What New England radio stations come to mind when you think back to the 1960s? Certainly, anyone within the signal contour of New York's WABC remember, but the big stations…
This is very short, recorded by your webmaster himself. Only to illustrate that there are some constructive uses for Ibiquity's IBOC branded "HD Radio". DRC-FM's HD2 is locally produced, with…
Date of Recording: 07.xx.1983 (Exact Date Unknown) Station: 1360 WDRC (AM) Hartford, Connecticut, USA Format: Top 40/Oldies (In-transition) Featured Air Personality: Ken Gilbert (WAQY, WTIC-FM, WDRC, WDRC-FM, WKNE-FM, WDOT, WZRT,…
WDRC-FM has been playing Oldies in one form or another, continuously since 1984. In the beginning, it was VERY tight and all 1950s, 60s and early 1970s music. In the…
These dire, yet hardly believable predictions for the new year 1976 were made by the WDRC News Department. Imagine listening to this and hearing a prediction that then President Ford…
From the Ken Gilbert collection, here's another Z-97 aircheck from Ken's box of tapes. Ken Gilbert has been on New England radio stations for half a century! (don't tell him…
Listen to this and I think you'll agree. Friendly Floyd was remarkably consistent and sounded very much the same from his early days on the air, to his final days at 88.9 WJMJ Hartford.
Ken Gilbert has had a long career in radio, all of it in the New England region. Ken is best known for doing middays at WAQY Springfield in it's top 40 incarnation as "Wacky 102" and at WDRC AM-FM Hartford in its top 40 and Oldies iterations.