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RECENT AIRCHECKS
OF THE WEEK...

(Contributors in brackets)

April 26
Dan Ingram
WABC, Apr. 13/68
(Rob Frankel)

April 19
Glenn Walters
CKEY, 1961
(Doug Thompson)

April 12
Gary Stevens
WMCA, Apr. 8/68
(Don Shuttleworth)

April 5
Jack Carney
WABC, Jan. 14/61
(Joe Fazio)

March 29
Terry David Mulligan
CHUM, 1969
(Doug Thompson)

March 22
Jerry Farrell
WGR, April 11/76
(Robert F. Skurzewski)

March 15
Peter Huntington May
KDWB, Jan. 6/67
(Curt Lundgren)

March 8
Dave Shafer
CKLW, Feb/65
(Alain Dupont)

March 1
Fred Latremouille
CFUN, March 6/91
(Don Shuttleworth)

February 22
Pete N' Geets
CFNY, Feb. 28/84
(Bill Dulmage)

February 15
Duff Roman, CHUM
Feb. 17/68
(Duff Roman)

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Edition #1396 - May 3, 2026

DICK BIONDI
WLS Chicago
May 2, 1963 (UNSCOPED)

(Contributor: Don Shuttleworth)

He said he wanted to be the World's Oldest Disc Jockey. He almost made it.

Dick Biondi, whose wacky humour and off-key singing launched a career of more than six decades, died in 2023 just weeks from his 91st birthday. One of those gigs was at WLS, where he spent three years after helping put the station's rock and roll format on the air on May 2, 1960. This is from the third anniversary of that historic day.

Enjoy Dick Biondi on WLS from May 2, 1963 ... in the Aircheck of the Week.

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