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Year: 2016
Composite: WINS and WMGM New York | September 17, 1961
Date of Recording: 09.17.1961 Station(s): 1010 WINS / 1050 WMGM (WHN/WFAN/WUKQ/WEVD/WEPN) New York City, New York, USA Format: Top 40 Featured Air Talent: Various Contributor: Big Apple Airchecks Comments: This is a great comparison between two competing Top 40 stations. 1961 was so early in the top 40 game that WABC was just in its…
Dr. Bop Show, WAWA-FM Milwaukee | 1966
Date of Recording: 1966 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 102.1 WAWA-FM Milwaukee (Menomonee Falls), Wisconsin, USA (WLUM) Format: Black Gospel / R&B Featured Air Personality: Hoyt Locke (Dr. Bop) Contributor: James Edwards Comments: This goes way back to 1966. It’s a rare FM show, rare because there were very few FM stations that programmed popular music…
Programmer’s Digest Composite, WAVZ New Haven | Summer 1973
Date of Recording: 1973 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 1300 WAVZ New Haven, Connecticut, USA Format: Top 40 Featured Air Talent: Various Comments: As recordings go, one probably couldn’t get better than vynl. Programmer’s Digest was one of those trade publications that featured a different station each edition, and was sent out to various radio stations…
Roxy Waters, KLTG Corpus Christi | December 23, 1997
Date of Recording: 12.23.1997 Station: 96.5 KLTG Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Format: Oldies Featured Air Personality: Roxy Waters Contributor: John Elliot Comments: Just two days before Christmas and all through the South, not a station played oldies… okay you get the picture. It’s the end of 1997, and K-Lite has morphed from a 60s based…
Bill Houston, 92.1 WLNG “The Sound of Long Island” Sag Harbor NY | Sometime 1992
Date of Recording: 1992 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 92.1 WLNG Sag Harbor, New York, USA Format: Full-Service Oldies Featured Air Personality: Bill Houston Contributor: Ray Bozzanca Comments: Contributor Ray Bozzanca says this is his friend Bill Houston – Ray is heard at the front of this aircheck on the phone with Houston during this 1992…
Sample: KLZR Lawrence KS | December 5, 1999
Date of Recording: 12.05.1999 Station: 105.9 KLZR Lawrence, Kansas, USA Format: CHR Airchexx Entry: 1,455 The New Music Channel, 1059 The Lazer Comments: This one actually ranks pretty low on our list of classic Top 40 stations – given 15 years as a benchmark classic. It would be easy to say a combination of lousy…
Imus Returns: Imus In The Morning, first day on 77 WABC New York | December 3, 2007
Date Of Recording: 12.03.2007 Station: 77 WABC New York, New York, USA Format: News/Talk Featured Air Personality: Don Imus Contributor: Big Apple Airchecks …The All-New Imus in the Morning Program on 77 WABC, Where New York comes to talk! Comments: It was the most anticipated radio event of the year. Don Imus, fired from CBS…
Jim Collins, 66 WNBC “Time Machine” | November 29, 1987
Date of Recording: 11.29.1987 Station: 660 WNBC New York, New York, USA Format: Adult Contemporary and Talk Weekdays, Oldies Overnights & Weekends (Variety format) Featured Air Personality: Jim Collins Contributor: Frank Davis Presented ‘SCOPED …”You Say it, We Play It!” Comments: This is a fresh, re-issue of WNBC’s last, great format, “The Time Machine”. Sources…
