Don Bleu, Rick Shaw; 99.7 KYUU San Francisco | August 5, 1988
KYUU was launched with those call letters by then owner NBC, in 1978. The station was Top 40 for most of its existence, but in 1988, NBC began selling off…
John Mack Flanagan; Marvelous Mark, 610 KFRC San Francisco | December 28, 1977
Recorded just a few days before the start of 1978, Airchexx Contributor, friend and personality John Mack Flanagan is heard on his afternoon show, followed by Marvelous Mark. This is…
Rocky Robbing on WJBQ Scarborough (Portland) Maine | January 1979
Here's an FM station that sounded lots like an AM station in the respect that the format could have been heard on AM and nobody would have known the difference.…
Gary Williams, 105.7 WVBF Framingham (Boston) | December, 1988
Toward the end of its long, storied history as one of the Boston area's first successful FM radio stations, WVBF here is a fairly uptempo station, but after two decades…
Joe Leone Demo, CKIS “Oldies 990” Montreal | 1992
Contributor Daniel Coulombe from Canada sent this in a few years ago. Joe Leone was a personality on this short-lived incarnation of what once was the legendary Bilingual Top 40…
Composite: 1090 KING Seattle | 1977
Contributor Mike Donovan sent in a package a few years ago that we're still posting from. Here's a 5 minute scope of what was evidently a station demo. The file…
Donnie Simpson, 93.9 WKYS Washington
The beginnings of format fragmentation. The end of traditional Top 40. Whatever you call it, this is how it sounded when Disco stations popped up all over the country. This…
Bill Houston, 1380 WNAQ Naugatuck CT | Winter, 1986
Who says small market radio was boring? Contributor Ray Bozzanca recently sent this (in two parts) that he received on reel from the subject of this aircheck, Bill Houston. Among…
