Contributor Jay Sawyer sent this in without comment. From sometime in the 1980s, the old “Z93” CHR station is sampled from the weekend airing of American Top 40 with Kasey Kasem. The voice, we assume,[…]
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Jay Sawyer, 104.7 WALR Atlanta | 1990
New Contributor Jay Sawyer checks in with something different from the Atlanta market. We looked up WALR and found a confusing description online about the station being mainly an Urban outlet, and with different call[…]
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Steve Davis, 99.7 WARM Atlanta | 1986
Description by Karl Phillips… Power 99.7 – when it was new, it was not WAPW, it was WARM “The New” Power 99.7. Here’s Steve Davis in Atlanta in 1986. Note: This station later became Alternative[…]
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QuickCheck: Mark Stewart on WZGC Z-93 Atlanta | 1986
Courtesy of Karl Phillips, it’s not long and it’s not the best audio quality but here’s a bit of Mark Stewart on Atlanta’s longtime CHR leader, Z-93!
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Format Change: “New Rock” 99X Atlanta is Born | October 26, 1992
Courtesy of Karl Phillips, who sent in a ton of airchecks on reel, here’s one on cassette captured when former Atlanta CHR WAPW “Power 99” flipped to New Rock as 99X. On the tape you’ll[…]
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Composite: 79 WQXI Atlanta | September, 1966
There’s a reason why industry experts in the 1960s and early 70s chose WQXI as the southern leader in the Top 40 format, and much of it is on exhibit here. If you can get[…]
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Tony “The Tiger” Taylor, 79 WQXI Atlanta | April 1, 1965
…You’ve got a tiger in your tank! Now, just added to the world’s LARGEST collection of WQXI airchecks, this fabulous 30 minutes scoped recording of Tony ‘the tiger’ on Quicksie in Dixie and those wonderful[…]
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J.J. Jackson, 97.1 WFOX Gainsville (Atlanta) | April 7, 1987
Courtesy of California Aircheck via Robyn Watts, here’s J.J. Jackson’s morning show on Fox 97. The station slogan at this time is “Fox 97, playing the Classic Hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s” Newsworthy[…]
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O’Brien In The Morning, WSB-FM B-98.5 Atlanta | April 7, 1987
We often think about the late 1980s as not that long ago. After all, most of us remember the 80s… MTV when it played music videos, hits from Madonna, Steve Winwood and more. But, it[…]
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Composite: WZGC Z93 Atlanta
Contributor Karl Phillips checks in with yet another Atlanta offering. Going WAY back to 1973, its just about the beginnings of WZGC (92.9 FM), the station known as Top 40 Z-93. This is a composite,[…]
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Composite: 970 WIIN Atlanta | 1970-72
Courtesy of longtime Contributor Karl Phillips, we now have a decent composite of a station that was top 40 for a time, Album Rock for a time and easy listening for a time, before becoming[…]
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MicroChexx: Rhett Walker & Dickie Shannon, 79 WQXI Atlanta | 1976
Wow this is short but what an incredible glimpse to the giant of a radio station WQXI was even in the mid-1970s! Here’s a couple of breaks from my old friend (from Memphis) Rhett Walker,[…]
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