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Program Spotlight: “That Thing With Rich Appel”
You’re probably wondering, is this just another weekend Classic Hits show? You’d be right to ask, but the answer is, NO. that thing is unique, in that unlike other Classic Hits shows, Rich Appel presents the music “in context” with how it was heard during the time when those songs were fresh. You’ll hear vintage radio commercials and their associated jingles (I haven’t asked him yet if “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” is allowed in), classic radio jingles, the hits with Rich hitting the posts, and the FUN. The best way for me to explain that thing, is to present this recent demo recording. Now on over 100 FM, AM and internet stations around the world, that thing with Rich Appel is at that point where a major syndication deal seems imminent. The nice thing is, one day in the fu...
New England Radio Composite | April 1980
Curator’s Notes: This composite is a collection of various airchecks of stations in the 6 state New England region. One of the real joys for a radio listener up there is, There are a lot of medium market stations, all within earshot of the major cities of Boston, Hartford, Providence, and, while not technically in New England, Albany NY. If you liked radio in the Northeast, or lived anywhere in the central part of Massachusetts where atmospheric conditions varied so much that one could catch stations from all over New England, this will be a real treat for you! Please consider a generous donation to this website for site support. You won’t find many things available for free on the web these days, so take the time to support your favorite website! Use the Donate button below...
Severe Weather Coverage, WREG-DT/WMC-DT Memphis | May 1-2, 2010
Here’s a unique aircheck which records for historical purposes, a day of violent weather. It’s important as an educational tool for both those interested in the study of meteorology, and weather during what’s sometimes referred to as the “southern” tornado season, which runs roughly from March 15 to May 15, affecting the Southeastern U.S. Memphis, Tennessee is considered the Mid South, while Nashville and other points due south and east are considered Southeastern U.S. May 1, 2010 may well be remembered as a day of natural disasters over a wide area of the Southern United States. Not only was there a tornado outbreak in the lower Mississippi Valley/Tennessee River Valley with incredible flooding from up to 18 inches of rain in ONE DAY, but in the wee hours o...
Bill Houston, WHLI Hempstead/Garden City NY | 1995
Date of Recording: 1995 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 1100 WHLI Hempstead (Garden City) New York, USA Format: Oldies/Nostalgia Featured Air Personality: Bill Houston Contributor: Ray Bozzanca Total Time: 23:56 Airchexx Entry: 675 Curator’s Notes: A live, AM music station in 1995? You better believe it! There were a few scattered about in the years immediately before Telcom ’96 ruined everything, and this one is very unique. Who ever heard of an oldies station that played ALL the hits? By that, I mean everything from Dean Martin and Doris Day to the Buckinghams and more! This station wasn’t shy about playing something that had a rock guitar in it back to back with a Standard vocal from the non-Rock (or Pre-Rock) era! Our contributor, Ray Bozzanca checks in with a descripti...
The Airchexx Live! Gigantic Montage – 1960-1984
Date of Recording: November, 2016 Station: HitOldies (Internet Radio) Format: Classic Hits Featured Air Personality: None Creator: Steve West Airchexx Entry: 1,488 …The time is 8 pm, Ron Reilly is on the air, and Chicago is asleep! Comments: This was intended to be broadcast on hitoldies.com Internet Radio on New Year’s Eve, here’s a production that is quite incomplete. I had originally intended this to go right up to 2016 with more news and other audio clips… but as sometimes happens, life got in the way. In this case, I ended up being sick most of December culminating with me spending New Year’s in the hospital with acute pancreatitis.. which the nurse said was just about the most painful thing one can get aside from being shot. But I’m still here! Thi...
VM Demo Tape | 1961
Date of Recording: Unknown Station: N/A Featured Air Personality: None Contributor: Ray Bozzanca Comments: Contributor Ray Bozzanca sent in something that, while not an ‘aircheck’, probably has some historic significance. The VM website (listed below) states: ““A V-M Product” and “The Voice of Music” are the brand names of quality audio products (record players, tape recorders, tube and solid state amplifiers, consoles) manufactured from 1944 until 1977 by the V-M Corporation of Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA” Well, that gives us some insight. Meanwhile, Bozzanca writes: I found a site on the company that made my first reel to reel tape recorder, a VM voice of music. But in talking about old browsers being able to work, they have something at the bottom of the web pag...
Coverage of the Inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama, WCBS 880 New York, Part 3 | January 20, 2009
Eight years ago, we inaugurated a new era with the swearing in of then President-Elect Barack Obama. It separated the old view of America as represented by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from a new era, which promised “Hope and Change”. History will judge how that hope and change worked, as will the next president who gets inaugurated today. Here’s the final segment of radio coverage from eight years ago today. Radio coverage as heard on WCBS NewsRadio 880, in this segment, the swearing in of President Obama, and the President’s first Speech to the Nation. /
Coverage of the Inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama, WCBS 880 New York, Part 2 | January 20, 2009
How did radio cover the last presidential inauguration? We just happened to be recording the audio for posterity from Connecticut, monitoring the various AM news outlets. Here’s another sample. In Segment 2, ceremonies leading up to the inauguartion of Vice President Joe Biden. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney (in a wheelchair) exit. Much of this segment features commentary from the CBS radio network.
Coverage of the Inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama, WCBS 880 New York, Part 1 | January 20, 2009
While much of the nation watched the inauguration ceremony of the 44th President of the United States on television (and much of that in High-Definition), being that this is a website dedicated to RADIO, we thought it would be good to record for all of history, the radio broadcast of the proceedings of this turning point in American history. This recording actually begins with about 30 minutes of WABC 77 talking about the upcoming inauguration starting at about 10:00 AM, then moves on to news coverage on WCBS 880. It includes normal business, traffic and weather reports, but most of the news centers around the inauguration later in the morning.
Format Change in Chicago: WCFL AM 1000 Becomes WLUP | April 29, 1987
Date of Recording: April 28-29, 1987 Station(s): WCFL AM 1000, WLUP/WLUP-FM 97.9 Chicago, Illinois Featured Air Talent: Steve Dahl, Gary Meier, Jonathan Brandmeir, Patty Hayes, Various others Contributor: Frank Davis Aircheck Entry: 1,423 Comments: “WCFL – Nothing has changed but the religion…” At the stroke of midnight, 4.29.87, The legendary WCFL call letters disappeared forever from AM 1000. So, too, did the unique religious programming. In a final half hour in which the station hosts said goodbye, a farewell show worthy of a great Top 40 station, the staff takes the time to say goodbye to dozens of callers… then goes out with a prayer. The next hour of this hour and a half aircheck is all the new WLUP (AM) in the minutes following the midnight flip, then l...
July 4th Airchexx Special – Jingle Montage Remastered 2007
First posted back in October of 2004 on this site, the original jingle montage ran 31 minutes and was in Real Audio format. I turned this into the July 4th Special for our 7/4/2007 update. Specifically highlighted are jingles from various sources including collector Joe Tedd from Long Island, several JAM Creative Productions packages (which I purchased), and various contributors over the years. Make note of some great, some OBSCURE cuts from WCBS-FM, WABC, WLS, WNBC, WNOK, WAKY and a boatload of individual cuts dropped in from other markets you haven’t heard jingles from in a long, long time! This special is for the jingle lover… and the radio lover. I do say a few words, but mainly stay out of the way of this ‘aircheck’… if you can call it that. Please…...
Steve West hosts “The Big 89 of 1979”, HitOldies.com Internet Radio | January 27, 2016
Date of Recording:January 27, 2016 Station: HitOldies (http://hitoldies.com) Internet Radio Format: Classic Hits from the 1960s – 1990s Featured Jock(s): Steve West (Host), John Records Landecker (aircheck), Fred Winston (aircheck) Aircheck Entry: 1,835 …Another exciting episode of John Landecker and his job! Comments: Its said that imitation is the finest form of flattery. In this case, its a re-creation of what was New Year’s Eve programming on The Big 89 WLS Chicago. I started work on this project back in November, 2015, in hopes of having it finished in time to air on my internet station, HitOldies, on December 31st. But a countdown takes time to both research and put together, just a few elements at a time in between work and family commitments. What one hears in thi...
