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Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

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Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by jadednihilist » Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:59 am

Continuing with the great 89X air checks posted, I have to start with Alan Almond's Pillow Talk on WNIC:


Throwback to 93.1 DRQ:


Planet 96.3:


and it wasn't that long ago that WOMC still sounded great:


V98.7:


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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by Mega Hertz » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:22 pm

https://youtu.be/LELW5JYOp-M

About the last stand for AOR on WLLZ. Wheels top 1000 from 1994 with Sheri Donovan.


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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by Mega Hertz » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:23 pm

https://youtu.be/ZYHalHtNQtY

And who could forget the end of 99.5 The Fox?


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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by windsor » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:43 pm

here's one from the Legendary Big 8 CKLW unscoped with Charlie VanDyke as guest DJ for a million dollar weekend 1976.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC8-trDvpbo&t=2079s


A station that used to boom in at night into the motorcity from the windy city I listened to Michigan native John Landecker on WLS 890 . John at that time had 5 million listeners across a large portion of the US and Canada every evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW_0RIcshz0&t=803s


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Post by windsor » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:27 pm

A blast from the past for alot of Detroit/Windsor Z Rockers and WDZR Z Rock 102.7 . Z Rock Ready performed by a band called Bellicose signed on new Z Rock affiliates as they went on the air. WDZR signed on the network with Z Rock Ready followed by Detroit Rock City and jock Jason Lee Tipton screaming "Z Rock INVADES DETROIT".

Z Rock Ready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ0bnNA7c7M


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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by MrTaterSalad » Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:46 pm

Joe Wade Formicola from W4 Country.

https://youtu.be/h6NdYPYGIKM



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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by jadednihilist » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:09 pm

Mega Hertz wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:22 pm
https://youtu.be/LELW5JYOp-M

About the last stand for AOR on WLLZ. Wheels top 1000 from 1994 with Sheri Donovan.
Thanks for sharing. I'm just young enough to not have appreciated WLLZ in its heyday (they signed off when I was 7). I've always heard great things about the original Wheels, so I'm glad I got to hear at least a sample of what a true competitor to WRIF sounded like.

I am going to gradually try and catch up to the other airchecks shared here a bit later.


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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by CurlyHoward » Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:26 am

who's got Steve Dahl aborting his return to Detroit radio by shutting down the feed to 97.1 mid show?



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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by kc8yqq » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:07 am

windsor wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:43 pm
A station that used to boom in at night into the motorcity from the windy city I listened to Michigan native John Landecker on WLS 890 . John at that time had 5 million listeners across a large portion of the US and Canada every evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW_0RIcshz0&t=803s
Another one from WLS...Larry Lujack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgQbwOphqbw



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Re: Your favorite Detroit airchecks from back in the day

Post by Mega Hertz » Thu Jan 21, 2021 6:26 pm

jadednihilist wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:09 pm
Mega Hertz wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:22 pm
https://youtu.be/LELW5JYOp-M

About the last stand for AOR on WLLZ. Wheels top 1000 from 1994 with Sheri Donovan.
Thanks for sharing. I'm just young enough to not have appreciated WLLZ in its heyday (they signed off when I was 7). I've always heard great things about the original Wheels, so I'm glad I got to hear at least a sample of what a true competitor to WRIF sounded like.

I am going to gradually try and catch up to the other airchecks shared here a bit later.
Yeah, you bet. I can remember for a while they were straddling the line but went completely modern rock in mid 1995. It's been said Wheels was a dead man walking when they got wind of the smooth jazz format making inroads nationally. I can recall them playing "December" by Collective Soul every 6th song and thinking "Oh, it must be because it's December now". No, the playlist was down to about 150 songs and they were gonna pull the plug anyway. I missed them for a long time; I had something like 3 or 4 other options for rock but kept drifting back to them. This is why it's cool to hear Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Offspring and Green Day on 98.7 again, like it's 1995!


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