Talent: JOHN FARRELL
Station: WBUF Buffalo, N.Y.
Date: January, 1978
Time: 10:33

(Logo courtesy Bill Dulmage)

"It's a good night to stay right where you are..."

It's a cold and snowy night but the radio is keeping us warm.

This aircheck of John Farrell on WBUF from January, 1978 takes us back to a time when there were live and local deejays on the all-night show. No satellites, no voicetracking, no computers blandly feeding songs programmed from thousands of miles away into an empty studio. No, a real live and local person. What a concept!

WBUF went on the air in 1947. In the mid'-70s, the station's beautiful music programming was replaced by a progressive rock format. That was succeeded in 1980 by a short-lived call-letter change to WFXZ with a Hot AC format. The WBUF call-letters were restored the next year with an adult contemporary format that mixed oldies and currents. The station went to smooth jazz in 1995, followed by alternative (1997), rhythmic oldies/disco/classic soul (1999), active rock (2001), FM talk (2004), and Jack (2005).

Enjoy John Farrell on WBUF here.

(The Paul Palo Collection)

More 1978 airchecks here!

Subject: MIGHTY TACO SPOTS
Station: WBUF Buffalo, N.Y.
Date: 1970s
Time: 2:00

Mighty Taco makes some pretty fine tacos we hear, and they were also the subject of some very creative radio commercials.

Anyone who listened to Buffalo radio in the '70s will remember these. Paul Palo writes:

"We used to do Mighty Taco spots all the time that skirted the realms of bad taste and pushed the creative envelope. Here are two examples of mid-'70s talent at WBUF. Bill Pezzimenti producing from Dave LaRussa's stash of gems."

Enjoy a couple of these Mighty Taco spots here.

(The Dave LaRussa Collection via Paul Palo)