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Month: December 2014
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Bob Grant, TalkRadio 77 WABC New York | December 30, 1988
Its the final “Gag Hour” for 1988 on the legendary Bob Grant show! If you never heard Bob Grant, he was one of the last middle of the road, local and national, issues oriented talk show hosts before talk radio, and WABC in particular, moved to the far right of the political spectrum. One thing…
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Tom Birch, WHYI Miami | 1975
Courtesy of Contributor Steve Bleecker, here’s yet another in our short series of Ratings king, Station Owner and fantastic jock Tom Birch! As of this writing, there’s one more aircheck of Mr. Birch on Y100 and its got all the energy you’ve come to expect! Its amazing that FM took over the Miami market so…
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Ronnie Philips, KBEQ Kansas City | October 5, 2005
Go ahead, you double-takers! Combine a former 90s CHR powerhouse, the same station name and combine it with a Shootout, a girl named Nikki, a guy who could hold his own at ANY of the old 90s CHR stations named Ronnie Philips, and some sawdust-kickin’ hell-raisin’ Beer drinkin’ Country Music and what do you have?…
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Jim Conley, 105.7 WKOX-FM Framingham | January, 1969
WKOX-FM was a radio station that was way before it’s time. Originally a Classical music station, WKOX-FM was the FM side of WKOX (AM), then on 1190. In time, WKOX (AM) would move to 1200 and become “Metro West” radio, serving the city of Framingham and the western suburbs of Boston with a full-service format.…
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Al Dixon, 1600 WAPX Montgomery | February 24, 1975
Over 40 years ago, little R&B station WAPX made national headlines when a group of Muslim terrorists took over the station, tried to incite a Muslim uprising and then had a shootout with police. October 12, 1974, to be precise. You can read all about that right here. One of the men who was taken…
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Peter Ross, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford | February, 1972
This begins at the tail end of a newscast, the announcer doesn’t give his name. Then its right into music on the Peter Ross show! Here are the things to notice on this aircheck: Dick Robinson, who was HUGE on WDRC, voicing a Railroad Salvage spot. Robinson is the founder of the “Connecticut School of…
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Peter Dean, 101.9 WTMX Chicago | June 12, 1992
Mix 102 is your ticket to Summer Charlie Van Dyke is the imaging voice for this Hot AC station known as “Mix 102” Licensed to Skokie, Il., you’re listening to the Mix Morning show with Peter Dean. The source tape had no date associated with this recording, but it’s former president George H.W. Bush’s birthday,…
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Jeff Bannister – “The Power of Love”, 1310 CIWW Ottawa
What’s the story with Ottawa’s 1310 AM? Well, it was a music station for much of it’s life, the last music format being Oldies. Heard here in 1987, it is a Gold-Based contemporary music station, playing mostly 70s music but pulling from the 60s and the 80s, as best we can tell. Today, the station…