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Long-Time Program Director Steps Down at New York's WCBS-FM.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Peter Goodman, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 18--Joe McCoy, for more than two decades program director of the nation's No. 1 oldies radio station, WCBS/101.1 FM, has stepped down to become a consultant, station officials announced Thursday. During his 23 years as program director, WCBS has consistently been rated one of the top 10 stations in New York.

"Joe has been one of the most influential programmers in the radio industry, and an important member of the WCBS-FM family for almost a quarter of a century," general manager Chad Brown said in a statement. The station won the Marconi Award for Broadcasting Excellence five times during McCoy's tenure, and R&R magazine named him "oldies programmer of the...

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