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But it's a dry heat!

Scott — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:52:34 +0000

According to the good folks at the Weather Channel, as I type this right now, it's 87 degrees and partly cloudy in Phoenix, Arizona - while here in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where I'm sitting, it's 85 and partly cloudy. I think I'd prefer Phoenix, honestly...

In any event, this week's run of Phoenix IDs is part two of three, filling in most of the FMs that transmit from the massive South Mountain tower farm, which you'll see starting Friday over on Tower Site of the Week.

Phoenix, from Indianapolis

Scott — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:52:25 +0000

Outside, it looks like the biggest city in Indiana - but while I'm on the road grabbing lots of new Indy IDs for a future edition of Toppy, let's start the ball rolling on a big batch of Phoenix IDs. (Accompanying photos over at Tower Site of the Week...)

From the Top, Beginning with A

Bill — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:55:24 +0000

Thanks to Greg Coniglio, this week we have a bunch of neat clips from four markets that begin with the letter "A." They are the Aberdeen SD (new to TOPPY), the Alamogordo-Ruidoso-Socorro-Truth-or-Consequences NM (also new to TOPPY), the Albany NY, and the Albuquerque-Santa Fe NM markets.

We will be adding some more clips from Greg in future weeks. Stay tuned.

Enjoy.

Bill

Central New York is lovely this time of year

Scott — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:35:27 +0000

So why am I headed to the midwest for the next three weeks? Something about in-laws and grandkids and such...and the chance to grab still more IDs from Blaine-land and vicinity.

But before pointing the Toppy-mobile (which looks oddly like the NERW-mobile) westward into Ohio and Indiana and Michigan, how about some (nearly) hometown IDs?

This week, just enough Binghamton to fill out a complete run of the market's IDs for the very first time - plus still more from the Ithaca and Geneva markets, too!

Next up on the summer Toppy agenda from this end (with corresponding installments of Tower Site of the Week): lots and lots of Arizona, California and Nevada from a semi-Big Trip last year, followed by big gobs of Wisconsin and Minnesota from an even bigger trip last summer. Stay tuned...

Motown Special

Bill — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:57:41 +0000

Thanks to Greg Coniglio, we have the pleasure of hearing several TOH IDs from Motown (Detroit). I am also including three of my own.

For a bonus, we also feature a clip from the Baton Rogue market and the second HD4 ID in the USA (WBAL-AM/WIYY-HD4 from Baltimore.)

Enjoy yourself.

A fond farewell

Scott — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:59:30 +0000

So here's the deal: I'm just the temporary custodian keeping things running here at Toppy.

He may try to deny it, and he may say he's handed over the reins (and the bills!), but this site will always owe a huge debt to Brian Davis, and his fingerprints will always be all over it. I hope we'll continue to see the Ex-Bossman around here more often than not, now that he's out from under the burden of running the place.

And by way of a going-away present, here's my offering -

No need to worry about not having put up a good run of recent IDs from your own home market, Mr. Davis: this week, we're bringing Appleton-Green Bay-Oshkosh, Wisconsin (almost) up to date with the near-complete set of IDs I recorded there during a brief stopover 'twixt Minnesota and Fort Wayne last summer.

May the ID always hit at 59:50, may your tapes never jam, and may all your "-FM" suffixes, or the lack thereof, be correct, my friend...and thanks for trusting me with your baby. I'll try not to break it!

DALLAS-FORT WORTH PART TWO

Bill — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:32:09 +0000

This week, we present 17 clips of FM stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth Market. We have Greg Coniglio to thank for two of these clips. The remaining 15 were recorded by yours truly over the Memorial Day Weekend in 2004.

Let me take a few words to let Brian know that I really like the concept of this site and really appreciate his efforts to keep this site going. I have known Brian for only a short time, but I can feel for and share his enthusiasm for radio.

Enjoy

So Long, Farewell, Auf Weidersehen, Goodbye

Brian — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:52:38 +0000

Like Scott mentioned last month, I have retired from Toppy and have turned the site over to Senor Fybush. Toppy turned eight last year, and like a good Dick Van Patten dramedy, eight is enough for me. Before I disappear, however, I do want to take a second to thank everyone who helped the site during my tenure, whether with contributions or ideas or whatever. I've made a lot of friends from the site, and it's been great fun. Thanks also to Lou, Scott, Blaine, Jeff and Bill for being wonderful co-conspirators.

I have several boxes of tapes in my home office that I need to get through and discard, so this won't be the last time you see my name around here...it's just next time, it'll be as a contributor and not a JWRTP*.

Thanks again, friends. It's been a ride.

* Jerk Who Runs The Place

Odds & Ends

Jeff — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:19:03 +0000

It's been way too long since I've posted, but I finally had some time on a Saturday to put something together! Enjoy some new IDs from New London-Eastern CT and Worcester. Also, there's one ID each from Burlington, Pittsfield, Poughkeepsie, and even an old AM Stereo recording I found of WJR in Detroit.

Serving New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Scott — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:40:21 +0000

It's something of a grab-bag this week, as we dig into the backlog pile to pull out some new (to Toppy, anyway) IDs from New York City, which is also the focus of this week's Tower Site of the Week.

But wait - there's more! We also have some goodies from the nearby Monmouth-Ocean NJ market, and some upstate IDs from Syracuse NY, Elmira NY and (hey, it's almost upstate New York) Erie, Pennsylvania, where we caught an odd ID indeed: WMCE 88.5 ID'ing only its translator, W285AI, and not its primary signal.