We couldn't decide where to place these audio samples, so they've found a home here on the Miscellaneous Audio Page.

Christmas Monday At One. Although Monday At One was a news or public affairs program, the last Monday prior to Christmas was a program hosted by Arch Harrison and devoted to the music of Alfred Burt. For many years Arch did the program live, but eventually it was put on tape and repeated each year. Records are incomplete, but it probably ran from 1970 to 1983. This the opening segment of the program.

1974 station identification (Ross Hunter)

1976 station identification (Ross Hunter)

1983 station identification (Ralph Graves)

1985 station identification (Lisa Blake)

The opening to Swap Shop

School lunch menus from October 10, 1973. Announcer Les Myers

For over 20 years Arch Harrison's noon Postscript to the News was a fixture on WJMA. Of the hundreds that dealt with the weighty issues to the day to the mundane, we have only found one that survives. In this one Arch is saying goodbye to staff announcer Mark Johnson on February 28, 1984.

Someone brought a rubber ducky to the radio station and it found a home in the control room. Among other things it was occasionally used as a time signal. We had a contest to name the rubber ducky. The name of the contest winner is lost to history, but the winning name remains: Woolfman Quack.

Here's the beginning to the long running Sunday morning church broadcast. The announcer is Mark Johnson.

Chet Burgess did the 5pm news as part of his duties as WJMA's News Director. When he left WJMA for WTAR, Norfolk in 1976, we surprised him by replacing the closing news theme with this collection of staff members, friends, and news contacts wishing him well.

Each Spring for a few years in the mid 1970s, someone on the air would "open" the WJMA swimming pool. Here's one opening of the pool from Russ Robert during a broadcast from the WJMA parking lot in 1975.

When there was a hint of snow in the weather forecast the radio station phones would start ringing with questions about school closings. In 1977 Arch Harrison recorded a plea to please don't call us.