This is the first hour of an overnight debut appearance of Big Ron O’Brien on WOGL-FM (Oldies 98.1) in Philadelphia on October 3, 2001.
Maybe he just wanted to practice a bit, or maybe the details of his employment were not yet final, but he is identified only as The Unknown Disc Jockey. This was Big Ron’s last station. He worked there for almost seven years, until a few weeks before his death in April, 2008.
One of the great things about this station in 2001 is that they formatted their hours like a traditional top 40 station. Music, ID, Music, ID – there were NO iPod seques (song-to-song without ID). And there was only ten minutes of commercial time in this hour, comparable to limited spotloads of the ’70’s.
The difference? There are only two stopsets. The first is 4:30 in length, the second is 5:30. There are also apparently mandatory music sweeps with recorded promos. Would an hour with four stopsets of half the length and more of Big Ron be a more listenable hour?