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Steve West, WGAM/WGHM Nashua/Manchester NH | June 10, 2023

By Steve West June 13, 2023

I just started a new version of "The Time Machine" only two weeks prior to this aircheck on WGAM. The station is jockless the rest of the time and maintains a traditional Oldies format. Songs of the 1960s through the early 1980s.

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…

HitOldies and Stereo 1230 WBLQ Present: The WNBC Time Machine! The Greatest Re-Creation Ever Done – All-New Performances!

By Steve West April 1, 2022

The THIRD running of the WNBC Time Machine recreation was a sonic masterpiece! We took the original program from 66 WNBC New York, as envisioned by it's creator, WNBC Program…

Dan Taylor on the 66 WNBC Time Machine | April 16, 1988

By Steve West August 27, 2021

Taylor was really on top of his game here. There's a one-liner for every song...

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…

EJ (Joe) Crummey Produces and Co-Hosts the Wolfman Jack Show, 66 WNBC New York | February, 1986, Part 2

By Steve West October 18, 2020

Here's PART 2 in our series of AM-Stereo airchecks. WNBC used the Khan-Hazeltine AM Stereo system and while the transmitting plant itself was finely tuned and well-processed by NBC's top-notch engineers, heard on a (then) modern, wideband AM Stereo receiver, this sounds BETTER than modern processed FM stations!

EJ (Joe) Crummey Produces and Co-Hosts the Wolfman Jack Show, 66 WNBC New York | February, 1986, Part 1

By Steve West October 17, 2020

Listen to how Crummey's banter and production skills make this show sound 100% live, local and relevant. This is quite amazing, especially when one realizes that in the mid-1980s, computer automation was still more than a decade away, and producing a show such as this required precision timing, quick thinking and a lot of cart (tape) machines!

Big Jay Sorensen, The Time Machine, 66 WNBC New York | September, 1988

By Steve West September 15, 2020

Here's the first in a large series of Time Machine airchecks from the late 66 (AM) WNBC New York.