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[azliam]

Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

Thanks so much, I would love if you could help. I am friend's with Martin's cousin, Martin passed away many years ago. Would be cool uploading some old clips especially of B93 and KHFI when they competed against eachother on YouTube since we don't seem to have any historical clips aside from air checks of B93 and KHFI. A-La similar, though unlikely as thorough as Classic B96 on YouTube with tons of on air recordings as well as mix shows from Chicago's famed B96 from the 80s and 90s. Actually would be cool to have some early Beat 104.3 recordings as well especially The Mixmaster shows they started out with on Friday and Saturday nights. I'll send a DM later this week about it. In the meantime for those interested check our Classic B96 on YouTube.

Small world - As a youth, I grew up in the Chicagoland area and still have family there, and grew up listening to WLS (also as Z95) and B96.

ok sorry to hijack thread with radio stuff

[Jdawgboy]

Originally Posted by azliam

Small world - As a youth, I grew up in the Chicagoland area and still have family there, and grew up listening to WLS (also as Z95) and B96.

ok sorry to hijack thread with radio stuff

Well in a way this kinda fits on topic. It is nostalgic, it was apart of who we were as a city in those days. Radio is dead today and what I mean by that is there are few Independent local stations anywhere in the United States. It's all corporate cookie cutter crap, no matter where you go in what city, the stations sound similar. Austin for a time had some pretty bad ass stations and in those days radio stations could be identified by city and vice versa they were much more unique to their market. It would be nice to preserve that for people today to listen to or we will lose it forever. Think of it as an audio postcard or picture. We just don't have anything significant from that era that can be accessed at the moment. I would like for that to change.