DJ AIR CHECK ALAN FREED "WINS NYC"

A 90 minute air check (poor quality) of The Alan Freed Show on WINS, New York City in April of 1955. WINS eventually became an around-the-clock Top 40 rock and roll radio station, and would remain so until April 19, 1965, long after Freed left and three months after he had died—when it became an all-news outlet. Earlier, in 1956, Freed had hosted "Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party"

DJ air check "Alan Freed WINS"

 

A poor reception air check of an hour of the Alan Freed Show on WINS 1010 New York City on March 22, 1955. Freed was hired by WINS radio in in September of 1954.. The following January he held a landmark dance there, promoting black performers as rock and roll artists. Within a month, the music industry was advertising "rock and roll" records in the trade papers.