Author: Bob Cavanaugh

  • KKRZ September 17, 2013

    First off, I need to apologize for seemingly being asleep on the job the last couple weeks. I’ve been distracted with some other stuff, so this site has been a low priority. Fortunately, I’m getting back into a normal routine. As we have been over the last few weeks, we’re continuing our listen to KKRZ.…

  • KKRZ September 4, 2013

    This week, it’s more Z100, with the same jock as last week. I was a bit time constrained with last week’s aircheck, but not this one as this is a full hour.

  • KKRZ August 8, 2013

    I feel like there’s at least one station that really sounds good scoped in every market, or at least there used to be. Although Z100 Portland is a bit on the automated side, I feel like it fits that profile. That’s one of the reasons this clip exists, in addition to attempting to bring the…

  • Not that Z100

    When you hear Z100, unless you’re in a market that has one of its own, you’re probably thinking New York. I don’t have any of that station, and really have no desire to obtain any at this time because recordings of it are so widely available. Portland’s KKRZ, also using the Z100 name, is far…

  • KRKT May 13, 2013

    Today, we revisit 2013, when I was recording very short clips, focused on the legal ID. This one comes from 99.9 KRKT, which rimshots Eugene. I’m honestly not sure whether its target market is Salem or Eugene, especially with another country station in the same cluster now. If I get back there at some point,…

  • WZPL November 13, 2014

    Today, we hear an aircheck of 99.5 WZPL from Indianapolis. It had been a while since I had heard this station, and honestly I hadn’t been impressed, but decided to give this one a try again. WZPL has always been one of these stations I’ve felt does things a little differently. I can’t decide whether…

  • WYCD July 17, 2016

    Today, we return to a market we haven’t visited in a while, Detroit. WYCD has been in the country format for decades, yet like a lot of country stations, there isn’t much tape on it. This was still around the time I was trying to get as much tape on heritage stations as possible. It…

  • WJBR September 25, 2015

    Today, we cross the country to hear Wilmington’s WJBR, the heritage AC station in that market. That station is also heard in much of the Philadelphia market, where the remote receiver this aircheck was recorded from is located.I was hoping to get an updated clip of this station when I started this site, but the…

  • KWJJ April 2, 2024

    First off, I’m sorry this is so late. Usually, I scope these clips months, sometimes years, ahead of time, but this was one I hadn’t done yet, and I had a busy day last Friday so didn’t get this scoped. We heard an update of KUPL a couple weeks ago, now we’re going to hear…

  • Sometimes, it’s just doing the little things right

    It’s entirely possible that KEGX, along with most of the other stations in Washington’s Tri-Cities, were one of the first stations I knew about that I hadn’t actually heard. Today, those stations span dozens of markets and likely hundreds of stations, but back in 2006, I focused on stations I had heard or were relatively…