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Composite: 102.7 WBMX Chicago | December 1986

Those of you from Boston are probably thinking… What the?… Yes, WBMX was a Chicago FM station before the call letters were dropped and subsequently picked up for 98.5 in Boston after they dropped the WROR calls. Confused yet?

This aircheck isn’t about format changes. It IS about Chicagoland CHR, with some really good jingles and hot personalties. From 1986, recorded at the same time as the WGCI aircheck posted on this website.

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Total Time: 32:43 | Stereo

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April 16th, 2006 Chicago | 4 comments

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4 Responses to “Composite: 102.7 WBMX Chicago | December 1986”

  1. TC on April 30th, 2006 12:35 am

    You know, I grew up listening to that station. Takes me back to my childhood!!

  2. tony c on September 9th, 2006 7:27 pm

    Yes great jingles …I have those somewhere
    In 1979 it was the bodacius fm 102.7 BMX
    Actualy the Frequency was the first FM in chicagoland as WGLD . oldies on FM

  3. DJ Spinelli on June 1st, 2007 9:17 am

    interesting that someone else actually picked up on this. i’ve lived in massachusetts my entire life. back in 1985 (and then again in 1988) i went to illinois to visit family and fell in love with 102.7 wbmx.

    i’m still amazed that i was there to witness the birth of house music and to hear it on a station that was one of the first in the world to play it.

    when i came back from illinois again in 1988, i noticed about 2 years later that 98.5 in boston had picked up the call letters. i doubted anyone in the boston area would have known this, so it’s really nice to see i’m not the only one.

    by the way, i have many, many tapes of 102.7 wbmx with mix shows, music from its regular rotation, the djs talking, commercials, etc.

    these days, the old wbmx actually has a site at http://www.wbmx.com and i supply mixes for it.

  4. Mike Reese on October 9th, 2008 3:02 am

    Yeah, there was a previous website that had some of the history on it, but it has been changed — I’d like to get some of the song sheets (like the Silver Dollar Survey) that ‘BMX had back in the ’80’s. The last one I had, showed the unusual mix of music that was coming out at that time - the listing showed a lot of jazz, what soon would be known as ’smooth jazz’, and disco/r&b dance cuts. Almost all of the dance cuts were in the ‘top ten’ type list, most of the jazz wasn’t! But I think they played it all, I just don’t have any tapes of that era, dammit!

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