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Month: January 2013
Rick Hunter, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | 1986
New Contributor Rick Hunter’s self-submitted skimmer makes us all yearn for the old 101 WCBS-FM, complete with REAL Oldies music and a roster of the Who’s Who of New York radio broadcasters. Rick Hunter was less known in the 80s but as this QuickCheck shows, he was a natural talent that was going places. After…
Fred Winston, Dick Saint & Doug Dahlgren, 890 WLS Chicago | March 12, 1976
…There’ll be no high today, sorry…. I’m high… no no no… I’m kidding. I wish I was high… no haha just kidding… If we had a ratings system, this would get four stars! Wait! Actually, we do! Try it. This aircheck comes to us from Ira Menacker via Matt Seinberg. Thanks to both of them.…
Bill O’Brien, the Philly “Hot 30 Countdown”, 98.1 WCAU-FM Philadelphia, Part 2 | January 8, 1984
The Philly Top 30 Countdown continues with Bill O’Brien. This segment starts at number 19 and goes down to number 9. Listen for such stiffs as “The Curley Shuffle”, and Matthew Wilde’s “Break My Stride”. Remember hearing those at little bars and clubs that did the first Karaoke nights? The jingles in use here are…
Bill O’Brien, the Philly “Hot 30 Countdown”, 98.1 WCAU-FM Philadelphia, Part 1 | January 8, 1984
An impressive aircheck from this date in January 1984 – the GREAT “98 Now” Hot Hits ™ format at WCAU-FM. Here’s the first part of the Philly Top 30 Countdown which we hear shortly after the start. Plenty of mentions of schools, dedications and all the great things that classic Top 40 radio was about.…
Steve Shannon; First Show, 680 CFTR Toronto | June 23, 1973
Sometimes the best recordings come out of nowhere. Sent in by Contributor Daniel Coulombe (CKTS Sherbrooke), here’s the CFTR debut of longtime & legendary jock Steve Shannon. Its 1973 and this is seriously the hottest station in Canada during this time period. In fact, CFTR was arguably the most popular AM Top 40 station for…
Steve West, 105.9 WGKX Memphis TN | March 5, 2005
Recorded about 6 weeks or so before being summarily let go – nevermind, wait for the book deal… your webmaster is caught trying to juggle elements around another ’12 In-a-row’, which, as the format clock said, was from the first song out of the :52 stop set until about :35 past the hour – the…
Harry Nelson on 98 WJBQ Portland | December 6, 1982
Hellooooo, Maine! We’re probably talking to more moose (or is it Meeces?) than people but hey you guys had some great radio too! Harry Nelson. A guy with more frequent flier miles than most flying back and forth…. lets see, programming WRKO, then out west to KFRC, then back east to Portland, to turn 98…
Call Letter Change: WEEI-FM Becomes “HitRadio 103” WHTT Boston | March 9, 1983
New Contributor Stuart Gitlow comments: The original recording suffered from several issues: my reception of 103 wasn’t great, the gain was turned up a bit too much (I was just getting used to using dbx), and the tape is 22 years old. All in all though, it’s not too bad. Since posting, we’ve had numerous…
