WHOT - The Brooklyn Station

As we celebrate America's 250th birthday, this week we take you back to another big Independence Day celebration, Liberty Weekend of 1986! It was the re-dedication of the Statue of Liberty and The Brooklyn Station was ON THE AIR (naturally) celebrating along with the rest of the country, and blanketing the East coast with music and mayhem! Of course, we have the ever-present sounds of the Brooklyn...

This week's classic WHOT broadcast took place during the Blizzard of 1983, a storm that dumped 22" of snow in New York City (with over two feet in some areas) and cut a path from Virginia to Maine. Of course, The Brooklyn Station was on the air during the afternoon and evening with a marathon broadcast of historic proportions! A Snow Show is destined to be a night of fun, but a BLIZZARD Snow Show...

It's a classic Halloween broadcast from The Brooklyn Station this time around, complete with the spooky sounds of 1986, live and local on the AM and FM band! There's a lot going on with this aircheck - of course, there's plenty of Halloween fare for the trick or treat crowd, plenty of calls from staff and listeners alike, a super-creepy autoharp soundtrack and the haunting sounds of the graveyard....

Another holiday, another marathon broadcast! The Brooklyn Station wraps up a special "Beatles-Monkees Weekend" with a seven-and-a-half-hour Labor Day transmission on both the AM and FM bands, as well as an FM simulcast with fellow pirate WFUN-FM, making the Big Signal a little EXTRA big for the holiday! It's a jam-packed show punctuated by an AM signal that was getting out like gangbusters, as wel...

It's another classic WHOT marathon Fourth of July broadcast, this one from back in 1985! This is a show that had been "lost", but was recently unearthed so we can now present it to you in (almost) its entirety.. The last tape of the show is missing, but we STILL have over EIGHT HOURS of wild underground broadcasting that we can share! Jim kicks off the proceedings early in the day, sharing the sou...

It's New Year's time again, which means it is also time for another classic New Year's Eve broadcast! This time around we feature another show that was previously "lost" but, has now been rediscovered and posted for your calendar-flipping enjoyment! It was 1981, and the New Year was fast approaching. Still keeping the AM and FM separate, we have a (just about) complete WGUT-AM festive extravaganza...

As we do every year, we present our annual posting of "A WHOT Christmas Carol" featuring Jim Nazium in the role he was born to play - Ebenezer Scrooge! Originally presented on Christmas Eve of 1988, this was to be an annual event on The Brooklyn Station, with adjustments made every year to keep the script up-to-date on the latest goings-on, but alas - it was the ONLY presentation as the FCC shut d...

Santa's loading his sleigh and that means it's time for another classic WHOT Christmas show! This time around we present another broadcast that had been AWOL for many years - sadly, the first couple of tapes are still missing and have not surfaced yet, but most of the show has survived and is presented to you here! This was right around the time that The Hot One was growing in leaps and bounds, ga...

A timely offering this time around as we present a fully-restored (from the original scoped airchecks) classic WHOT broadcast! As luck would have it, on the evening of September 22, 1988 the NY Mets clinched the National League East Division just as WHOT was taking to the air (in fact, you can hear both events overlap in real time with a temporary "simulcast"). As a result, the broadcast that foll...

Since it wouldn't be Independence Day without a marathon WHOT broadcast, we present a (just about) complete aircheck of The Brooklyn Station's 11-hour July 4th show from 1984! It's still technically "early-period" WHOT here, with the fourth-annual celebration of fun and fireworks, but one can clearly hear that the station was growing rapidly at this point (with bigger and better things on the hori...