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 JBQ into a memorable monster! Here’s Harry shortly after he took over from former PD Brian Phoenix, who left for a programming gig in Clearwater, Florida.
You’ll love the west coast style presentation and Harry Nelson’s one liners - aww he’s got a million of em… It’s tight, all the elements are there, and so’s the variety (not diversity) of hit music - JBQ plays all the hits, literally.
Our contributor, Paul Connors, says this was from a cheap cassette machine. Maybe… but mono, scoped and (lightly) processed, buttered & salted, this makes for one 5 minute beauty!
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Hmm, this sounds a little bit like KFRC East to me (which isn’t such a bad thing). :>)
Robyn
Would LLLLLOVE to see more from the portland area!!! Oh, and by this time WJBQ was headed to a downward turn. At one time it had as much New England coverage as WRKO, and they were HUGE!! But as you can here from this aircheck they just wouldn’t lay off the disco, or as it’s called now “pop”. That’s when rival WBLM finally crushed them in the mid 80’s. After a couple of call sign changes and programming changes it is back to WJBQ.Unfortunately playing the same “pop” that killed it in the first place!!!!