Courtesy of Contributor Steve Bleecker, here’s yet another in our short series of Ratings king, Station Owner and fantastic jock Tom Birch!
As of this writing, there’s one more aircheck of Mr. Birch on Y100 and its got all the energy you’ve come to expect! Its amazing that FM took over the Miami market so early in the 1970s, but given how these airchecks sound, one would expect FM to triumph even at that stage of the evolution of FM broadcasting!
I’m not sure that there’s much I can write that either hasn’t been said, or can’t be heard from this great recording! Just listen and enjoy. Meanwhile, I’ll pull out the remaining airchecks from the tape this came from, YOU get ready to hear some fantastic radio!
Longtime Contributor Steve Bleecker returns with a new look into some long forgotten personalities. Included in his latest tape, is this early FM Top 40 screamer Tom Birch. This was high energy you'd find on the AM dial - and little wonder, in 1974, this is the way Top 40…
If someone asked me if I would be doing full length interviews with old jocks, I'd have laughed them right off a cliff. Who, me? Airchexx.com is all about posting airchecks. This DOES feature the latest Tom Birch aircheck, the beginning of it scattered in and about this interview, which…
It's no wonder this became the Number 1 radio station in Miami. It's also one of the few stations in America which retains the same call letters and format today!
Steve West is a 41 year veteran of broadcasting. His air work as a Jock and News Anchor includes six radio markets and over two-dozen radio stations. Steve is the founder of Airchexx.com and Hitoldies.net - All the BIG Hits!
My Thanks to You Steve West…BIGGER than Miami itself ! This is a TREAT for ALL of “Radio” ! Preserved now FOREVER ! Thanks ! Original tape ~ Courtesy Larry White via Tom Birch.
I’m not sure if this is easy and fun to recall, or a hard event…..I had no idea you climbed to the top of the totem pole…congrats!!! love this quick and too short review, Tom….congrats on your incredible career!!! and to think, you were a cv guy who began in the Binghamton, ny radio scene…simply incredible…love the energy….what’s happened to radio these days?
My Thanks to You Steve West…BIGGER than Miami itself ! This is a TREAT for ALL of “Radio” ! Preserved now FOREVER ! Thanks ! Original tape ~ Courtesy Larry White via Tom Birch.
Thanks, Steve West, Steve Bleeker and Larry White! It’s fun to get these blasts from the past!
Great air talent. Great radio station. Well done.
I’m not sure if this is easy and fun to recall, or a hard event…..I had no idea you climbed to the top of the totem pole…congrats!!! love this quick and too short review, Tom….congrats on your incredible career!!! and to think, you were a cv guy who began in the Binghamton, ny radio scene…simply incredible…love the energy….what’s happened to radio these days?
Tom, you never told me you were a famous DJ down in Miami!
Makes me even happier to call you my friend.
I like hob knobbing with celebrities.
Larry
Wow…amazing!