By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com
Hartford radio legend and Connecticut School of Broadcasting owner Dick Robinson marks the arrival of 2011 by launching “The Original GAS Station.” It’s a new Internet radio station devoted solely to the Great American Songbook – hence the “GAS” label. The station has been in testing mode for a week or so and officially kicks off at midnight with the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Nat King Cole. Current artists such as Michal Buble, Jane Monheit and Rod Stewart are also featured.
So many over-the-air standards stations have disappeared in recent years that the time seems ripe for this non-commercial Internet endeavor. It used to be that Hartford’s WDRC, Milwaukee’s WOKY, San Francisco’s KABL, Detroit’s CKWW and countless other stations played big band and standards but that’s not the case now. That’s why The Original GAS Station was created. To hear it, visit theoriginalgasstation.com.
