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  • Composite: Northern NJ | August 12, 2006

    Composite: Northern NJ | August 12, 2006

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    Steve West
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    This is very interesting, in that you’ll hear a good cross-section of AM & FM stations. It begins with the Mark Simone talk show on WABC, and moves through WOR 710, WFAN Sportsradio 66, then onto FM on the left side of the dial (88.1 for you digital junkies). Sometimes I lingered for a short…

  • NYC 80’s CHR Wars: Bill O’Brien on WHTZ

    NYC 80’s CHR Wars: Bill O’Brien on WHTZ

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    Steve West
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    The late 80s and early 90s saw one of the hottest competitions among the hit music stations in New York City history. The last time there were this many stations locked in battle for the top 40 audience was the early 1960s when it was on the AM band between WMGM, WMCA and WABC. But,…

  • Career Spotlight: Pat St. John

    Career Spotlight: Pat St. John

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    Steve West
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    Sent in back in 2003 by our first, biggest contributor, Matt Seinberg at bigappleairchecks.com, here’s a great air personality whom Matt was proud to strike up a friendship with. Pat St. John had a great career which spanned several decades and different formats. Longtime New York listeners who remember Pat at WPLJ and WAPP would…

  • 94.7 New York Spins The Wheel Of Formats

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    Following Harold Camping’s failed end of the world prediction, Family Stations began to sell off its commercial band FM stations to stay afloat. First Maryland, then Philadelphia, leaving only New York remaining. Finally in October 2012, 94.7 WFME was sold to Cumulus for $45 Million. On Friday, January 11, 2013 WFME signed-off and quickly gave…

  • Composite: New York City 1973, Volume 1

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    Steve West
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    Thanks to Karl Phillips we have yet another look at radio in the Big Apple. This time it goes back to ’73 and it is an excellent cross-section of AM and FM stations and includes all the big ones. Included in this composite: Jonathan Schwartz on WNEW-FM (Begins with a skit called “Nixon Confesses”) WPLJ…

  • Pat St. John’s last show on WKNR Detroit

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    Steve West
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    Here’s something that Matt at Big Apple Airchecks sent in. Apparently directly from Pat St. John himself, this is a ‘reconstructed’, mostly scoped aircheck of Pat’s last show on Keener 13 before he moved on to then AOR 95.5 WPLJ New York.

  • Brian White, “99X”WXLO New York | Sometime 1974

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    Steve West
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    Short enough to be a MICRO-Check, here’s something new Contributor Keith Teicher sent in a few weeks ago. This is Brian White on 99X, and we’re guessing at the year here – sounds like 1976, although there’s not really enough of this aircheck to really get a feel for the exact date, but one can…

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