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The End of a Legacy: WCBS NewsRadio 880 Ceases Operation. WHSQ ESPN Begins | August 27 – 28, 2024

By Steve West August 26, 2024

There are some things for which no words can adequately describe. WCBS NewsRadio 880 served the Tri-State area of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey with news and information -…

Dan Ingram, 77 WABC New York | November 4, 1961

By Steve West August 18, 2024

This one goes back nearly to the beginning of what would be one of the most famous Top 40 radio stations in the world. Dan Ingram held down Afternoon Drive…

Dan Ingram, MusicRadio 77 WABC | June, 1970

By Steve West August 14, 2024

Whenever we run across any WABC or Dan Ingram airchecks, we have to go through the vast archives here at this repository first, before even bothering to work with it,…

Joel Sebastian, Late Evening Lead-In to Wolfman Jack, 66 WNBC New York City | May, 1985

By Steve West May 19, 2024

From the late Gary Blau collection provided by Lee Chambers, this 45 minute aircheck in AM Stereo is sure to please everyone who appreciated the state of Top 40 radio…

Canadian Top 40! A Sample of 680 CFTR Toronto in 1978, Part 1

By Steve West May 15, 2024

Imagine my surprise when a box of cassettes showed up at my door sometime after (American) Thanksgiving, 2023 from Nancy Plum (KTNQ, Passport Radio). Nancy had promised these several years…

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Nancy Plum, KTNQ (1020) “Ten Q” Los Angeles | January 27, 1979

By Steve West March 18, 2024

A box of tapes arrived in the mail in January. I was a bit surprised, but then remembered that Nancy Plum had promised to send some airchecks a little over…

Steve Warren, WGLF Tallahassee “Gulf 104” | 1979

By Steve West September 13, 2023

Steve Warren sent in what might be the only aircheck available of the old "Gulf 104" Top 40 format. Going back so far that listeners remember 8 track tapes and…

Bob Shannon, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | August, 1990

By Steve West July 2, 2023

The late Bob Shannon (Don Bombard) is featured here in another never-posted anywhere before aircheck from PM drive, sometime in August, 1990. Phil Pepe has his picks for this week's…