Description courtesy of new contributor Chris Johnson:
This is my oldest air check of WBBF Rochester. Recorded on a Christmas holdiay break from college I began recording Rochester radio airchecks to take back to school to share with my fellow college radio station friends. This check is of mid-day jock Tim Griffin doing a Sunday afternoon shift in 1972. It was recorded the Sunday after New Years … you can hear his comment about “a little bit belated” after the “Happy New Year’s” jingle. Griffin is one of my all time favorite jocks … when I was first on air he is who I fashioned my “style” after.
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I remember Tim Griffen and his TIMMY POWER show, good DJ and a good guy.
I grew up on BBF, I even “hung out” up at 850 midtown a few evenings to sit in with FJ III and Lanny Frattare doing their shows autumn ‘71that’s
how I learnes to cue records on the old BBF spartan turntables….courtesy of Lanny, but it was cool for a 15 year old kid to actually sit in the little 8 by 8 DJ studio watchin the DJ’s do their thing…on that old 3 pot mixer with the VU
meter sticking up the top of the console and the old RCA sk-50 microphone ( See I really was there
Anyway fond memories of the old Jack Palvino/Larry White PD days @ BBF Thanks for posting this one-got anymore BBF,WAXC or FM99 samples???
The date should be January 2, not January 3
I had a summer job in Midtown Plaza during the late 60’s. I ran into the guys who were DJs at BBF (only woman who had an DJ job at BBF was Jessica Savitch whose air check was “Jessica, the Honey Bee”). I was in the Radio TV program at Ithaca College but went into advertising. Sorry to disillusion anyone, the DJs at BBF then were jerks, like almost all DJs everywhere in that era. The station management was sleazy and cheap. I won’t mention names.
Jessica Savitch was something else; she was as bad as the guys, attitude-wise.
Her air check was “Jessica, the Honey Bee, 950, WBBF.”
There have to be lots of BBF air checks around, the station was so cheap they used the same air checks for decades.
I grew up in Rochester and attended Ithaca College, Radio-TV program, transferred to Penn State after 2 years because IC was a big high school and the Radio-TV program was like 10th grade all over again. (God, was that 42 years ago)?
During the 70’s BBF DJs had a Chevy Blazer SUV which they drove like they were in a demolition derby. Last I saw or heard heard of BBF ’cause my parents retired to Florida and I got married and lived in North Carolina.
Keep looking for BBF air checks. Someone has some.