I'm looking for some old air-checks from some Terre Haute stations from the 60's and 70's. WBOW-AM, WTHI-AM, and WAAC-AM. Also, Brazil's WWCM AM-FM, and also WBDJ-97DJ. Can anyone help?
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Terre Haute Air-Checks
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I have one from the late '70s on WVTS, 100.7 FM. The studios were in West Terre Haute then.
Is that when they went to top 40? I think they called themselves "The Hot One" Sure would like to get a copy if possible.
I've got lots of stuff from WPFR & WZZQ from the early 90's if youre intersted in anything that "current". ;D
Sure.. I love to get something from them. (WPFR, WZZQ)
How do you want to do it? Download or hard copy?
Hard copy would be ok. Good luck finding anything from WBOW. I've contacted many dj's that worked there but nobody can find anything. Some of the old WBOW jingles would be a find, but apear to be lost. I can be reached at 812-208-9577. thanks
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My WZZQ Story.I was born and raised in St. Louis listening to the great rock on KSHE-95. Graduated Broadcasting School, and got my first gig at a radio station in Carmi, IL. Now, Carmi is near Evansville Indiana, but in 1986 when I got there there was NO ROCK STATION. There was light rock WYER in Mt. Carmel, but that just didn't cut it, and I couldn't stand 96STO, the CHR. So............Outside of my apartment, I put an FM antenna on a 30 foot pole. Ran that sucker into my house in an attempt to pick up KSHE. No matter which direction I pointed it, I could only get a very staticy signal on KSHE, but with that antenna I was introduced to WZZQ. The first place I heard Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead Or Alive was on WZZQ.For a market the size of Terre Haute, ZZQ was a heck of good rocker.Alas today, even KSHE-95 isn't much of a station.
The station was purchased by a group of evangelical business and professional people back in December, 1976, with the intent to have a station with a mix of clean A/C and contemporary Christian music plus some :60 Christian editorials sprinkled in throughout the day. It was attempted for a very short time but the plan was abandoned when major advertisers started to complain. The group of investors finally sold the station at a loss some time during the '80s.
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That was 1986. I'm not sure who the PD was, but I would not have put up with a rock-leaning AC.By the end of 1987, WGBF was rockin' in Evansville, and I didn't need the big antenna.mobilene said:
Don DuPrees was PD in '86 (spelling may be off). Back in those days 'ZZQ had the most crisp sounding signal on the dial. Always made sure to tune them in when I was down that way.
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Because the six country stations and A/C WIKY were all making money?NoWayNoCC said:
Say what you will about Mike Rice (and most of it, if not all, is well deserved) but the guy knew how to fine tune a stations signal.
Does anyone know what type of processing WZZQ used? I can remember how big the sound was and how the stereo seperation was more pronounced.
They had an Orban Optimod in the engineering room, but beyond that I don't know. Bub the engineer kept it humming, but Mike Rice himself came down with his Missouri engineer and did all the tuning themselves. I started at BOW/Q just after they moved in at 13th 1/2 St.* and Ohio Blvd., and they were still fussing with the settings.* Yes, 13th 1/2 St. We had half-streets in TH, and the locals all said the "th" after the number, not after the 1/2.Peace,jim
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