http://airchexx.com Where Classic Radio Lives Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:47:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://airchexx.com/images/feedicon1.png http://airchexx.com 144 72 Where Classic Radio Lives Our friend Andy Bologovsky sent in more WAVZ material - this time, a great composite from July 1974. Among the many... Bill Rock and Bryan Phoenix make appearances on the best sounding AM station between New York and Boston! Its three minutes of KHJ memories with a look back ... http://airchexx.com/site-updates/whats-new-2 Contributor Andy Bologovsky presents this sixteen and a half minute tour of the Kopps-Monahan studios of 13 WAVZ. Its mid-Summer and the New Waves is sizzlin' with a lineup of jocks who all made it to major market stations after their stay in New Haven. It's an Oldies ... http://airchexx.com/markets/new-haven/composite-wavz-new-waves-13-new-haven-july-1974 "East Coast Airchecks" was one of those '90s professional aircheck services that sent out tapes to radio stations and other subscribers. We've featured plenty of these before, courtesy of Robyn Watts, who sent us lots of these tapes back in '04. Now, from one labelled "Classics II" ... http://airchexx.com/markets/san-francisco/quickcheck-george-mcfly-kxxx-x100-san-francisco-1988 "...You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" So begins this all-too-short, rare recording of RDS on 93/KHJ. We join things right in the middle of a commercial break (Texaco). We're listening to KHJ in '71, and while the Bill Drake era is all but ... http://airchexx.com/markets/los-angeles/quickcheck-the-real-don-steele-khj-los-angeles-1972 This is a great comparison between two competing Top 40 stations. 1961 was so early in the top 40 game that WABC was just in its infancy with its then-new format. This recording doesn't include ABC. WINS, of course, went on to become the nation's first All-News station. ... http://airchexx.com/site-updates/composite-wins-and-wmgm-new-york-october-1961 Here is one of the most interesting airchecks I've heard in a long time. Dr. O.C. White and Jim Frazier talk about the history of Black radio from the days of 1590 WAWA about a year before the station went dark. The old jocks... where are they now ... http://airchexx.com/other/assorted-airchecks/the-history-of-black-radio-wokj-am-stereo-1550-february-10-1987 This goes way back to 1966. It's a rare FM show, rare because there were very few FM stations that programmed popular music independently of a co-owned AM. Here, Dr. Bob mentions that some of the day's programming is on FM only. This show is what would probably be ... http://airchexx.com/contributors/james-edwards/dr-bob-show-wawa-fm-milwaukee-1966 I asked Mr. Gilbert what WDRC-AM sounded like before the flip to Oldies, and so here's a 9 minute high-quality scope from 1983. While Ken didn't say so, it sure seems like Buckley did more of a slow format turn towards oldies from Top 40 during '83. Listen ... http://airchexx.com/markets/hartford/ken-gilbert-1360-wdrc-hartford-january-1983 Our first listen to radio in the Canadian Maritimes brings us to CFDR Halifax. Known as 780 Kixx Country, this is a fully staffed, full service station with all the programming elements that make up good radio. No jingles, but plenty of classic Country liners. A full ... http://airchexx.com/markets/halifax-ns/gary-vaughn-cfdr-780-kixx-country-halifax-ns-august-4-1989 Our friend Ken Gilbert sent in another goodie! WDRC (Big D, as it was affectionately known) was, by 1983, primarilly an Oldies station. This wasn't some cheap imitation of an FM, however... as tape restorian Paul DiMarco (who provided the original copy to Ken Gilbert) wrote: I know times ... http://airchexx.com/markets/hartford/ken-gilbert-wdrc-am-1360-july-1983