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“Match Game 1984”, 66 WNBC New York | December, 1984
In your webmaster’s opinion, the whole of WNBC’s format in the years 1983-1986 was one of the most entertaining and best all-around radio that was ever done in New York.
Don Imus Does Billy Sol Hargus, 66 WNBC New York | 1982
It was at KUTY, in Palmdale, California, where Don Imus began his on-air character Billy Sol Hargus, a radio evangelist named and inspired by preacher Billy James Hargis. The bit became very popular, so popular, that when Imus went to work in Cleveland, he took the character with him. In December 1971, only 3 years…
Jim Collins and the WNBC Time Machine- 66 WNBC New York | September 6, 1987, 10-11 AM
The WNBC Time Machine is featured prominently here at Airchexx – in various parts, one hour at a time! In this segment which has never been posted before, the late Jim Collins is counting down the Top 66 of the 1960s! It was a Sunday on this particular day. Traffic was very light according to…
Jim Collins, The Time Machine; 66 WNBC New York | 1987
By 1987, WNBC was playing a fair amount of Oldies in its mix. Weekdays started with Imus in the Morning and Top 40 music, Middays, WNBC returned to a music approach featuring Noontime Oldies with Ray D’Ariano, after Soupy Sales and afternoons were the domain of Alan Colmes and PM drive mostly talk, news and…
Dan Taylor, the Weekend Time Machine, 66 WNBC New York | December 26, 1987
The WNBC ‘Time Machine’ is on the air! Here’s Dan Taylor (WHN, WYNY, WCBS-FM) with one of NBC’s most popular features at the end of it’s life on 660 AM – The Time Machine! This was a great recreation of 1960s WABC right down to the PAMS jingles, resung for WNBC. Who said music was…
Joey Reynolds, 66 WNBC New York | January 7 – 11, 1974
The Joey Reynolds Show on WNBC – A ton of laughs between every record! The technical stuff This audio came in on an old generic brand C90 Cassette. Apparently transferred from the source reel, this took a bit of processing to bring back to life, speeding up the audio to what now sounds close to…
Bob Pittman, 66 WNBC New York | September 11, 1977
Here’s the current Chairman and CEO of iHeart Media, Inc. from his days as the Program Director of WNBC! Pittman’s resume is extensive and available elsewhere. Ironic that this recording shares another, much more infamous date. We’ll leave the twist of historical fate to the reader. Ok. So, this is “The NEW WNBC“. What’s new…
Jack Scott, Dan Taylor, The Time Machine; 66 WNBC New York | September 5, 1987 1:50-3:20 pm
Jack Scott and Larry Scott? Brothers? Or just brothers in air-names? Well, either way here’s a talented radio performer who effortlessly rolls back the years to the 1960s. It’s Labor Day Weekend and this is the Top 66 of the 1960s countdown. You’ll hear the Jack Scott program for 2/3rds of this, then WNBC News,…
