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Sal Amato
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Who Am I, Why Am I Here. Can I Cook?
WBMX.COM was a way for myself and Armando (Armando Rivera a/k/a back in the day as "The Puerto Rican Casanova)I to keep the memory of this radio station alive. Most people in radio and many who don't know about WBMX don't realize the impact it had here in Chicago, nationally and internationally.
My personal website has my own information about me and what I have done at http://salamato.com. This spot here deals specifically with what I do here and for our company called Dot1Media.
Those who know me know I've had my share of successes and failures and they're all great learning experiences. Each failure causes you to get up and come back and fight twice as hard. As far as internet radio? We started WBMX. COM at the end of 2005.Before that I've had various companies and projects like Centurion, Baby O Records/S.O.S. Records, Cyber Radio at 92.7 FM in 1997, Modern Tracks, a programmer for Sirius Radio as well as over 30 years in the entertainment business in radio (programming and on-air), tv, movies, record labels, record promotion, A&R, record label distribution, theatre and more.
I program the channels you hear on this website which are also part of the channels you hear on our "Flagship" website, 1CLUB.FM.
Channels That I Program On 1CLUB.FM and here are:
Retro Channels:
70s Lite
80s Lite
80s Hi-NRG
70s Decade
80s Decade
90s Decade
90s Lite
90s Dance
90s Pop (Mainstream)
90s Pop (Rhythmic)
93.1 The Beat
Freestyle Express
Hot Mix Dance Classics
Classic New Wave
"Today's" Types Music Channels (All 1CLUB.FM Except Power and V101 featured here as well):
95TheLite, ChannelOne, Power, Tha Flava, Mix 106, V101, Chillout Lounge, Electronic Playground
Rock Channels: (All 1CLUB.FM)
Hair Voltage, Love Bites, Classic Alternative, G03, Q97, Dark Metal, Punk'd N' Pierc'd, The Element, Tapestry
Blues/Jazz Channels (All 1CLUB.FM)All Of Them (except Smooth Jazz 4 U, Greg Brown programs that)
Country/Americana Channels (All 1CLUB.FM)All Of Them
Oldies Channels and R&B Channels: (All 1CLUB.FM)
Malt Shop Memories. Great American Oldies, Elevator Up, Old School Funk, Great Golden Grooves, Solid Gold Soul, Quiet Storm, Sentimental Journey, Classic Rap
My personal website has my own information about me and what I have done at http://salamato.com. This spot here deals specifically with what I do here and for our company called Dot1Media.
Those who know me know I've had my share of successes and failures and they're all great learning experiences. Each failure causes you to get up and come back and fight twice as hard. As far as internet radio? We started WBMX. COM at the end of 2005.Before that I've had various companies and projects like Centurion, Baby O Records/S.O.S. Records, Cyber Radio at 92.7 FM in 1997, Modern Tracks, a programmer for Sirius Radio as well as over 30 years in the entertainment business in radio (programming and on-air), tv, movies, record labels, record promotion, A&R, record label distribution, theatre and more.
I program the channels you hear on this website which are also part of the channels you hear on our "Flagship" website, 1CLUB.FM.
Channels That I Program On 1CLUB.FM and here are:
Retro Channels:
70s Lite
80s Lite
80s Hi-NRG
70s Decade
80s Decade
90s Decade
90s Lite
90s Dance
90s Pop (Mainstream)
90s Pop (Rhythmic)
93.1 The Beat
Freestyle Express
Hot Mix Dance Classics
Classic New Wave
"Today's" Types Music Channels (All 1CLUB.FM Except Power and V101 featured here as well):
95TheLite, ChannelOne, Power, Tha Flava, Mix 106, V101, Chillout Lounge, Electronic Playground
Rock Channels: (All 1CLUB.FM)
Hair Voltage, Love Bites, Classic Alternative, G03, Q97, Dark Metal, Punk'd N' Pierc'd, The Element, Tapestry
Blues/Jazz Channels (All 1CLUB.FM)All Of Them (except Smooth Jazz 4 U, Greg Brown programs that)
Country/Americana Channels (All 1CLUB.FM)All Of Them
Oldies Channels and R&B Channels: (All 1CLUB.FM)
Malt Shop Memories. Great American Oldies, Elevator Up, Old School Funk, Great Golden Grooves, Solid Gold Soul, Quiet Storm, Sentimental Journey, Classic Rap
Profile Information
- About Me:
- I program many of the channels on WBMX.COM as well as our other website known as our "Flagship" or "The Mother Ship" 1CLUB.FM.
Kenny Jammin' Jason is the Streaming Co Ordinator, he makes sure the streams work and programs our Jammin' Oldies channel, Disco DAI and others on our 1CLUB.FM website as well. Armando "The Puerto Rican" Casanova consults and Frankie Hollywood Rodriguez hangs out alot here drinking Orange Whips. We serve Orange Whips once a month on the last Sunday of each month at 8PM Prompt. Those who are late get no fruit cup.
- Which Channels On WBMX.COM Do You Listen To Most
- Freestyle, Hot Mix Dance Classics, Classic Chicago House, Saturday Night Live Ain' No Jive, 90s Dance Hits, 90s Jamz, Slow Jamz, Great Golden Grooves, Jammin' Oldies, Deep Funk, Disco DAI, NRG Classics, Old Skool Jamz
- Favorite Songs Heard On WBMX.COM Channels
- All of them of course
- Favorite Old School Movies
- The End, Chick flicks are fine, I'm secure enough in masculinity to admit that. North By Northwest, Arsenic And Old Lace, Dr. No, The Party, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Chinatown, Slapshot, Used Cars, Easy Money, Goodfellas, Irreconcilable Differences, The Formula, Saturday Night Fever, Caddyshack, Up The Creek, Going Berserk, Planes, Trains And Automobiles, National Lampoon's Vacation, Road To Perdition, Vice Squad, Sharky's Machine, The Last Detail, My Cousin Vinny, Serial, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Westworld, All Of Me, Big Red One, 9 to 5, All The Presidents Men, Mrs. Doubtfire, Sleeper, Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, High Anxiety, Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom, The In-Laws [Peter Falk, Alan Arkin], Johnny Dangerously, The Conspiracy, Mr. Mom, Easy Money, Kelly's Heroes, Cool Hand Luke, Vice Squad, All the Raiders Of The Lost Ark movies, A Shot In The Dark and all Pink Panthers, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Matrix, The Other [1971], Goldfinger, The Godfather I & II, Porky's, Bed Knobs & Broomsticks, National Lampoon's Animal House, Bad Boys [1982 - my first movie], Blues Brothers, Groundhog Day, Midnight Run, Seems Like Old Times, The Passion Of The Christ, Miracles, Clerks, Lost In Translation, Double Take, The Visitor, Awakenings, all Abbott & Costello, Marx Brothers and Sinatra movies plus a million more
- Favorite Night Clubs And Dance Clubs From Back In The Day
- The Ambassador (Cicero), Fire Alarm (Cicero - There was no other club like this - ANYWHERE - EVER), The Cottage, Cocamos, Thumpers, Safari Club, Diorrs, The Riviera, Cinderella Rockefella, Dingbats, Teddy Rose, Safari Club, Snuggery's were cool for a while, like about 8 months. BBC/Eddie Rockets, Coconuts, Sundowners, Tovia Club, Rain Disco, The Evergreen, Cafe' Majestic, Nimbus, Copherbox II, Bobbie & Clydes, Rich Kids, Mothers, P.S. Chicago, Stay Outs and a bunch mo.
- Favorite Mix Show DJ From Back In The Day
- Kenny Jammin' Jason
- What Are Some Of Your Favorite TV Shows From Back In The Day And Today?
- The Good Wife, Burn Notice, Dirt, Californication, Two And A Half Men, Ugly Betty, Dick Van Dyke, Miami Vice, All In The Family, Nash Bridges, Drew Carey, Everybody Loves Raymond, Law And Order, Gigglesnort Hotel, BJ & Dirty Dragon, Scooby Doo [not with that Scrappy Doo either!], Night Gallery, Crime Stories, No Honestly, Las Vegas, Columbo, Dark Shadows, CSI Miami, Hong Kong Phooey Rules, The Groovy Ghoulies, Ray Rayner, Zoom, Soap, Mork & Mindy, Victory At Sea, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Wiseguy, Chico & The Man, Baretta, Columbo, Without A Trace, CSI Miami, Cold Case, Law & Order and Law & Order S.V.U.
- What High School Did You Go To? Class Of ?
- I went to so many I got dizzy. Started at St. Patrick's, they wanted me to shave, said goodbye, went to Morton East, they threw all the Italians out in 81; Briefly wound up at Proviso West for two weeks until I got chased by the entire football team down Roosevelt Road for "having relations" with the QB's girlfriend (that story is one for the comedy channel). I then wound up at Whitney Young for my 88 day absent Junior year where my mixes being on WBMX helped me make new friends, including the few intelligent and sober staff. At Whitney Young I learned how to wake up a drunk music teacher twice a week and play softball on Loomis, skip school, get my teachers into the clubs I worked at for free for C's, I also learned that if me and my crew made it to either the Oriental or Woods theatres before 10AM we could get all three movies of the day for 3 Bucks! Unfortunately there were no grades available for many of these great lessons I learned. I encountered the most ignorant, illiterate stuttering racist principal ever, had a physical disagreement with him and needless to say, wasn't invited back. I will say this. My drama teacher saw potential in me and she was the only teacher at Whitney Young I have a soft spot for. She was truly a great teacher and I'm glad that I had the honor to learn from her. Her name was Mrs. Carter. At the end of the whirlwind tour I wound up at Steinmetz where I put up the white flag and screamed uncle! NO MORE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR ME. I used to tell people that I wasn't a "Student" of the Chicago Public School System, I was a "Victim". I would've graduated in '83. I DJ'd, worked on movies, became a stock broker, learned technical analysis just so I could laugh at the overeducated who looked down on people like us.
I've had some really low points and some great highs. Right now? I'm as happy as a fat man eating cake.
But life turned out fine as you can see so it's all good.
- Cubs Fan? Sox Fan?
- Sox, Hawks, Rush (Arena Football)
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The World's Greatest Show with Frankie Hollywood, Luv Cheez, Sal and Linda Ride-A-Harley will be on tonight at 5PM CENTRAL time, we'll put the link on the banner of the front page of the site. Visit our USTALKNETWORK.COM website for archived broadcasts at http://ustalknetwork.com. Call in to talk after 5P… Continue
More information on how to listen us with your cell or without a computer at http://my.wbmx.com/group/listen
The World's Greatest Show with Frankie Hollywood, Luv Cheez, Sal and Linda Ride-A-Harley will be on tonight at 5PM CENTRAL time, we'll put the link on the banner of the front page of the site. Visit our USTALKNETWORK.COM website for archived broadcasts at http://ustalknetwork.com. Call in to talk after 5P… Continue
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Hi- great to see ya! RuthieHopefully you can bring back the Saturday Night Live Aint No Jive, like on the weekends, when WBMX did back then. It was great to listen to especially on the weekend, like you had it on last weekend.
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