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Update -- November 22, 2009.

 

bulletWMTR, WVNJ, WFDU, and WVLT, all from New Jersey, 2006 through 2009.

 

The date of the latest additions to each aircheck page is shown after the listing for that state, country, etc.

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The wants:

If you have any vintage WABC, WNBC, WLS, anything from Cleveland from before 1980 (particularly WWWM, otherwise known as "M-105," which I only recently have been able to find anything of), anything from Rochester, New York before 1980, and anything of WGR, Buffalo before 1980 (especially Stan Roberts), I want to hear from you right now!  I list my aircheck collection on this site for the benefit of those who might have something to trade with me and would like something in return.  

If you're interested in a possible trade, send me e-mail at info@radiowasbetter.com.   If you wish to inquire about the cost to acquire a particular set of airchecks, please do so, and I'd be glad to quote a price for you.  I charge only for my direct expenses:  CD, packaging, postage, etc.,—I do not claim to own the copyright on any of this material.  DecalcoMania, "the club for fans of radio," is the perfect place to meet other collectors, and information about joining is in the first link below.

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Please note that I am now sending out only CD-Rs in trade or for purchase.  I'm still glad to accept material in cassette format (as well as CD, of course), but given the low cost and ubiquity of CDs now and the fact that I've recently acquired several large hard drives for archival storage of material, I'm slowly converting my collection to mp3 format (while cleaning up many of them in the process), and it is just easier, faster, and cheaper to make CD copies than to make cassettes.

In addition to cassettes, other older media formats I can work with are LPs and reel-to-reel tape.  If you have either and would like what's on them transferred to CD, mp3, etc., I'd be glad to work with you.  I've heard from people with reels of airchecks they've had since the 1960s but now have no way of playing them.  I've borrowed these, done the transfer, and returned both the reels and new, CD versions, to the owners.  I've done the same with LPs.  Please contact me if you're in such a situation.

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While you're at it, be sure to check these other sites of interest to aircheck collectors and other fans of radio.  Please note that links on the internet come and go, so I don't guarantee that all of the ones below will work.  They did when I last checked them on 6/22/08, although several hadn't been updated in a while.  If you find one that doesn't, and are so inclined, please let me know.  If you have something you think I should add, let me know that, too.  Thanks!
bulletDecalcoMania, the Club for Fans of Radio. Be sure to ask for a sample copy of the club's newsletter!
bulletYou can also request a sample copy at this address: DecalcoMania@aol.com
bulletRegardless of how you request, PLEASE tell them that you heard about DecalcoMania from this web site, because they like to keep track of how people find out about it. Thanks!
bulletDave Freeman has two sites, his Dave's Airchecks site ("The Place to Find Rare Radio Airchecks") and his MusicRadio Airchecks site
bullet Greg Pattenaude's Aircheck List
bulletGary Pfeifer's Radio Airchecks
bulletMan From Mars Productions, a commercial aircheck source
bulletPer Olav Breivik's Radio Page, from Bergen, Norway
bulletBob Gilmore's Radio and Airchecks Home Page
bulletAaron Mintz's Radio and TV Archive
bulletArt Vuolo's Video Air-Chex site.  This is an interesting site in that has video of radio, including videos of radio disk jockey reunions.
bulletMatt's BigAppleAirchecks
bulletFrederic's American Radio Links, with lots of links to online radio stations and aircheck traders.
bulletArts-Directory.org/Radio - Radio Web Directory
bulletKent's Top 40 Radio Shows Trading Page
bulletAnother great aircheck site is at RadioTimeline.com
bulletCheck out yesterdial.net
bulletSteve's Airchecks of the 70s
bulletDerrick's Aircheck Collection
bulletChip Kelley's Airchecks

 

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bulletThe Classic cklogo.gif (2372 bytes) page.
bulletThe very official-looking history of WLS Radio
bulletJeff Roteman's & Radioville
bulletHere's a nice page dedicated to the last day of music at WLS.
bulletBob Mitchell's Tribute Page to WOLF, Syracuse.
bulletHere's a site dedicated to Memphis's WHBQ.
bulletHere's a site dedicated to WHK, "Color Channel 14," Cleveland.
bulletAnother Cleveland station, WIXY, "Wixy twelve-sixty, superradio!," has a tribute page.
bulletTribute to KTKT, Tucson.
bulletTribute to Detroit station WKNR.
bulletHere's an excellent tribute site for

 

bulletBob ("Vernon with a V") Vernon, former WGAR and WNBC DJ, has his own website.  Check it out.
bulletWhile you're at it, check out the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service Archive
bullet wabc_cl.gif (6760 bytes) If you were at all a fan of Top 40 radio and/or a fan of WABC, you simply have to check out this site.   There's nothing else like it on the internet dedicated to WABC and its influence on radio in general and on top 40 radio in particular.  Careful, though.  There's enough here to keep you occupied for hours.  And one other thing...make sure you have RealAudio installed on your system. 
bulletThe Radio Program Archive maintained by the University of Memphis.
bulletThe Reel Top 40 Radio Repository
bulletWhere Are those Great DJs Now?
bulletThe Broadcast Archive by Barry Mishkind, the Eclectic Engineer.
bulletPAMS Productions, Inc., a commercial jingle company
bulletJAM Creative Productions, another commercial jingle company
bulletHear radio stations broadcasting on the web at the Web-Radio
bulletStudy jingles at
bulletThe singers have a jingle website as well.

 

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Listed below are the states, in alphabetical order, for which I have at least one aircheck.  The date following the state name is the last time that page was updated with new airchecks.  Within each state or category listing, the most recently added airchecks are shown in a contrasting color.

 

United States
bullet Alabama (2009/08/23)
bullet Alaska (2009/08/30)
bullet Arizona (2009/08/30)
bullet Arkansas (2009/08/23)
bulletCalifornia (Los Angeles area only)
bullet KHJ (2009/11/15)
bullet KRTH-FM (2009/08/30)
bulletAll other Los Angeles and vicinity (2009/11/15)
bulletCalifornia (other than Los Angeles)
bullet San Francisco - all except KYA-AM (2009/10/25)
bulletSan Francisco - KYA-AM only (2009/10/25)
bullet San Diego (for neighboring Mexico, see the Mexico page) (2009/09/06)
bulletAll other California (2009/11/15)
bullet Colorado (2009/11/01)
bullet Connecticut (2009/11/15)
bullet Delaware (1998/06/30)
bullet District of Columbia only.  Stations licensed to cities in adjacent Maryland or Virginia are shown under that state. (2009/11/01)
bullet Florida (2009/11/15)
bullet Georgia (2009/11/01)
bullet Hawaii (2008/12/07)
bullet Idaho (2009/11/01)
bulletIllinois
bullet WCFL (2009/11/15)
bullet WLS, through 1976 (2009/11/15)
bulletWLS, 1977 to the present (2009/11/15)
bulletAll other Illinois (includes other Chicago stations) (2009/11/15)
bullet Indiana (2009/11/08)
bullet Iowa (2001/07/27)
bullet Kansas (2006/06/01)
bullet Kentucky (1997/11/12)
bullet Louisiana (2009/11/10)
bullet Maine (2009/02/26)
bullet Maryland (2009/11/10)
bullet Massachusetts (2009/11/15)
bullet Michigan (for CKLW, see Canada below) (2009/11/10)
bullet Minnesota (2009/11/10)
bullet Mississippi (2009/03/09)
bullet Missouri (2009/11/15)
bullet Montana (2009/11/15)
bullet Nebraska (2009/11/15)
bullet Nevada (2008/12/21)
bulletNew Hampshire (2009/02/26)
bullet New Jersey (2009/11/22)
bullet New Mexico (2000/07/21)
bulletNew York State
bullet Buffalo only (2009/11/15)
bullet Rochester only (2009/08/30)
bullet All cities excluding Buffalo, Rochester, and New York City (2009/05/179)
bulletNew York City
bullet WABC-AM, 1956 through 1975 (2009/11/08)
bullet WABC-AM, 1976 to the end of the music era, May 10, 1982  (2009/07/26)
bullet WABC-AM, post-music era (May 11, 1982 to the present).  Includes Mark Simone Saturday Night Oldies shows and the Memorial Day Rewound specials. (2009/10/11)
bullet WCBS-FM, through 1995 (2009/08/02)
bullet WCBS-FM, 1996 to the present (2009/07/05)
bulletWNBC, through 1979 (2008/12/25)
bullet WNBC, 1980 through 1988 (2009/11/08)
bullet All other New York City stations (2009/11/15)
bullet North Carolina (2008/12/21)
bullet North Dakota (1998/06/30)
bullet Ohio
bulletCleveland WIXY only (2008/10/05)
bulletCleveland WKYC only (2009/04/26)
bulletAll other Cleveland (2009/11/15)
bulletAll other Ohio (2009/10/11)
bullet Oklahoma (2002/08/15)
bullet Oregon (2001/01/21)
bullet Pennsylvania (2009/03/09)
bullet Puerto Rico (2008/11/16)
bullet Rhode Island (2009/03/09)
bullet South Carolina (1998/08/31)
bullet South Dakota (2001/07/27)
bullet Tennessee (2009/01/19)
bullet Texas (2009/11/15)
bullet Utah (2002/10/15)
bullet Vermont (2009/03/09)
bullet Virginia (2009/11/01)
bullet Washington (2008/12/21)
bullet West Virginia (1998/06/30)
bullet Wisconsin (2009/03/09)
bullet Wyoming (1998/06/30)

 
 

The Rest of the World 

bullet Africa (2008/11/30)
bullet Asia (includes The Phillipines) (1999/12/01)
bullet Australia/New Zealand (2000/07/21)
bullet The Bahamas (1999/08/09)
bulletBermuda (2008/12/25)
bulletCanada (includes CKLW)
bullet CKLW (2009/11/15)
bullet Toronto (2009/05/03)
bulletAll other Canadian stations (2009/05/17)
bullet Europe/Middle East (2007/03/01)
bullet Mexico (includes border stations) (2009/09/06)
bullet Pacific Islands (2002/12/01)
bullet South America (1999/12/01)

Other Radio-Related Material.

These are not simple airchecks, but rather are collections of airchecks, special shows, countdown shows, and so forth.  Click on the appropriate link.

bullet Aircheck Compilations.  Collections of short airchecks from a variety of stations. (1999/05/07)
bullet Countdown Shows.  Mostly American Top 40, but there is also Rick Dees, Dan Ingram, Casey's Top 40, other Casey Kasem shows, and a few other odds and ends. (2009/11/01)
bullet Pre-1950.  Several recordings of unique radio programs from the 1930s and 1940s including a significant amount of World War II radio coverage. (2009/11/10)
bullet Uncategorized Stuff.  One-of-a-kind material that doesn't fit under any other category, including audio recordings of some old television network newscasts.  Lots of interesting stuff here. (2008/12/21)
bulletSyndicated Programming.  Dick Clark shows.  Dick Bartley shows.  Others.  Not countdowns.  (2008/11/30)




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