Paul Connors on 98.5 WROR Boston | October 13, 1990
Recorded just before the ‘original’ WROR at 98.5 flipped to WBMX, Paul Connors is featured here filling in for Joe Cortez. Connors emailed it to us with these comments:
Hi Steve,
Here’s another aircheck for your posting pleasure. It’s me on WROR, Boston on October 13, 1990. That’s the original WROR… at 98.5. I was part-time there for a year or so… originally working for PD Harry Nelson and leaving just after the format flip to Mix 98.5 WBMX in the spring of 1991. The studios were across the street from Fenway Park at the time, along with those of sister station WRKO. I had regular weekend shifts but also filled in a lot on the 10PM-2AM weekday shift. Harry had a nice, tight up tempo AC format going there, and I had a lot of fun executing it. The only negative was negotiating Kenmore Square traffic after a Sox game!
Thanks, Paul!
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The aircheck is fine, but I didn’t like that the jingles were cut off. Especially that “Nothing But Class” ID, Classic!
Typically, when I was on the air, I closed the mike right after I finished the break, which stopped the tape. That’s why the jingles are cut off. By the way, there’s a complete TOH jingle at the very end of this aircheck! It WAS a great jingle package!
Just in case some of our visitors don’t understand how an ‘aircheck machine’ works, an aircheck machine a cassette machine (usually) connected by the station engineer to a relay connected to the mic switch on the console. I’ve seen fancy tape decks in full stereo, and I’ve seen cheap Panasonic mono briefcase-fitting sized cassette machines, to dat and mini-disk players.
Regardless of the media, all share the same principle. When the mic is opened the machine records, when the jock turns it off, the recording stops regardless of what’s playing.
Most of us jocks when we’re concious of making an aircheck…. okay I’m the only one who does this since I own the site… but okay, some of us remember to keep the mic on and turned down through the jingles if we want to capture the station jingles. Course, in my case, I asked production and my PD for a copy of my rejoiners package from my last gig… oh well, doesn’t every jock want a copy of their name in the station branding?