Date of Recording: September 20, 1988 Contributor: Russ Horton Station: 95.5 WCZY Detroit Featured Air Talent: Dick Purtan (WCZY, CKLW) Comments: Courtesy of Contributor Russ Horton (above), Detroit’s “Z-95.5” gets its first listen since the station changed formats a long time ago. Dick Purtan is holding down morning drive and there are all the elements…
Bobby Brown‘s “Prerogative“, in at the chart at number 6 on Capitol. It’s half past two… From Contributor Bob Jones comes this high-quality, fantastic listen to one of the UK’s few independent radio stations. This one is GOOD, The jock in charge reads the traffic reports himself. He also does the contests (which are low-key)…
Next set we’ll play “Stump the Chump”… Become an Airchexx Supporter! Courtesy of Contributor Russ Horton (DMoos.com/fm108.ca/udjs.com). This is a decent quality recording, albeit in monaural. The first three-quarters or so is the Don Daynard and Erin Davis morning show. Paul Cook does news from the AM 680 (CFTR) NewsRoom. Russ Holden reports CanTel Traffic….
Bob Stewart (left) and friends, legends of U.K. Broadcasting Courtesy of Contributor Russ Horton, we have a unique recording of a DJ whose voice sounds quite similar to “The Duke of Louisville”. It’s not him, of course, but Bob Stewart definitely has a great set of pipes! Listening to Capital Gold, one can understand why…
The career of Gary Owens was so long, and filled with so much success that the written work about him fills volumes. Gary Owens is heard here at almost the start of his long broadcasting career, at 910 KEWB Oakland. We have very few airchecks from the 1950s at all, and earlier ones are hard…
Here is a slightly restored (to remove noise and enhance the fidelity) aircheck of Tony Prince, donated to us by Russ Horton. There is a huge connection here, in that, Tony Prince is still very active in radio and in 2018, launched a new internet radio station called “United DJs”, featuring many names from the…
Recording Date: 02.14.1979 Station: 630 CHED Edmonton, Alberta (Wikipedia) (History of Canadian Broadcasting) (Website) Format: (Then) Top 40 (Now) News/Talk/Sports Ownership: Corus Entertainment Featured Air Personality: Chuck “The Chucker” Chandler Contributor: Russ Horton Total Time: 9:34 (Telescoped) …You can make me do anything that you want #1,568 Curator’s Notes: Just a few interesting…
Recording Date: 06.26.1977 Station: 1190 WOWO Ft. Wayne (Wikipedia) (Website) Format: Top 40 (Today:) News Talk Branded: “Eleven-Ninty WoWo” Featured Air Personality: Chris Roberts Contributor: Russ Horton Total Time: 35:19 (Telescoped) If you got time, you might as well slide another one in there This is Aircheck #1,565 Curator’s…
