AIR CHECKS
A nice 'little project' I started working on about 18 months ago was transferring some of my collection of cassettes of radio recordings onto CD. I've not got through my vast collection a a great speed. The aim of this page is to make available some of my material which I think might be of interest to a wider audience.
So if you're a trainee 'radio anorak' or a long standing 'enthusiast' this will be the page for you. From US radio, old UK radio and jingles this promises to be a feast of air check delights.
New additions are marked (NEW) to help you spot them!
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To start of this collection of air-checks, we'll start with my 'local
ILR' station 96.2 The Revolution, and not just any aircheck, because
it is my moment of fame on 'Live at Six'. From the same date, 17/8/00 here's part of Kev McLean drivetime show,
linking into 'Live at Six'. |
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The MediaUK.com forums are a familiar place to both radio professionals
and enthusiasts. |
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Now some material from my old tape recordings. MFM in the early 90's
featured many great DJ's, many of which where given their first chance
on air on MFM. Here are some clips from 1993 of MFM. |
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Rock FM in the early 90's was critically acclaimed as a top CHR formatted station. Here are a couple of clips, also dating from 1993. More from Mike Toolan, firstly a clip from his midmorning show on Rock
FM. Secondly from his 'Toolanised' wind-up phone call feature. This
one being a Christmas special where Mike was on the receiving end. Thirdly
a compilation of 'the Best Of Toolanised' Again in Christmas 1993, Rob Charles interviews Mr Blooby as part of
his "Suss the stars stars" feature. From the same era, a customised version of the Top Of Hour Jingle with
Dr Fox introducing the Pepsi Chart Show: |
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Piccadilly Key 103 featured Steve Penk on breakfast. |
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From a similar era as the above clips, the opening link from the final
'Nescafe Network Chart Show' presented by David 'Kid' Jenson. Here record
from Liverpool's City FM, who opted out of the Network chart opening
jingle in favour of their own Station ID. From 1993 here are a couple of links from around the news. |
Calderdale Sound |
Calderdale Sound ran several RSL's in the 90's. Here is a few of their
adverts voiced by Liam O'Toole. Appologies for the poor cassette quality.
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A few collectors items from the early to mid 1980's from Manchester's
Piccadilly Radio. In the mid 80's Piccadilly Radio donated a stack of
used carts to the Hospital Radio Station in Oldham. These are some of
the surviving original recording that I made dubs of before the carts
along with the rest of the stations carts got put into storage when
we stopped using carts. |
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In the summer of 1994 I was in the South East and made some recordings of various radio stations. First up Capital FM, recordings from August 1994
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Invicta FM clips from August 1994. |
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Essex FM clips from August 1994, featuring jingles and promotions as
well as presenter links. |
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From 1993 - Phil Wood reads the weather |
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A very short clip of a station promo broadcast in 1993. |
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From 1993 - the end of the news, weather forecast and jingle |
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Another clip from the early 90's, this time stateside. This clip, probably
dating from 1993 is of LA's legendary Kiis FM. The recording comes from
a Manchester based unlicenced broadcaster who played this on air. |
Soul Nation |
Next we continue on the theme of 'unlicenced broadcasters' with a selection
of clips from Soul Nation 104.6FM in 1993. |
Super Station |
Not to be confused with the ILR overnight service from a few years
earlier, The Super Station 97.7 ran several broadcasts, mainly at weekends
across Manchester. A clip possibily from 1993 with an unknown presenter. A montage of Super Station jingles that I put together to share with
members of Media UK forums. |
All the audio items on this page are included for review purposes only.
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