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Art Roberts WCFL Chicago June 8 1971 (0:27:47)

… Watch a man make a monkey out of himself …
Here’s Art Roberts (unscoped) in morning drive on WCFL, from June 8, 1971. Until I heard this aircheck, I didn’t know that Art had worked at WCFL. I asked John Rook for some background. “Shortly after I left WLS to become president of Bill Drake’s company, Art called me saying he had just been let go from a job of more than ten years, for no reason, by the new WLS PD, Mike McCormick. But Art was excited about doing mornings at WCFL and asked if I would call someone I had never met, Lew Witz, manager at WCFL, on his behalf. I did, Art got the job and that call from me to Lew Witz opened the door for me to consult SuperCFL later on.” Howie Roberts, Rick James, Fred W. Barton, Carmen Holliman, Bob Christopher and Mike Rounds are also heard with an unusual WCFL Newscast. [Thanks to The Aircheck Factory]

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This site is now operated by the North Carolina Broadcast History Museum. 

We want to thank the board of ReelRadio, Inc. for their stewardship since the passing of the founder Richard Irwin in 2018.  It has not been easy and they have maintained the exhibits for future generations to enjoy.

I met Richard Irwin, aka Uncle Ricky, when we were freshmen at East Carolina University.  We both had worked at local stations in our hometowns.  No one was more passionate about radio, especially Top 40 radio, than my friend Richard. 

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Richard Irwin’s hope was that his site would live on long after his passing. He said, “I hope REELRADIO will survive as my contribution to the ‘radio business’. The business is allowed to forget me, but the business should never forget the great era of radio that we celebrate here”.

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Carl Davis
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North Carolina Broadcast History Museum