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64 Monday, April 2, 2012 DAILY NEWS NYDailyNews.com I' WCBS changes channel at WLNY 1 'PHH I ch- wra99e BVBVj HHmHmHmHmM jPJm0BB Tyler will anchor a luVAVAI I new WLNY report. HpHHl IflVHIHBBHMiM mx-iL JJ Below, new vehicles flVUYfi3Yl PVIHNsWflHHh lBpMBBWBCHBpBB remote-broadcast BY RICHARD HUFF EW YO RK DAI LY WS THE TRANSFORMATION of Long Island-based WLNYCh. 1055 under the ownership of CBS begins today. Months from now, when a three-phase transition is over, the station will have a nightly newscast anchored by Chris Wragge and Dana Tyler, a new morning newscast, HD programming and a new feel. "It's good not only for viewers of WLNY, but also viewers in New York City," says Ch.

2 general manager Peter Dunn, who heads the CBS Stations Group. The deal was announced in December. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With FCC approval in hand, CBS took ownership on Friday. As part of the merger, Betty Ellen Berlamino, former general manager ot WFixun.ii, nas Deen named vice president and station manag unique to the market," though he er.The station aired its final 1 1 n.m.

declined to discuss specifics. Additional on-air talent for the show will be named soon. newscast under the previous owners last Thursday night. Starting today, all Ch. 1055 programming will be offered in HD, something WLNY hasn't had before.

In July, Ch. 1055 will add a 9 p.m. one-hour newscast an "It's going to be a fresh new program," Friend said of the morning could be a real positive in terms of the focus and resources brought to bear in coverage of Long Island." Rose, who also will have a weekly public affairs show, will be based on Long Island with current Ch. 2 reporters Jennifer McLogan and Carolyn Gussoff. It's also possible that WCBS radio could station a reporter in the Long Island office.

Ch. 2 will have vehicles for live remote broadcasts, either trucks or Mobile 2 setups, on Long Island, giving WLNY its first true live remote capacity. All Ch. 2 trucks also will display the WLNY logo. Says Friend, "It's a once-in-a lifetime experience in the New York market to create a new TV station." rhuffnydailynews.com chored by Wragge and Tyler and ill me newscasts win emanate from Ch.

2'sW. 57th St. studios. "It can be a positive, in providing more variety," says Bill Carroll, vice president at the Katz Television Group, of the move. "It could be a positive in that the current news operation atCh.

1055 is relatively small. There's a possibility that having the resources of not only WLNY but WCBS featuring weathercasterLonnie Quinn and sportscaster Otis Livingston. Richard Rose, who had been Ch. 1055's primary anchor, also will be on the 9 p.m. news, based in Long Island.

None of the other primary on-air staff at Ch. 1 055 were picked up. In July, the station also will begin airing a two-hour newscast at 7 a.m. that will include Ch. 2 regulars John Elliott, on weather, and sportscaster Lisa Kerney.

WCBS News director David Friend, who oversees news for CBS Stations Group, said the morning newscast will "be The play's the thing for modern DJs, says exec BY DAVID HINCKLEY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS CBS RADIO presidentCEO Dan Mason said something in an interview with Radio Ink last week that touched a sore place for a whole lot of radio hosts. Critics of deejay talk argue that for every clever jock, there are a dozen who talk just to hear themselves, and don't really have much to say. As for the "information" argument, critics of deejay talk say the average top-40 listener, for instance, already Over the last 20 years, the disk jockey's role has been watered down so much," Mason said, "by the dictate 'Don't talk, don't give the title and artist of songs, play hit after hit, don't give anybody any chance to tune out' Mason said this in a tone knows Katy Perry, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Adele. Since their hits might be played six to eight times a day, listeners would just get annoyed if the artists and titles were recited each time. Critics also say there's no likely to find interesting, about the music or something in the news or the culture.

It's a connection, the same way it's a connection if afriend sends you a link to a download or video you might like. Pop culture isn't 300 million isolated vacuums. It's connections, and on the radio the deejay has always been the living, real-time human link in that connection. PUBLIC RADIO MUSIC MONTH: WFUV (90.7 FM) is joining National Public Radio Music Month in April, spotlighting the role of public radio in supporting and promoting new music. The band Everest will become WFUV's "house band" for the month.

On April 4, the band will join afternoon host Dennis Elsas in the studio and begin writing a song it will complete and perform by the end of the month. Other artists who will join the celebration include Bonnie Raitt, Norah Jones, Amy Ray and Rodrigo Gabriela. point in "back-announcing," naming the record that just ended, because why talk about something that's over? On the other side is the argumentthat a lot of listeners would like to know artists and titles. Someone who doesn't listen to top 40 obsessively, but tunes in sometimes to hear what's new, is lost without nuts-and-bolts information. that suggested radio had lost something.

Disk jockeys have been saying the same thing for all of those 20 years, maybe longer. So it's nice to hear one of the bosses say it. The debate itself isn't complex. As Mason says, those who want deejays to shut up think listeners want music, not chatter. More important to some deejays and fans is the argumentthat a deejay isn't just someone who plays random records.

That's what an iPod is for. (In the old days, that's what a jukebox was for.) A good deejay is someone who's sharing this music with you, letting you know someone else likes it the same way you do. He or she talks about things you're.