It’s only slightly over 3 minutes in length but you can certainly get a feel for what things sounded like in the tumultuous year of 1968.

QuickCheck: Jack Armstrong, WFUN Miami | October, 1968 is a post from: Airchexx.com

A pretty funny and exciting late-80s CHR, Y-100 had a great lineup in those days. Walker does a feature called “Bed Check”, where callers throw in their comments and Walker just has a good time with it. Not much in the way of formatics or music, what scoped things we’d allow anyway. But one gets a feel for the J.J. Walker show presented here in a restored recording, lightly processed and noise reduced as the source tape was a bit worn.

J.J. Walker, WHYI Y-100 Ft. Lauderdale/Miami | 1989 is a post from: Airchexx.com

Unlike most of today’s morning shows which are laden with Hollywood fluff… this is so good, and Sonny Fox is just himself. Its refreshing to hear how morning shows were in the mid-80s. We miss it, and you probably do too!

Sonny Fox, WHYI Y100 Miami | July 6, 1984 is a post from: Airchexx.com

This was sent in by Daniel Coulombe… an original recording of Don Cox on I95 in South Florida. This is vintage 80s. Entertainment news, featuring who else? Michael Jackson. Not to mention, Cox IS counting down the top 10 songs of the week. Heard at the end of this aircheck is Johnny Dolan, apparently coming in to do his shift.

Whatever happened to this kind of personality top forty?? Never mind, we know the answer (that’s why I’m not in the biz anymore…)

Don Cox, WINZ-FM (I95) Ft. Lauderdale/Miami Beach | July 2, 1984 is a post from: Airchexx.com

On October 1, 1975, 96X (WMJX) in Miami was born out of WMYQ an AOR station that faced stiff competition from two other AOR stations in the market. 96X entered as a top 40 station that played some soon to be classic rock along with the top 40 hits. Top 40 in those days was much different than today, and 96X thrived becoming a model for large market top 40 stations. The on-air personalities were colorful and a good part of the reason why the station was so successful. They obviously were having fun, and you did too if you listened.

Due to FCC legal troubles, billing irregularities, we think, 96X was forced off the air. Subsequent to the station’s demise, the former WBZ-FM 106.7 in Boston was sold and the new owners picked up the WMJX call letters in 1981 – where they reside along with it’s Adult Contemporary format today.

Tom Kent is really hot on this particular aircheck. Tom’s one of our favorites, and for good reason… with a resume that includes G98 Cleveland, WAVA Arlington and WLS Chicago, not to mention syndication, TK has enough talent to fill an encyclopedia. You’ll really enjoy this fast-paced historic broadcast of Miami’s own 96X!

Tom Kent on WMJX 96X Miami | March 24, 1978 is a post from: Airchexx.com

While this is more of a straight-ahead Oldies format instead of personality oriented show, there is one important technical observation I’d like to make, that I never hear anyone mention. Back in the mid-90s, as stations began converting from traditional media to hard drive based systems, there was a period of time where some stations had made a large investment in CD cart machines, and other digital, non-computer hardware. These stations, in my opinion, had an audio crispness on the air that has never been able to be duplicated. Engineers have tried, with more processing, but stations just can not compare CD audio that’s close to the original masters in sound quality with 64k encoded compressed files. Listen to WAXY here, and notice how incredible the Oldies sound, even reproduced from the original tape recording.

Dan O’Brien on (105.9) WAXY 106 Miami | February 8, 1994 is a post from: Airchexx.com

It’s Your Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeder on Y-100! There’s only two guys I’ve ever heard who talk this fast – Terry ‘Motormouth’ Young on XM’s 60s on 6 channel and Jackson Armstrong. Jack was the original!

We’ve had email requests asking where Armstrong is and if the Gorilla is still with him. The answer is he was heard nightly on KB radio 1520 in Buffalo before Entercom changed formats there, but since then I believe he’s working somewhere in North Carolina. I’m not sure if the Gorilla’s still part of the show – but it’s been over a year since we exchanged emails. Maybe it’s time to ask (LOL)…

This is a great scope of Armstrong on Y-100. He’s just as energetic as ever and man! Does Y-100 sound great here.

Jackson Armstrong on WHYI ‘Y-100′ Miami | June, 1975 is a post from: Airchexx.com

This begins and ends with a Y100 jingle. In between is some really great material. Very tight 80s CHR from one of the best stations of the era. At under 5 minutes, it’s short, thus an official airchexx.com QUICKCHECK, and certainly will leave you wanting more!

Harley Davidson Demo, WHYI (Y-100) Miami | 1986 is a post from: Airchexx.com

“Y-100 – Where You Count – With scores of 100 dollar bills!”

This one comes to us courtesy of Matt over at Big Apple Airchecks – and we’re just now getting around to posting it!

Here’s a slice of Miami Heat in the form of Robert W. Walker – smokin’ up the turntables at the big Y! Y-100 is running a number of promotions simultaneously, and listen to the MUSIC! Top 40, as illustrated here, was not all current hits, back in the day it was the currents, plus the great oldies pulled from a variety (not diversity) of available genres… Rock, Pop, Soul and Country.

This runs 16:43 scoped.

Robert W. Walker on WHYI (Y-100) Miami | Spring 1977 is a post from: Airchexx.com

This sounds very much like it was recorded directly off the board. Phil Baker could have been the all-night jock, but I doubt this was recorded overnight since the newsman that you’ll hear on this scope coming out of the top and bottom of the hour reports is none other than the legendary Terrance McKeever! Hearing McKeever’s voice on a couple of news outros is worth the 10 minutes of scoped liners read by Phil Baker!

Comments: One of the purposes of Airchexx.com is to show what radio was really like back in the days before music moved to FM, and corporate consolidation ruined what we perceive as ‘good radio’. Unfortunately, IMHO, the ‘RKO’ sound featuring short liners into songs, while great when done by jocks with real personality like Robert W. Morgan, sounded TERRIBLE with a jock who did nothing WITH the liners except to read them. True, all was not perfect in radio, even in the 70s. Still, this is Miami’s version of the “Q” format (in most markets, this was the ‘post Drake’ era), and the format, for all intents and purposes sounded great on the air.

Visitors, if you remember this station, why not write a history about it by clicking the ‘Comment’ button at the bottom of this post.

Phil Baker on WMYQ Miami | 1974 is a post from: Airchexx.com