1987 – Airchexx.com

The Real Bob James on The Time Machine – 66 WNBC New York | May 28, 1988

By Steve West May 23, 2022

These airchecks keep popping up, seemingly out of nowhere. Given that the Airchexx curator has been doing WNBC Time Machine recreations for the past two years it's little wonder. This…

98.7 Kiss KissFM Kiss-FM WRKS New York Final Day Open Line Rhythm Revue Champaign & Bubbles Toya Beasley Hour of Power Al Sharpton Week In Review

Chuck Leonard, WRKS 98.7 Kiss-FM New York | November, 1987

By Steve West May 9, 2022

Courtesy of Big Apple Airchecks, here's Chuck Leonard (WABC, WQEW)and a reasonably short scope (just a few breaks) of Mr. Leonard and a lot of historically significant advertisements. The imaging…

Nancy Plum, KFI AM 640 Los Angeles | March 23, 1987

By Steve West September 22, 2021

Every aircheck tells a story. What listeners remember years later isn't always what the station sounded like at the time they remember. For me, the most memorable time at KFI…

Dale Parsons on the WNBC Time Machine | December 1987

By Steve West August 13, 2021

By 1987, WNBC had figured out that the audience actually increased when the station started playing a regular diet of Oldies. What had started as an experiment earlier in 1987…

End of 1050 WHN / Launch of WFAN New York – Format Change. Dan Taylor & Suzyn Waldman | July 1, 1987

By Ellis Feaster November 6, 2020

On July 1, 1987, America's first all-sports station was born as Emmis Broadcasting launched 1050 WFAN in the nation's No. 1 market. At the same time, a New York radio legend…

Pat Dawsey, Z-Rock 106.7 WZRC Chicago | February 1987

By Ellis Feaster April 17, 2020

Back in the mid-1980s, many Rock radio stations were ignoring songs on the harder end of the Rock music spectrum. This left the door open for Z Rock to…

Jim Collins, The “Time Machine”; 66 WNBC New York | September 5, 1987 8:50-10:20 AM

By Steve West April 15, 2020

Lots of 1987 commercials, reverb and PAMS jingles, resung for WNBC, to give this station an unmistakeable WABC sound - all WNBC needed was the WABC jocks to make it complete.

End of Electric 106 & Eagle 106 Launch, WTRK & WEGX Philadelphia| March 13 1987

By Ellis Feaster November 13, 2019

In the 1980’s, Philadelphia’s 106.1 FM seemed cursed. No matter what Cox Radio put on the frequency, nothing seemed to work. In 1981, it was WWSH Stereo 106, playing a…

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