Charlie Wagner
Chuck Wagner, 96.5 WTIC-FM Hartford | 1981
Date of Recording: 1981 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 96.5 WTIC-FM Hartford, Connecticut, USA Format: CHR Station Slogan: “96 TIC FM“; “Your Music Connection” Featured Air Personality: Chuck Wagner (WWCO/WTIC-FM) Contributor: Paul DiMarco Total Time: 4:19 Airchexx Entry: 1,519 Mike West is gonna be back from vacation… He’s been doing his exercises, speaking with a rubber band attached to his chin Curator’s Notes: Sometimes there are interesting coincidences in this world of radio history. Here’s a couple. Chuck Wagner, heard here, is Charlie Wagner from 1240 WWCO Waterbury. Click “WWCO” in the description above. The voice is exactly the same. 96-TIC-FM, by the time of this aircheck, had stopped using the “Hot Hits ™...
Charlie Wagner, 1240 WWCO Waterbury (CT) | February 20, 1978
One of the nice things about AM radio in the late 70s was that most had morphed into some sort of Top 40 format and were VERY local in areas outside of major cities. Waterbury Connecticut is a medium sized city which is too far away from Hartford to be considered a suburb, yet is included in dual/multi market station legal ID’s – such as WWYZ Waterbury/Hartford/New Haven. WWYZ was the FM sister station to WATR in ’78 and is technically a Waterbury station, but… well, we’re digressing. WWCO is currently part of a multi-station talk format simulcast, originating from WDRC (AM) 1360 Hartford, But back in 1978, it was a local hot Top 40 station, complete with jingles and reverb. This aircheck was recorded by Bob Gilmore, and features Charlie Wagner. This came from...
