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Category: 680 AM WRKO
Boston Morning Radio Aircheck PART 2 | July 1990
Boston Morning Radio Aircheck PART 2 – WHDH WEEI WRKO WVBF – July 1990 Here are some clips of Boston area morning radio shows I recorded on a trip to New England, including: WHDH, WEEI, WRKO, & WVBF from July 1990. You’ll hear Loren & Wally, Jess Cain & more. This was a great…
Jerry Williams Discusses Radio on 68 WRKO Boston | June 11 1985
WRKO 680 Boston – Jerry Williams – Jerry Discusses Radio – June 11 1985 Courtesy: Alan Tolz This aircheck features New England talk radio legend, Jerry Williams. Jerry spent decades as a talk show host in Boston, on WMEX, WBZ, & WRKO. On this 680 WRKO aircheck, Jerry talks about radio, and how it…
Harry Nelson on 68 WRKO Boston | 1976
WRKO 68 Boston – Harry Nelson – 1976 From The Robert Nicholson Collection WRKO was the dominant Top-40 station for metro Boston in the 1960s & 70s. Many legendary jocks worked behind the WRKO microphones, including Bobby Mitchell, Johnny Williams, Dale Dorman, Shadow Stevens, Jerry Butler, Willie B, & the voice heard on…
Gus Saunders, 680 WNAC Boston | June 16, 1961
Unlike many of Boston’s “historic” radio stations, the story behind WNAC and it’s personalities isn’t quite as well documented as 680s later incarnation as Top 40 formatted WRKO. We know that Gus Saunders did news on WNAC for a time and we know from this aircheck that Roy Leonard was heard doing morning drive, although…
Mark Jackson on 68 WRKO Boston | March 1973
WRKO 68 Boston – Mark Jackson / Tony Mann – March 1973 Courtesy: Mike McCann Tauss This aircheck features Boston’s WRKO from 1973. WRKO was still the market’s Top 40 leader but the winds of change were blowing. Paul Drew was tinkering with the station, adding cold segues, making jock breaks shorter, and going…
Harry Nelson on 68 WRKO Boston | Summer 1979
Credit, once again, our good friend Matt over at Big Apple Airchecks for this look at Boston’s legendary 68 WRKO! No I can’t give you an exact date on this aircheck but we’ll just narrow it down to sometime around August 1979, based on one news item about Windsor Locks (CT) recovering from a tornado.…
Claprood & Whitley, Talk Radio 680 WRKO Boston | October, 1993
Besides Claprood & Whitley, there are two full newscasts anchored by Pat Carrol (now at WCBS 880 New York), Traffic by longtime reporter Malcom Alter and weather by well known New England radio Meteorologist Joe Zona.
Boston Afternoon Radio Dial Scan | Tuesday June 19, 1984
On June 19, 1984, I was walking around Boston, from the Harbor, to Copley Place. I had never been to Boston, so I was soaking everything in, from the historical sites, the city’s architecture, to the radio stations. I was carrying a small radio with a built in tape recorder. I spent the afternoon listening…
