Nick Summers, “Hit Music 104” KZZP Phoenix | June 11, 1984
Courtesy of the folks at AircheckDownloads.com, here’s a short, 3 minute scope of the old “Hit Music 104” KZZP out of Phoenix. It’s called “Kiss-FM” […]
Month: January 2012
Motor City Gold – Detroit-Area Radio, Circa 1971, Part 2
In October of 2004, in our second year on the web, we posted a series of aircheck tapes entitled “Old Gold”. The series was called […]
Jim Maddux, 1580 KDAY Los Angeles | March 15, 1976
Despite it’s years as a mainly R&B and Soul station, 1580 KDAY would earn it’s place in the sun as what could be termed the […]
Motor City Gold – Detroit-Area Radio, Circa 1971, Part 1
In October of 2004, in our second year on the web, we posted a series of aircheck tapes entitled “Old Gold”. The series was called […]
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, 94.1 WOGY “Froggy 94” Memphis | June, 2000
Perhaps one of the better known ‘themed’ radio formats around the U.S. is the ‘Froggy’ brand of Country music stations. Animal names seem to dominate […]
Rick Dees in the Morning, 102.7 KIIS-FM/1150 KIIS-AM Stereo Los Angeles | Summer, 1985
Rick Dees began his career sometime in the early 1970s in the state of Mississippi. His first claim to fame occurred in Memphis, at 56 […]
Frank Kingston Smith; Norm Nathan & Jordan Rich “Morning Magazine”, 68 WRKO Boston | May 28,1981
By 1981, music on AM Radio across the U.S. was well in decline. Stations at RKO General were typical of many ownership groups of the […]
Steve West, WMBZ 94-1 The Buzz Memphis | February 2001
From the ashes of Country station WOGY ‘Froggy 94’ arose this Modern AC station called “The Buzz”. This one jock who started a classic radio […]
John Burwell & WTMA (Charleston) Music Machine Blooper
Courtesy of Mike Raub, here’s an aircheck that proves the worth of 5 second delay. WTMA didn’t have one, apparently. This speaks for itself….
Steve Sawyer, 1390 WCAT Orange, MA | March, 1983
Twenty-Nine years ago this March, I recorded this cassette on a skimmer in the studio of the old WCAT. In doing the research to find […]
Eight Minutes with Q-106 – KKLQ San Diego | November 15, 1996
Out of the newly minted Doug North Collection comes this just-over-eight-minute scope of the old KKLQ Q106 San Diego. Q106 is another one of those […]
Chris Edwards, WDEN (AM) Macon GA | 1970
This is the Grady Spires show, and filling in here is Chris Edwards. We don’t know much about radio in Macon, GA, much less WDEN […]