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Welcome Steve in NYC

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peppertree

Thanks for the contributions. I am also a "Boy From NYC" and my name is Steven Green. I hope you are coping with no subways all right. The strike has not spread this far south (in Texas) yet, but you never know.

I like the older stuff from the fifties and WABC from the sixties and ending with WCBS-FM.

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> Thanks for the contributions. I am also a "Boy From NYC"
> and my name is Steven Green. I hope you are coping with no
> subways all right. The strike has not spread this far south
> (in Texas) yet, but you never know.
>
> I like the older stuff from the fifties and WABC from the
> sixties and ending with WCBS-FM.
>
> If things go well for me, I will spend next summer in
> Brooklyn.
>
Hi Steven, thanks for the welcome. I am just getting started , hope to find some WAPP from the early 80's - that would be a real blast from my past.

Steve
 
Steve, I have several WAPP airchecks, the last of which I taped in Aug 86 just before they flipped. I'll post one one of these days for you. (probably a little while though, I have other things to post first).

John
 
> Steve, I have several WAPP airchecks, the last of which I
> taped in Aug 86 just before they flipped. I'll post one one
> of these days for you. (probably a little while though, I
> have other things to post first).
>
> John
>
That's cool. I'm a little fuzzy though, I don't remember WAPP and K-Rock over-lapping (as I recall, wasn't 1985 the year that WNEW was the only rock station in NY - LOL like 2006 will be for WAXQ)

OMG ... I'm flashing back ... I think I was in my car listening, last rock song was Ted Nugent (Dod Eat Dog?) and then suddenly dance music.
 
> >
> That's cool. I'm a little fuzzy though, I don't remember
> WAPP and K-Rock over-lapping (as I recall, wasn't 1985 the
> year that WNEW was the only rock station in NY - LOL like
> 2006 will be for WAXQ)
>
> OMG ... I'm flashing back ... I think I was in my car
> listening, last rock song was Ted Nugent (Dod Eat Dog?) and
> then suddenly dance music.
>
WAPP is also a blast from the past for me. I worked there so briefly that if you blinked I was gone...lol...

Anyway, I have quite a bit of WAPP, so check out my site, www.bigappleairchecks.com and let's see if we can do a trade in January. Welcome aboard the Aircheck Board! Matt<P ID="signature">______________

Co/Moderator: New York,Miami,Airchecks,Classic Radio and Where Are They Now?</P>
 
What about WQIV? Does anyone have WQIV. In a quad recording?


> Steve, I have several WAPP airchecks, the last of which I
> taped in Aug 86 just before they flipped. I'll post one one
> of these days for you. (probably a little while though, I
> have other things to post first).
>
> John
>
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WKTU 92 changed to K-Rock immediately after Live Aid around Memorial Day 1985.

Listen to this end of WKTU airchecks with Big Dan Ingram.

http://airchexx.com/ram/2005/December/1985-wktu-dingram.ram

From

http://www.airchexx.com/



> >
> That's cool. I'm a little fuzzy though, I don't remember
> WAPP and K-Rock over-lapping (as I recall, wasn't 1985 the
> year that WNEW was the only rock station in NY - LOL like
> 2006 will be for WAXQ)
>
> OMG ... I'm flashing back ... I think I was in my car
> listening, last rock song was Ted Nugent (Dod Eat Dog?) and
> then suddenly dance music.
>
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[email protected]</P>
 
Ok , have to use another PC to use Real ... but ... Live Aid was July 13, 1985, I do remember that ... but either way, then, it was late 84/early 85 when there was only one rock station, correct? I'm pretty sure WAPP flip was before 86 is what I am getting at.



> WKTU 92 changed to K-Rock immediately after Live Aid around
> Memorial Day 1985.
>
> Listen to this end of WKTU airchecks with Big Dan Ingram.
>
> http://airchexx.com/ram/2005/December/1985-wktu-dingram.ram
>
> From
>
> http://www.airchexx.com/
>
 
> WAPP is also a blast from the past for me. I worked there so
> briefly that if you blinked I was gone...lol...
>
> Anyway, I have quite a bit of WAPP, so check out my site,
> www.bigappleairchecks.com and let's see if we can do a trade
> in January. Welcome aboard the Aircheck Board! Matt
>
Wow Matt, unbelieveable! 99X ! WPIX ! I might re-live my whole childhood through your sight! Any 97DJ-Hackensack?

thanks for the welcome, and yes, I sense many trades(I hope). I just hope I can find all my old cassettes.

Steve
 
> I'm pretty sure WAPP flip was before 86 is what I am getting at.

No Steve, WAPP flipped to WQHT in August 1986. I remember because I had just moved from NJ to MA, had recorded myself an aircheck of Kelly West on WAPP, actally heard WAPP loud and clear from Cape Cod, and when I returned to NJ at the end of the month for a visit, WAPP was gone.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKTU#WAPP

In 1986, Emmis Communications would buy the station from Doubleday, as Doubleday was in the process getting out of the radio business. That August, after stunting with classic rock for a very brief period, the station relaunched as "HOT 103", with the call letters WQHT.

Check out this site, you're sure to enjoy it.
http://home.att.net/~walter.tomasheski/WQHT.htm
He says that WQHT's first day was Aug 16, 1986.

Glad to have another NY area guy. Matt, Steve, and I relive our youths often with WPIX, 99X, etc. I'll be posting a 99X aircheck soon that I recorded in 1974 the day Steve "Smokin" Weed came to my high school.

John
 
> > I'm pretty sure WAPP flip was before 86 is what I am
> getting at.
>
> No Steve, WAPP flipped to WQHT in August 1986. I remember
> because I had just moved from NJ to MA, had recorded myself
> an aircheck of Kelly West on WAPP, actally heard WAPP loud
> and clear from Cape Cod, and when I returned to NJ at the
> end of the month for a visit, WAPP was gone.
>
> from
>
> In 1986, Emmis Communications would buy the station from
> Doubleday, as Doubleday was in the process getting out of
> the radio business. That August, after stunting with classic
> rock for a very brief period, the station relaunched as "HOT
> 103", with the call letters WQHT.
>
> Check out this site, you're sure to enjoy it.
> http://home.att.net/~walter.tomasheski/WQHT.htm
> He says that WQHT's first day was Aug 16, 1986.
>
> Glad to have another NY area guy. Matt, Steve, and I relive
> our youths often with WPIX, 99X, etc. I'll be posting a 99X
> aircheck soon that I recorded in 1974 the day Steve "Smokin"
> Weed came to my high school.
>
> John
>

Wow! Ok, ... 86 they went to Hot 103, but I guess what I am remembering is:
"As 1984 progressed, the WAPP's ratings were on the upswing. However, the station's owners decided to change the station's format to CHR that fall."
I'm new to this, so is this format change not a "flip" ? (Flip means call letters mus tchange too?)
That Fall 84 night has to have been the Ted Nugent into Janet Jackson (or whatever) that I remember (based on which car I had in 84 vs 86!). But what I really don't remember is them going "back to a rock format in the summer of 1985".

Steve
 
> What about WQIV? Does anyone have WQIV. In a quad
> recording?

'Splain please. Was this a test station? I thought this required some sort of approval from the FCC to present programm,ing in quad. Or something...
 
Don't know the legality. They promoted a quad broadcast. Around 1974.


> > What about WQIV? Does anyone have WQIV. In a quad
> > recording?
>
> 'Splain please. Was this a test station? I thought this
> required some sort of approval from the FCC to present
> programm,ing in quad. Or something...
>
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