Thursday April 29th was “PLR Day” around Connecticut and in New Haven to commemorate PLR’s 50th Anniversary. All day we visited 9 iconic spots around New Haven and had our awesome listeners sign our big birthday card. Thanks everyone for coming out and celebrating with us! Check out our photos:
We had a great time at the Milford Performance Center’s Drive In Concert featuring Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez and Liberty DeVitto & The Slim Kings at the Connecticut Post Mall Parking Lot! Check out all the great upcoming drive in concerts this spring at www.milfordperformancecenter.org.
Despite everyone’s best efforts to not do this so often, the flubble montage had plenty of hysterical moments from the past week. A combination of a flub, and a mumble, flubbles are always collected at the end of the week to play for everyone’s entertainment. (0:00) Dumb Ass News – Chaz and AJ spoke with…
5:30. Mitch Hallock, King of the Nerds, Top 10 Nerdy Gadgets you wish you had: 1. Lightsaber 2. Time machine 3. Ray gun 4. Robot 5. Spaceship 6. Flying car 7. Super computer 8. Teleporter 9. Shrinking ray 10. Jet pack Mitch is the creator of Terrificon and CT Gamer Con 6:00. Lady Gaga’s dog…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971. That year PLR welcomed Jethro Tull to New Haven Arena on Grove Street. Jethro Tull hit the road in 1971 to support its fourth studio album “Aqualung,” which featured songs like Locomotive Breath and Hymn 43. This was…
Join Rick Allison and Frank Critelli every Sunday at 10pm for “The Local Bands Show” on 99.1 PLR! Send your original music to [email protected] or The Local Bands Show, 70 Quarry Dock Road, Branford, CT 06405 Check out the bands that will be featured this Sunday…. Absolute Zeros – Tiger Beat Scott Fitch – Stand…
New Haven mayor Justin Elicker was on with Chaz and AJ to read a proclamation, celebrating 50 years of 99.1 PLR. (0:00) Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw was on to recognize the station’s 50th anniversary, and explained what it is like to own a radio station, and how he wound up buying WPLR. (8:38) Senator…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PLR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6:00. Menthol cigarettes going bye bye? 6:13 – 7:00. What are the top albums of the last fifty years. 1971 on. 7:00. Mayor Justin Eliker with an important proclamation. 7:13. Dumb Ass News. We’d be the dumb asses if we didn’t play you some old PLR audio. 7:20. Jeff Warshaw the…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971. That year PLR welcomed The Grateful Dead to New Haven for an outdoor summer show at the Yale Bowl. At the time PLR was just 3 months old and this was the first major rock concert that PLR…
In WPLR’s 50 year history there has only been three marketing directors. Drew Carrano is our third and current Super Hero. He talks about going backstage, meeting KISS, his start at PLR in 1998 and the man who was one of the most important people in his life, PLR legend, Sam T.