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Old radio airchecks - Upstate SC

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pmgrnvl

I'm not sure what's acceptable here regarding airchecks of old stations. I've been busy transferring old tapes (cassette, VHS) to computer. Gotta get that stuff archived!

What I have so far are:

» WQOK Greenville - final night signoff (Wes Shealy, March 4, 1982). "Goodbye, Greenville."

» WBBO Greenville - assorted airchecks from when the station rebranded as Q93 (alternative rock/some 1980s) back in 1994. Logan Kelly (currently afternoons at Sunny 98.5 in Panama City, Florida), Just Plain Rob, Caroline, Pistol Pete (I believe he is deceased). Surprising how tight this station sounds, even today (considering it had no budget at all).

Any interest?

My thought is that some people might enjoy hearing these files. I can post links to files for streaming/download, or reach out and I can provide private, direct links. The audio is pretty high quality. If this post is not acceptable, my apologies. The moderators can remove it.

Cheers,
Pete
 
All right... Here's the link to the WQOK airchecks. There are two files; you can actually listen from within your browser, or download the files to your computer and play in an app such as iTunes. Sorry they are .m4a files but that setting offered better quality overall. No real impact here, but worked audibly better for a given size for the other airchecks I have done.

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WQOK: http://my.cloudme.com/pmgrnvl/WQOK
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When prompted, the password is: airchecks

You also may be prompted, again, for a name and password. Leave the name blank and type: airchecks in the password field.

Please let me know if you have trouble accessing.

Thanks!
 
WBBO Q93 Aircheck Added

I have posted another aircheck, this one from WBBO (Forest City, but out of Greenville at the time) Q93. It was the station's final morning show (Logan Kelly) prior to the flip to country.

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https://my.cloudme.com/pmgrnvl/WBBO_Q93_123094
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When prompted, the password is: airchecks

You also may be prompted, again, for a name and password. Leave the name blank and type: airchecks in the password field.

Please let me know if you have trouble accessing.

As before, these are .m4a files, which gave the best quality for a given size. iTunes and other apps will play these. Enjoy!
 
I still haven't tried any of these because the first link just gave me a white screen and never seemed to do anything beyond that. I'll have time this week at the library.
 
They can also be found here:

https://archive.org/details/TheBreezeNetworkKLTHSt.LouisMO

I'd recommend using the URL above - it has more to offer (COMPLETE BREEZE Offering) -&- the Other Link can be potentially dangerous as it tried to serve up fake Adobe Flash and Java "Update Programs" that simply cannot be real.

Steve.

vchimpanzee said:
I still haven't tried any of these because the first link just gave me a white screen and never seemed to do anything beyond that. I'll have time this week at the library.
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I've only succeeded in listening to part one of the last night on WQOK. I wish that had been done without the songs because the songs aren't really necessary and it wouldn't take as long to listen. On the other hand, I did get to hear that "Life in the Fast Lane" does not have GD.

I'll have another chance next week. No point in trying at home and other libraries expect me to bring my own headphones.

But it's interesting so far.
 
Andy Travis said:
Appreciate these - particularly Q93. I'm always looking for airchecks from that era of alternative/modern rock.
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I'm not sure whether any of this qualifies as rock. The DJ calls the music "disco and new wave" in the first sample ("the new Q93", not the last days, but I'm interested in all of it).

It's a long way from grunge.

I finished the WQOK sign-off. Interesting. And that was rock, most of the time.

Station ID "More new rock, less old rock." Some rock fans would disagree about whether the "new rock" is actually rock.

Edit: I didn't see the second page, but no problems with the old link.
 
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Okay, I get it. It's a special show. And he plays requests. I particularly like his warning that if they don't get requests, he'll play Neil Diamond. He's a fan. Well, so am I. "Forever in Blue Jeans" is the best song I've heard all afternoon. Though I do like disco.

I need to go home when this sample is over. And there, the site won't work.
 
Okay, they listed Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots as artists they play. This is more of that disco/new wave show. Why am I remembering my Freshman year in college?
 
I had time for just one more of the Q93 series. I'm only going to do the one at the risky URL, and then I'll go on to Love and Hudson.

Now that's alternative rock. And nothing too bad. They mentioned being off the air for an equipment upgrade, but no one seems to realize what that's really for. They seem to think the format is continuing.
 
More airchecks and easier access

The link I originally posted, to CloudMe, is certainly not risky. But I also understand for some people, CloudMe may be problematic. So...

Here's a link to a freely shared Google Drive.

http://bit.ly/2ecpysb

Unfortunately, Google won't play the .m4a files within the browser easily, but they do download quickly and play fine in iTunes or many other apps. Moving forward, I'll try to upload as MP3s for easier use. However, I already had a bunch ripped.

A few notes on Q93: The station had gone through many iterations quickly in the early 1990s. As I recall (and my memory may be fuzzy, so feel free to correct me!) the station got a nice new tower high above Columbus, NC, which gave them tremendous reach. This was under the ownership of Don and Stella Trapp, and they ran it out of the Forest City, where the station is technically licensed. Trapp immediately changed the format to The Breeze, which was syndicated from Minneapolis. Why? He wanted something he could listen to, he told me. It was jazz, basically, but with an edge. One magazine called it "Diarrhea Rock" because a there was a lot of new age and jazzier classic rock mixed in (think Steely Dan). This was a phenomenal sounding format, with one problem. The audience was small and tough to sell.

Trapp had a Greenville sales office downtown, but ultimately had to change the format. So, he went mainstream Top 40 as Power 93. As the story goes, the day they changed the format, the owners of the building -- a religious group that had purchased WBBO AM -- kicked them out. So the station ran out of an old abandoned church (irony, eh) in or near Columbus, NC, until Greenville studios could be put together (in a building off I-385 at Pleasantburg, behind the old Steak & Ale). This was a mainstream Top 40/pop station and in one form or another that lasted a year or two.

That ultimately morphed into 93.3 WBBO which was more pop and then Q93, into which a lot of alternative was mixed.

Ultimately, Q93 was really an alternative station that did a lot of '70s and '80s disco during Friday Morning Fever (some of that in these airchecks) and when that proved successful after a throwback weekend, more '80s were often mixed in, though Q93 really was alternative -- though 103X was on the air toward the end of Q93's run, and giving them competition.

What's here is Q93 -- WBBO as a mainstream alternative station. I do have some airchecks of the old Top 40 stuff, and I'll get those up soon, I hope, along with some airchecks of Love & Hudson from WFBC AM afternoon drive.

In the meantime, enjoy. Hope these files are a bit easier to access!
 
The staff knew, I feel sure... always a bad sign when the new owners come in and take some of the CD player caddies the discs were in for the Denon players... At midnight 1/1/95 the whole thing became WFNQ Q Country, which sounded pretty good at first but quickly flamed out.
 
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