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Author: Steve West
Rocketman, 103.1 WTHZ “Z103” Tallahassee | 1990
This is likely a story best told by those who were there. Courtesy of Contributor Robyn Watts, from Cassette (East Coast Airchecks #32 Hot Night Jox 1), here’s a HOT aircheck of a not so typical sounding CHR station. Z103 is certainly playing all the hits, true variety from Rock to late 80s Hip-Hop. This…
Robin Marshall on WPIX 102 New York | Autumn, 1987
WPIX blew through several different formats in the 80s, before finally ditching the WPIX call letters and settling on Smooth Jazz. Towards the end, it was a soft AC station. This is a perfect example of what SOFT AC really was. Very few stations go this soft today. Owned and operated by Tribune Broadcasting, the…
The Terry Knight Show on WEAM 1390 Arlington VA | January 24, 1965
Here’s one that will make you go WOW!… Terry Knight on WEAM! **2021 Update** – This post has been viewed over 12 thousand times since first posting in 2014! That’s pretty amazing considering the station has been gone since 1984. Our viewers have long memories! A few notes. You’ll notice there are no ‘jingles’, but…
QuickCheck: “Ted Richards, 800 CKLW (“The Big 8”) Windsor | May 1974
Seals & Crofts are in concert on May 28, The Beach Boys have a new album out, and Teddy Bear Richards counts down the bottom five songs on the CKLW all-time top 500! CKLW today is has a News/Talk format which is programmed entirely for the Canadian audience in Windsor, Ontario. However, in 1974, the…
Steve Brown, 104.1 WQAL Cleveland | July 4, 1998
“Cleveland’s Q104, The Best Variety of the 80s, 90s and Today!” Really, we wish we could just exhibit this unscoped! The audio quality is stellar, the music is SO good (hey, remember, this is before American Idol made everything sound generic), and it’s totally live! Steve Brown is heard here in the Noon hour, on…
Lisa Taylor, Paul “Cubby” Bryant, WHTZ Z100 New York | January 1999
Thanks to longtime contributor Matt Seinberg @ Big Apple Airchecks comes this original recording of Z100! To us, this sounds unremarkable, albeit unmistakable Z100. This larger-than-life station still sounds good on this somewhat fuzzy recording (although the audio quality is pretty good), but there are so many slow songs it’s hard to think of this…
Greg Brown in “Chicago Radio Spotlight”
Greg Brown contacted us several years ago. Brown, former Chicago wakeup guy and WJMK (the former Oldies station) & WKQX jock to remind us he was written up on Rick Kaempfer’s blog, “Chicago Radio Spotlight” in 2007. It’s my first visit and this looks quite amazing. There are interviews with many of the great Chicago…
Jim Kerr, Morning Drive, WPLJ “Power 95” New York | November 1987
Another step in the evolution of WPLJ 95.5, at the time of this aircheck known as “Power 95”. For a time, ABC corporate actually changed the calls to WWPR, but it’s still ‘PLJ here. Notice the “WPLJ New York” Legal buried in a stopset. Jim Kerr is a capable morning jock, and this, thankfully, is…
