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Steve Casey/Don Gatlin on 690 WAPE, & Joe McMillian on 1280 WIVY Jacksonville | July 27 1974
Steve Casey/Don Gatlin on 690 WAPE, & Joe McMillian on 1280 WIVY Jacksonville | July 27 1974 Courtesy: Mike McCann This air check features a 1970s air check of WAPE & WIVY. Everyone knows 690 WAPE, but there are many who aren’t that familiar with 1280 WIVY. Through the 1960s & 70s, 690 WAPE…
Composite: 690 WAPE Jacksonville | September 16, 1971
Recording Date: 09.16.1971 Station: 690 WAPE (WPDQ/WOKV) Jacksonville FL Format: Top 40 Branded: “The Big Ape” Featured Air Personalities: Jack McCoy, Larry Dixon, Teddy Bear (Ted Richards) (CKLW), Jay Thomas (WXLO 99X/SiriusXM) Contributor: Big Apple Airchecks (Website) Total Time: 11:31 “That’s Squeaky the Mouse our night time disk jockey“… Curator’s Notes: WAPE…
Allan Sands, 690 WAPE Jacksonville
Courtesy of Robyn Watts, we’re completely unsure of the date on this one, although there are clues contained within this aircheck. Allan Sands(see below for the correction) even has his own jingle. All of which contributes to a stellar recording highlighting the then number one radio station in Jacksonville. Top 40 radio at its very…
Traine on the Radio, 95.1 WAPE-FM Jacksonville (FL) | Undated
Traine on the legendary Big Ape! WAPE-FM, that is! 95.1 picked up the CHR, er, Top 40 format where 690 left off two decades earlier. This particular weekend, it’s “Big Ape’s 80s Backtracks Weekend”! Similar to what some stations were doing with ‘Whatever Weekends” in the middle 2000s to counter-program the emerging “Jack-FM”(tm) stations, WAPE-FM…
