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Year: 2012
Composite: Dana Lauren, Brian Kelly & Dan Taylor, 1050 WHN New York | Sometime 1983
Here’s a look at early-80s WHN… there’s not much life left in the biggest and most memorable Country station New York ever had at this point, but it sounds SO good! The music is scoped, the jocks some of the most talented, and the audio quality of this aircheck pristine. No, this isn’t Top 40,…
Joel Sebastian, J.J. Jeffrey (first show) on 89 WLS Chicago | 1971
Almost 18 minutes of pure heaven. Thanks again to Matt @ Big Apple Airchecks, a huge slice of WLS! Included: tons of early 70s commercials and those awesome WLS Jingles! J.J. Jeffrey would go on to station ownership later in his career. WLS would go on to number one status later that year.
Bruce Bradley, 97.1 WYNY New York | Summer, 1980
One of our original contributors from way back in 2002, Alan Fletcher, included this on something he called “AM/FM Snippets”. There were two discs, as I recall and some tapes that he had sent also. This is an excerpt from the original Volume 1, featuring Bruce Bradley in AM drive. It’s from, I THINK, July…
Composite, 99.5 WZPL Indianapolis | March, 1993
Its been a long time since we featured something out of Robyn Watts’ collection and after exchanging emails recently, I thought it time to find some more goodies! This is from another East Coast Airchecks tape – this one the label had come off so I was unaware until popping it in the cassette deck…
Jim Conley; Jackson Armstrong, 1020 KTNQ “Ten-Q” Los Angeles | 1979
This has been sitting around the Airchexx studio since 2004… a composite that’s had an 8 year wait to hit the Airchexx Archives! This kicks off with Jim Conley filling in for Dave Sebastian who is out sick on this particular day. Conley begins at 12 Noon and this scope spans the entire 3 hour…
Composite #2: 1380 KWK St. Louis, 106.5 WWWK Granite City | 1979
As confusing as it is listening to this aircheck next to the ‘standalone’ KWK aircheck recently posted, here’s a good example of how the migration of music stations from AM to FM began. In this case, later in 1979, KWK began simulcasting its format on 106.5 WWWK from suburban Granite City. They called it simply,…
Composite: 1600 KATZ St. Louis | 1979
Despite being a R&B station going back to the late 1950s, there’s really not much written history for this 5,000 watt AM station. We do know that the station was known in the 1960s and 70s as “Soul 16”, as evidenced by the header on a scanned top 20 playlist sheet posted below. Contributor Bob…
Composite: 1380 KWK St. Louis | 1979
1979 was the last year that AM stations thrived on music formats. Especially Top 40. Here’s a station that obviously knew that FM was going to be king and tried to market itself accordingly. It’s on-air monniker at the time was “KWK 13 Point 8 on AM”, obviously trying to sound like it had an…
