With all the format changes and vast station realignments in the Hampton Roads, VA market since 1987, I thought it appropriate that we take a look at what was then a promising Country station.
Today, it’s known as The Fox, a Classic Rock station. In 1987, this station once using the WTID call letters, had upgraded it’s facilities and got new call letters – WSKX. This aircheck is from a short three-year time period when they had those call letters. It would end in 1989, when the station flipped to CR.
In the Fall of 2004, we posted (or, re-posted, since they were part of the original archives) some other Tidewater area airchecks: WGH from 1976 and 1987. Now we have another station which made it’s mark in America’s Navy capital.
I recorded this myself around the same time of the WGH-FM airchecks. Listen – Country was in transition from the Outlaws & Urban Cowboy era to what it would become when Garth Brooks first hit the scene some five years later… WSKX could have been a huge winner – but like so many other stations, jumped off the train just as it was leaving the station.
I think you’ll really enjoy this, a country aircheck. For 1987, boy did this station sound GOOD!
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I have really enjoyed to listen to Larry Mars, an old friend I have met in Germany just thirty years ago, while he was with the Military in Nuernberg. I wish someone could tell me the whereabouts of Larry. Greetings from Germany from Brigitte Wolf
Is Larry Mars still a disc jockey? Used to enjoy listening to him…..
Maybe he got into another line of work???
S. Varner
Hi Steve,
Just heard the Larry Mars aircheck for the 1st time as I was not able to hear it till now.
This was really a trip to hear him again! Thanks so much for putting this on your site!
Larry was really talented. And he was great with commercials and had lots of ideas. He had an enthusiasm for his work and the listeners. He listened to other radio stations & DJs as well to hear what they were doing. He was extremely witty and had a great sense of humor!
I knew him when he first started his career in AM (should I say where?) He took requests
and the station line was ALWAYS busy! You could hardly ever get through! He always knew what the people wanted to hear. He had lots of fans! You could tell he loved his job and what he was doing. But after he left, that station was dead- no more Mr. Personality! I think people just sort of turned off their radios. So the DJ’s in the past WERE important and like you’ve said Steve, you never get that “base” back.
Do you have any more airchecks of him wherever he might have been?
So Larry, if you’re out there in “Radioland” would you please play “Miracles” by Jefferson Starship, “Could it be Magic”, KC & The Sunshine Band or anything else from that era–
