Jazz Radio Show Finds a Home with WCNY-FM

Big Bands Ballads & Blues is a radio program committed to preserving the music of 20th Century America, the Popular Standards and Traditional Jazz. What started as a hobby for Dick Carr became a 3-hour nationally syndicated music program that wired weekly for 4 years (starting in 2002) on 80 commercial stations coast to coast. The program, produced and hosted by Carr, was originally marketed by WOR Radio Networks in New York It now airs on WCNY-FM 93.1 and streams on the web (www.wcny.org) Saturdays from 6-8PM.

A veteran of radio for most of his 50-plus year career, Carr was VP/Programming for the ABC Radio Network in New York and Los Angeles. He was also network Executive Producer for Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 program plus a variety of country music and rock concerts. As VP/Programming for the Mutual Radio Networks, Carr created simulcasts with CBS-TV of The Country Music Awards and The National Symphony Orchestra Broadcasts Live from Kennedy Center. He was also Executive Producer of Larry King’s daily radio show and Dick Clark’s weekly syndicated show.

Carr held radio station positions as VP and General Manager with Metromedia, Meredith, and Park Communications at WNEW-FM New York, WIP/WMMR Philadelphia, KCMO Kansas City, WIL St. Louis, WGST/WPCH Atlanta, and WHEN/WRHP Syracuse. He was also responsible for the national radio presidential campaign for Bush/Quayle 1988. Carr was Senior VP/Advertising and Promotion for Macy’s South ten-store division headquartered in Atlanta, and most recently served as VP/General Manager for Park Outdoor Advertising Syracuse Division responsible for creation and marketing of 72 billboard locations throughout Central New York.

Carr earned a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Bonaventure University where he played basketball. He is a former Captain in Field Artillery for the U.S. Army Reserve.

Carr and his wife, Phyllis, a VP/Financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley, reside in Manlius New York.