Jake Einstein This is Me

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1. 1. History of WHFS

   www.tangentsunset.com/whfs.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/1/2000   Last Visited: 11/13/2007

   But in 1973 Sales Manager Jake Einstein, who was 15% owner of Hi Fidelity Broadcasters, added GM duties as Jewler stepped down.
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   Jake was given equity for turning the station around. Jake's two sons also worked at the station. David Einstein had been on the air since 1969 and became PD when Jake took over.
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   In 1983 Jake Einstein and his new partners acquired WLOM, a 50,000 watt Beautiful Music station in Annapolis. Jake officially became majority owner, as well as General Manager and Sales Manager. HFS staff were given severance while the station went off the air for a couple of months while the transition went through the FCC. The entire staff then resurfaced at the 99.1 frequency in Annapolis in October 1983. Although it was a different group of owners, the common thread was Jake and his staff. It was still WLOM for the first month but they called it Progressive 99 until they were able to secure the WHFS call letters. They now covered Washington D.C., Baltimore and Annapolis, jumping from 3,000 watts to 50,000 watts. Meanwhile the 102.3 frequency went dark for awhile and then came back as an easy listening station called WTKS. Today it's WMMJ, an urban oldies outlet.
   
   Jake Einstein left when Duchossois Communications settled on ownership in 1989.
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   Jake Einstein ended up taking over WRNR in Annapolis in late 1993, where he tried to bring back the old HFS. He tried to do it by luring some of the heritage HFS personalities to his new station.
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   One of the people Jake let go was morning man Allen Scott, who ended up becoming the morning co-host on HFS.