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Format Change: Mellow Rock KNX-FM Los Angeles flips to CHR as HitRadio 93 | August 25, 1983

By Steve West October 19, 2013

Perhaps the most coveted aircheck on this site from Los Angeles is this format change of 93.1 FM from 'Mellow Rock' KNX-FM to "HitRadio 93" KKHR. Your webmaster's experience with…

97.9 FM Portland, WJBQ, Harry Nelson, Brian Phoenix, Steve Bleecker

Bill Lee, 98 WJBQ Portland, ME | February 24, 1983

By Steve West August 8, 2013

So you think the smaller markets sounded quaint? Even in 1983, some of the hottest jocks in radio could be heard in tiny markets... Portland Maine is no exception. WJBQ…

The Aircheck Factory Presents: The Z-104 Tapes – RELOADED

By Steve West June 19, 2013

Originally provided on CD by Norm Miller, here's a fantastic look at WZYQ Frederick & WZYQ-FM Braddock Heights, a station that ended up in recent years a simulcast of Washington…

Boston FM Composite: 1983

By Steve West June 11, 2013

Here's a quarter hour worth listening to. Starting with the great Joe Martelle, on the old 98.5 WROR, this goes back and forth between WROR and 103.3 WEEI-FM. Just two…

Call Letter Change: WEEI-FM Becomes “HitRadio 103” WHTT Boston | March 9, 1983

By Steve West January 6, 2013

New Contributor Stuart Gitlow comments: The original recording suffered from several issues: my reception of 103 wasn't great, the gain was turned up a bit too much (I was just…

Tom Lacko, 98.3 WESA Duquesne, PA (Pittsburgh) | 1983

By Steve West November 5, 2012

Contributor Tom Lacko sent this in a long time ago and for some reason it never made it to the archives. Here's a 4 1/2 minutes of the old AC…

Composite: Dana Lauren, Brian Kelly & Dan Taylor, 1050 WHN New York | Sometime 1983

By Steve West July 5, 2012

Here's a look at early-80s WHN... there's not much life left in the biggest and most memorable Country station New York ever had at this point, but it sounds SO…

The Greaseman (Doug Tracht), WWDC-FM ‘DC101’ Washington | 1983

By Steve West April 23, 2012

He was irreverent. Bold. Outlandish. Wierd. And certainly not your run-of-the-mill radio personality. Doug Tracht, better known as The Greaseman, had a way about him on the air that no…