WCAU-FM was America’s pioneer all oldies radio station. In September of 1970, WCAU-FM converted to oldies from CBS’s soft pop automated format, The Young Sound. The station was totally automated with the voice of Jim Nettleton intro’ing or backselling everything 24/7; in 1972, the station began it’s evolution to a totally live sound, by…
This may not count as a classic aircheck, because it is from 2018, but it does feature a classic Philly jock. Harvey Holiday spent more than a half century on air around the Delaware Valley. in the 1960s, he was on air on the outskirts of Philadelphia, at stations like WRAW,1340 in Reading,…
This short aircheck of Oldies 98 WOGL-FM is from it’s first weeks on the air, back in January 1988, after flipping it’s CHR Format, and dropping its 98 WCAU-FM name. Weeks earlier, in November 1987, WCAU-FM was in a Top 40 battle against WEGX, “Eagle 106.” CBS decided that WCAU-FM could be more profitable as…
