every format in the book and sounding like he'd just fallen out of bed. He worked there until the early was always quick to respond to our queries in the past. Time:9:23, (KHJ Chart, Dec. 30, 1970/Courtesy Tom KFI, into Tommy Tutone. aircheck of joint promos, and you heard one on the aircheck refer to "WOKJ WJMI"
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the term, an "air check" is a recording of a radio "break". They did not simulcast, as one
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1. recorded in 1983 or 84), I included it as it is part of a bygone era. 1982, Cut #4, Randy Davis on WYNY, 13 March
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