WJBR Radio Wilmington, Delaware

WJBR airchecks 1981 - 1985. AM 1290 and FM 99.5. Recorded from northeast Philadelphia. I always got a buzz-like hum from the AM signal where I was. The AM was 1,000 watts daytime only. I was just inside their 50 uv/m signal radius. The October 26, 1981 segment includes a sign-off of the AM station at 00:25.

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• WJBR
• 1290
• AM
• 99.5
• FM
• radio
• aircheck
• Wilmington
• Delaware
• Just Beautiful Radio

[staticmunk7777]

i love this sweet staticy am radio sounds beautiful to ehar good am radio perfect amount of static too just perfection at it's finest

[thespeez]

As I understand, WJBR-AM went to Nostalgia by late 1982 with the FM going mainstream Adult Contemporary about three years later. Interesting airchecks, but I feel Trad-EZ was a format that needed to be killed! Most of the material they played consisted exclusively of instrumental and choral covers of pop songs, and IMO were cheap, cut-rate imitations! If these stations had played more original material, they wouldn't have had the need to be put out of their misery!

[MidAtlanticGal]

WJBR and Baltimore's WLIF (my local soft rock station) have a similar format but WJBR plays a better variety of artists.

[electronmusicjunkie]

The old days of WJBR from my teenage years. Always like them better that EAZY 101 here in Philly when both were pumping out elevator music . Even today with both stations playing the same format but with soft rock, 99.5 I feel is better than B101. I recall in Sept of 1985 when JBR FM switched to Soft Rock, WEAZ Easy 101 had a recorded message that aired on 99.5 telling the people who liked the beautiful music format music to tune in EASY101.