Chuck Buell, KFRC San Francisco 1976 (0:04:46)

… show me the way, I forgot the way you showed me before, it was so interesting at the time …
[Description by Chuck Buell] In Billboard Magazine, August 30, 1975, Claude Hall wrote in his Vox Jox column: “KFRC won Top 40 Station of the Year, a much-deserved award, and strangely strange, Chuck Buell is one of the air personalities at the station. This takes on weird importance when you realize that previous stations Buell has worked at also won Station of the Year awards while he was there. This is the third such award for Buell to be associated with.” Here then, from a beautiful San Francisco afternoon in 1976 is Chuck Buell delivering his own inimitable high energy afternoon drive show on KFRC.

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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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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”.

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Carl Davis
Trustee
North Carolina Broadcast History Museum