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Category: Big Apple Airchecks
Dan Ingram, 77 WABC New York | November 4, 1961
This one goes back nearly to the beginning of what would be one of the most famous Top 40 radio stations in the world. Dan Ingram held down Afternoon Drive on WABC for most of the 22 years of it’s existence as a music station, and here you can listen to how he sounded in…
Dan Ingram, MusicRadio 77 WABC | June, 1970
Whenever we run across any WABC or Dan Ingram airchecks, we have to go through the vast archives here at this repository first, before even bothering to work with it, to ensure that we haven’t run across it before. Well, here’s yet another gem that turned up in the archives of our biggest Contributor, Big…
Don Geronimo, 93.1 WDRQ Detroit | January, 1980
Notice, there’s a LOT of Rock product on the air on this Top 40 station. It seems WDRQ may have taken a few cues from WLS and it’s “Rock-40” format.
When The Big 8 Still Served Detroit – Scott Miller, 800 CKLW Windsor | April, 1980
Billing itself as “The Great Entertainer”, here’s a bit more subdued CKLW in the cold Spring of 1980.
Jeff Davis, 89 WLS Chicago | June 15, 1980
Listen to this aircheck UNSCOPED below: National voiceover artist Jeff Davis was known as one of the prestigious WLS Jocks of the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s. But most everyone of a certain age probably remembers, anyway. His is a name which needs no introduction, being today, the voice of a number of…
Bob Wilson, 1410 KQV Pittsburgh | January 9, 1969
We never know where these airchecks come from, but whoever traded this to Big Apple Airchecks recorded this with a microphone in front of a radio speaker. No, the quality isn’t the best, there’s tape white noise and the whole recording suffers from low fidelity, but considering KQV WAS a major Top 40 station in…
Cox on the Radio, 100.7 WHYI Y100 Miami | April 4, 1975
It’s no wonder this became the Number 1 radio station in Miami. It’s also one of the few stations in America which retains the same call letters and format today!
Ron St. John, “MusicRadio Seven-Thousand” The New WGBS – March 17, 1978, Part 1
The story of this aircheck is far more complex than one would think. HISTORY WGBS began as WFTL on December 3, 1939 at 1370 kHz. Through a long and often complex series of frequency and ownership changes. NARBA in 1941 would take change the frequency to 1400 and later in 1941 the station was sold…
