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Month: December 2017
Jimmy Jam, Hot 99.9 WHXT Easton/Allentown PA | July 15, 1991
This is a good sounding Top 40 station from the end of the 1980s CHR era. By ’92, grunge and rock would take over much of the landscape… but this is a rhythmic, 80s-imaged CHR and it is good to hear! Added by Lance Venta: This aircheck is about 6 weeks before the station would…
Jimmy Grey & David Simpson, 92.3 WPRO-FM Providence | April 18, 1981
Date of Recording: 04.18.1981 Station: 92.3 WPRO-FM Providence Format: Top 40 Featured Air Personalities: Jimmy Grey, David Simpson Contributor: Bob Gilmore Total Time: 8:58 (Telescoped) Airchexx Entry: 1,538 Oh, there’s always a better song on PRO-FM!… Curator’s Notes: Here’s another I really hated to have to scope down. If there was ever a “golden era”…
Dan Martin, 960 WELI New Haven | April 26, 1986
Date of Recording: 04.26.1986 Station: 960 WELI New Haven (C-Quam AM Stereo) Format: Adult Contemporary Featured Air Personality: Dan Martin Contributor: Bob Gilmore Total Time: 8:17 (Telescoped) Airchexx Entry: 1,537 Tomorrow’s gonna be a day when you can stretch your dollars… and your legs Curator’s Notes: It broke my heart to have to scope this…
Bill Bailey, 97 WWDJ Hackensack NJ | 1972
Date of Recording: 1972 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 970 WWDJ Hackensack NJ Format: Top 40 Slogan: 97/DJ Featured Air Personality: Bill Bailey (WWDJ/WLS/WGVU/others) Contributor: Sandy Bailey Post Date: 12.17.2017 Total Time: 3:39 Airchexx Entry: 1,535 Bill Bailey playing the songs by request… Curator’s Notes: There were two people named Bill Bailey who worked in radio,…
Program Director Larry Berger Explains New Format, WPLJ New York | July 1983
Those who’ve been in the radio industry for a long time probably remember the day WPLJ flipped from Rock to CHR. Many even remember former WPLJ jock Carol Miller’s comments to a trade publication of the day (which escapes your webmaster at the moment) saying that WPLJ wanted to switch formats while on top –…
Bill Bailey, 98.1 KSLQ St. Louis | May 13, 1977
Date of Recording: 05.13.1977 Station: 98.1 KSLQ St. Louis (KSTL-FM/KRCH-FM/KSLQ/KYKY) Format: Top 40 Slogan: “KSLQ” Featured Air Personality: Bill Bailey (WWDJ/WLS/WDRQ/KSLQ/WLHT) Contributor: Sandy Bailey Total Time: 12:46 (Telescoped) Airchexx Entry: 1,536 If your sock or stocking falls today, someone is thinking of you… Curator’s Notes: Without much to go on, it took a bit of…
Drake Davis, 92.5 KAER Sacramento | August, 1986
Date of Recording: 08.1986 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 92.5 KAER Sacramento (KFBK-FM/KAER/KOBY/KHLX/KBEB) Format: Adult Contemporary Featured Air Personality: Drake Davis Contributor: Drake McDonald Davis Post Date: 12.14.2017 Airchexx Entry: 1,534 KAER 92.5.. There it is (smack!), Got it. Jitterbugs! Curator’s Notes: Contributor Drake Davis is heard here, taking liberties with your typical mid 1980’s softer…
The Benny Goodman Show, 660 WEAF New York | January, 1935
Date of Recording: 01.1935 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 660 WEAF New York (W2XY/WBAY/WEAF/WRCA/WNBC) Format: General – Pre-Rock era Network Block format Featured Air Personality: Benny Goodman Contributor: Archive.org Post Date: 12.11.2017 Total Time: 41:04 Airchexx Entry: 1,533 Curator’s Notes: At left, the giant, 50 KW transmitter in use at WEAF New York…
