A Motor City excursion to the BK Track Mode Studios before blowing up the DC Million Man March joint in 1995.  The chocolate thai was so delicious that we almost skipped the Million Man March.   However, we slid in the next Sunday nite exhausted from the BK vibration.  Good Times! :-)

10-30-95 Monday Nite Flava Mix DJ Evil D W Big Dennis The Ghetto Sexologist Hott 97 WQHT FM- NY

Aircheck courtesy of: Matt Seinberg (from Big Apple Airchecks)

Taking us into WQHT's fourth day on the air (a rarity of a sound file indeed, especially for HOT's 37th anniversary) is the first HOT show of yet another WAPP holdover Robin Marshall (here she doesn't say her name on the air since she also worked at crosstown 102 WPIX, and so later came up with the alias Chelsea Lewis to hide any suspicion of working at two stations). You'll find plenty of rare tracks spun during HOT's very early life with the "point-five" moniker (even though this file cut out the Chuck Riley-voiced liners).

This aircheck includes the following:
"Under the Influence" - Vanity
"How Many Hearts" - Evelyn Thomas
"Something About You" - Level 42
"Can't Give Her Up" - Skipworth & Turner
"When I Think of You" - Janet Jackson
"Stop and Think" - Fire on Blonde
"Two of Hearts" - Stacey Q
"Diamond Girl" - Nice & Wild
"Anotherloverholenyohead" - Prince & The Revolution
"Love Zone" - Billy Ocean
"You're So Fine" - Egyptian Lover
"Private Number" - The Jets
"Truth or Dare" - Shirley Murdock
"Venus" - Bananarama
"Living on Video" - Trans-X
"Can't Wait Another Minute" - Five Star
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" - Pet Shop Boys
"Can't Give Her Up" - Skipworth & Turner (again)
"Sweet Freedom - Michael McDonald
"Love Comes Quickly" - Pet Shop Boys
"Love of a Lifetime" - Chaka Khan
"Summer of Love" - The B-52's
"Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel
"Don Quichotte" - Magazine 60
"Borrowed Love" - The S.O.S. Band
"How Many Hearts" - Evelyn Thomas (again)
"Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel (again)
"City Nights / Manhattan Cafes" - Cory Daye
"Love Zone" - Billy Ocean (again)
"Love of a Lifetime" - Chaka Khan (again)
"Getting Away With Murder" - Patti Austin
"Vanity Kills" - ABC
"Exposed to Love" - Expose
"Papa Don't Preach" - Madonna
"You're So Fine" - Egyptian Lover (again)
"Words Get in the Way" - Miami Sound Machine
"Can't Give Her Up" - Skipworth & Turner (third time)
"We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" - Jermaine Stewart
"Man Size Love" - Klymaxx
"Two of Hearts" - Stacey Q (again)
"Stay a Little While, Child" - Loose Ends
"Higher Love" - Steve Winwood
"Don't You Want My Love" - Nicole
"Point of No Return" - Nu Shooz
"Say You Love Me" - Lime
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" - Pet Shop Boys (again)
"Say It, Say It" - E.G. Daily
"Jump Back (Set Me Free)" - Dhar Braxton
"Love of a Lifetime" - Chaka Khan (third time)
"Oh, People" - Patti LaBelle
"Something About You" - Level 42 (again)
"I Want You" - Animotion
"Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent" - Gwen Guthrie
"Set Fire to Me" - Willie Colon
"Venus" - Bananarama (again)
"City Nights / Manhattan Cafes" - Cory Daye (again)
"Point of No Return" - Nu Shooz (again)
"Man Size Love" - Klymaxx (again)

WQHT (Hot 103.5) - August 18, 1986 - Robin Marshall (Scoped)

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In 1986, Emmis Communications acquired WAPP from Doubleday.On August 13, 1986, WAPP began stunting with a classic rock format as "Classic 103."
On August 15, 1986, at 6 pm, The Rolling Stones' "It's All Over Now" and a bomb noise rang out, marking the end of WAPP. The station then flipped to a CHR/Dance/Urban Contemporary format as Hot 103, New York's Hottest Mix with new call letters WQHT. 
The first song on "Hot" was "R.S.V.P." by Five Star. No one in the radio industry expected it, but the new format that would be labeled "Rhythmic CHR" was taking shape. 
WQHT was the second such station with the format, months after Emmis launched it on KPWR in Los Angeles earlier that year.
WQHT's first Program Director was Joel Salkowitz. Steve Ellis, formerly of WAPP, was music director. Don Kelly was the consultant for both WQHT and KPWR in those early months.

WQHT 103.5 NEW YORK    First day   August 15th 1986

WQHT 103.5  NEW YORK   "Al Bandiero"   August 1986  Pt 2

WQHT 103.5 NEW YORK   "Al Bandiero"   January 20th 1987   Pt 1

Some interventions and jingles from the morning show in September 1996 with whtz, wplj, wmxv, wqht, wcbs, wktu.

NEW YORK MORNING SHOWS  September 1996

By 1987, WQHT was making a name for itself by playing freestyle music in regular rotation. Artists such as Noel, Safire, The Cover Girls and TKA were made famous because they were played in heavy rotation right next to Mainstream Top 40 artists such as Exposé, Debbie Gibson and Taylor Dayne. Freestyle and club music from other cities such as Miami, who had (and continues to have) an active dance and club scene, wasn't ignored either. Company B and Tiger Moon, who were famous in the Florida club scene, were played on WQHT as well. 
In fact, Hot 103 pioneered custom station versions of songs, where the artists would change lyrics and sing about the station. Because of WQHT's success with the genre, WHTZ copied the station's success by adding a few Freestyle titles, as well as urban contemporary stations WBLS and WRKS, who were playing long versions of the records they played as well.
That same year, WQHT added a local weekly countdown show called New York's Hot Tracks, hosted by Bill Lee, which counted down the top 10 selling 12" singles of the week. The show started on Sunday nights, then moved to Fridays at 6p.m., and then later at 5p.m. It featured short interview clips and aired sonovox numbers produced by Rick Allen identifying the chart position. "Hot Tracks" was produced, for a time, by PD Joel Salkowitz and researched by Angie Martinez, who would later become an afternoon host after the station flipped to Hip-Hop and R&B in 1992. (The show would later be hosted by Jeff Thomas, and was cancelled in 1993.)
In July 1987, WQHT wanted to devote some airtime to older dance music at the urging of Al Bandiero. Management agreed, and thus began "The Disco Classics' Showcase", which would feature dance music older than seven years. The show was broadcast for an hour from 8 p.m.-9 p.m. on Sundays. In 1989, the show was expanded to two hours. Later hosts would be Paco Navarro in 1992 from WKTU fame, and Freddie Colon. The show lasted until 1994.

WQHT 103.5 NEW YORK  "Charlie Burke"  Summer 1987

WQHT 103.5 NEW YORK  "Big John"  March 27th 1988

WQHT 97.1 NEW YORK   Angie Martinez  January 1996

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