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.
Chaz and AJ found a list of the best jobs to have, if you are working for tips. The Tribe also called in stories of the biggest tips they’ve ever received. (0:00) Dumb Ass News – How do you make your voice sound super deep? A guy inhaled some kind of gas, and he sounded…
6:00. New COVID guidelines and how being fully vaccinated can get you a free drink in Connecticut. 6:13 – 7:00. The best jobs to have if you’re working for tips. 7:00. Prancer the demonic chihuahua has found a home in Connecticut. And Joe Biden checks in. 7:13. Dumb Ass News. What did this guy inhale…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971. That year Neil Young hit the road for a solo tour that came to The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy in Stratford. Unfortunately The Shakespeare Theatre is no longer around (it sadly burned to the ground in…
Horrible tick stories continued, again from a Tribe member from Long Island, where two children stumbled through a nest of baby ticks. (0:00) Dumb Ass News – a teacher was barred from teaching for 3 years after admitting to forgetting what happened on a trip with students because of drinking. (3:12) Stasha Healy knows all…
6:00. Ratings are in on the Oscars. Yikes. 6:13. Have you ever been bitten by a tick? Call in your tick stories. 877-764-2535 7:00. So how’s Buddy the Beefalo doing? 7:13. Dumb Ass News. What did you learn in school today? These kids had the best answer ever. 7:20. A typo on a birth certificate…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971! That year PLR welcomed progressive rockers YES to the Palace Theater in Waterbury. YES hit the road in 1971 to support their fourth studio album “Fragile,” which features the hit songs Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround. Joining YES…
Dumb Ass News – A horse was spotted at a car wash, and residents of Belchertown, Mass. were very concerned. An entire news report was put together, just to reassure everyone that the horse is fine. (0:00) Movie critic Joe Meyers watched every minute of last night’s Oscars, and thought it was one of the…