Here are some selected audio things from, I think, 1995 to 1997. Commercials, stagers, promos, mostly at WCAP (980 Lowell).
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Archive for July 24th, 2010
Bill-O’-Spot Reel
WHDH Radio Aircheck
Just dug up this telescoped aircheck from a day just prior to Father’s Day in 1987. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] WHDH is no longer with us – it went away when 590 WEEI owners purchased WHDH, deleted the heritage Boston station and planted WEEI at 850, a much more powerful signal, where Sportsradio 850 WEEI still resides to this day. The WHDH call letters still reside in Boston on Channel 7. The days of “Full-Service Adult Contemporary (A/C)” radio are all but gone, but WHDH and WBZ (1030 Boston) were prolific radio leaders in listenership and billing with the format that met it’s peak in the 70s and 80s. I was certainly blessed to have had even a relatively brief opportunity to take the format out for a spin.
WSSH Boston Radioactive Memories
Lost and found. I just dug through a bunch of audio tapes tonight that I didn’t even know that I had saved. I had assumed the tapes were lost in our 2000 move to Vermont. Mostly airchecks from my radio days at WCAP (980 Lowell), the former WSSH (99.5 Boston), and former WHDH (850 Boston). The one I’ve got running now is a March 14, 1987 aircheck from WSSH. It’s ‘scoped’ from 7PM to 1AM which means that the tape only recorded whenever I keyed the microphone and then went into ‘pause’ mode whenever I turned off the mic. So, you get my voice talking into and out of a music set. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I now notice how often I mentioned that a certain song was “on compact disc.” That’s because the technology was just getting going. In fact, most of the songs you hear were played on “cart” which was a tape cartridge that resembled an 8-Track tape. (Ask an old guy if that still eludes….) Time had a way. I forgot how much I really enjoyed working at WSSH. Like WHDH, it’s no longer a radio station! ”Wish, ninety-NINE point five, WSSH” was based Continue reading →