B-100 San Diego First Birthday 1976 (0:03:08)

… ..No wonder you got fired at KHJ… …
Real-Time Update! Bobby Rich himself wrote contributor Dick Stoddard about this aircheck:

B-100 signed on in 1975… I was the original pd. We turned off a Beautiful Music format and turned on high energy Top 40–targeted 12-24. A year later we celebrated with 100 hours commercial free… and we invited “friends” to come to San Diego and pull an hour or two. Many of those on the full tape (which I edited with hundreds of cuts!) were B-100 past, present (at the time) and future jocks. Others were just jocks we knew who wanted to be part of it. This tape has become a classic and I STILL hear about it regularly… usually from some jock or pd who tells me they play it at staff meetings to get the talent excited about how FUN our biz should be.

Bobby Rich, Beaver Cleaver, and Billy Pearl are featured in this clip, along with the Concert from Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven.

Welcome to the new ReelRadio!

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. 

Our goals with this site are to preserve the exhibits and make them available free of charge for people to enjoy.  Over time, we hope to add some airchecks to the site.  This will not happen immediately.  Time and resources will determine the future of new exhibits. 

Many thanks to the web folks at the Beasley Media Group for countless hours of work.  Again thanks to the board members of ReelRadio, Inc. for their faith in us. 

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”.

We remember Richard and we thank him. If you enjoy this new site, we would appreciate a contribution. We hope you enjoy the new ReelRadio!

Carl Davis
Trustee
North Carolina Broadcast History Museum