Robin Mitchell, KB101 Portland, 1981 (0:46:48)

… . . . for some reason I’ve been 2 hours ahead all day on my time checks . . . …

Contributor Peter Glazer wrote about Robin Mitchell on KB101/KLLB-FM, from May 17, 1981: “I had heard Robin Mitchell on KOL in Seattle in the late 1960’s and even, one day, visited him at the dingy KOL studio out on Harbor Island.”

KB101 was a slick, consistent and proper “Oldies” format at the time of this aircheck, though the record-to-record seques are nothing to brag about. Kudos for the (too few) jingles, which are nice. Mitchell doesn’t appear that often, but it’s encouraging to hear him actually talking to his listeners, “on the fly”.

Most can probably identify the predictable elements (and nearly all the music) of this format, but you must admit there was something to be said for having a real, live “disc jockey”, even if they got the time wrong now and then…

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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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