FRANKIE CROCKER

Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker was an air personality and program director, most closely associated the dominant radio station in New York City, WBLS-FM, the black music radio station in New York. 

 Crocker began his career in Buffalo on WUFO-AM, before moving to Manhattan, where he first worked for Soul station WWRL and later top-40 WMCA in 1969. He then worked for WBLS as program director, taking that station to the top of the ratings during the late 1970s and pioneering the radio format now known as urban contemporary.  

Frankie Crocker continued to appear on-air and program WBLS-FM until 1985.