LINKS TO PLAY THIS AIRCHECK FOLLOW THE DESCRIPTION One of Southern California's all-time greatest jocks, The Real Don Steele (April 1, 1936 – August 5, 1997), is heard here on…
DESCRIPTION KHJ airchecks are somewhat of a rare commodity these days. It seems as if most of the tapes that were out there have been digitized already. Well, here's one…
Gary Bridges was one of a large staff of known personalities, some of whom listeners had grown up with. Personalities such as Don Pardo (the voice of many of WNBC radio and television's promotions), Soupy Sales, who had been around in the 1950s and on television, Imus, who by this time was already an institution and the whole WNBC news department.
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.
This is another in our series of AM-Stereo airchecks. WNBC used the Khan-Hazeltine AM Stereo system and while the transmitting plant itself was finely tuned and well-processed by NBC’s top-notch engineers, heard on a (then) modern, wideband AM Stereo receiver, this sounds BETTER than modern processed FM stations!
JB105 is a HOT rocking station at this point. The first thing you'll notice is that most of the music is uptempo. The second thing is the station's processing was juiced so that it was loud.