RJ s Early Broadcast Career
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RJ, 14, in his freshman year at Upper Darby High School.
He appeared on Bandstand with Dick Clark each weekday (left)
Robin with trophy she won from WIBG for best female vocalist
in a rock band (right)
RJ from his days at The Groove. Photos from the Dorothy Manners
celebrity gossip column that appeared in the Daily News
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WCAM promotional poster, drawn by Giant Gene Arnold.
RJ and Gene hosted a show on the station every weeknight at 10 (left)
A copy of a poster promoting the Gene and RJ radio show on WIFI 92 (right)
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The XPRS radio coverage map. The station once carried RJs radio
show (left). A copy of a Billboard article on RJs TV Dance show.
WBTB TV-68 was the first TV station outside the Philadelphia
area to syndicate the program
Map of cities where RJs Disco USA was aired (left)
along with a local ad for the show, which had been seen on WTAF TV-29
RJ covering a news story from the steps of the Philadelphia Art
Museum in 1994. RJ had moved back to Philadelphia and bought several
low-power TV stations, one of which had its transmitter on One Liberty Place
before it was moved to the Mellon Bank Tower. Both buildings are visible
in the background.
Radio and TV transmitters on Mount St. Bruno and Mount Sutro, 500
feet above the rest of San Francisco. When RJ lived there, he would drive up the
mountains to the KTSF TV-26 studios each day to do his TV show
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