Larry Mars on WSKX “Kix 106″ Suffolk VA - Part 1 | March 1987 (46:17)
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