Category: Airchecks

  • KQMV November 8, 2015

    In general, I try to record for between 50 and 75 minutes because that’s enough to get an overview of what a station is going to sound like. For various reasons, I have some that are longer and some that are shorter, but that’s what I aim for. I also find clips of that length…

  • KQMV August 13, 2014

    I honestly can’t remember why I recorded this aircheck. My best guess is that it was the same day as I decided to record 95.7, which had just relaunched as the Jet, but I wasn’t done with what I was doing on my computer yet so recorded this. This is the lunch hour that day,…

  • KQMV September 12, 2013

    Today’s aircheck comes from the station we’ve been listening to for a few weeks now, KQMV Seattle. This was recorded on September 12, 2013. I mentioned last week that the aircheck in that post was recorded using the mic jack of the computer, this one is recorded using my computer’s line in, from the headphone…

  • KQMV November 11, 2012

    By the time I recorded this aircheck, I had been using my Olympus recorder for some time, plugging one end of a chord into the headphone jack of whatever I was using and the other end into the mic jack of my recorder. I figured that doing the same thing with my computer would work,…

  • KQMV August 27, 2012

    This aircheck is one of only 16 in my collection that I recorded on cassette, though I converted it to digital almost right away. The only reason I did that was because I had a bunch of cassettes from previous things that didn’t contain anything I wanted, so recorded over them. It’s not evident here,…

  • KLSY August 16, 1996

    Throughout most of my early remembered life, I always thought KLSY was the better of the two Adult Contemporary stations in Seattle, though I wouldn’t learn that term until I started following the radio industry in 2008. By that time, 92.5 had been Rhythmic AC for over two years. Today, I can’t find a station…

  • WWKA February 23, 2017

    When I got a CC Witness+ for Christmas in 2016, I figured I’d be doing a lot more recording with it than I have so far. I had actually asked for it the year before, but it wasn’t available. This was its first real test, as I asked my parents to take it on their…

  • WNOW April 29, 2014

    In 2009, CBS Radio kicked off the second CHR boom with the flip of talk station KLSX to a new Amp Radio brand. Ironically, that station was also the last of the Amp stations to go away, and after a few months as 97.1 Now, the station flipped to a simulcast of all news KNX.…

  • KGON March 19, 2024

    As I teased last week, we hear a normal aircheck of KGON this week, recorded just a few days ago. In fact, I just got done scoping it, as I really haven’t had time to until now. As we hear, their 50th anniversary celebration is a year-long event. This also begins a chapter in my…

  • KGON celebrates 50 years on the air

    As I said last week, in addition to going for legal IDs to put up on Tophour, I had also been looking to record stations that had been around a long time. In mid-January, we got word that on February 1, KGON would celebrate its 50th anniversary on the air on February 1. So, here’s…