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May 16, 2008
A note about comments…
Gang, do yourselves a favor and DO NOT ramble on about subject matter that doesn’t have a thing to do with the aircheck you’re commenting on. Yeah, it was probably spam, but I just deleted a 10 paragraph rant about some guy who got released from jail because of DNA evidence. Look… this ain’t the forum for that. I don’t care, the listeners don’t care…. go find a blog or newspaper somewhere but DON’T TRY TO PASS THAT CRAP OFF AS A LEGIT COMMENT. Now, don’t go away mad, just go away. Thanks.
We have to post the obligatory disclaimer that we’re loosely affiliated with RadioMaxMusic… but other than that, this is a quick aircheck of your webmaster’s son Josh, with some live, in studio guitar work inserted in a great format trademarked by station owner Ron Kovacs and NYC personality Bob Shannon. “Across the Tracks’ is a format which is very broad in nature and is a rock/country/rockabilly based format. Modified since launch to include nearly every major hit from all genres, this station sounds great, with jingles and imaging that would make any station programmer proud. Now, a proud papa gets to share a bit of his son’s talent. I hope you all will at least give this a short listen and tell us what you think.
So, what was the other big CHR in NYC during the mid-80s? WAPP was trying to find its way, and in this aircheck, Alan Beebe (WNBC) is having a ball on an exciting, tight CHR format at “The Apple”. Strangely enough, WAPP is also calling itself “Hot 103″ - a slogan that would REALLY stick after the call letter change to WQHT. Definitely worth a few minutes of your time!
Here’s another Tom Kent aircheck that’ll send us down to sunny, warm Miami and a station that was hot enough to give Y-100 a serious run for it’s money. Had not bad business practices brought down the heavy hand of the FCC (which actually gave a damn in 1981). 96X might still be around playing the hits of South Florida. But alas, it’s another station left only to our imagination of what might have been. Tom Kent is also available here on Airchecks, with his segment of WLS’ Rewind program from 2007, G98 in Cleveland, 89 WLS and samples of his syndicated programs. Just do a google search here on airchexx to find his material. And now, from March 24, 1978, heres TK on 96X!
From the station that brought in major recording acts to be DJ for a day, comes this recording of Meat Loaf and Bobby Rich on 99X. Later in the year, Ace Frehley of Kiss fame would come in with his dog, referring to Mr. Loaf as his friend ‘Pot Roast’. Ya gotta love these 99X airchecks, and we sure wish this station were still around today!
From the ashes of what was WDHF came WMET, and the world’s worst jingles! That’s what sticks out in my mind, not the excellent personalities that played the FM hits in a vain attempt to dethrone WLS. It didn’t work and we never did figure out what happened to MET… whatever, this is a fun aircheck so check it out! From March, 1977
Wow, a new Ron Lundy aircheck! From December 1987 comes this glimpse into the station everybody loves!
Jeff Moulton sent us this one quite a while ago and we’re just now putting up this QuickCheck of Utica’s WRUN… another great sounding AM top 40 long relegated to the dustbin of history. But it was great while it lasted!
It’s only four years old, but this is an AWESOME, absolutely fantastic taste of TK Tom Truckin’ Kent doing his syndicated “Hall of Fame Coast to Coast” on WODS... even the jingles will remind you of the old days, and yes, there’s some local stuff, promos for Dale Dorman’s morning show and great high-energy jingles for Oldies 103.3. Don’t think WCBS-FM is the only great Oldies station in the country… yea, they’ve all moved their playlists into the 70s & 80s, but the personality aspect is still there. There’s still reverb here and if you don’t listen to TK on Oldies 103.3, you really miss out on one hell of a good aircheck!
More to come shortly
We’re looking for ORIGINAL recordings - if you have something of interest you’d like to share with the world, please email the webmaster. Our target years are 1975-1986, although we’ll be happy to post anything you’d like to send!
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