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It was with great sadness when we learned about the passing of one of radio's great entertainers and personalities, Big Ron O'Brien on April 28, 2008. I can truly say that Ron was my friend, and he will be missed.

Special thanks go to Craig Allan and Scott Lowe for providing some never before heard airchecks from their personal collections. In addition, Ron provided myself, Craig and Scott reels and cassettes from his personal collection, so keep your ears open wide for these rare goodies!

Here are Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Big Ron O'Brien Aircheck Tribute, each with at least one download link. Click on these links which will take you MediaFire, then click the link to download the files. Click on it, then save it to your computer. They run right around 80 minutes each.

Part One Part Two Part Three

CD US WCAR Detroit 12/31/71

TJ30 45m WXLO 5/4/74/ Side 2: Walt "Baby" Love 5/17/74

TJ006 C60 WXLO Dec 1974/KOPA Howard Hoffman Feb 10, 1982

TJ007 C90 WFIL Nov 11, 1977/Philadelphia Composite Jan 24, 1977

TJ008 C90 WRKO April-June 1978

NE002 C90 WRKO Nov 30, 1978

NE006 C90 WRKO Sept 1978

TJ009 C60 KFI July 17, 1979

TJ29 45m KFI 11/20/80

TJ010 C60 Side 1 By Windy City Airchecks: KTLK/WXLO/WCFL Side 2 By The Aircheck Factory: KUDL/WCAR/WCFL/WXLO

The Aircheck Factory Presents: Big Ron O'Brien Revisited

TJ20 C90 KBET October 1989

TJ36 CD KROQ-FM 7/27/81 as "Eugene Oregon"

CD X 2 US WCFL 7/7/75 and 7/9/75

WLCE Alice 104.5 8/25/80

CD X 2 KIIS-FM 102.7 6/11/85

PA004 C90 US WOGL 8/27/02

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Listen to the Ted Brown Tribute!
(It is broken up into four parts for faster downloading)

PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR

Thanks to Jami and Samantha Brown for providing airchecks and pictures of their father, Andy Fisher of CNBC for the opening narration, Ted David, Julius LaRosa, Susanne Bothamley, Mitch Lebe, John Bohannon, Bill Diehl, and Bob Schappert for their contributions. Thanks to Webmaster Josh for the photo collage, and Ira Menacker, Dan Gulino, Paul Knoebel and Rob Frankel for additional airchecks.

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Click HERE to listen to the Scott Muni Aircheck Tribute!
Thanks to Pat St. John, Charlie Kendall, Ira Menacker and Gary Pfeiffer for their contributions.

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Chuck Leonard

Here Is The Chuck Leonard Aircheck Tribute. It's comprised of WABC, WXLO, WRKS, WBLS, WQEX, WJUX And WNSW. Thanks to Pat St. John for doing the opening narration, Jonathon Wolfert for the jingle montage, and Ira Menacker for most of the airchecks. So Click HERE To Listen To The Tribute!

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Jack Armstrong

It is with great sadness that we learned about the passing of one of radio's great entertainers and personalities, Jack Armstrong. After a week of hard work, lot's of phone calls and emails, it is my privilege to present an Aircheck Tribute to Jack. It runs 2 hours and 30 minutes, and is broken up into two parts for easier downloading. Included in it is the site intro that Jack did for me in 2005. Click on the links below to download the tribute.
There are to many people to thank for their help and co-operation, so HUGE Thank You goes out to you all. Special thanks goes to Jack's daughter Devon for her support and friendship, the wonderful stories about her father, and the pictures she provided for the collage. Thanks to Lauren Esposito for creating the collage, and her encouragement and help in producing this tribute. Also, Jack's former partner at Oldies 93.1, Dee Brockwell for her support and encouragement on this project. Thanks also to Reelradio.com for three of the airchecks.

Every station that Jack worked at is included. Here's the list of stations: WCOG, WAYS, WIXY, WKYC, WMEX, CHUM, WPOP, KTLK, WKBW, WJAS/WKTQ, KDKA, WHYI/Y100, WIFE, KTNQ, KHTZ, WNBC (The complete show scoped as "The Unknown DJ), KFI, WWWE Reunion Weekend Show, KFRC, KKHR, KBOS, WMQX, and his last show at WWKB in 2006.

Click HERE To Download Part 1
Click HERE To Download Part 2

TJ011 WMEX May 1967

13Q March 1973

CA011 KTNQ 1978

CHUM "On-Air" Audition May 1968

NE003 WPOP Last Show Feb 2, 1970

TJ012 WPOP/CHUM/WKBW (No Dates)

CA005 WKBW May 1975

CA039 Y100 1975

NY022 WNBC As "The Unknown DJ" 4/30/78

CA006 KTNQ Feb 23 & 28, 1979

CA003 KTNQ Dec 9, 1978

CA008 KTNQ May 4, 1979 US

CA007 KFI-AM May 23, 1980 US

TJ15-1&2 CD KKHR Nov 1, 1984 US

TJ16-1&2 CD KKHR Feb 28, 1985 US

TJ21 CD CHUM 7/16/68

TJ28 C90 KHTZ 8/16/79

KFRC 1/26/83

TJ29 45m KFI 11/20/80

TJ38 C90 US WMQX 10/13/97

KKHR CD US 9/29/84

WWKB-AM CD US 3/6/03

WMQX Oldies 93 1999

TJ40 CD X 2 US WMQX 3/26/03

TJ41 CD X 4 US WMQX 9/3/03 Complete Morning Show with new co-host Dee Brockwell and News Director Ed Snow.

TJ42 CD X 2 US WMQX 9/6/03 The Jackson Armstrong Weekly Oldies Countdown Show

WWKB-AM CD X 3 US Last Show 2/3/06

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An Audio Tribute To Voice Over Artist Brian James

Thanks to Rich Stevens for pulling together so many of you to send in your audio for this tribute, without him we could never have gotten this done.

Thanks also to Brian's brother, Mike Oberle for his contributions and support.

So many people recorded their memories of Brian and sent in audio that all I can say is a big Thank You!

Radio lost a Voice...but you all lost a friend, a brother, a father and husband. Rest In Peace Brian...

Click the links below to download the tribute from Sendspace. Multiple links are provided so no one misses out. You only have to download one link, they are all the same.
(3/23/09 Big Apple Airchecks)

Download Link One

Download Link Two

Download Link Three

Download Link Four

Download Link Five

Download Link Six

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Newsday Obituary For Bruce Herbert

Bruce Herbert died at home on September 13, 2004
Click here to hear a tribute to Bruce introduced by his long time co-worker and friend, Jim Ferguson.

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Dean Anthony

Brooklyn born Dean Anthony (1935-2003) had been one of New York's most listened to radio personalities since 1964 when he came back from Washington D.C.'s WPGC where he was "Dean Griffith."

Joining the WMCA "Good Guys," Dean quickly gained a large audience where none had previously existed...in the middle of the night, playing the hits of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Four Seasons and many others. He talked to his audience as friends, with his "Actors and Actresses" and "Group Therapy" games.

When the "Good Guys" run ended in 1970, he went to country station WJRZ, then 97WWDJ until 1971. He then joined WTFM, the beautiful music station. In 1977, WTFM switched formats to become New Yorks first "soft rock" station. Dean did mid-days, then switched to overnights until 1981, when a labor dispute resulted in a strike.

That 9 month strike was a blessing in disguise, since that lead to a "temporary" job at WHLI, which lasted an amazing 22 years!

Sadly, Dean passed away in October 2003, but Long Island listeners will never forget the man who was the "heart" of their radio station.

Airchecks Available: DA001 WHLI CD X 2 8/90
                                     DA002 C60 WHLI 2/92
                                     DA003 CD X 2WMCA 7/15/67 Restored
                                     DA004 CD WWDJ 7/71
                                     DA005 CD WTFM 5/26/81
                                     DA006 CD WCBS-FM 8/8/92
                                     (3-4 & 6 Courtesy of Rob Frankel)

(Picture and bio from Dean's page on the WHLI Website)

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Bob Hagen 1935-2004

Please visit www.bobhagen.com to learn about this former news reporter. The site has pictures, audio and a full biography of Bob.

The site was created and maintained by Lee Harris, and his wife, Marcheta Hagen is a contributor and archivist.

I asked Keta to tell a story about Bob in her own words...

From the beginning Bob asked and valued my opinion.
When he got home, he would ask,
“How did I sound?”
He expected that I would give him a truthful evaluation.
Have you seen the movie “Ray”?
In Ray Charles early days, he sounded like other performers.
He had not found his sound.
In the early days Bob was somewhat like that.
Bob unconsciously tended to pattern the phrasing and delivery of someone he worked with and admired.
It wasn’t until later that he became and sounded like Bob Hagen.

I will share one story that tells all about Bob’s journalistic integrity
In the 60’s and 70’s airlines offered newsmen “fam” trips;
Familiarization, aka press junkets
These were to introduce flights to new destinations.
What it meant was a couple of days of freebee vacation, wining and dining.
Bob refused them.
I asked “Why?”
He said: “Keta, if I accept a trip from an airline and a week later I have to cover a disaster or negative story, can I be truly objective?
Even if I think I will--I probably can’t.”
That was the last time I ever questioned him on any freebee.

Bob died at home with me by his side.
Our 48 year love affair came to an end.
And, in his death, as in his life, I did what he asked,
I handled it.

Marcheta (Keta) Hagen

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COMING SOON: JACK SPECTOR

WMCA/WHN/WCBS-FM/WHLI

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