It was August 2, 1983. A new radio station, WHTZ, has hit the airwaves.
The disc jockey leading the charge? An out-of-towner by the name of Scott Shannon.
“You had WABC, WNBC, WPLJ, and here comes this punk from Florida and they didn’t think it was gonna work,” said Shannon.
But it did work. And that rise to success is the subject of a new documentary, “From Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York.”
“There’s a New York-ness to Z100, and this film, that’s authentic,” said filmmaker Mitchell Stuart.
A combination of top 40 music, crazy phone calls, phone parodies, and DJ shenanigans helped
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