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An air check was usually made by an announcer to critique a radio show much like you'd re-read a written document. We have turned up a number or WJMA air checks and have links to them below. Some were continuous recordings with all program elements recorded just like they when out on the air. In later years WJMA had a "skimmer" that would start recording as soon as the microphone was keyed (turned on). The skimmer tapes are not as interesting now because they didn't capture the feeling and flow of the program, but in many cases they are all that exists to document what WJMA used to sound like. Some air check are noted "scoped". That's shorted to telescoped. They were edited after recording to shorten the time.

1950s
These are not WJMA air check, but Arch Harrison before he bought WJMA in 1961
-- Arch Harrison on WANN Annapolis, MD 1950 3:56
-- Arch Harrison on WTVR Richmond, VA 1953 2:14 (voice over for a TV commercial)

1974
-- Russ Roberts New Year's Marathon part 1 2:30-3:30am 52:48
-- Russ Roberts New Year's Marathon part 2 47:21
-- Ross Hunter Afternoon Show, May 18, 1974 1:30-4pm 27:52
-- Ross Hunter Afternoon Show, July 23, 1974 3-4pm 27:52
-- Ross Hunter Afternoon Show, July 23, 1974 45pm 1:00:55
-- Bob Wade Evening Show, August 6, 1974 8:30-9:30pm 1:18:06
-- Ross Hunter MorningShow, October 9, 1974 6:30-7:55am 1:09:33
-- Ross Hunter Morning Show, October 10, 1974 6:15-7:15am 1:08

1975
-- Russ Roberts, Airline, April 13, 1975 part 1 8-9pm 1:05:32
-- Russ Roberts, Airline, April 13, 1975 part 2 9-10pm 53:14
-- Jean Love, Evening Show, May 8, 1975 7-8pm 1:07:47
-- Jean Love, Evening Show, May 8, 1975 8-10pm 1:10:38
-- Jean Love, Afternoon Show, May 10, 1975 2-3pm 1:15:34
-- Jean Love, Afternoon Show, May 10, 1975 3:45-5:30pm 1:15:40
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, May 20, 1975 9:30-noon 27:06
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, June 10, 1975 9-10am 1:00:25
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, June 10, 1975 scoped 9-noon 10:28
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, June 11, 1975 11-noon 1:00:19
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, July 2, 1975 2-3pm 1:03:02
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, July 2, 1975 3-4pm 1:03:47
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, July 10, 1975 1-2pm 1:05:12
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, July 10, 1975 2-3pm 1:04:21
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, July 11, 1975 3-5pm 1:05:00
-- Jean Love, Evening Show July 13, 1975 2:30-4:30pm 32:53
-- Russ Roberts, Airline, July 27, 1975 8-9pm 1:02:40
-- Russ Roberts, Airline, July 27, 1975 9-10pm 1:02:42
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, October 30, 1975 2-3pm 1:02:46
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, October 30, 1975 4-5pm 1:05:42
-- Mary Thompson, Afternoon Show, December 16, 1975 1:18-1:30pm 13:41
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, December 16, 1975 1;30-2;09pm 39:12
-- Arch Harrison Afternoon Show December 14, 1975 3:50-4:25pm 32:39
-- Jean Love Evening Show, December 30, 1975 7:30-9pm 1:47:01
-- Jean Love Evening Show, December 30, 1975 9-10:20pm1:23:05

1976
-- Russ Roberts, Bicentennial Special, July 4, 1976 52:51
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, September 1, 1976 8-9:30am 1:38:09
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, September 3, 1976 8-9:30am 1:38:17
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, September 7, 1976 2:30-3:40pm 1:09:17
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show, September 7, 1976 3:30-5pm 1:20:07
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, September 24, 1976 7:58-9:30am 1:31:47
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, September 24, 1976 9:30-11am 1:31:38 (includes Swap Shop

1977
-- Mac Moore was the host of The Jazz Scene for an hour on Thursday evenings. The program repeated on Sunday evening.
-- January 23, 1977 1:00:54
-- March, 1977 1:00:28
-- June 5, 1977 1:02:02
-- Fall 1977 1:01:56

1978
--Russ Roberts, Evening Show, December 11, 1978 8-9pm 1:01:35
--Russ Roberts, Evening Show, December 11, 1978 9-10pm 1:00:21
--Russ Roberts, Evening Show, December 18, 1978 9-10pm 1:04:09
--Russ Roberts, Evening Show, December 23, 1978 8-9:30pm 1:31:02 log of air check contents

1979
-- Jay Kiernan,, Afternoon Show, October 27, 1979 11:10:27

1980
-- Russ Roberts Afternoon Show June 6, 1980 4-4:45pm 1:08:35
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show August 20, 1980 2-3pm 1:01:29
-- Russ Roberts, Afternoon Show August 20, 1980 3-4pm 1:01:27

1981

1982

1983
-- Mark Johnson, Evening Show, February 27, 1983 9-9pm 1:05:15
-- Ross Hunter Morning Show, November 15, 1983 9:30am-12:30pm 20:28 (skimmer)
-- Ross Hunter Morning Show, November 24, 1983 (skimmer) 2:48
-- Mark Johnson, Top 83 of 1983, December 31, 1983 7-8:30pm 1:32:55
-- Mark Johnson, Top 83 of 1983, December 31, 1983 8:20-9:50pm 1:31:52
-- Mark Johnson, Top 83 of 1983, December 31, 1983 9:51-11:39pm 1:26:35
-- Mark Johnson, Top 83 of 1983, December 31, 1983 11:40pm-12:06am 1:31:52

1984
-- Phil Goodwin Morning Show, December ??, 1984 8:25-8:35am 11:51
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, December 26, 1984 7:30-8:30am 1:37:02

1985
-- Ross Hunter, Morning Show, July 4, 1985. John Lee is doing the news. During this time WJMA FM had changed call letters to WVJZ FM. 2:00