Thursday, August 27, 2009


BROADWAY BILL LEE returned to NEW YORK radio in the late 90's (these days he does PM Drive at Classic Hits WCBS-FM); here he is in a 1999 pic from WKTU. Previously Bill had been at WQHT, KMEL, KFRC, KPKE, WLOL and others in the 80's and 90's. Picture courtesy California Aircheck www.californiaaircheck.com

Friday, August 14, 2009


STICK is the big afternoon drive DJ in Orlando, at legendary Top 40 XL106.7 WXXL. He's SO GOOD that his shift is 4-midnight! Luckily, he gets to track the 7-midnight portion! Phto courtesy California Aircheck www.californiaaircheck.com Video of Stick doing his PM Drive show available on Video #115 from California Aircheck

Thursday, August 13, 2009


KHJ published a slick Top 300 of all-time booklet in August 1966. On the front was a collage of the artists they played. On the rear are drawings of the KHJ Boss Jocks Robert W. Morgan, Frank Terry, Gary Mack, The Real Don Steele, Johnny Mitchell, Sam Riddle, Johnny Williams, Steve Clark & Tommy Vance. This was one of those rare items not distributed through record stores but by mail to those who wrote to KHJ requesting one. Courtesy California Aircheck www.californiaaircheck.com

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Gary Burbank was the big dog in Afternoon Drive for WLW-AM/Cincinnati for 20+ years until he retired in September 2007. Gary also owned a chain of BBQ Restaurants in Cincinnati (Burbank's Real Bar-B-Q) but there's only one left now in Sharonville Ohio. Great food. Check it out when you're in Cincinnati! www.burbanksbbq.com Gary was a giant in Top 40 radio (WAKY-WKLO-CKLW etc) and AC and Talk Radio at WLW. One of radio's legends for sure. Photo is from July 2007 Courtesy California Aircheck www.californiaaircheck.com



In the early 70's, KXOA morphed into KNDE (Radio KaNDiE)after the station was sold. At first the station ran an AOR format but later flipped it to Top 40 to once again compete with KROY. When this survey was out, KNDE jumped to the #1 spot in Top 40 radio in Sacramento (April-May 1976) but dropped back to #2 behind KROY in the fall book that year (Oct-Nov 1976). The nicely printed survey folders were gone by 1977 and the cash wasn't flowing in 1977 like it had been when the station was #1 in 1976. Survey courtesy of California Aircheck www.californiaaircheck.com which also has many audio samples of KNDE from the 70's.

KXOA and KROY were the big dogs of Sacramento radio back in the 60's. This is one of the cheaper looking KXOA music surveys published in 1967. 147KXOA is back though on the Internet, streaming live audio 24/7 at www.147kxoa.com Survey courtesy of Gene Knight, KYXY San Diego


KERN/Bakersfield started a "Super Comics" weekly publication that included their Top 40 survey on the rear back in the Summer of 1975. This is the first issue from August 1975 that had drawings of their DJs on the front cover and inside this 8 page "Super Comics" first issue; Russ Gerber, Johnny Mitchell, Dudley Do-Wrong, Chris Squires and Jay J. Jackson.