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Old radio airchecks - Upstate SC

pmgrnvl said:
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.
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All of this happened in the 80s, actually.

I have one more of the five airchecks to go, but it seems to be more disco. Only one was alternative. I'll never have time for the longer list.

The disco did sound good. The alternative music wasn't too bad.
 
Actually, the Breeze (the jazz) did happen in the 1980s, but the top 40 switch happened in the early 1990s, maybe around 1991 or so. All of these airchecks are from 1993-94 era, however, as noted in the Google drive folder.
 
pmgrnvl said:
Actually, the Breeze (the jazz) did happen in the 1980s, but the top 40 switch happened in the early 1990s, maybe around 1991 or so. All of these airchecks are from 1993-94 era, however, as noted in the Google drive folder.
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Yeah, the Breeze and the signal upgrade. I knew the Top 40 switch happened years later.

The first group of airchecks, on the "risky" site, are all from the same day, New Year's Eve 1995. I don't have time for the others.
 
I am an administrator of a Facebook group that celebrates the memory of WQOK and am very much interested in the 1982 aircheck.
 
Very cool. I worked at QOK at the very end as well.
Sheely, Welchel, John Foster, Stormy, etc. Many great memories.
 
Additions to airchecks library

I have uploaded a bunch more airchecks. Still on WBBO, but some from the pre-Q93 days (the flip happened around mid-late June 1994). You'll notice the pre-Q stuff is much more CHR/Top 40/Pop, while Q took a decidedly alternative turn. You'll hear Logan Kelly, Jammin' Jeff Hayes (now owns the Party Machine) and others on these tapes. There are four airchecks in that Pre-Q folder. And, to make life easier, they are MP3, so they can play right in the browser for most people. There are 12 Q93 airchecks, including what would turn out to be the final morning show (12-30-94) prior to the switch to country music.

Also part of this is the "great radio experiment" where 20-minute segments of a format were played, and then listeners could call in and comment. Some were obvious: rock, pop, soul, oldies; others were bizarre: children's music, polkas and so forth. Per the breaks recorded by station manager Jodi Freytag (not sure I spelled that correctly) this was necessary to get more listeners. Uh, OK. Anyway, the whole thing ended the following Monday morning and I suspect the new format had already long been put together. Some of the comments from listeners are quite funny.

Note that ALL of the airchecks are on Google Drive here (so no worries about odd sites): http://bit.ly/2ecpysb

More to come as time permits...
 
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