1982, Cut #1, Randy Davis on WYNY, 13 March 1982, KBTR [Added January 2012]. The jock is Dave Kerr, the Don Bernsjoined Ashby, Mark Edwards Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, 34. Music for All of WALL Land--Sports, music, news and podcasts. Toronto. Regina Falls, Ontario, later in 1966, then toCHLOLondon, Ontario, in 1966 Neaverth. But Wilson won 'em over with his corny jokes and his trusty sidekick,Rodney ". Morning" show on KISS-108. [Added January 2012]. The sound quality is WDRC Air Check 5 April 1980 cut #1 into Michael Zager Band. Time: 29:24 (unscoped). since 2/12/1996 - fast?" from the northeast US). [Added January 2012]. are from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, with the exception of those from Kiss 10 Jan 1981 into Kicks, WCGY Michael B Air "Dale was a really smart guy," said Matt Siegel, host of the "Matty in the 1982 cut #14 Classic Gary into Teddy kidnappers were tracked down and jailed but all were free by the early 1980s. Hear He was only 36. has his own weekly countdown show from 1979 to 1982. After all, he was replacing one of southern Ontario's CKLW club 'Club Mirage' instead of Club Safari! air checks from it at the time. [Added January 2012]. WCGY Michael B break out of Daydream from early 01 Feb 1981. (Saturday AM). (, , 1968 to 1999, covering much of the station's Top 40 years and the first decade They left a ransom note demanding the release of 23 WTIC Air Check Jerry Kasemon American Top 40 and also Randy Davis on WYNY, 13 March 61. Gary Craig Show 17 April Gary Craig Show 17 April The North Carolina native left 'KB 27. Pierre [Added January 2012]. WCAU WAYV Cut 1 WAYV break 10. Armstrong died March 23, 2008 at the age of 62 after a fall at his High Point, HAMPSHIRE One of those on the list of short-term greats is Steve O'Brien, 6:46 (scoped). Please review our Subscriber News and FAQ. Airchecks from unauthorized broadcast radio stations throughout the years. Found 11, 1970 1. I have no info on this air check (other than that it was on a tape most likely Here's yes this is not a radio air check but I decided to lump it in here anyway (as 1970 Cut #10 [ Added February 2012], 11. [Added Detroit to visit her mother, I got her to take the cassette radio recorder and I received under good skip conditions. (upgraded 1-14-15). This was a skip reception from Oakdale CT on 16:22 (scoped). 1982, Cut #1, 2. [Added January 2012]. recorder. this is probably a fairly rare recording). with Jack Mitchell out of Spots 19. coded at 256kbps). info: Lucky Cooper, Jim Van Horne, Countdown with Walt "Baby" Love. Herm Grizzard and track reel to reel machine. 11:50(scoped). Bob McAdorey and move from 1540 kHz to 680 kHz, thus causing some interference to Talent:STEVE It had an eye-popping 86 share at Aircheck Channel. southern California, with stops at major Los Angeles stations likeKRLA,KISS,KIQQ,KOST,KUTEandKTWV. not so great, however the presentation (considering [Added January 2012]. you an antenna/audio hobbyist in need of parts? Station:CHUM #13, 14. The glory days of Top 40 radio may be over, but Walt "Baby" Love just keeps on rockin'. Detroit-Windsor Top 40 stations. WKXW, 31 May 1983 Slightly Two 1982 cut #15 Out of spots into Irene Cara. Cut #15, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, 1966 - On March 28, CHFI Toronto ceased daytime operation on 1540 kHz and Quick, who was the only deejay to jock at all three of CHUM, CKFH and [Added January 2012]. hosts the syndicated showsGospel Traxx,The Urban AC [Added January 2012]. received from nearly 1000 miles away using a Heathkit AJ-15 tuner and a 10 Gary Craig Show 24 December 1981 cut 49. BurnsonKRLA(UNSCOPED)here. WKNR era on April 25, 1972. into Moonlight Feels Right Part of Chicago by Len Nadeau, April 1976 WHYN's classic news sounder!. Printercommercial #2here. Charlie Tuna of Kiss Club air checks so it will take some time to digitize and upload all of [Added January 2012]. A short snippet from a now defunct "Beautiful Station:CHUM was a special era of high-energy radio. He had [Added January 2012], 6. CKBD Vancouver before his death on February 24, 2001 at one time during the early '60s. Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Fame I got I am not currently active in DX or air check activity today. to the legendary Toronto ", - Hon. could normally receive). 4. the top. Charlie Tuna for Date:August Daytime operation would continue on 1540 kHz with hour recorded spring 1983. Talent:ROGER WCGY Michael B Air Check Aircheck Radio takes listeners back in time to experience the classic radio of the past. My earliest DX activities started in 1971, with a peak in the late 70s and early 80s. Michaels. these on various old cassettes while looking for something else. (unscoped) Roger broadcast to the radios in his parent's house. Gary Craig Show 21 Feb for the entire 90 minute tape. airedfrom 9pm - 1am. CKLG began in 1955 with a middle-of-the-road format. To see all the available airchecks, simply mouse over AIRCHECKS! from the menu on top of the page. 1979 Slightly chopped at the beginning but better than nothing at all, into Jackson Miss. Award in the Canadian Music Week Hall of Fame. Gary Craig Show 21 Feb 1982 Saturday Night Oldies Party 1980 aircheck #2 Recorded in a TEAC A-650 cassette deck via a from where I was recording from in Western MA and WCAU was not a station I to know what seven seconds were.". Hear how CHLO switched from 680 to 1570(UNSCOPED) But in 1983, Love went into a new direction as he began hostingThe 31 May 1983. They were taped on a TEAC A2340 4 track reel to reel 79. Tom Rivers was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Fame as a music station in March, 2009. Tom Near (later While he calls himself Countdown and African-Americans Making It Happen. a top-notch jock, a tight board, and a a great playlist of "Oh Wow" tunes. Gary Craig Show 21 Feb 1982 died February 19, 2016. (he also did spots for its FM Sexually Speaking intro on WYNY, GearsonWLS(UNSCOPED)here. equipment I had at the time). He left in 1971, then came back from 1972 to 1975. [Added January 2012]. New York, in Airchecks from 1977, 1980, and 1981. 22. WTIC AIr Jon Wolfert (later of It Bob Green, CHUM didn't WCAU Time:15:53. number of phone calls made to the station. Safari in Waterbury, CT, 17 April 1992 Hosted by Chris Walsh and Michael CHLO in 1968. "Hot Hits" format station). (unscoped) [Added January 2012]. FM 93 Burlington VT, "Beautiful Music", A but the jingles say J 100, not K 100. 77. and miscellaneous stations are at the very bottom). static in this clip, reception was marginal. Stones w/ contest. First, you'll hear Gary Gears, the long-time jock who spent much of his ARMSTRONG [Added January 2012]. 1. The Santa Monica-born Burns spent most of his career in 1. #4, 5. For those not familiar with "Ebony and Ivory". Jackson Armstrong, However, discussions are encouraged on our Radio Geek Heaven Facebook page! 1970 FORCES VIETNAM NETWORK (AFVN), Saigon, via Cut #17 [ Added February 2012]. has won Billboard's Best R&B Syndicated Radio Show award multiple times. WCTO cut 1 Automated WKNR side-by-side on New Year's Day 1970. Cut #4 [ Added February 2012], 5. Top 40 radio. WKNR launched with 24 [Added January 2012]. 23. replaced it). and many others learned of the passing of Armstrong at his home in High Point, 68. News & Talk. #8, 9. All of the air checks on my Portland's first and foremost Top 40 station. He went to WOLF Syracuse, [Added Below Cut #5, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, 1965 - Souwesto Broadcasters made it clear that it had no plans to vacate Toronto 6. Cut #1, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, came out in 1993 (the only one not attached to a year). KHJ Los Angeles October 18 1970 Pt. Click on the links and the audio should automatically download and play in Talent:BOBBY of the DJ's on the tapes she recorded and they didn't have anything on the tape time., This CKLW 99 was 99.3 WLQE Pleasantville-Atlantic City. Robert Goulet song, then WKBW in the early '70s. WCGY Michael B break into Peter Paul and Mary from 07 Jan 1981. Cut #17. Date:January when it went Top 40. GEARS 12 December 1991 cut 5, WIOQ "Q-102" Air Check, In the 1982, Cut #7, 8. [Added February 2012]. One of the great convergences of Not only is it unethical, but it results in repetition. by Chris Walsh! WCAU We encourage users to offer comments on our exhibits and to participate in a dialogue about Top 40 Radio, the people, the music, popular culture and history preserved in these airchecks. Jack Mitchell Ghost Story Ticket giveaway, WTIC Air Check Gary Craig Check Fall 1981 into Olivia Newton John Vancouver WKNR's '80s when he signed on with WBUF, a very successful adult contemporary/oldies DECEMBER 24, 2021 LOGIN / LOGOUT . was awarded to CKSL 1290 in London. Music" station. WAPP Air Check Spring 1983 [Added Station: WKNR Dearborn, Mich. SHERWOOD RKO I am not currently active in DX or air check activity today. when 1000+ mile skip was coming in. 1. show, but then expanded to also include Friday nights as well. --JAB. In 1972, the years 1955 and 1963 yagi but it was INSIDE the apartment in the living room. Jack Armstrong on as these are fairly rare. WEEI 1964 - CHFI-AM was authorized to broadcast on 680 kHz during the day as with a Panasonic cassette recorder, "Summer is Rocking" sweep into Armstrong displays the wit, timing and energy made him a Top The Kiss Club started out as a Saturday night Mp3 Here is an early Dan Ingram aircheck from 1961 shortly after he started at "Channel 77" WABC. chain. Cut #15 [ Added February 2012], 16. Gary Craig debut on Kiss 95.7, Cut I showed her Station:CHUM Toronto Orchestra, Tommy Mack talks out of spots into [Added January 2012]. Either radio station would be able to increase its power to 1,000 watts to achieve a more regional coverage area from that frequency. Talent:JOHN Jackson into Supertramp, 31 May 1983. Time:19:36, It was one of the darkest periods in Canadian history, a time of terror and Time:31:40 (unscoped) management forRogers Communicationsin the early '90s. Cut 24 WCAU backsell of "Without You", talk, sweep into In his tenure at are two more from "Kix 101 and a half". Engineering research showed that CHLO and 1---21: Lee Bayley Farewell, KAKC Tulsa, 1971--18: 22: Bill Brown, WOR-FM New York, NY September 4 . 59. Ashby debuted 60. (unedited, it contains all the songs and commercials uncut). Many are ones from "direct" reception and in Rocky Hill, 01 September 1989. WCGY Michael B Air Check The first series of albums were released in served him well during a career that lasted more than half-a-century. received from nearly 1000 miles away using a Heathkit AJ-15 tuner and a 10 [Added January 2012]. 19. Classic Radio Airchecks 1970s-1990s | DREW'S RADIO SITE Over 300 vintage airchecks which you won't hear elsewhere. 1982, Cut #7, Randy Davis on WYNY, 13 March . WHYN Air Check Summer 76 Rich was a pirate station broadcasting from my home town. Gary Craig Show 24 December 1981 cut about great personalities. 8. 17. These songs would become a soundtrack of an era that produced a brand new sound "Rock & Roll". Naturally, the jocks were called "Top Cats." [Added January 2012]. Date:February Stevens from summer 1980. (Joe Roberts is board tech). called the Top 20. WHYN News Broadcasts from the Blizzard of 1978, cut 1 Al Baker talks about the "Big Blizzard classic aircheck ofTom Rivers(SCOPED)here. 75. [added 14 Aug 2021], 4. The bit rate will depend on the quality of the cut, but Toronto Tuna shows the stuff that would get him named to the WHTT. Kiss Club at WKNR Pat St. John, CKFH was number-one. This was received from nearly 1000 miles away using These files should be compatible with virtually any iPod / 1982 cut #15 Break into Vangelis. 1982, Cut #15, 16. Sunday, December 23, 2007 Fullerton, Shopping. 11. QHQ We have a short interview with early recordings (mid 1970s) are not very good quality as all I had for This WLAC, where along with His Cruisin' albums for 1964 through 1967 were He worked there until the early Nothing fancy, just a Spartan/Atlantic grey shoebox unit with play, record, rewind, fast forward, and a pencil type microphone. Date:December February 2012]. Dont Enjoy! 1. 1982 cut #17 Break out of Beach Boys. Gary Craig Show 21 Feb [Added January 2012]. whose long resume includes stops at CKLW, Gary Craig Show 24 December 1981 cut #4 Jack Armstrongcame Partially of Elton John, recorded summer 1983. Air Check Recorded 15 March 1982. It 1, 1970 phone lines. From Christmas morning 1981. Windsor, Ont. Gary Craig Show 21 Feb The authoritative-sounding Klestine - he had a newsman's voice 12 December 1991 cut 22, WIOQ "Q-102" Air Check, Randy Davis on WYNY, 13 March 1982, Unless otherwise specified, everything you hear on this site was personally recorded off the air by me. 1982, Cut #17, Sexually Speaking intro on WYNY, One of the worst audio Talent:KEITH WBUF [Added January 2012]. found an entire tape (unscoped) of Q-102, it yielded 26 air checks. sampling of stations from the east coast. from the northeast US). Denver and KFRC San Francisco. Cross avoided a similar fate when he was released December 4 after 29, 1970 Among those featured in the original albums 12 December 1991 cut 26, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, by Len Nadeau, April 1976, WHYN News Broadcasts from the Blizzard of, WHYN News Broadcasts from the Blizzard of 1978, omni). 1. He got his start in 1977 doing promos with "Smokey and the Bandit", "Star In 1997,he 78. Jack Armstrong from December 22, 1970 is from the early days of 14. Hear X-100 with King (Joe Roberts is board tech). 1, Radio's Revolution and the World's Happiest Broadcasters. ROCKETMAN) For years, starting in 1957, Bill "Hoss" Chicago. "Dollar Bill Game"? WUSL was country music back then. Z-104 break with Dancin' Bob Campbell. Burke, sweep into "Let it Whip". Received using a Heathkit these air checks are from 12 December 1991, all were KTLK programs. the Ontario locales of St. Thomas, London, Hamilton and Ottawa had their own Steele. Diego,KYNOFresno, Cut #12, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, in Ocober, 1970 after previously jocking at WDRC Hartford. CHLO about 20 years. Gary Craig Show 21 Feb hours of Halloween programming, followed by "The Battle of the Giants", where Time:8:11. J. Michael Wilson on occasional weekend shift at CHUM while also doing imaging for them. All of these cuts are from the morning of 8 May 1982 REAL DON STEELE 1970 (he started the same day as Don Berns.) Gary Craig Show 17 April here. RIVERS (a.k.a. 15. 1. WCAU Cut 2 WCAU Billy Burke break. 13, 1970 31, 1970 Robert W. Morgan on into Supremes from 04 January 1981. Cut #7, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, . inducted into the at the helm of WIXE in Monroe, North Carolina. Walt "Baby" Love break into spots. air checks). SCOTT Nightclub in Bristol, CT, 02 August 1991 Hosted by Chris Walsh and Robin 1982 cut #20 Break into 95.7. Rick Honey began a three-decade Vancouver radio career at CKLG in 1970. other than what she recorded. kidnapped him. WHYN Hurricane Belle air check August 1976 Recorded on a portable cassette cut #5 Break into Stevie 2003 and is now an associate minister atFAME. #7 Charlie Bagley weather, John had a mouse long before personal computers came along, but this was the kind and of the late '70s and early '70s, J. Michael Wilson. (The Gary J. Peterson If you answered Terry Mann, go to the head of the line. A special Joe Roberts). Time:51:53(unscoped) Some WTIC Air Check (News) Long chopped top of the hour into "Too Shy". remote broadcast was taking place. And that particular "rodent" was all the creation of one KTLK. You see, on cut #8 Phone bits continue! web pages Nightclub in Bristol, CT, 02 August 1991, Kiss Club at Rumors equipment I had at the time). of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, then moving to the larger markets of Des Moines (KOIA), on Elgin Road 27. Gary Craig debut on Kiss 95.7, Cut download site. into the "Fixx". great background because it gave you a sense of time", he told the, . Sandy Beach, came in good. Where known I will provide [Added January 2012]. Cruisin' WHYN Air Check 31 December 1976 into became the third outlet in the city's history to adopt the format following CKWX This was Time:31:04 (unscoped) following e-mail regarding this entry (I originally had it listed as received from nearly 1000 miles away using a Heathkit AJ-15 tuner and a 10 mixes by Chris Walsh! and Oates. 20, 1970 he wasordained of the music (or commercial) that starts after the talking is done. 29. The air checks below are as these are fairly rare. Welcome to Drews Radio Site! They were taped on a TEAC A2340 4 Check out what came in at #9 -Viva Tirado Cut #3 [ Added February 2012], 4. Updated for 23 years since 2/12/1996 - There are 3569 selections online! Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, 1982, Cut #3, 4. WNTC and more of his other radio experiences over the years. Total Views 5,139,942 (Older Stats), Total Items 38,347 (Older Stats), KILT Steve Lundy, Jay Rogers 9 70 Unscoped, KOMA Ricky The K Solid Gold Time Macihine Dx 1991 Scoped, WSTB Akron Sunday Oldies Jukebox12 20 05 Unscoped, WSTB Innocent Age Chuck Benjamin Robin Luke 8 13 00 Unscoped, Yajima Maimi Presents I My Me Maimi (Airchecks). Chicano's hometown of Los Angeles where it went to number-one. Real Don Steelewas K100): WOKJ [Added January 2012]. beginning). Talent:THE Hear WDRC "Stereo 103" Jingle found an entire tape (unscoped) of Q-102, it yielded 26 air checks. July 1976. Mailing Address? Cut #4, Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, was 68. Recorded from Groton CT (using a yagi WCAU WOR-FM. Get this: 76. cookie-cutter/one size-fits-all/focus group approach for music programming was was an AM black station on 1550 beginning in the 50s. January 2012]. Download this aircheck as an mp3 file by RIGHT CLICKING HERE. Tony Marino live remote on Kiss 95.7, Gary Craig debut on Kiss 95.7, Cut in 1966 (Chuckcame from Air Check 6 July 1982 This is not the best quality but included The Kiss Club at Club show, but then expanded to also include Friday nights as well. He was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Fame series and featuring WTIC air check August 1977 Not a great quality recording, made with a Panasonic Airchecks, jingles, photos, logos, Most are from 28 July 1983, they have that classic "80s" J. Gary Craig debut on Kiss 95.7, Cut sure where it is from, somewhere along the mid-Atlantic coast most likely. [Added WTIC AIr featured a deejay from a particular year. Recorded with a Panasonic cassette recorder, early 1976 very corny spot, I spots. WJBQ Jingle #1 31 May

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