Sag Harbor
Brian Bannon, 92.1 WLNG Sag Harbor – Part 1 | August 24, 2018
Steve West and if I’m gonna be airchecked… Lemme dig this one out of the library. Mark Denning – Top forty, News Weather and Sports on your Airchexx! Curator’s Notes: WLNG prides itself in being the first Oldies station in the nation, and it appears that it may end up being the LAST oldies station of its kind as well, if trends continue. Listen for all the great 1960s era Top 40 formatics, PAMS jingles, reverb – essentially everything left the way Paul Sidney started it. The music is certainly a nostalgic attraction on a station that really, out on the end of Long Island with the loyal local businesses and community all listening in, could NOT change formats and survive. You’ll notice the enormous number of spots that run in between every song, and every...
Brian “The Cannon” Bannon, 92.1 WLNG Sag Harbor | July 7, 2017
Date of Recording: 07.07.2017 Station: 92.1 WLNG Sag Harbor, New York, USA Format: Oldies Featured Air Personality: Brian Bannon Contributor: Scott Fybush Airchexx Entry: 1,496 Comments: It’s quite rare when we at Airchexx feature a current aircheck, but this time we made an exception. The occasion for this recording is a visit to the station by broadcaster and radio historian Scott Fybush, and a small entourage of enthusiasts who write about radio. As Fybush recently wrote on social media, “There’s only ONE WLNG”. Indeed, while there are a few remaining radio stations still playing music from the 1950s and early 1960s, there is none other which has maintained the same format, the same on-air presentation and music since it’s sign on in 1965. WLNG is a throwba...
Bill Houston, 92.1 WLNG “The Sound of Long Island” Sag Harbor NY | Sometime 1992
Date of Recording: 1992 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 92.1 WLNG Sag Harbor, New York, USA Format: Full-Service Oldies Featured Air Personality: Bill Houston Contributor: Ray Bozzanca Comments: Contributor Ray Bozzanca says this is his friend Bill Houston – Ray is heard at the front of this aircheck on the phone with Houston during this 1992 broadcast. Ray writes: …at the beginning of this aircheck I pretended to be a caller named Bob, like you the first time you D-Jayed I was nervous as hell! I was more interested in technical workings behind the scene of radio than on-air,but later in 1998 Bill got me as the so called side kick for the internet but I did get over my on air shyness so to speak. He’s right on about the shyness.. your webmaster’s first day on the air,...
