About this podcast
This Airchecks focuses on radio shows from old time radio to current shows written as plays or when a radio show was recorded. A showcase of radio programming that may have been lost over the decades if it hadn’t been recorded and preserved for future generations. In the radio and television industry, recordings of radio shows were fairly common anywhere from transcription discs for later replay or to make sure a commercial has been played on the air for the salesman to show their client. And sometimes it’s not just audio theatre, it can be music as well. Some items previously aired and some items that were never aired, but recorded. Airchecks is a three hour program that is uploaded into a podcast on Saturdays.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 193 episodes
- ep122-060125-Final Episode · 6 h 5 min · Episode 122This is the final episode of Airchecks. Sorry, this is a long podcast (6 hours!), but this a brief look into my radio broadcast career from 1985-2003. Thank you for listening to…
- Episode 121, April 26, 2025 - June 1st Hiatus Announcement / Jean Shepherd Marathon, Final Part · 2 h 57 min · Episode 121Just a little bit of a housekeeping note. This will be the last episode of Airchecks until we are back on June 1, 2025 as we need to make some adjustments to the new radio…
- Episode 120, April 19, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, Part 14 · 3 h 47 min · Episode 120In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, we will hear: • From September 15, 1964, A remote broadcast from the Disney exhibit and the I. B. M. "People Wall" at the New…
- Episode 119, April 12, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, Part 13 · 3 h 32 min · Episode 119In this episode we listen to: • From August 4, 1964, The Sultan of Zanzibar has failed his driver's license test. The characteristics of the "Slobbus Americanus, " a portrait in…
- Episode 118, April 5, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, Part 12 · 3 h 37 min · Episode 118In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon on Airchecks, we present: • From February 5, 1964, The story of a kid who shot down an airliner with a .22 The myth of marrying a…
- Episode 117, March 29, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 11 · 3 h 4 min · Episode 117Welcome to Airchecks! Here is more of the Jean Shepherd Marathon on W O R in New York City. • From December 19, 1963, Shepherd scats along with, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"…
- Episode 116, March 22, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, Part 10 · 3 h 2 min · Episode 116In this episode we feature: • From April 26, 1963, Graffiti, Why Hud? Life is not only a magazine, it's a cereal! "If you can't beat City Hall, flood it! " Schwartz's father: a…
- Episode 115, March 15, 2025, The Jean Shepherd Show Marathon, Part 9 · 2 h 42 min · Episode 115Here is more of the Jean Shepherd Marathon on W O R in New York City. • From April 24, 1962, The literati today discuss films, not books. Chicago chop suey joints. • From…
- Episode 114, March 8, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 8 · 3 h 2 min · Episode 114In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon: • From February 15, 1962, "The human race is. . . " First days are very important. The first day at the steel mill, a job gotten…
- Episode 113, March 1, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 7 · 3 h 24 min · Episode 113In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon: • From February 27, 1961, Native rights, a lady cab driver, a beatnik asks for "vanilla, " a Manhattan tradition, three thousand…
- Episode 112, February 22, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 6 · 3 h 13 min · Episode 112In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon, we present: • From September 11, 1960, "Listen Baby, " air conditioned graves? A reading from "Fu Manchu. " Shep mentions that…
- Episode 111, February 15, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 5 · 2 h 56 min · Episode 111In this Jean Shepherd Marthanon we will play: • From September 3, 1960, The MONY sign, Shep plans to make the first purchase at the new Paperbook Gallery. Three hundred copies…
- Episode 110, February 8, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 4 · 4 h 2 min · Episode 110In this Jean Shepherd marathon, we present: • Shep talks about: the chain on the door, the steel mill and "Terry and The Pirates." Permanent protection from the elements. WOR is…
- Episode 109, February 1, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 3 · 3 h 51 min · Episode 109In this Jean Shepherd episode: • The recording begins with Dwight Weist reading the WOR News. Grand Prix auto racing, fishing, air races, dance marathons. (June 25, 1960) • The…
- Episode 108, January 25, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 2 · 3 h 25 min · Episode 108In part 2 of the Jean Shepherd Marathon, we will present: • Coney Island: the man in the batting cage, a visit to Germany, the Cincinnati Human Fly, grandmother's eyeglasses…
- Episode 107, January 18, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 1 · 3 h 50 min · Episode 107Aichecks is featuring a Jean Shepherd Marathon, where we play as many shows as we can from the late 1950s to 1977 on WOR in NYC. In this episode, you will hear: • I, Libertine…
- Episode 106, January 11, 2025 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Part 2 · 3 h 20 min · Episode 106This week on Airchecks, this is the final part of a two part series of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
- Episode 105, January 4, 2025 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Part 1 · 3 h 3 min · Episode 105In this episode of Airchecks, we will be playing part one of two of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
- Episode 104, December 28, 2024 - New Year's Eve · 2 h 53 min · Episode 104This is the New Year's Eve Special. In this episode we feature: • Abbott & Cosetllo • Our Miss Brooks • The Aldrich Family • Father Knows Best • Harold Peary • The Jack Benny Show
- Episode 103, December 21, 2024 - Christmas Special · 3 h 43 min · Episode 103This is the Christmas Special of Airchecks! In this episode we feature: • Hercules Poirot's Christmas (BBC, December 24, 1986) • A Christmas Carol (Campbell's Playhouse, CBS…
