Smooth Jazz Will Air on 1480 AM and 106.1 HD2 Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Philadelphia announced today the return of Smooth Jazz sounds on ‘JJZ. Beginning Monday, June 10 at 12:00 p.m. EST, the Smooth Jazz format returns to the airwaves on 1480-AM and 106.1 HD2. The station will feature long-time WJJZ personality, Michael […]
For a generation of radio listeners in Philadelphia, Joe Tamburro was known as “Butterball” on Radio 148 WDAS as part of a radio station that made a commitment to be a full service radio station for the Black community. A station with an award winning full functioning news staff that at one time featured the late […]
Joseph “Butterball” Tamburro, the long time and legendary Philadelphia radio DJ and program director at 1480 WDAS AM and 105.3 WDAS FM has died. He was 70 years old. He was in the hospital and had just had surgery for a diabetes-related illness. The South Philly native with the infectious laugh, also referred to himself on […]
A true radio veteran, Bobby Holiday returns to Philadelphia as the new morning host on 1480 WDAS AM “The Soul of Philadelphia.” Holiday was the afternoon personality in the late 90’s on Radio One’s first urban station in the market WPHI “Philly 103.9.” During his previous tenure in Philly in 1999, Holiday generated buzz from […]