Looking For Long Island Radio Surveys

 

To Long Island Radio Fans and Historians:

 

I am trying to start up a Long Island Radio Surveys Page as a way of preserving some of Long Island’ radio history.  The particular focus of my project will be Long Island radio stations that played popular music since the World War II era.  This site is meant to complement the Long Island Radio History pages at www.wackradio.com.

 

These are the Long Island radio station surveys I am most interested in:

 

·     WRCN Album Charts from the 1970s and 1980s (These charts were the basis for a weekly countdown of Long Island’s best selling albums.)

·     WGLI: 1958-January 1968, and January 1973-June 1975 (NOTE: I’ve recently found a way to get all the WGLI surveys from February 1968 through mid-January 1973 via microfilms of the Babylon Beacon weekly newspaper.)

·     WGBB: 1965-1981

·     WBAB: November 1968-May 1973 (WBAB’s Top 40 period)

·     WNYG: “Golden 14” countdown surveys from 1979 through 1984 or whenever the “Golden 14” countdown show was discontinued

·     WDIX and Apple Radio: Suffolk County Countdown surveys from the late-1970s and early-1980s

·     WBLI: 1971-1989

·     WBIC

·     Pre-Christian 54 WLIX (anytime from 1967 to March 1979)

·     WGSM

·     WLNG: 1962-1989

·     WHLI: anything from before April 1979

·     WAPP: 1984-1986

·     WNBC, particularly from 1977 to 1984

·     WYNY: I’m interested in surveys from whenever the station’s “NY Top 30 Countdown” show began through Summer 1983.

·     Surveys put out at anytime before 1989 by Long Island stores such as TSS-Seedman’s (Times Square Stores), May’s, White’s, Masters, Modell’s, Great Eastern, Woolco, Korvette’s, Record World, etc.

·     Photocopies of playlist add and “prime mover” information about Long Island and New York City radio stations as included in Radio & Records (R&R) from 1973-1989, Cash Box from the 1950s through 1983, the Gavin Report up to 1989, and the Metropolitan Report from the early-1970s through August 1983.

 

 

Since I know most of you would prefer not to part with your original survey copies, I will accept photocopies, .jpeg files, and retyped transcriptions.  I would also accept copies of in-house playlists of the stations mentioned. 

 

If you wish to donate any surveys or other information, please e-mail me.  You can also click on my name at the bottom of the page for more information.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Yours truly,

David R. Jackson

 

This page was last updated March 11, 2006.

 

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