#floyd wright

Airchexx honors a Connecticut broadcasting legend! “Friendly Floyd” Wright passed away on Sunday, April 30, 2023. He was 72. In Floyd’s honor, we’re featuring some airchecks from the many Connecticut and New York stations he was on in his over 50 year radio career. Stations include 1540 WPTR Albany, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford in it’s Top 40 “Big-D 103” era and it’s Oldies era, 97.1 WYNY New York,…

In honor of the late Floyd Wright, here’s a very short aircheck scope of he and Curtis W on KC-101 shortly after the station’s 1979 debut. Courtesy of Contributor Bob Gilmore.

Peter Ross, 102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford | February, 1972

This begins at the tail end of a newscast, the announcer doesn’t give his name. Then its right into music on the Peter Ross show!

Here are the things to notice on this aircheck:

Dick Robinson, who was HUGE on WDRC, voicing a Railroad Salvage spot. Robinson is the founder of the “Connecticut School of Broadcasting”.

A somewhat racy promotion on DRC, called Hanky-Panky, starts the following…

QuickChexx: WDRC “The Big D” Lives on – 102.9 WDRC-HD2 Hartford | April 21, 2014

This is very short, recorded by your webmaster himself. Only to illustrate that there are some constructive uses for Ibiquity’s IBOC branded “HD Radio”. DRC-FM’s HD2 is locally produced, with sweepers voiced by Floyd Wright and an occasional classic WDRC jingle from the old Top 40 days on 1360 AM. But note, the HD2 recreation is jockless. It does, however, bring back the Oldies format that…