Tag: 1979

March 23, 2020640 KFI, Bob Jones, Eric Chase, Los Angeles

Eric Chase, 64 KFI Los Angeles | June 13, 1979

The recording is remarkably clean and sounds very much like it did coming out of your typical AM radio speaker in 1979.
September 17, 2019Other

Bobby Day, CFRW Winnipeg | March 1979

(this is) a funny, REALLY FUNNY look back at an awfully good time when an aspiring jock was encouraged to be himself,
August 31, 2019770 WABC, Big Apple Airchecks, Chuck Leonard, New York

Chuck Leonard, MusicRadio 77 WABC | Summer, 1979

A lively Chuck Leonard plays the Disco hits of '79 on MusicRadio 77.
March 22, 2019105.1 WPJB, Big Apple Airchecks, Mike Waite, Providence

Mike Waite, 105.1 WPJB “JB 105” Providence | March 22, 1979

Here’s a very short clip, too short even for the Top of the Hour ID. WPJB for a time towards the end of its reign as Providence’s Top 40 GIANT, […]
February 25, 2019107.3 WRQX, Big Apple Airchecks, Stony Richards, Washington DC

Stony Richards, 107.3 WRQX Washington | February 24, 1979

Become an Airchexx Supporter. Click the link below to donate to Airchexx The apparent continuation of the Marleen Foxx aircheck of “FM 107 WRQX Washington’s Best Rock”, this is the […]
February 22, 201995.5 WPLJ, Big Apple Airchecks, David Fontino, New York

15 Years of Album Rock. 95.5 WPLJ New York | April 22, 1979

This nearly hour-long special aired Saturday and Sunday evenings for the first few months of 1979. The whole special was 48 hours, describing and featuring the great acts of Rock […]
January 29, 2019105.7 WVBF, Big Apple Airchecks, Boston, JoJo Kincaid

JoJo Kincaid, WVBF “F-105” Framingham/Boston | January, 1979

Continuing the broadcast of WVBF from January (we suspect the 15th), 1979, here’s midday guy JoJo Kincaid. Never mind that he’s one of your webmaster’s radio heroes from my youth, […]
November 6, 201893.9 WKYS, Big Apple Airchecks, Donnie Simpson, Washington DC

Donnie Simpson, 93.9 WKYS “Disco 93” Washington DC | 1979

This blows by in less than four minutes but is a good representation of what evolved into the Washington DC market’s biggest Urban station. Seemingly every major market had one […]