Dick Heatherton on WCBS-FM 101.1 New York | 1978
One great thing about WCBS-FM has always been the incredible consistency about their programming. This sounds much as CBS-FM does today – and perhaps it’s because at this time, in 1978, CBS-FM was...
View ArticleQuickChexx: Rick Hunter, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | 1986
New Contributor Rick Hunter’s self-submitted skimmer makes us all yearn for the old 101 WCBS-FM, complete with REAL Oldies music and a roster of the Who’s Who of New York radio broadcasters. Rick...
View ArticleDan Ingram and Bob Shannon, 101.1 WCBS-FM | March 9, 1996
Here’s part two of the Dan Ingram aircheck from 3/9/96. About 16 minutes in, you’ll hear Dan’s trademarked signoff featuring “Tri-Fi Drums”, a cut Ingram began using some 35 years prior at 77 WABC....
View ArticleDan Ingram, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | March 9, 1996
…“It’s COOLD outside, so layer up… or layer down!” Best known for his irreverent one-liners, Dan Ingram was one of the most popular and best loved DJ’s in New York history! Here’s Big Dan on his...
View ArticleAirchexx.com Remembers 101.1 WCBS-FM New York: The story breaks on 1010 WINS
If you didn’t find out by listening to 101.1 FM or by having a friend tell you, you might have heard this story air on sister station All-News 1010 WINS. The anchor is longtime WINS anchor Doug...
View Article"Dandy" Dan Daniel hands PM drive to Dan Taylor | December 31, 2002
Often, if not most times in radio, when a DJ disappears either because he quit or was fired, most people never know why until they read about it in the paper. Or hear it through the grapevine. Once in...
View ArticleBobby Jay, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | June 26, 1996
Here’s a generous portion of Bobby Jay. In hi-fi quicktime stereo! This was recorded back in June of ’96 around the same time as the Max Kinkel aircheck we’re posting this week. Not all jocks are...
View ArticleBill Rock sits in for Cousin Brucie, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | September 18, 2004
……”Here’s Michael Jackson. Perhaps he shoulda stopped…” Not quite 7 months before the format change, Bill Rock was heard filling in for Cousin Bruce Morrow. Rock is topical, funny and in so many ways...
View ArticleSteve O'Brien, 101.1 WCBS-FM | September 2, 2000
Here’s our good site friend Steve O’Brien, your friendly SOB, doing his thing on CBS-FM. Steve is very funny and entertaining here, so kick back and enjoy! Steve O’Brien, 101.1 WCBS-FM | September 2,...
View ArticleAirchexx.com Remembers 101.1 WCBS-FM New York: *SPECIAL* - Steve West...
Here’s a first…. An exclusive interview with former CBS-FM jock Steve O’Brien! Steve’s been in New York Radio for a long time on such stations as WABC, WYNY and of course CBS-FM! He’s been heard on...
View ArticleMax Kinkel, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | March 24, 1994
Courtesy of Steve Green, here’s The Maxman on CBS-FM! Notice how much Kinkel does with sports! This aircheck features a great caller bit at about :35 minutes in. Max Kinkel, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York |...
View ArticleDan Ingram, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | August, 1992
Want a really good laugh? I thought I’d heard almost every one-liner out there but this one aircheck from Big Dan tops anything I’ve heard from him, even better than anything I heard him do at WABC!...
View ArticleDan Ingram, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York, Part 2 | August, 1992
At the risk of overkill on Dan Ingram material, here’s more, apparently from the same weekend as part 1. More funny one-liners to make you laugh, more great jingles and everything that made WCBS-FM...
View ArticleComposite: WCBS-FM 101.1 New York | 2003
Its been said that WCBS-FM began to lose its music focus in the few years leading up to the station’s inevitable demise (was it really inevitable? CBS brass thought so). Even if that’s a true...
View ArticleMarc Somers, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | December 22, 1988
Mark Somers sits in for the vacationing Ron Lundy a couple of days before Christmas, 1988. The “Golden 101″ is in it’s prime, playing the hits from the late 50s right up into the 1980s, although the...
View ArticleDick Bartley, "Saturday Night Classic Countdown"; 101.1 WCBS-FM New York |...
Contributor Scott Lowe gave us this perfect recording of Dick Bartley’s “Classic Countdown” on CBS-FM. One of the really cool features of this is the fact that Bartley did this show for CBS-FM, and...
View ArticleBill Brown, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | December 22, 1988
Bill Brown began his tenure at the Golden 101 in 1969 and stayed with CBS-FM for 36 years! He was displaced in 2005, when the station ditched Oldies for the failed “Jack-FM” Variety Hits format which...
View ArticleSteve O'Brien, 101.1 WCBS-FM New York | October, 1999
Courtesy of Big Apple Airchecks, here’s a high-quality aircheck of our good friend Steve O’Brien, apparently recorded right after the New York Yankees won the World Series of Baseball. The century is...
View ArticleReturn of a Legend: Scott Shannon's First Show; 101.1 WCBS-FM New York, Part...
Starting out much the way WHTZ “Z-100″ did in 1983, legendary programmer, jock and superb morning host Scott Shannon returns to wake New Yorkers after a one week break following his ‘retirement’ from...
View ArticleReturn of a Legend: Scott Shannon's First Show; 101.1 WCBS-FM New York, Part...
Continuing where Part 1 left off, Scott Shannon is given a huge welcome as the new host of the WCBS-FM Morning show! WCBS-FM has come a long way from the days when “Jack” put an end to the Oldies of...
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