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Contact News: The Year Enders

WKNR News Year in Review Albums

The morgue. In the radio news biz, that's the place where you save all the raw tape, the typed copy and the actualities that contributed to each daily newscast. At the end of each year, news departments would cull the highlights for a special broadcast retrospective of the year that was.

From 1965 through 1970, WKNR News went a step beyond putting the program on the air. At the station's expense hundreds of albums were pressed each year with a commercial-free 45 minute summary of the people, places, events and attitudes that contributed to our history as seen from the newsroom at 15001 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn. Anchored by WKNR News Director Philip Nye, these LPs are now collectors items and have been utilized by current day broadcasters to look back at what Detroit was like in the 60s.

WKNR Newsman John Maher (Meagher) collected most of them and sent us rips of the 1965 through 1968 LPs which can be heard by clicking the MP3 links, below. If you have a copy of the 1969 or 1970 albums, we'd love to add them to the Contact News aircheck archives. 

1965 Part 1 - 1965 Part 2 - 1966 Part 1 - 1966 Part 2 - 1967 Part 1 - 1967 Part 2 - 1968 Part 1 - 1968 Part 2 - 1969 - 1970 Part 1 - 1970 Part 2
Each file is roughly 11MB MP3