We don’t know much about Easton PA (as with many lesser markets), but this is a good sounding Top 40 at the end of the 80s CHR era. By ‘92, grunge and rock would take over much of the landscape… but this is a rhythmic, 80s-imaged CHR and it is good to hear!

Added by Lance Venta: This aircheck is about 6 weeks before the station would become “Oldies 99.9″ WODE. The demise of WHXT would also lead to its primary CHR competitor “Laser 104.1″ WAEB-FM to rebrand as “B104″, a name it would keep to this day.

From our Anonymous Contributor archives.

Jimmy Jam, Hot 99.9 WHXT Easton/Allentown PA | July 15, 1991 is a post from: Airchexx.com

Bad Billy James on WEEX Easton PA | 1978 (1:40) Scoped is a post from: Airchexx.com

Bill James is one of our contributors. I recently had reason to go through and find much of his material to get it back online. Frankly, this is one of the ‘much’ better stations we’ve posted. ‘Bad’ Billy did the night show and, like John ‘Records truly is my middle name’ Landecker on WLS – Billy was loud and proud to do the night show.

This is a really fun aircheck to listen to. You’ll find that in 1978, the AM rockers tried so hard to keep the kids attention span. It WAS fun – but not to last since most of these AM Top 40 stations gave up within two years or so. Now, you can hear this valliant effort to maintain parity with FM – in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania…not all that far from NYC, right here.

Bad Billy James on WEEX Easton PA | 1978 (5:02) Scoped is a post from: Airchexx.com

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