NEW YORK DAILY NEWS -- 40 years on air, minus 65 mins.
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
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Pete Fornatale marks 40 years on the radio today with a little twist of irony: His 5-8 p.m. "Mixed Bag" show on WFUV (90.7 FM) will be cut short at 6:55p.m. for a Fordham basketball game.

That's one of the prices radio personalities may pay these days for doing what used to be called free-form radio - where the music isn't limited to a narrow, station-selected playlist.

They have to do it on noncommercial stations.

But at least WFUV provides a home for that style of radio, both with Fornatale and his longtime colleague Vin Scelsa, who follows him at 8 p.m. Saturdays.

Fornatale started at WFUV in the early '60s, when he was a Fordham student. He then went on to WNEW-FM and WXRK before returning to WFUV a couple of years back.

He's also working on a TV pilot. His "Mixed Bag" interview show, heard at 7 a.m. Sundays on WFUV, is also on XM Satellite Radio.

AROUND THE DIAL : Sabrina Lamb will be sitting in on "The Week in Review" tomorrow night at 11 on WRKS (98.7 FM).... Pop star Angel performs tomorrow night at Menlo Park Mall, 7-9, as part of a charity event sponsored by the mall and Radio Disney (WQEW, 1560 AM). ... Hear the band Golem reinterpret classic Yiddish tunes tonight with Rob Weisberg on WFMU (91.1 FM), 8-11. ... Veteran Bill Rock sits in tomorrow on WCBS-FM (101.1), 6-10 a.m. Dan Taylor will be doing 7-11 p.m. on the station next Monday and Tuesday.