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Wild Bill Scott, KFRC AM/FM San Francisco | June 24, 1994
Wild Bill Scott was a radio pioneer who was credited with creating the “Z-Rock” Rock Radio Network. He was best known as a radio personality who worked at mainly hard rock stations across the U.S. including Chicago’s WLUP and WMET, along with the legendary KROQ “K-Rock” in Los Angeles. He’s heard here on the relatively…
Linwood “Cuzzin Linnie” Henderson, on Soul 73 KKDA Dallas | May 7 1993
Radio Station: KKDA Dallas Frequency: 730 kHZ Format: R&B Linwood “Cuzzin Linnie” Henderson spent 50 years on the radio in Dallas. Cuzzin Linnie came to Dallas in 1960, where he was an announcer for KKSN-AM 730, which would later become KKDA-AM. It was hard to cross the color line in broadcasting in the 40s and…
Philadephia Top 40 & Urban Afternoon Drive Dial Sweep | October 1983
Back in October 1983, I recorded Philadelphia’s FM Top 40 & Urban stations. This is from that cassette tape. Stations in this aircheck include: WXTU New 92 (Mike Brophy) 105.3 WDAS-FM (Doug Henderson, son of Jocko Henderson) WWSH The Top FM 106 (Bobby Rich) WUSL Power 99fm (Jeff Wyatt) WCAU-FM Hot Hits 98 (Billy Burke).…
Jay Coffey & Charlie Van Dyke, KRTH K-Earth 101 Los Angeles | May 31, 1999
LISTENING LINKS Click below to hear this telescoped, audio-only Classic Aircheck Click below to view this from our Official Airchexx YouTube Channel (Airchexx Classic Radio) [ Jay Coffey (pronounced Co-FEY) is heard here through most of this recording made by contributor Steven Green from Austin Texas. Steven is a native of Brooklyn NY and loves…
Charlie Berger / Sonny Taylor, 98.7 KISS WRKS-FM New York | October 1983
Radio Station: WRKS-FM New York Frequency: 98.7 MHZ Format: R&B/Urban This air check features two years old WRKS, 98.7 KISS FM With Charlie Burger & Sonny Taylor. At the time, 98.7 Kiss was the new R&B station, taking on format leader, 107.5 WBLS. Since 1980 Charlie Burger worked at Many NY stations including FM 99…
Fenway (J.J. Jeffrey) on 1510 WMEX Boston | September 13 1961
Radio Station: WMEX Boston Frequency: 1510 kHZ Format: Top 40 This aircheck features longtime New England radio personality, Fenway, hosting mornings at WMEX Boston. There were three (at least) “Fenways” on WMEX Boston in the morning at that time: J.J. Jeffrey (heard on this aircheck), who later became known as Melvin X Melvin on WMEX,…
“Skinny” Tom Chauney, WTIX “The Mighty 690” New Orleans | October 16, 1972
The music is true Top 40, and it’s all over the place from obscure (by today’s standards) slow tunes to hard rock. But, this is how Top 40 sounded at what, arguably, was the peak of AM Top 40 radio.
66 WNBC Returns – Internet Station Brings Back the WNBC Time Machine for One Weekend | March 5, 6 & 7, 2021
Once upon a time, at a station long, long ago, the idea of a themed Oldies show was born in the mind of a certain Program Director. Dale Parsons was looking for a way to help WNBC’s overall ratings, which had taken a big hit after the departure of Afternoon Host Howard Stern. Explained by…
