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Month: August 2012
Bill Ballance, KFWB Los Angeles | August 19, 1959
Here’s one that barely needs any introduction. Bill Ballance was a legendary Deejay from the dawning days of AM Top 40 radio. The format hadn’t been around that long in 1959, but KFWB was on top of the ratings in those days. KFWB began doing Top 40 a year earlier, in 1958. Programmed by Chuck…
Glen Burnie & Richard Hamilton, 1290 WGLI Babylon NY | July, 1982
Its been a while since this tape contributed by Ira Warren Patasnik was sent in, but we here at Airchexx give everyone equal time. This is the Glen Burnie, Rich Hamilton show featuring our contributor as Glen Burnie. While the tape is un-dated, our contributor believes it to be from July of 1982. This tape…
The “Bobby Blue Demo” Tape – Bob Marini
Contributor Bob Marini sure has a lot to contribute to the radio industry – he’s even got his own website! Bob sent in a few airchecks but I think it’s appropriate to start with this demo tape. This SOUNDS like a great aircheck of the legendary 68 WRKO Boston… but as with many things in…
Denny St. John, 1050 KOFY San Francisco | June, 1986
Here’s an interesting aircheck of a radio station which did much to promote itself, not only as an Oldies station playing music from the 1950s, but as a daytime only AM station that was on the verge of getting its nighttime authority and going 24 hours. Denny St. John is your host for this 21…
Mark & Brian’s Final Show, 95.5 KLOS Los Angeles, Part 2 | August 17, 2012
Picking up where Part One left off, Former KLOS and KMET Host Jim Ladd is the first guest of Mark & Brian. Plenty more guests and old bits here. Then… the final goodbye. Have something to wipe your eyes with. The end of Los Angeles’ longest current running morning show. Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps…
Mark & Brian’s Final Show, 95.5 KLOS Los Angeles, Part 1 | August 17, 2012
Background: The end of Los Angeles’ longest current running morning show. Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps came to 95.5 KLOS from “I95” WAPI Birmingham in September of 1987 and quickly took the town by storm. By 1991, they generated enough attention to gain a short-lived series on NBC. In June, Mark Thompson announced he’d be…
Bob Mitchell, 1260 KYA San Francisco | April, 1961
Knowing next to nothing about this recording, I have to defer to someone who might have been around in 1961 to have heard it. This is Top 40 pioneer KYA. Doing the format several years before RKO decided to take KFRC in that direction. Bob Mitchell was known as a slick, fast talking jock (especially…
Kevin Porter & Unknown, 95.1 KQRX Odessa Midland | January 27, 2002
Here’s one for Alternative lovers- 95X is gone, but in the early part of the last decade, KQRX was calling themselves “Odessa Midland’s New Rock Alternative”. And for good reason. The playlist reads like a whose who of Alt Rock bands from the end of the Grunge era. Now, unless you’re a radio person (and…
