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KPCC Los Angeles aircheck of LAX shooting

Slightly off topic: why do radio geeks refer to everything as "airchecks" when the term "recording" works just as well? I just don't get what special meaning "aircheck" has that "recording" doesn't.
 
As an aircheck collector---and, okay, a radio geek too, if you must know---I would say that an "aircheck" refers to a cassette or CD on which a portion of a radio station broadcast has been recorded. It could just as well be called a "recording," I suppose, except that "recording" seems to imply something that is done by a professional, as opposed to a tape or CD recorded by a radio geek at home. Webster's New World College Dictionary defines "aircheck" as "a recording, esp. of music, made from a radio broadcast." So it's an aircheck and a recording, kinda like how Certs is both a candy mint and a breath mint. Now I'm glad I remembered those old Certs tv commercials. ;)
 
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