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February 8, 2010

MusicRadio 77 WABC New YorkAnother from contributor Bob Gilmore is this short recording of Howard Hoffman, and a zany night show from 4/8/80! WABC is still a Top 40 station at this point – but not for long. Here’s a rare, end of an era aircheck that you won’t find anywhere but Airchexx.com!

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Airchexx is on the hunt for ORIGINAL ‘checks! We prefer 70s & 80s material. If you’ve got one or two you’d like to submit for inclusion in our online archives, contact the webmaster.

Featured Airchexx - Gary McKee

Gary McKee on 79 WQXI Atlanta | 1973 Gary McKee on 79 WQXI Atlanta | 1973

WQXI kick the can time…… 8:47 Remastered for better quality! Originally posted in June 2005, here’s one of our most popular recordings! It’s been completely re-recorded and encoded in our new player. Aaaah for the days of AM top 40! Check out Gary McKee on WQXI. McKee claims... [View This Entry]

Gary McKee on 79 WQXI Atlanta – Full Morning Show | 1972 Gary McKee on 79 WQXI Atlanta – Full Morning Show | 1972

More McKee fun! Here’s one complete, scoped morning show from sometime in ‘72. This is courtesy of our old site pal Karl Phillips (and we thank him greatly!). Transferred directly from 7 1/4 inch reel played on an old Wollensack graciously loaned out to us by my good friend, voiceover... [View This Entry]

Gary McKee on WQXI Atlanta | 1974-1976 Part 2 Gary McKee on WQXI Atlanta | 1974-1976 Part 2

Part two of this fantastic exhibit is yet another 45 minute scoped presentation, with more McKee silliness and morning laughter. But…. McKee is on vacation! And, who is the sidekick? We’re sure our visitors know quite well. Our statistics show that Gary McKee and WQXI are our most-streamed... [View This Entry]

Gary McKee on WQXI Atlanta | 1974-1976 Gary McKee on WQXI Atlanta | 1974-1976

Now, as promised, Morning guru Gary McKee on 79 WQXI! This comes to us courtesy of new Contributor Lewis Cosby. Lewis is the President and GM of WMAK TV 7 Knoxville and was kind enough to send us a couple of CD’s worth of the legendary morning man himself. Apologies to all for the delay, we had... [View This Entry]

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Howard Hoffman, 77 WABC New York | April 8, 1980 Howard Hoffman, 77 WABC New York | April 8, 1980

1980 was a year of change for WABC. By the end of the year the music would begin to shift to a more adult sound, but in the early part of 1980, WABC was still a hot Top 40 station, as evidenced by this short scope of the wacky Howard Hoffman show. Hoffman is really out of control on this night. How does one describe the Howard Hoffman show? Well, lets just say that he wouldn’t be allowed on the air with this approach... [View This Entry]

George Michael, MusicRadio 77 WABC New York | February 28, 1977 George Michael, MusicRadio 77 WABC New York | February 28, 1977

The Late George Michael is tagged here doing a great show on WABC from 2/28/77. This is an original recording, donated by Bob Gilmore. Notables here include much signal fading and white noise on the tape, which suggests this was recorded some distance away from New York City. No matter, Michael is in top form, as was the norm on the George Michael Show – he never misses a talkup or hitting the post! These are the... [View This Entry]

Charlie Van Dyke & Company, 68 WRKO Boston | April 6, 1979 Charlie Van Dyke & Company, 68 WRKO Boston | April 6, 1979

Bob Gilmore is proving to be a great source of airchecks – having recorded thousands himself, his are original recordings of vintage radio. This one’s no exception. Check out Bob’s website, www.bobgilmore.com. Charlie Van Dyke is one of America’s foremost voices, heard on TV, Radio and even in Movie Trailers… but for most of the 70s and 80s, his career was spent behind the mic of some of the... [View This Entry]

New Music Showdown/Night Show on Kiss-FM Calgary | 1996 New Music Showdown/Night Show on Kiss-FM Calgary | 1996

From our Annonymous Donations file (yes, we had a contributor who wished to remain annonymous), comes this excellent aircheck of Kiss-FM Calgary. Unfortunately, there are few identifying marks to tell us what the call letters were, even the deejay didn’t say his name (but he SOUNDS similar to a guy named Doug Alling who used to grace the Boston airwaves on the old HitRadio 103 WHTT). So, once again, we’ll rely... [View This Entry]

Dallas Composite | November, 1992 Dallas Composite | November, 1992

Here’s a short composite of the Dallas/Ft. Worth market in the Fall of 1992. Contributor Marc Viquez writes: This was the first time visiting Dallas, Texas; I was in town for a week for my mother’s teacher’s convention. I found that the city had some great CHR radio stations: Y95 and 97.1 KEGL. They also had 100.3 Jamz, whiched seemed to be leaning towards CHR/Rythmic. However, there was plenty of good music... [View This Entry]

Assorted Stations From 30,000 Feet | February 15, 1992 Assorted Stations From 30,000 Feet | February 15, 1992

High altitude airchecks? Pretty rare, given that you’re not supposed to use portable radios on commercial aircraft… but some of us did back in the day and it was truly great fun! Marc Viquez sent this in and, well… he can describe it better than your webmaster: Here is a collection from February 15, 1992 from various cities from thousands of feet in the air. I was traveling from New Jersey to Los Angeles... [View This Entry]

Jeffrey Holland, Demo, Mix 94-5 Jeffrey Holland, Demo, Mix 94-5

Contributor Jeffrey Holland wanted to add his demo to our archives, so here it is. Wanna hire him? Just drop an email to the webmaster and I’ll send it along. We don’t do this as a rule, but then again we don’t get too many demos out of the blue. So, listen and see if you like.  Read More →

Charlie White, 1240 WWCO Waterbury (CT) | February 20, 1978 Charlie White, 1240 WWCO Waterbury (CT) | February 20, 1978

One of the nice things about AM radio in the late 70s was that most had morphed into some sort of Top 40 format and were VERY local in areas outside of major cities. Waterbury Connecticut is a medium sized city which is too far away from Hartford to be considered a suburb, yet is included in dual/multi market station legal ID’s – such as WWYZ Waterbury/Hartford/New Haven. WWYZ was the FM sister station to WATR... [View This Entry]

J.J. Jeffrey/Chuck Knapp and the “Top 300 Best of All Time”, 68 WRKO Boston | October 20, 1967 J.J. Jeffrey/Chuck Knapp and the “Top 300 Best of All Time”, 68 WRKO Boston | October 20, 1967

Our good friend Bob Gilmore returns with another fantastic aircheck of old! It seems kind of odd that WRKO, a new station at this point, having flipped to Top 40 from the former WNAC earlier in the year, would be counting down the Top 300 Best of All Time – I mean, the Rock & Roll era only began 12 years prior… but I digress. J.J. Jeffrey starts out counting down the hits from #232 to #230 before handing... [View This Entry]