Kilner jar The company was forced to close down to convert to gas furnaces and struggled along for a 66 years despite 3,000 people losing their jobs. In 1937, there was a bankruptcy sale, in which the patent rights to the "Kilner Jar" were sold to the United Glass Bottle company along with the rights to the very similar "Mason" jar that had also been made by Kilner. In 2003, The Rayware Group purchased the design, patent and trademark of the original Kilner jar and continues to produce them today in China. A more detailed history of the companies by the Society
WECK 2011, Greene ended the talk format. With former operations manager director Tom Schuh rehired as a consultant, WECK returned to the adult standards music format. For its first two years after returning to the music format, WECK's music blend leaned toward a MOR approach, branded as "The Breeze;" among its personalities was WGRZ weather anchor Kevin O'Connell, who voice-tracked afternoon drive until 2012. Joshua Gregory, also known as Mark Henry, was also a former talk show host, producer, and reporter at WGR and WBEN before becoming a part of the WECK team. He was the last remaining talk show host