One of your founder’s hobbies is scanning the FM band looking for “DX”. This particular day, the band was a dud. And, the entire recording was a mistake.
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Category: Hartford
Ken Gilbert, WDRC-FM 103 (102.9) Hartford | 1982
WDRC-FM, from 1986 to 2014 was a live, personality-based Oldies station. It had been a Top 40 outlet beginning in 1969, with a three-year period as Album Rock from 1977-1980.  The station has been Classic Rock as “The Whale” since 2015. This is a rare ‘check of Ken Gilbert (WAQY, WDRC-AM 1360) on ‘DRC-FM 103…
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John “Cadillac” Saville, 95.7 WKSS Meriden/Hartford | June 3, 2019
“Time to wake up!!” Longtime broadcaster John “Cadillac” Saville sent in this HD quality aircheck of himself. True, this isn’t a ‘classic radio’ recording, but one day it will be. Truth be told, I’ve been asking John for many years for a sample of his work. I’ve been a big fan of his since WWYZ…
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Ken Gilbert, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford | June 17, 1989
Courtesy of Contributor “Mr. 70s“, Paul DiMarco, here’s a pristine quality recording of my friend Ken Gilbert on the old “Big-D 103” oldies station. The recording is so good, in fact, you’ll swear this is being broadcast live as you stream it! Hey Chris, I think there’s a price check at register two… Highlights of…
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Ron Sedaille, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford | July 21, 2007
As posted here on Airchexx, WDRC-FM’s “All Request Saturday Night” had a long run. From its humble beginnings during the station’s Top 40 incarnation in 1984, through the mainly 50’s and 60’s format to the Classic Hits incarnation in the days just before the format change in 2014, Ron Sedaille is well known in Connecticut…
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An Evening with Frank Holler, Part 2: 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford
Part 2 of this scoped hour features more Frank Holler, more PAMS original jingle sings, re-sung for Big D 103, and because of the way this tape was recorded, includes an undated couple of breaks from our Contributor, Ken Gilbert! What apparently happened, is this was originally one of Ken’s skimmer tapes, left in the…
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An Evening with Frank Holler, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford
All new from Contributor Ken Gilbert is this RARE recording of WDRC AM 1360) original OBG jock, and then Program Director Frank Holler, hosting “Jukebox Saturday Night”. Straight from the source, Ken Gilbert was proud to tell us that he began and founded “Jukebox Saturday Night”, while DRC-FM was still a Top 40 station in…
