Description: Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Rock and Roll Party airs live on 77 WABC every Saturday night from 6PM-10PM, featuring music from the 1950s through the 1980s. He wrote on social media of his diagnosis on April 6, but he did not recover. ", Radio, properly practiced, he said, is a theatrical art. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. What Happened to Cousin Brucie on SiriusXM 60s on 6? The news was first reported Friday evening by the trade publication Deadline Hollywood. That and 60s on 6 are all I really listen to, well apart from alt nation. Charley Pride, one of the first Black performers to break through in the country music scene, died of complications from COVID-19 on Dec. 12, just weeks after his final performance at the CMA Awards show back in November. The 84-year-old radio legend tells Variety that one of the things he's most excited about getting back to after leaving satellite radio behind is commercials. 86'ing Channel 11 would free up a slot for that. Cousin Brucie hosts Cruisin' With Cousin Brucie on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm ET and Cousin Brucie's Saturday Rock and Roll Party on Saturdays at 8:00 pm ET on '60 on 6, via satellite on channel 6, and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com. Myerowitz leaves the channel after 15 years on air, Cousin Brucie Morrow. Wolfman Jack, the rock-and-roll disk jockey whose unmistakable raspy voice and on-the-air howls brought him something of a cult following as one of Americas best-known radio personalities, died yesterday at his home in Belvidere, N.C. On his Wednesday, July 29, 2020, program, he announced he was leaving SiriusXM following that Saturdays broadcast, characterizing it as not a retirement. 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow. Privacy Policy |Terms of service |Subscription terms |Your ad choices |Cookie Settings |California Privacy Rights |About Us |Contact Newsday |Reprints & permissions |Advertise with Newsday |Help. He also hosted the '50s on 5 oldies channel on SiriusXM for a time and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.The 84 year-old radio personality . [16] In 1994, the city designated West 52nd Street (where the headquarters of former WCBS-FM parent CBS are located) as Cousin Brucie Way.[17]. Kelly Wayne has been a part of Lewiston, Idaho radio since 1989 and with Ida Vend for almost 30 years. Phlash Phelps worked for 17 radio stations all across the nation prior to joining SiriusXM. After many amazing years broadcasting on SiriusXM, and a celebrated career of more than 60 years in radio, we wish Brucie the best in any future endeavor.. ", After Decades on the Dial, Cousin Brucie Falls Victim to a Changing Media World, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/nyregion/after-decades-on-the-dial-cousin-brucie-falls-victim-to-a-changing.html. Cousin Bruce Morrow, the New York radio DJ whose long career reaches from the Beatles at Shea Stadium through satellite radio, is leaving SiriusXM after one last show on Saturday night. Hot on the heels of his big announcement that he is leaving SiriusXM satellite radio, Cousin Brucie Morrow revealed Tuesday that he will return to his roots hosting "Cousin Brucie's Saturday Night Rock & Roll Party" on 770 WABC in New York. 2023 Variety Media, LLC. In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker "Cousin" while in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty cents. When the radio program Cruisin' America ended in December 1992, Morrow continued hosting a WCBS radio program named Cruising with the Cuz Monday evenings until the end of 1993. Having the old MTV VJs on the 80s station was a big draw when I switched from XM to Sirius years ago. He was 69. "To me an iPod is a very cold little jukebox," he said. In an interview with Variety shortly after the news hit, Morrow shared his thoughts on the move, what fans can expect, and how much hes actually missed commercials. He always listened to me on Saturday nights. I was with SiriusXM for 15 years, and they were good years, but I was getting the feeling that I should make a move. A best-of show runs Sunday nights. Mr. Morrow said that he was still under contract to WCBS, and that he would be discussing his employment with the station's management this week. Grammy-winning country singer K.T. He became a sensation with that group and they haveremained loyal to him ever since.". "He's one of the greats, there's no question about it," Allan Sniffen, who runs the New York Radio Message Boardand the website musicradio77.com, devoted to WABC-AM's music years, told Newsday. Its going to be memorabilia, and its going to be today a wonderful mixture of what radio was and is. Sonny Chiba, a martial arts master and a Japanese actor who played legendary sword maker Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill, has died from pneumonia caused by COVID-19. My poor wife, Jodie, has to calm me down at times. Kick em further down the satellite into the dead air known as sports. Cousin Brucie Morrow has announced he will be leaving SiriusXM's " 60s On 6 " following his show this Saturday night. I dont want to get involved too much in the technical part, because that really takes away from my watching the road, so to speak. He was 80. CelebrityAccess's own Larry LeBlanc interviewed Cousin Brucie earlier this year in an in-depth ' In the Hot Seat ' session. He has spent the last 15 years on Sirius XM's '60s on 6, which certainly felt like the only place Morrow could do what he does when his previous employer, Oldies WCBS-FM New York, became "Jack FM" in 2005. Bruce Morrow Biography. Cousin Bruce Morrow, the New York radio DJ whose long career reaches from the Beatles at Shea Stadium through satellite radio, is leaving SiriusXM after one last show on Saturday night. Cousin Bruce Morrow, the New York radio DJ whose long career reaches from the Beatles at Shea Stadium through satellite radio, is leaving SiriusXM after one last show on Saturday night. On channel 6, in the 1960s, he hosts shows that are broadcast on Sirius XM satellite radio. Alvin Ing, star of Broadway's "Flower Drum Song" and "Pacific Overture" died July 31, 2021 after battling COVID-19 for two weeks. Let me assure you once again I Am Not Retiring. According to Radio Insights, Morrow announced his plan to exit on air and made it clear that he does not plan to retire. But radio analysts were not as sanguine about the future of the format. A SiriusXM spokesman said in a statement, "After broadcasting on SiriusXM since 2005, Cousin Brucie has chosen to step away from the mic. The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Joy Renee Smith. I would assume Cousin Brucie is a big draw to listeners of those stations. "When Cousin Brucie is on the air," Mr. Morrow said in a telephone interview yesterday from his home in Ulster County, "people know that they have a friend coming at them. Art director Matteo De Cosmo, who worked on films including "Emergence," "The Punisher" and "Luke Cage," died of coronavirus complications. Wolfman Jack was born in New York City, New York in January 1938 and passed away in July 1995. "Knight Rider" and "Magnum P.I." Over the objections of the station manager, who thought the name was too corny for a New York audience, Morrow went on the air the next day as Cousin Brucie and has been Cousin Brucie ever since. In the fall of 1961 Dan Daniel was hired and Ed Baer joined two weeks after Dan. Its going to be warm and fuzzy. Read Next: Rolling Loud Goes All In on Travis Scott Amid Global Expansion, NEW YORK, NY JUNE 23: Cousin Bruce Morrow attends Cousin Bruce Morrows Palisades Park Reunion VI at the New Jersey Meadowlands State Fair on June 23, 2018 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. He broadcast from two border rock stations, XERF in Ciudad Acuna and XERB in Rosarito Beach, each with powerful 250,000-watt signals aimed directly north. [8] In 1960, he relocated to Miami, Florida, for a stint at WINZ (AM) before returning to New York the next year for the major station WABC (AM 770), another Top 40 station. But the music format will bring them a whole new audience. Italian actress Lucia Bos, who starred in such films as Michelangelo Antonionis "Story of a Love Affair" (1950) and Juan Antonio Bardems "Death of a Cyclist" (1955), died on March 23 of pneumonia after contracting COVID-19, according to the Guardian. Elvis Duran (born Barry Brian Cope; August 5, 1964) is an American radio personality. When that light goes on and says 'Brucie, you're on the air,' my stomach turns warm and I know I'm with my friends on a giant telephone, having a party line conversation. why did cousin brucie leave sirius radio 10. I want to be able to think about what they want to hear, where theyre going, what theyve done. A SiriusXM spokesman said in a statement, After broadcasting on SiriusXM since 2005, Cousin Brucie has chosen to step away from the mic. 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ET. In a surprising move, longtime Sirius XM on-air personality Cousin Brucie Morrow will depart the '60s on 6 channel after his show this Saturday night, August 1. . Morrow worked for WABC for 13 years and 4,014 broadcasts until August 1974, when he transferred to rival radio station WNBC replacing Wolfman Jack who quit to tour with The Guess Who; after three years there, he quit performance to team with entrepreneur Robert F.X. You could drive from New York to Los Angeles at night and never lose the stationsor the Wolfman. These are the names of some notable figures from Hollywood and the media that we have lost. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. He went on to become a station owner, forming Sillerman Morrow Broadcasting with Robert FX Sillerman and acquiring multiple stations in Northeastern markets. "It's a little digital marvel, but it's not radio. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and had a guest appearance in the 1990s science fiction television series Babylon 5 [in "War Without End" (Part 2), playing the first officer of Babylon 4]. By subscribing, I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. He can be seen making on stage introductory remarks for the 1966 documentary The Beatles at Shea Stadium. The longtime New York area personality and station owner has hosted Wednesday and Saturday night shows for Sirius since the 2005 demise of the Oldies format on 101.1 WCBS-FM New York.