Elton Spitzer, the radio executive who built the former WLIR-FM into an internationally known powerhouse and etched the slogan “Dare to be different!” into the consciousness of generations of Long ...

I was fortunate to begin my radio career at 13 years old in the second-largest radio market in the country, Los Angeles. Having “grown up” working at MOR, classical and talk stations, I was ...

Further leaving its alternative rock format in the dust, WLIR-FM 107.1 on Monday will begin broadcasting sport talk full time. The call letters long famous on Long Island for new wave music will now ...

ESPN New York 98.7 FM is expanding its reach and will be heard on Livingstone Broadcasting’s WLIR Hampton Bays, NY from noon to midnight ET on weekdays beginning 8/5. WLIR will become “Champions Radio ...

GARDEN CITY – Univision’s $60 million deal this week to acquire 92.7 FM (WLIR), which brings the nation’s largest Spanish-language media company to Long Island, is the latest example of the media ...

Guglielmo Marconi may have started working on the idea of building a commercial wireless telegraphy system in 1894, but when WLIR launched its Dare to Be Different format on Aug. 2, 1982, the effect ...

Elton Spitzer owned the Long Island station back in the 1970’s and according to Newsday, when the album rock format had grown stale and faced more competition back in 1982, he flipped it to a British ...

Long Island radio lost a fixture at noon Friday when Hispanic WZAA replaced rock institution WLIR at 92. 7 FM. But WMJC (94. 3 FM) was right there, hoping to keep some of the pieces intact. WMJC, ...

John Catsimatidis, the colorful Manhattan billionaire who bought legendary radio station WABC/770 AM last summer and is reportedly exploring another run for the New York mayoralty, has purchased ...

Here’s another headline that would have resulted in a wave of outrage, circa 1986. During the 1980s, WLIR-FM in Garden City, N.Y., was the New York metropolitan area’s equivalent of KROQ-FM in Los ...