Hamilton, Ohio’s 1450 WMOH radio was one of those small market Class IV stations that dotted the map in the ’60’s and ’70’s. “The Rodger Kay Show” aircheck, as featured here, is a classic example of Top 40 radio at these small stations. The aircheck, dated January 10, 1969, gives the listener an insight to WMOH at the time. The station signed on at 6am and ran various programs throughout its broadcast day, thus dayparting to its different audiences. Most programming, however, contained music, whether for “housewives” during the day, or the ‘Now Sound” at night. Rodger Kay worked the 9pm-1am (sign-off) shift, playing the latest hits, and in some cases (as with this aircheck) playing “Solid Golds Every Other One”.
In May 1970, Kay did his last regular airshift on WMOH, switching over to the Sales/Management side of the building, where he remained for the next ten years during its “Musicradio WMOH” days. WMOH has always been and is still a unique station. Although it gave up its music format in May 1990 for News/Talk, it still programs to a local and loyal audience, twenty-four hours a day.
Rodger Kay is now the Station Manager at KFRQ-FM and KVLY-FM in the McAllen/Brownsville, Texas market. And the beat goes on…