Dennis Elsas

WFUV is proud to celebrate our afternoon DJ, who's been on the air here at 90.7 FM for 25 years. On Thursday, August 14, from 2-6 p.m., Dennis will celebrate his FUV arrival with highlights of some of his favorite interviews and songs. I was at WNEW-FM for almost 27 years. I always thought that was a long time. I really had no idea what to expect working at FUV and certainly never thought it would last this long.

Dennis Elsas grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens with a transistor radio under his pillow, listening to the great New York AM rock ‘n’ roll stations. As FM began to emerge, so did his broadcast career with the founding of campus radio station WQMC at Queens College in the mid '60s. His first paid on-air job was at WVOX, a suburban radio station in New Rochelle, NY, where he created a free-form progressive rock show called Something Else Again.

Dennis Elsas's 50th anniversary John Lennon special aired on Friday, September 27. Listen back on demand via the player. Without question my most memorable interview and on-air experience to date was on September 28, 1974, a Saturday afternoon I spent with John Lennon. I had met him just a few weeks before at the Record Plant recording studio, and casually asked him if he’d like to come up to the station to talk about his forthcoming album, Walls and Bridges.