For awhile back in the early '70s, I had a shoestring business cutting custom airchecks of NYC radio stations while I was attending college. It only lasted a year or two -- I needed to graduate, and it was freakin' electrical engineering, not basket weaving -- but I recorded and sold a few dozen orders for various stations. (Though many were for WABC, and a lot of those were of Dan Ingram.) This was decades before the internet was anything more than a lab project, so if you were out-of-market you couldn't just stream a station on your PC or smart speaker and tape the stream. The only other ways of acquiring these kinds of tapes were by leaning on a friend who lived in the tri-state area, or by flying in to record your own.
So now, half a century later, I'm curious if anyone on RD remembers ever ordering from Airchex, and if you still have any of those quarter-inch tape reels. Anyone?
So now, half a century later, I'm curious if anyone on RD remembers ever ordering from Airchex, and if you still have any of those quarter-inch tape reels. Anyone?