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Gary Burbank, 790 WAKY Louisville | 1971

January 9, 2017 Steve West790 WAKY

Date of Recording: 1971 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 790 WAKY (WGRC/WAKY/WVEZ/WWKY/WXXA/WKRD) Louisville, Kentucky, USA Format: Top 40 Featured Air Personality: Gary Burbank (WAKY/CKLW/WLW) Contributor: Rob Grayson (WHBQ/WMQM/WKTQ/WJDX/WMC/WMC-FM) Airchexx Entry: 1,475 Today we will take a[…]

Mark Elliot, 1080 WKLO Louisville | January, 1972

May 22, 2014July 2, 2016 Steve West1080 WKLO

Our first aircheck of WKLO comes by way of Contributor Robyn Watts. Tom Prestigiacomo once said that WKLO was the main competition from his station in the late 70s, WAKY. From an earlier time now,[…]

Coyote Calhoun on 79 WAKY Louisville | January 5, 1979

January 5, 2013July 17, 2016 Steve West790 WAKY

Courtesy of former WAKY alumn Tom Prestigiacomo, here’s Coyote Calhoun on Wacky! This is a relatively short aircheck, but good nonetheless. 1979 was a great year for AM top 40, albeit the last year many[…]

Tom Prestigiacomo with Bill Bailey, 79 WAKY Louisville #5 | Summer, 1978

June 10, 2011July 24, 2016 Steve West790 WAKY

This begins with an old-fashioned shift-turnover featuring the legendary ‘Duke of Louisville’ himself, Bill Bailey talking about the previous weekend’s “Battle of the Stars” competition between area media. Sounds like there was lots of fun,[…]

Tom Prestigiacomo, 79 WAKY Louisville #4 | Summer, 1978

June 10, 2011July 24, 2016 Steve West790 WAKY

More blazing Summer fun from ‘Wacky 79’! Tom Prestigiacomo was nice enough to donate this series of airchecks of his time at WAKY – actually, as I recall, I had to pry them, as Tom[…]

Tom Prestigiacomo, 79 WAKY Louisville#3 | 1978

June 10, 2011July 24, 2016 Steve West790 WAKY

“We ring our bell every half our so you’ll know when to turn to prevent sunburn”. Obviously a Summer ‘check, here’s my friend Tom P. on WAKY Radio. 790 was obviously THE station to turn[…]

Tom Prestigiacomo, 79 WAKY Louisville | 1979

June 8, 2011July 24, 2016 Steve West790 WAKY

Here’s a cool aircheck made by contributor, Tom Prestigiacomo. First posted in 2005, Tom informs us that after WAKY, he and a couple of WACKY DJ’s were hired at WMC-FM Memphis – by the former[…]

Tom Prestigiacomo, 79 WAKY Louisville #1 | 1978

June 8, 2011July 24, 2016 Steve West790 WAKY

Contributor Tom Prestigiacomo donated over a dozen airchecks of his and others’ programs at WAKY Louisville back in 2005 and we’re just now getting to the process of encoding these for exhibition. Despite this being[…]

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