Here’s an almost perfect scope of The Hit Kicker during a late-Summer weekend. The year is 1996, although on the tape provided it says 1994… but your webmaster was doing Country radio in 1996 and played the same currents at KOUL Corpus Christi, so I know better. One thing I always really liked about WQIK…
I’m Al Voss. Here in Ventura County, about 45 miles north of L.A., we get a taste of small market and large. I’ve collected quite a few stations over the years. I got your address from (a) friend, and thought you might enjoy a few efforts. So starts the letter included with the first of…
Date of Recording: 03.21.1998 Station: 106.7 WMJX Boston, Massachusetts, USA Format: Soft Adult Contemporary Featured Air Personality: Audrey Constant Contributor: Anonymous Airchexx Entry: 1,492 Comments: Not much to say about this just over 5 minute scope. Apparently recorded by someone putting a microphone in front of an FM radio speaker, this aircheck shows off Magic…
More proof that FM radio in the 80s was unique and alive… here’s a look at two Pittsburgh FM stations – no two stations could be more different than these, WAMO 106.7 (Urban) and 100.7 “Double X” WXXP (Alternative). This starts out with an unidentified female DJ and moves on to Derrick Allen on WAMO….
Date of Recording: 08.20.1998 Station: 107.9 WXKS-FM Medford, Massachusetts, USA Format: Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) Station Owner: Jacor/Evergreen/Clear Channel Communications (iHeart Media) Contributor: Anonymous Airchexx Entry: 1,491 Kiss-108 wants to know, what did YOU DO last Summer? Comments: It seems that every decade, the trends in popular music rotate back to rock before rotating around…
Proof that radio rapidly cut staffs and costs after consolidation took hold is evident, not so much in this STATION, as the FORMAT. Alice is, apparently, jockless in this 6 1/2 minute scope of a 90 minute cassette side. KLLC is, in 1998, Modern AC (kind of a softer, Pop Alternative format) and rather quiet,…
Date of Recording: 08.04.1998 Station: 780 CFDR Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Format: Contemporary Country Featured Air Personality: Gary Evong Contributor: Anonymous Airchexx Entry: 839 Original Comments: Our first listen to radio in the Canadian Maritimes brings us to CFDR Halifax. Known as 780 Kixx Country, this is a fully staffed, full service station with all…
Date of Recording: 1997 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 93.3 KQID Alexandria, Louisiana, USA Featured Air Personality: None Contributor: Annonymous Original Post Date: 06.03.2009 Airchexx Entry: 879 Original Comments: Sometimes there’s very little that can be said to describe a particular aircheck. So it is with this brief look at Q93, a CHR station that apparently…
