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This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) Radio Stations, Some Recorded Off The Air by Rick Burnett and Many Others Recorded or Provided by Other Contributors to This Site (see footnote at bottom).  The Contribution of Recordings and Materials are Greatly Appreciated and Have Made this Site a Bookmark for Those Interested in Radio From this Era. 
Explore the many recordings on this site by using the menu at the left side of the screen.
Should you have material to contribute, Please Email:  Rick1031(at)HotMail.com  
Note: Substitute @ for the "(at)" when typing email address 

WLOL Hines and Berglund

A bit of radio history with the well respected John Hines and Bob Berglund at the mic.  There is a weather forecast by Barry ZeVan near the beginning.  Some funny stuff. 


Traded aircheck and this is from collector John Moody of St. Louis.
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WLOL-FM 99,5 John Hines and Bob Berglund Monday August 4th, 1986
 
 
Rare WLOL-AM Jingles from the Early 1960's - Classics

You may not remember these old 'LOL jingles.  I was in grade school when they were playing.  




Contributed by Mike Cunningham of Lacrosse Wisconsin, former Operations Manager of KTCR-FM.  See more of his contributions on Mike's page
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WLOL-AM Jingles From Early 1960
 
Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. Tom has been in radio for 48 years and was at WDGY in the early 60's. Tom was a grad of Richard Brown's American Institute of the Air, a predecessor to Brown Institute. He now does a morning news/talk show in Fargo.
 
 
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WLOL-AM Tom Wynn 6/5/72 Courtesy of Randy Randall
J.D. Ball followed Tom Wynn on WLOL-AM during its short-lived "Number One Music" format.  Tape courtesy of Randy Randall.

(From Collector Randay Randall, Rochester MN.)
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WLOL-AM J. D. Ball 6/5/72
WLOL-FM  "Easy Rockin"  A Day in the Life...

The whole day is here.
Marcia Huey - 5 AM - 10 AM
Steve Shannon - 10 AM - 3 PM
Buddy Hollis - 3 - 6 PM
Karen Wong - 6-11 PM
Brian Acker - 11 {M - 5 AM
Contributed by Al Arneson, formerly of KSTP-AM and U-100 as Big Al Davis
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WLOL-FM "Easy Rockin" Composite January/February 1979
 
 
WLOL

Recorded and contributed by Al Arneson, formerly of KSTP-AM and U-100

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WLOL AM "Big Red" Jerry Knight, then Michael O'Shae January/February 1979
 
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WLOL-AM Don Shore December 1977
WLOL  Alan Kabel at Night 1990

This recording was submitted by Alan Kabel and was recorded just before Minnesota Public Radio purchased WLOL.  It was owned by Emmis at the time of this recording.
Contributed by Alan Kabel.  (10-1-07)

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WLOL Alan Kabel at Night in 1990

The airchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research.  Additionally, the recordings can be used by vision impaired visitors to get an audio perspective of radio history.   These recordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. 


Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapes that were recorded off the air by the web site creator.  In May 2006 the recordings started to be converted to MP3 and shared here.  In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also many airchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors.  Sources are cited, if known.  The contributed recordings from friends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated.  Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history.  The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites.   This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings.  The purpose of this site is to provide radio history and intended for purposes of archival preservation and research.

Windows Media Player works well to play these MP3 files, and depending on your internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open.  Should you have any aircheck of Twin Cities radio stations, let me know and I may be able to include them at this site.  Contact me at  Rick(at)HotMail.com  --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address