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Category: 95.5 WMET
Captain Whammo, 95.5 WMET Chicago | 1978
The audio player directly below will play the telescoped, but long, complete aircheck tape as originally digitized at Big Apple Airchecks. The video is the short edited version. The story of a Christian Radio host which begins here.. as a bad boy Rock n Roll WMET DJ competing with John Records Landecker on WLS in the…
Captain Whammo, WMET Chicago | April 1978
DESCRIPTION WCFL on 1000 AM was a 50,000 watt radio station owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. WCFL aired a Top 40 format from 1962 to 1976, when the station changed formats to Beautiful Music. BM was a format featuring mainly instrumental background music and it was mainly a format heard on FM stations.…
Cat Simon, 95.5 WMET Chicago | February 6, 1985
The Noise is gone… About this aircheck: This was apparently recorded within the first few days of a major format change at WMET. For many years, 95.5 was owned by Metromedia – a company known for it’s Rock stations – such as 102.7 WNEW-FM New York and 94.7 KMET Los Angeles. Metromedia also owned and…
Greg Brown, 95 1/2 WMET Chicago | March 20, 1977
Here’s a long scope of Greg Brown on the old WMET Chicago. Original jingle package, classic mid-70s Chicago commercials and the cool sound of Greg Brown. At this point in the history of 95.5, WMET had been on the air with those call letters for just under 5 months (check out the call letter change…
Format Change in Chicago: WDHF Becomes WMET | December 1, 1976
Description by Contributor Keith Teicher: Here’s the call letter change over from WDHF to WMET, Chicago on 12/1/1976. Note in the first stopset after the change the wrong jingle is played by FJ Bailes (WDHF instead of WMET). Promo voice (as I remember) is PD Gary Price.
Composite: 95 1/2 WMET Chicago | March 1977
Who knows what became of this 1970’s FM competitor in the Windy City? Certainly, there’s plenty of personality on 95.5 FM (including ol’ Captain Whammo aka Jim Channel), but the jingles in use are probably the worst ever heard in contemporary radio. I suppose that would be unique enough to keep an audience, but one…
Mal Vincent, “Dusty 45s”, 95 1/2 WMET Chicago | 1985-1987
Mal Vincent was a “supersub’. He would substitute for various DJs, usually at night. Scattered throughout a period of 4 years, he was on the air from 1983 through 1987. During his time with WMET Chicago, 95.5 FM, he was never given his own time-slot. This tape is a mixture of airchecks from June 1985…
