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Category: Big Apple Airchecks
A Sample of CHR Formatted 95.5 WPLJ New York, Thanksgiving Day, 1988
What in the world became of this station?!! With a set of jingles that other stations had JAM voice for their own, a format that eventually BEAT Z100? One does wonder. Some have often blamed Michael Scott Shannon and his “MOJO Radio” CHR format that he brought in from California. Some just say that there…
A Composite of 95.5 WPLJ New York | December 31, 1978 – January 3, 1979
Here’s a sample of WPLJ New York during the heyday of its Album Rock format. It’s the start of 1979. Courtesy of Big Apple Airchecks this is a tightly scoped recording spanning a few days. Heard on this aircheck, in order: John Zacherle Jimmy Fink Pat St. John Tony Pigg Carol Miller Bob Maroni Dave…
Cat Simon, 95.5 WMET Chicago | February 6, 1985
The Noise is gone… About this aircheck: This was apparently recorded within the first few days of a major format change at WMET. For many years, 95.5 was owned by Metromedia – a company known for it’s Rock stations – such as 102.7 WNEW-FM New York and 94.7 KMET Los Angeles. Metromedia also owned and…
Dan O’Brien, 1310 WGH Norfolk Part 2 | 1977
Recurring Donations Option 1 : $9.00 USD – monthlyOption 2 : $15.00 USD – monthlyOption 3 : $25.00 USD – monthlyOption 4 : $110.00 USD – yearly In 1977, WGH was the undisputed champion of Top 40 radio in the Hampton Roads market. Of course, there were other stations that tried, but few had the…
Chuck Collier, 99.5 WGAR Cleveland | January 30, 2007
Courtesy of Big Apple Airchecks, Here’s a more recent aircheck of the late Chuck Collier (May 6, 1947—September 22, 2011) than some others available on this site. Chuck is heard very much in his element here on Country 99-5 WGAR during PM drive. While Collier began his career as a Top 40 Deejay, for more…
JoJo Kincaid, WVBF “F-105” Framingham/Boston | January, 1979
Continuing the broadcast of WVBF from January (we suspect the 15th), 1979, here’s midday guy JoJo Kincaid. Never mind that he’s one of your webmaster’s radio heroes from my youth, talk about talent! WVBF is still giving away free money, and hopes listeners will call in to say how horrible AM radio is…. because this…
The Big Ron O’Brien Files, Part 3: 102.7 KIIS-FM, KIIS 1150 AM Los Angeles | October 7, 1986
Courtesy of Big Apple Airchecks, yet another original Ron O’Brien recording from the generocity of his estate. This is a pretty good recording, with just a bit of FM static. Otherwise, the dynamic range is excellent and Big Ron sounds right at home at “The New Kiss FM & AM”. Apparently, KIIS-FM was in the…
The Big Ron O’Brien Files, Part 2: Giant 1130 WCAR Detroit | March 16, 1972
That’s Neil Young, he’s got a Heart of Gold. I would settle for an aorta of silver… The Big Ron O’Brien Files will eventually end up on its own page, due to the sheer number of airchecks available from the estate. Here’s Part Two of the collaboration between Big Apple Airchecks and us featuring the…
