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WBAZ RADIO 1550

MHVRadiofan said:
This is a repost of 2 messages I posted on the subject last year.
I dug through some old posts from a previous version of this board that I had saved . It seems 1550 WBAZ started in 1959 with a 500 watt daytime only signal .It must have been a poor signal as I never heard of it in Poughkeepsie . The station went through several owners ending up as WKOT, before going dark in 1974 when the IRS seized their assets. I quote from maineengineer :
“As I recall, WKOT went dark around the time we took WGHQ-FM to top 40, as WBPM, in 1974. The only tape I have of WBAZ is that of a single weather break from my "hat-trick" day on those three Kingston stations, in an era when radio was still fun. “

Sorry for the confusion. The comment about having a tape was part of a quote I copied from maineengineer telling about the station a few years ago. Unfortunately I have no air checks or tapes from 1550, WBAZ or WKOT, in fact I never heard of them until read about them on the Hudson Valley Radio Board.
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I'm going to bump this thread, because it's 10 years old, and I want to let you know that I will explain about it.

As you probably know, WBAZ was a top 40 station in Kingston NY back in the 1960's when it was at 1550 AM. By the early 1970's, it became WKOT where it remained as a top 40 station until the station went dark in 1974.

Guess what! I was at a place called the New Paltz Recycling Center where they all of the old stuff, but when I came across, I found a reel-to-reel tape. And when I got home, I played it, and this is what I found. An aircheck of WKOT in Kingston, NY from around December 1973, and the name of the DJ was Bruce Conklin where he did mornings on WKOT in Kingston. The rest of the aircheck are the music and the jingles that you don't hear it on the radio anymore. The audio quality on this aircheck was nice and clean, not it was recorded off of AM radio.

Now that I got a reel-to-reel tape at a recycling center, I finally found it! The box on the reel-to-reel tape has writing that says "Words 11/11/73", but when I checked it, it has an aircheck of WKOT in Kingston from 1973, and this WKOT aircheck will be part of Hudson Valley radio history, and it is a holy grail of a long defunct radio station at 1550 AM.

If you haven't heard this aircheck before, check out Bruce Conklin as heard on a now defunct WKOT in Kingston, NY from 12/2/73. I hope you will enjoy this piece of Hudson Valley radio history.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-I67IcTkHTyMhHA1aXyKx0Mgh-02e6g5
 
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Big thanks for posting WKOT airchecks...great find! always was wondering wht they sounded like in 1973..did hear them in the Summer of 1974 on a road trip to Kingston.
Any other shows on that reel to reel tape?


Musicradio77Network said:
I'm going to bump this thread, because it's 10 years old, and I want to let you know that I will explain about it.

As you probably know, WBAZ was a top 40 station in Kingston NY back in the 1960's when it was at 1550 AM. By the early 1970's, it became WKOT where it remained as a top 40 station until the station went dark in 1974.

Guess what! I was at a place called the New Paltz Recycling Center where they all of the old stuff, but when I came across, I found a reel-to-reel tape. And when I got home, I played it, and this is what I found. An aircheck of WKOT in Kingston, NY from around December 1973, and the name of the DJ was Bruce Conklin where he did mornings on WKOT in Kingston. The rest of the aircheck are the music and the jingles that you don't hear it on the radio anymore. The audio quality on this aircheck was nice and clean, not it was recorded off of AM radio.

Now that I got a reel-to-reel tape at a recycling center, I finally found it! The box on the reel-to-reel tape has writing that says "Words 11/11/73", but when I checked it, it has an aircheck of WKOT in Kingston from 1973, and this WKOT aircheck will be part of Hudson Valley radio history, and it is a holy grail of a long defunct radio station at 1550 AM.

If you haven't heard this aircheck before, check out Bruce Conklin as heard on a now defunct WKOT in Kingston, NY from 12/2/73. I hope you will enjoy this piece of Hudson Valley radio history.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-I67IcTkHTyMhHA1aXyKx0Mgh-02e6g5
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Not just Topozone

I see WBAZ Radio Tower is listed on Google Maps too.
I don't know what it means that it says Ticonderoga after Tower.

This is why I love forums like this. a radio log would just say there's no such station
(as if there never was).
 
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