick their own music, which is great. Evans is formally the program director (and chief meteorologist, and morning D.J.), "but each of our D.J.'s are our music directors," he said. But the sound is consistent: oldies, reaching back as far as the 1940s and forward only to 2000. We're a local, local radio station, and there are very few of them left in America."Īlong with its new-ish owners, the "injection of energy" comes in the form of added staff, both D.J.s and salespeople. "We do births, birthdays, obituaries, lost dogs and cats. "We call the station a cradle-to-grave radio station," Mr. "It is an honor to work with all of them." They are "the heroes of the station," she wrote. Foschi, who is owner of Health SOS, a chain of regional physical therapy businesses that just opened an office in Wainscott next to Levain bakery, listed those and many other staffers. Veteran on-air talent including Gary Sapiane, Chris Buckhout, Brian (the Cannon) Bannon, and Bob Bubka can collectively boast well over a century of broadcasting. Evans, a meteorologist who was on WABC-TV in New York City for 30 years as well as radio stations including WPLJ, also in New York. "We've just taken the radio station and injected some more energy to it," said Mr. "All we wanted to do is keep that legacy alive, and then push it forward and keep it going forward." It's a new, novel way to present live music, and indicative of the philosophy that has guided the station's owners since they bought WLNG in December 2018.įor Sandra Foschi and her husband, Bill Evans, ownership of WLNG is about "respecting its longevity, its legendary status in the community," the latter said last week. When WLNG's 2021 Concerts on the Dock series launched on Friday, it resumed a new tradition at the venerable Sag Harbor oldies station that has been broadcasting on the FM airwaves since 1963.īorn during the Covid-19 pandemic, the series, in which performers are situated on the deck outside WLNG's Redwood Road headquarters and people watch from kayaks and other vessels in Sag Harbor Cove, were a way for music fans to attend a concert while ensuring social distancing.
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