Especially dubbed from cassette, some memories of Great North Radio (GNR) from 1990 - 1994. Includes an advert for my local fish and chip shop! 
Amongst the presenters are John Warwick (who has  a story about his cat) , Phil Matthews and Steve Phillips.
There seemed to be  a lot of "dead air" on GNR because of the "split" system for playing adverts , as demonstrated here by a 10 second silence in a commercial break.

Great North Radio airchecks 1990 - 1994

KSFO-San Francisco Carter B. Smith 07-24-1963

Top Of The Pop Weekend. Unknown Jock...she not ONCE gave her name!! Great Classics from the 50s through the 70s!
NOTE:I CAN NO VERIFY IT IS Keri Tombazian

KRTH K-Earth 101 Keri Tombazian Los Angeles 04-07-1984

Tom Thumb (Tom Webb)
The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the vast majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Eastern Shore of Virginia. This station covered it!!

WSEA-FM Georgetown DE Tom Thumb 8-13-1975

WIMN on this tape was broadcasting at 1400 khz. They would later move up the dial to 1030 khz, sticking with Country!

WMIN-St.Paul-Minneapolis Paul Evans 9-29-68

NEW: RJO - Jingle Of The Day (29th June 2024) - WLNG-FM 'Sag Harbor, NY' - Ken R

WMIN-St. Paul-Minneapolis John Harlow 04-06-1968

From listening, they were the "new kid in town"!
Enjoy! Appears they "lean" Country but as you see in the graphic, a but of everything!

WMIN-AM-St. Paul-Minneapolis Old Joe Clark 01-21-1964

The "booth announcer as I listed was Ed Kesterson whom did this ONE TIME special "sign off" and you will notice in the sign off...all done in "past tense".
At midnight on Sunday, July 18, 1982, KIKX went off the air. "The Last Cowboy Song" by Ed Bruce was the final song played over KIKX.
KIKX's shutdown left a gap in Emergency Broadcast System coverage for Pima and Santa Cruz counties, as KIKX was the originating station for EBS alerts to those two counties. When emergency officials surveyed 10 local media outlets on Monday, July 19, they found five were still monitoring the silent frequency for EBS alerts, while the other five were monitoring KTKT 990 AM, the designated backup station; the station's studios also had equipment and bombproofing supplied as part of its EBS role

KIKX-Tucson FINAL SIGN OFF! Jim Scopac and Ed Kesterson 07-18-1982

Also a male doing MOST of the talking. He never gives his name. He always refers to "Ruby D" as the locals call her...just for the sake, and you will get my drift, we'll call HIM "Bubba". NOTE per FB friend, "Bubba" is Redford Carter.
VERY COMMON back then for FM stations to be in "mono"such as this station.
Thanks to Michael Lovejoy on giving me Bubba's real name!!

Reel 120 1L (Dub from Cassette

WTWX-Guntersville Redford Carter Ruby Debolt, or just Ruby D. June 1978

Automation at work! Only folks that worked there just changed the reels and pushed the bottons!

Great North Radio airchecks 1990 - 1994

TAT Productions

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