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Month: August 2013
Human Newman, WHTZ Z100 New York | May 21, 1993
1993 was an interesting year for pop music. One listen to Z100 and you instantly understand that Alternative Rock was THE hot music in ’93, although while you’d never hear it on this station, Country had exploded onto the national music scene as well. Conspicuously missing on Z100 is anything resembling a beat, except that…
Composite: CKLW-FM 94 Windsor Ont. | 1988
Here’s another one we have to make an educated guess as to the year. This was the short-lived recreation of the Big 8 – on FM! Judging from my trip to Detroit in the early 90s, I remember this station and it really DID sound good. One of the very few Oldies stations to effectively…
Composite: 1050 WHN New York | 1980
It occurs to us in light of the brand new 94.7 Nash-FM in New York City, that there was a very successful Country station in the Big Apple some 30 plus years ago when the excitement was still on AM. Looking back, 1980 could be looked at as the era of the best ratings and…
Howard Hoffman on 106 KMEL San Francisco | Early 90’s
While the date is unknown, I’m gonna chance a guess here at sometime around 1990 or so. One of our listeners will know for sure. Here’s Howard Hoffman. Known as a pretty wacky personality on the east coast (look for him here at airchexx.com from WPRO-FM, WPIX-FM & WABC), he’s a *bit* more subdued here…
The Ken Draper WCFL Story
And now, courtesy of new Contributor Jim Hampton, a story that everyone should hear! The battle for the hearts and ears of Chicago was on for the better part of two decades. For many years, the top spot went back and forth from WLS to WCFL and back. WCFL was, of course, the ONLY radio…
Bob Lang & Charlie Fox on 63 KDWB St. Paul | December, 1974
We have a number of the 90s, 101.3 FM CHR version of this station, but this is the first of the original AM Top 40 recordings! What a great morning show. This is what they called “The new sound of KDWB”… and it was memorable! Here’s the “Q” format done in the Twin Cities and…
Composite: 94 1/2 WCOZ Boston | 1980
Courtesy of longtime Contributor Robyn Watts, this 7 1/2 minute composite is the first feature on a tape called, “Billboard Radio Competition Winners”. We know this is from the year 1980. The clip opens with a narrative by Program Director John Sebastian. This is the man who took WCOZ to the very hard rock “Kick…
Composite: 15 KSTP St Paul – Part 1 | 1973/1974
On a cassette which has typed (not computer-pritned) ’15 KSTP, MINNEAPOLIS, 1973-1974 airchecks’ on it, here is what appears to be a ‘professional ‘edit, with each small clip fading in and out appropriately… through 45 minutes! If you can take the obvious ‘chops’ in this, it’s a really wonderful collection of disc jockeys and each…
