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February 3, 2015 By Lou Leave a Comment

We now have a Twitter account set up. The plan is to set it up to automatically send out a tweet when something new is added on here.

Follow us: @TopHour.

New Server, New IDs

December 19, 2013 By Scott Leave a Comment

If you’re seeing this, you’re seeing Toppy in its new incarnation on a new server. We’re now hosted by Lance Venta and RadioInsight.com, which is quickly becoming the community for radio people. (Have you checked out the conversations at the RadioInsight Community yet? It’s where most of the talk from the old RadioDiscussions/Radio-Info boards has gone, and we’d love to have you join us there.)

So where were we? Oh yes – over at Tower Site of the Week, we’ve been showing you some of the pictures we took in and around Boston in the fall of 2011 (see some AM sites here, and some FMs here).

Here on Toppy, our big ID dump to launch the new server includes not only lots of Boston, but also a bunch of IDs on the way from here to there, including Worcester, Springfield, Utica and Syracuse. Enjoy!

So Long, Farewell, Auf Weidersehen, Goodbye

July 5, 2010 By Brian 1 Comment

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

As we were saying…

June 28, 2010 By Lance Venta Leave a Comment

We apologize for the brief interruption in Toppy service over the weekend. As you’ve probably gathered by now, there are some changes going on here at Toppy-land, as new management settles in here at the site.

Fortunately, it’s very friendly new management. After many years as the head honcho of all legal-ID-dom, Toppy founder Brian Davis is handing off the reins to fybush.com, the web’s premiere destination for radio geekdom.

Over the next year or so, Toppy will become more fully integrated into fybush.com (or perhaps vice versa), providing you with one-stop shopping for tower site photos, legal IDs and the latest radio industry news and information.

All the radio goodness you’ve come to expect from Toppy will stay right here, and I’m looking forward to working with Lou, Jeff, Blaine, Bill and of course Brian himself to maintain the quality of the Toppy experience.

We’ll even be re-opening the inbox pretty soon.

It should be a fun ride. Thanks for coming along with us!

Scott Fybush
Slightly shellshocked new proprietor
Tophour.com

Happy Holiday Hiatus

December 22, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Ah, alliteration…the mark of the true radio nerd.

Toppy will be taking the rest of the year off as we get rested and ready for a big 2010.

Happy Holiday-Of-Your-Choice and we’ll see you next week!

Howdy, (New) Partner!

November 10, 2009 By Brian

As you may have caught on Sunday, we are welcoming a new name to the Toppy fold: welcome Bill Harms, who has become the sixth Tophour editor and will be posting his wares on Sundays. Here’s Mr. Bill in his own words:

I am a radio nut! Although I have not made a career of broadcasting, I have always loved radio. I am an avid DXer, especially any broadcast station on any band.

On a more personal level, I am a middle aged Grandpa who has been married to the same sweet woman for over 30 years. She more than tolerates my radio obsession, and has accompanied me on many of my forays to visit radio stations and record TOH IDs.

Including DX catches, I have over 5000 unique radio station recordings. Of course, not all of them are TOHs or good quality. Right now, I am concentrating on parts of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia which have not been covered. Additionally, I have recorded TOHs from other parts of the country and even some foreign stuff, including Korean stations with TOH IDs and call letters.

I am looking forward to participating in this project and hope to have lots of fun.

On another note, we will be reopening the site to contributions in the near future. Stay tuned for an announcement on that later in the week.

Welcome, Bill!

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