Tim Byrd on 102 WPIX New York | September, 1985
Here’s Tim Byrd, with a fantastic set of pipes! WPIX went through a series of format tweaks and changes in the 10 year period from 1975-1985, and here, it’s very AC, with the likes of Lionel Ritchie and Billy Joel in tight rotation, mixed in with 70s AC hits. Not exactly the Top 40 station Howard Hoffman was once heard on in the 70s.
This really is a great aircheck for a number of reasons. First, it exhibits a mainstream AC station which was so common around the US and Canada during this time. Second, this features two full newscasts and full-length commercials as important historic events in the Big Apple.
Thanks again to Matt @ Big Apple Airchecks for this one!
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I had a stepfather named Tim Byrd but it was not the same as the DJ. He has a damned good voice, he needs to do some vos! I wonder whatever happened to him
Had known Tim while he was still in cleveland, did a few promos with him and radio station. One memorable was the demolition derby in Berea, Ohio, the grandstand was out of control. after leaving cleveland, Tim went to New York, DJ for country station, did converse with another DJ. Early eighties I changed channels on cable to see Tim hosting a video program. He looked and sounded the same. After, I lost source. Recently The recording he made came to mind “Nobody wants you when you are down and out,” I still have my personal copy from 1977. Tim did make ebony magazine in the seventies, and with all his talent I invisioned tremendous and great quests in his life. Tim if you should read this, wherever you are some day I hope we meet again, you were my friend. Also, a few pictures would be great of us. I have searched archives of the radio station, all in vain. By the way, is your father still a Baptist minister. Does anyone else have any further information. Brenda
Found Tim Byrd-Byrdman: Tim is presently D.J. for Kool 105.5 Woll radio station in Florida. He is live and I have listened to him on several occassions. Still with the tremendous voice and diction, appearance has changed from the power of the Fever Era: My favorite in the music industry. Tim also has a wife, a ravishing dark haired beauty, his preference, and is successful in every endeavor as he was determined. Through the years having conversed with many, the impact he had made on thousands has remained memorable for Tim truely is an Icon in the city of Cleveland. Thirty years passed, Tim is still “The Byrd” Brenda
While I haven’t known Tim as long as Brenda has, I have had the luck to meet both Tim and the lovely Sally Byrd. I actually met them while they were on their first date, and asked how long they had been together…they looked at me, at each other and chuckled. I said that I asked because they looked so “comfortable” together. That’s when they told me it was their first date! At that point, I said that I better be invited to the wedding! I was, but unfortunately couldn’t make it. Tim is not only doing afternoons at Kool, but he’s also the voice of the Florida Hurricanes hockey team, and is working on some TV projects as well. He’s a classy guy, and a good friend!