Mike Weber - CMR Studios

Retro Radio - Classic radio air checks from the 70s and 80s

Society EN ↓ 34 episodes

Rewind your calendar by listening to Mike Weber on the radio between 1969 & 1986. It provides a memory reviving snapshot of the times. Most of these airchecks are "scoped", meaning that when the microphone was off, the tape stopped recording. (Copyrighted material appears under the "Fair Use" doctrine.)Career growth for announcers at that time meant that you started at small market stations and progressed to larger ones as your talent developed. So these recordings include music and talk formats from: WMOA, KNEZ, WOXR, KCRG, WLW, WKRC, WLCY, WNSI, WQYK, WFLA-AM, WFLA-FM, and finally WPDS.

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Mike Weber - CMR Studios

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March 16, 1980 WKRC - Cincinnati 12.08.2025 22:13

"American Hot Wax Weekend" continues and it's the day of the big St. Patrick's parade! It was also the debut of the WKRC traffic helicopter. Randy Michaels is in studio with me and has a few comments about the 55KRC Mobile Studio.

March 15, 1980 WKRC - Cincinnati 12.08.2025 36:10

After my contract expired at WLW, I was in discussion with Taft Broadcasting PD Randy Michaels about a position at Y95 in Tampa. ( I had offers from WWWE - Cleveland, and WLCY - Tampa, pending.) He needed a weekend shift filled at 55KRC, so I did that for a while. This was my first shift to get used to running the board (The DJ used to run everything... even at bigger stations.) before moving to d...

August 9, 1983 WQYK - Tampa 12.08.2025 18:57

More country morning radio.

August 8, 1983 WQYK - Tampa 12.08.2025 13:03

My regular shift was afternoon drive. This continues my vacation fill-in morning show week.

August 5, 1983 WQYK - Tampa 12.08.2025 15:39

More country music morning radio.

August 3, 1983 WQYK - Tampa 11.08.2025 11:49

More country music in the morning.

August 1, 1983 WQYK - Tampa 11.08.2025 14:26

Country Musc is not my favorite. (I turned my heaphones down when I wasn't talking.) But after Harte Hanks shut down NEWS1 Radio WNSI, (formerly WLCY) this was the job that allowed us to stay in Tampa Bay. When you listen to this you will see that "personality" radio was independent of what music was played. It worked, the ratings were great.

July 21, 1980 WLCY - Tampa 11.08.2025 50:08

This was in the first month after I started at WLCY as Music Director and afternoon drive host. (Before I was made Program Director) It features classic commercials, the "Skyway Bridge" song, Jon Powers does news, Kevin "The Wild" Card does sports in a unique style, and Karla Haun does traffic. NOTE: She is pretending to be in a plane over the traffic (like our competitors) by...

Mornings on KCRG and WLW 11.08.2025 10:01

This is a composite of air checks at two of the stations at the middle of my career. 1977 - KCRG in Cedar Rapids,Iowa where where I worked under the direction of Frank Magid consulting and made big strides in evolving my on-air timing, and then 50,000 watt WLW in Cincinnati (which followed KCRG in 1978) where I had a 38 state audience. (Note: I used this in my job application in 1980 after leaving...