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Airchexx November Update – Founder’s Notes and a Poll (at the bottom)
Poll: What can we do to make it better here at Airchexx?
Dave Charity & WPLJ’s Transition from ROCK to TOP 40, 95.5 WPLJ New York | July 1983
In early 1983, longtime Rock stalwart, 95.5 WPLJ, began a slow transition from Album Oriented Rock station to a Top 40/Contemporary Hit Radio format. When word started spreading around the market that a Top 40 format was coming to 100.3 WVNJ-FM in New Jersey, WPLJ decided to move further in a CHR direction. Though the station…
104.1 WBCN Boston Says Goodbye, Part 4 | August 8, 2009
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For the third time this year, an iconic rock radio station in a major city is shifting formats: Boston’s 104.1 WBCN, “The Rock of Boston”, departed the airwaves on August 13th. The rock station had been broadcasting for 41 years. According to Billboard.biz, WBCN was a victim of CBS Radio’s desire to launch an all-sports…
Charlie Van Dyke, 93 KHJ Los Angeles | January 24, 1972
Date of Recording: 01.24.1972 Station: 930 KHJ Los Angeles (KHJ/KKHJ) Format: Top 40 Featured Air Personality: Charlie Van Dyke (WLS/KHJ/WRKO/others) Contributor: Bob Gilmore …with Charlie Van Dyke, the new kid on the block… Comments It’s possible that this might be CVD’s first show on KHJ. This is typical of what KHJ was evolving into in…
Big Apple Airchecks Salutes the late Jack Armstrong | March 25, 2008
You know you’re a monster talent when creative folks come out of the woodwork from seemingly everywhere to pay tribute. In so many ways, Jack Armstrong, whose real name is John Larsh, was one of the pioneering voices in the history of Top 40 radio. In a career that spanned over 50 years on air…
Airchexx Talent Spotlight: The Career of Tom Birch
If someone asked me if I would be doing full length interviews with old jocks, I’d have laughed them right off a cliff. Who, me? Airchexx.com is all about posting airchecks. This DOES feature the latest Tom Birch aircheck, the beginning of it scattered in and about this interview, which lasts 30 minutes. The rest?…
