Bill Brown
August 15, 1942 – October 9, 2011
Bill Brown was a popular New York City disc jockey who could be heard on oldies station, WCBS-FM for over 30 years. Brown was just 15 when he began his radio career in Georgia during the mid ’60s, and by 1969, he was working at WCBS just as they were switching from an easy listening format to album rock. Finding that they couldn’t compete with the more popular WPLJ and WNEW, WCBS switched to an oldies format in 1972 and found its footing there. The station maintained solid ratings from that point on and Brown could be heard most days doing the popular mid-day shift until 2005 when the station unceremoniously switched to the jockless JACK-FM format. In all, he worked in radio for over 35 years. On October 9, 2011, Bill Brown passed away following a long illness. He was 69.