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More WNBC last day airchecks

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LinoNYC

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/25o4jp seg 3 42mb

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w2fwtk seg 4 38mb

A mostly complete Alan Colmes show and at the end, the cut-over to WFAN.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/frwe4q The Imus Billy-Sol Hargus WFAN intro and the 1050 automated re-direct refers to the calls "WUKQ" which briefly ran on that freq before switching to FM 97.9 as WEVD went to AM 1050. Quite an upheaval that fall.

I had not heard these recording since I made them in Oct '88 and it's interesting to compare people's opinions and predictions for AM in contrast to what has actually come to pass.

At the 33:00 mark on seg 3 file Alan Colmes has a short talk with consultant Mike Harris who was quite bullish on the future of AM radio, it's technological and creative advances which supposedly awaited.

Sadly, much of that optimism has given way to the realities that AM stereo failed to turn the tide and the medium has seen further listener erosion and a slide into right-wing extremism, religion and hucksters.

Lino
 
Thanks so much for these airchecks of an incomplete last day of WNBC from 10/7/88. I was 10 years old when WNBC finally pulled the plug after 66 incredible years on 660. After that, WFAN moved from 1050 and ended up down the dial at 660 and stuck there forever, because it's a better station than 1050. back in 1987, WFAN started at 1050 after WHN pulled the plug on Country music, but it was heard on WYNY on 97.1 as a country station at the time.

On the FM side since the station's move on the AM band, WYNY moved from 97.1 and ended up at 103.5 until 1996 where WKTU started as an all-dance music station. WQHT moved from 103.5 as "Hot 103" down to 97.1 and ended up being "Hot 97" after WNBC's demise where "Hot 97" was a dance station at the time until the mid-90's when it's still a hip-hop station.

WNBC was sold to GE after RCA bought out, and the WNBC call letters still remains as a TV station on channel 4 at 30 Rock. The NBC Radio Network was a staple for WNBC for a long, long time, but it is now part of NBC/Universal after the network was spun off by Universal Studios back in 2004. If you want to learn more about the history of NBC/Universal, read this in Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Universal

There is also an official website for NBC/Universal:

http://www.nbcuni.com/

And by the way, there is also an aircheck of the the last 30 minutes of WNBC which is on the dentist's website (Musicradio WABC) run by Dr. Sniffen, but the 4th and final segment of this clip was chopped off right before the end and this one is completely uncut, if you want to hear the aircheck uncut here it is. You need RealPlayer to play this one.

http://www.musicradio77.com/other/wnbclast10-7-88.ram
 
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