WYBR Rockford aircheck from 1986

[Scholarm1111]

Here is another aircheck of a long-lost 1980s top 40 station in the Rockford, IL market. According to Wikipedia, 104.9 WYBR had a top 40 format from 1983 until 1986. I think this was taped in the overnight shift. I recall that WXXQ and WZOK, the other Rockford-area top 40s came in much better than WYBR in the Madison area where this was taped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKEY-oIXk4

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mostly-Upper-Midwest-Airchecks/115143288522852

 

[greg.hahn]

Ahh, the orange counter tops are coming back to me like it was yesterday. Music was played from a pair of ITC RP series triple deck cart machines on Audiopak A2 carts. (Not the right carts for stereo, but it's what we used.) The console was a McMartin B-802 which we moved over from the Cherryvale Mall and I installed in July, 1982.

I believe you're right that it was the overnight shift. It didn't sound like Dave Anthony, who did Middays. He mentioned Scott Manning, who did PM drive, and Greg Thunder, who did 7pm to midnight.

The aircheck came from a crappy little cassette recorder behind the board.

The station was on the block at that point. A buyer had been found by October 1, and the station flipped to AOR sometime in November.

Thanks for the memories.