Category: Norfolk/Virginia Beach

Dick Lamb FINAL SHOW, 92.9 The Wave WVBW Norfolk | January 11 2019

It was 1955 when Dick Lamb broke into radio broadcasting at a station in Baltimore while he was still in school and working part-time as a grocery store bag boy. Little did Lamb know, at the time, he would spend the next […]

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Bob Campbell, WNVZ Z104 Norfolk VA | December 8, 1983

…My lips are turnin’ blue just thinking about it! You’ll notice the audio quality isn’t as good as it could be, but heck, the tape is what, 17 years old! Sometimes one wonders how tape can last that long! Here’s a bit […]

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Dan O’Brien, 1310 WGH Norfolk Part 2 | 1977

Recurring Donations Option 1 : $9.00 USD – monthlyOption 2 : $15.00 USD – monthlyOption 3 : $25.00 USD – monthlyOption 4 : $110.00 USD – yearly In 1977, WGH was the undisputed champion of Top 40 radio in the Hampton Roads […]

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Sean O’Brien, WNVZ ‘Z104’ Norfolk, VA | September 2, 1996

Z104 has been the market-leading 18-24 station ever since the Mike Joseph “Hot Hits” ™ format that launched the WNVZ CHR format in the 1980s!  This is an original cassette recording donated by ‘Anonymous’ (and he wishes to remain so), which features the […]

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Wild Jay West – 104.5 WNVZ Norfolk/Virginia Beach | December, 1998

d Counting down to the new year, we have that BIG party down at Peabody’s… Important Note: If you have the means, please donate what you can to Airchexx.com. I offer this online museum free of charge to anyone, but the untold […]

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George Crawford, 1310 WGH Norfolk VA | August 19, 1977

…unusual fact from Crawford’s Almanac   Curator’s Notes: Recorded only a few days after the death of Elvis Presley, here’s an aircheck that will evoke strong memories as the Summertime season grinds to a close. The weather in Norfolk is cooler and […]

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Dan O’Brien, 1310 WGH Norfolk | 1977

…Number one. With more listeners each week than any other station, AM or FM! Original Comments: It’s been said that the call letters WGH stood for “World’s Greatest Harbor”. Perhaps, in the early days of broadcasting. And it’s true in the sense […]

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M.J. Kelli, The Top 9 at 9; 97.3 WGH-FM Newport News VA | April, 1988

MJ be a jammin’, YES Listeners to today’s “Todd Schnitt Show” might be somewhat shocked to learn that this M.J. Kelli, is, in fact, the same person! At this point in time, WGH-FM had transitioned from AC WRSR to CHR within the […]

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Ellis B. Feaster, 104.5 WNVZ Norfolk | 1990

Is that a Radio in your pocket or do you just wanna play?… Curator’s Notes: This is the closest aircheck I’ve ever heard that compares to MJ Kelli (Todd Schnitt) when he did nights on crosstown 97.3 WGH-FM 97-Star back in it’s […]

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Russ Cassidy, WCMS “FM 100” Norfolk Va | February 17, 1988

…FM 100 WCMS, Your Station Of The Stars! In what might just turn out to be the only remaining aircheck of the old WCMS (AM 1050, FM 100.5), here’s a recording I made while living in Portsmouth, Va. I was stationed in […]

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