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A long, long time ago in a galaxy very similar to ours.... It all began near Hartford, Connecticut when Ed Brouder started taping local radio stations in the 1960s. He was - and is - most interested in airchecks from WDRC and WPOP. He's never yet found an aircheck of Colonel Cal Kolby on Big D, or Joey Reynolds on the New WPOP; have you? Ed's ears perk up when rare Hartford airchecks surface.

Check Ed's Hartford tribute sites.

 
WDRCOBG.COM WPOP Tribute site NH Association of Broadcasters Alumni link
  Ed's broadcast career began in 1972. Early on he spent a summer ringing Nutmeg State doorbells looking for candy bars from the M&M/Mars company for a WDRC promotion. The Man From Mars nickname stuck and that's what he called his audio production studio when it opened in 1981. Man From Mars business card
link to WZID web site

When he's not dubbing airchecks he can be found producing commercials and radio documentaries like the one which earned a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in 1976 for WGIR Manchester, N.H.

Today, Ed keeps his hand in radio part time. New Hampshire hears him five days a week as morning drive traffic reporter at 95.7 WZID and news editor at AM 1370 WFEA.

link to WFEA tower history

article on WFEA's 70th anniversary

  He is chairman of New Hampshire's Emergency Communications Committee which oversees the Emergency Alert System (formerly EBS). Click to visit the NHAB EAS pages.  

 

Hear NH Public Radio's interview with Ed on airchecking (March 11, 2003)

The text of Ed Brouder's article on aircheck collecting in the May, 1998 issue of Discoveries

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