High Flying" WING in the 50s,60s and 70

sIt was in the 1940s during the Big Band era and later with the advent of R&B-fusioned rock n' roll in
the 1950s when WING became Dayton's original hit music station. .Charlie Reeder, inducted into the
Dayton Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2007 was one of its first morning personalities during this era
with his program "Sunny Side Up." Local DJ legend Gene "By Golly" Barry came on board with the
evening program "Swingin' With Wing" and became a staple there from that point up through the 1960s
when WING (then, owned by Dayton-based Air Trails Broadcasting. .later Great Trails Broadcasting)
became Dayton's first official Top 40 station. It was also the chain's flagship station. Its sister stations
included WIZE in Springfield and the legendary WCOL(AM) (now conservative talk station WYTS) in
Columbus which all had the same format at that time as well. During this time a downtown studio was
opened at 128 West First Street which became the affectionately nicknamed "WING Island."

A weekly "super hot hits" survey was issued regularly to record shops and other retailers across the
Miami Valley. With that, the format was tightened with a stable of personalities who became known as
WING's "Lively Guys" (possibly inspired by WSAI's "Good Guys" in Cincinnati) which included
Barry along with such personalities over the years as Lou Swanson, Jerry Kaye, Ken Warren, Big Jim
Quinn, Dave Parks, Bob Holiday, Ritchie "Duke of Dayton" Allen, Jerry "Big D" Dennis, Don
Robertson, Dan Clover, John Alexander,Rod Williams station news director and Broadcasters Hall Of
Fame inductee, Jack Wymer "Dayton's Man On The Street," among countless others and a young
Johnny Walker who came to WING by way of sister station WIZE who later moved to WKEF-TV in
1970.

Wolfman Jack was aired late at night in syndicated form in the 1970s.

Aside from Gene "By Golly' Barry, the "lively guy" who enjoyed the most extended stay from 1967 to
1992 was morning man Steve Kirk(formerly from Cincinnati's WSAI) best known for his telephone
"put-ons" and other screwball on-air gags and drop-ins from 1966 until well into the late 1980s. He was
equally known for his familiar and flamboyant on-air self-introduction: "Hi-ya gang. ..Kirkie here. ..ha-
chi-chi-chi-chi-chi!"

Its news department was also legendary with Jim Briggs, George Wymer (Jack's son), G. Paul Tantum,
Terry Lafferty, Bill Nance, Roy Dittman, Kathy O' Connor (Dayton's first female news reporter) and
Retha Phillips among others. Nance and Phillips were also 2007 inductees into the Dayton
Broadcasters Hall of Fame. In the early 1960s it was at first a top of the hour "rip and read" newscast
from wire services with an echoed voice shouting the dateline location at the beginning of a story
(replaced in 1965 by a tone chord simulating an electronic telegraph key sounder.) The newscast was
also upgraded by world news actualities from Metromedia Radio, a predecessor of UPI Audio Network
who bought the news-feed service in 1971. By 1968,it switched to the Drake-inspired "20-20" News
(aired at 20 minutes before and after the hour.) with expanded local news coverage. Top of the hour
news returned in 1980 from ABC Radio's American Information Network followed by a local newscast
and weather without the catchy elements of the 1960s.

"High Flying WING" was the theme of a high energy upbeat jingle package in the mid 1960s produced
by PAMS Productions in Dallas. In the early 70s,the famous Drake "rum-pum" Boss Radio jingles
featuring the Johnny Mann Singers were used. .the same package used by then-legendary CKLW in
Windsor, Ontario during the late 60s and 70s. Adult Radio 1410 WINGIn the mid 1970s FM rock
stations started to chip away at AM radio's Top 40 audiences. During this transitional time, WING
began to soften its format to adult contemporary as "Adult Radio 1410." "Kirkie" continued his
morning show (followed by John Alexander on mid-days) with the addition of John King and Terry
Dorsey doing afternoons. The highly popular mock ads and comedy sketches of the fictitious Babs
Knieiven's Bar and Grill of New Carlisle, Hiney Wine and a comedic spoof on current events called
"The King and Dorsey Report" kept its fans laughing and listening. .even with the 80s onslaught of FM
competitors WTUE and WDJX in nearby Xenia (now WXEG licensed to Beavercreek.) It was also
during this time when Great Trails decided to acquire an FM sister station for the now declining
WING..in so doing purchased the original WCTM-FM in nearby Eaton from Stanley Coning re-naming
it WJAI with the branding "WJ-93"(inspired by the Florida sport known as Jai-Alai) at first continuing
WCTM's beautiful music until 1979 when it switched to country (later Big Band/Nostalgia) and adding
one of its first female on-air personalities Kim Faris. End of an eraWING in the 1980s and 90s showed
more signs of listener burnout as even more listeners switched to FM. "Adult Radio 1410" added a
supplemental tagline "Your Fun Oldies Station" with its vast record and jingle library featuring "The
Sixties at 6" with King and Dorsey. An on-air reunion of the original WING Lively Guys took place in
1985.

Eventually its Top 40 format was moved to its Eaton FM sister re-branded in 1984 as WGTZ "Z-93"
(formerly WCTM-FM and WJAI respectively) which at first used the catchy (and barely legal) ID
"WGTZ Eaton/Dayton and Springfield ALIVE!" (as in "Eatin' Dayton and Springfield ALIVE!" when
said fast) and with it John King moving to mornings with Terry Dorsey on a tape-delayed basis from a
station in Texas where he was working at the time. Kim Faris, already there since the WJAI days stayed
there doing mid-days and later as a morning sidekick to Jeff Wicker after "Dr. Dave" Gross and Wild
Bill left for a different market. Faris (who now works at WLQT after briefly moving to sales in 2007
for Z-93) occasionally did late evenings at WING in the mid 1980s as well. Carl Day did afternoon
drive for a period of time after John King moved to mornings at Z-93.

WING switched to a satellite oldies format during daytime hours after Kirkie's morning show. A talk
program with Stacy Taylor was added to the early evening shift with Mutual's Larry King Show from
midnight to 6am. After Steve Kirk's departure for a brief gig at Beavercreek's WYMJ-FM "Oldies 104"
he retired and eventually moved to Florida where he resides today. WING's "High Flying" era was now
a thing of the past.

In the fall of 2006,former newsman Bill Nance (now with WFCJ in Miamisburg) and Z-93's Kim Faris
(now with FM competitor WLQT) organized a reunion party of WING's past and present air
personalities at the Holiday Inn near Dayton Mall with a special memorial tribute to Gene "By Golly"
Barry who died in 2001. WING TodayAfter a stint as a CNN Radio affiliate in the 1990s and various
network talk programs, it found its new niche in sports/talk as a competitor to WONE's "980 Homer"
brand (which it also competed with in the 1960s for its Top 40 audience.) WING now airs the
programming of ESPN Radio in addition to local sports coverage of Dayton Dragons Baseball and
Ohio State Buckeyes Football and Basketball. Mike and Mike in the Morning (Mike Golic and Mike
Greenberg) is aired here. Dan Patrick's afternoon program was also aired prior to his departure from
ESPN on August 17, 2007. Patrick was best known in Dayton by his real name Dan Pugh who was an
air personality on WING's FM competitor, album rock-formatted WTUE in the early 1980s. WING was
owned by Radio One which acquired its previous owner, Cincinnati-based Blue Chip Broadcasting in
1999.

On May 17, 2007 Philadelphia-based Main Line Broadcasting announced the acquisition of Radio
One's stations in the Dayton and Louisville market areas[1]. Main Line took over the Dayton stations
on September 14, 2007[2]. See alsoESPN
ESPN Radio
Radio One (Former owners)
WROU
WGTZ
WDHT
WKSW
References1. ^ News article of Main Line's purchase of Dayton and Louisville station clusters from
Radio One (Radio-Online, May 17, 2007)
2. ^ From Radio-Online (September 14, 2007)

External linksOfficial WING "ESPN 1410" site

Query the FCC's AM station database for WING
WING's technical information from Radio-Locator website
"High Flying WING" 1960s tribute page
1960s aircheck of Lou Swanson's "Camp 1410" morning drive show on WING with vintage photos
AM Radio stations in the Dayton, Ohio market (Arbitron #59)
By frequency: 700 | 910 | 980 & 1340 | 1110 | 1130 | 1210 | 1290 | 1410 | 1500 | 1570 | 1600 By
callsign: WBZI | WDAO | WEDI | WGNZ | WHIO | WING | WLW | WONE & WIZE | WPFB | WPTW
| WULM See also: Dayton () ()
Ohio Radio Markets
| Cincinnati () () | Cleveland () () | Columbus () () | Dayton () () | Canton () () | | | | | Youngstown () ()
See also: List of radio stations in Ohio

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For other uses, see Wing (disambiguation).

In computing, WinG (pronounced Win Gee) was an API to provide faster graphics performance on
Windows 3.1. WinG included API calls such as CreateDIBSection(), SetDIBColorTable(), BitBlt(), and
StretchBlt().

WinG out-of-the-box support (i.e. as a separate API to Win32) was dropped in Windows 98 Second
Edition (which integrated DirectX 6), as it did absolutely nothing but pass through to the Win32 APIs
that it was wrapping. WinG DLLs were sometimes distributed with the application then it merely
became a matter of copying the files wing.dll, wing32.dll, wingde.dll, wingdib.drv and wngpal.wnd to
one's 'system32' directory to regain system-wide support.

The original Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) was designed with static images in mind,
making its animation capabilities very limited. The GDI provides an interface to the graphics hardware
that is device independent, that is, a program written using the GDI will work on all graphics and
printer hardware, provided suitable Windows GDI drivers for the hardware are installed on the system.
This means that graphics cannot be written to the physical framebuffer on the graphics hardware
directly and must be written to a logical graphics "device context" (DC) provided by the GDI, which is
then translated by the GDI and the device drivers to suit the target hardware device and is written to its
physical frame buffer in an appropriate manner.

The major limitation of the GDI DC was that they were write-only. Data, once written, could not be
retrieved. This was because the contents of the DC was device dependent, and data read from it would
make no sense to the programmer. In order to do animation using the GDI DC, all of the animation
frames needed to be manipulated in system memory and then each frame needed to be copied into a
GDI DC for display on the graphics device. This was a very slow process.
WinG introduced a new type of DC called a WinGDC, which allowed programmers to both read and
write to it directly using device-independent bitmaps (DIBs) with the wingdib.drv driver. Effectively, it
gave programmers the ability to do with Windows what they'd been doing without hardware access
limitations in DOS for years. Programmers could write DIBs to the WinGDC, yet would still have
access to the individual bits of the image data. This meant that fast graphics algorithms could be written
to allow fast scrolling, overdraw, dirty rectangles, double buffering, and other animation techniques.
WinG also provided much better performance when blitting graphics data to physical graphics device
memory. Since WinG used the DIB format, it was possible to mix original GDI API calls and WinG
calls.

WinG would also perform a graphics hardware/driver profiling test on the first execution of the
program in order to determine the best way to manipulate the graphics hardware. This test showed a
window full of red curved lines, sections of which would wobble as performance was tested. Once
WinG had determined the fastest calls that did not cause graphics corruption, a profile would be saved
so that the test would not need to be performed again.

The entire WinG API is at present part of the Win32 API. See alsoWindows Graphics Foundation
External linksHow To Obtain Microsoft WinG SDK and General Overview of WinG

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A Laughing Gull with its wings extended in a gull wing profile

Aircraft wing planform shapes: a swept wing KC-10 Extender (top) refuels a trapezoid-wing F/A-22
Raptor

A wing is a surface used to produce lift and therefore flight, for travel in the air or another gaseous
medium. The wing shape is usually an airfoil. The first use of the word was for the foremost limbs of
birds, but has been extended to include the wings of insects, bats and pterosaurs and also man-made
devices.

A wing is a device for generating lift. Its aerodynamic quality, expressed as a Lift-to-drag ratio, can be
up to 60 on some gliders. This means that a significantly smaller thrust force can be applied to propel
the wing through the air in order to obtain a specified lift. UseA common use of wings is in flight, using
forward motion to create vertical lift, but wings are also used to produce downforce. A sail boat moves
by using sails and a keel like a vertical wings to produce lift (in the horizontal plane). Artificial
wingsTerms related to aircraft wings