I got a nice shoutout at the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers (video)

My friend and former Metromedia FM radio station WMMR colleague T. Morgan -- holding the mike in the photo -- (that's friend and colleague Michael Tearson on the right) had some nice words to say about me at the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers meeting last week.

Morgan tells the story of how I put a brand new radio station on the national map and made a star out of unknown, un-signed Billy Joel.

T. and M.T. spoke about WMMR's 50th Anniversary.

The printed materials Morgan refers to are here.

The "How Dennis Wilen Made Billy Joel A Star" saga was retold recently by Victor Fiorillo in Philadelphia Magazine.

I'm famous for 15 minutes yet again!

Here's the video, all cued up to right before my mention:

#TBT Philadelphia 1970-71: When FM radio was the new kid on the block

Thanks to my old friend Arnie Holland, let's #TBT to 1970-71 when Arnie edited 34th Street Magazine, an arts and culture magazine at our alma mater, Penn.

I had no memory of writing this article until Arnie mentioned it yesterday.

I went to see him today at his home office where he pulled out a box of the original magazines and I shot this photo of the actual pages.

I wrote all about this new exciting thing called "underground radio." Think it will catch on?