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WHOT was the ONLY station in New York City really having fun on the air in the eighties. Believe me, if you grew up listening to the All Americans and the Good Guys you immediately took to "The Hot One" on first listen. The music, the personality, the phone calls - THE FUN WAS BACK IN RADIO!!!  For NINE straight years, WHOT captured the essence of everything that had been lost to the over-commercialism of Top 40 and even Oldies radio.
I can't say enough about the chemistry of Hank Hayes, Jim Nazium, Pete Sayek, and the countless other voices that graced the HOT microphones during their reign as Kings of New York underground radio! You never tuned away from these guys, because "if you miss a little, you miss a lot" as Jim often said. Living in Connecticut back then, and out of reach of a reliable signal, I would sometimes drive to Brooklyn on weekend late-nites (with a stop at Nathan's in Coney Island, of course) JUST TO HEAR The Hot One. I guess you could say I was a little crazy, heck I still am! - Jay Fink Program Director WRIP Catskill, NY

WHOT's First Annual "Bob Murphy Day" - July 5th, 1988

Continuing WHOT's "Holiday Spectacular" tradition of weekend-long marathon broadcasts,  Hank Hayes is in the broadcast booth along with veteran broadcasting partners Pete Sayek and Tommy Edison. All huge fans of the New York Metropolitans Baseball Organization, and especially play-by-play announcer Bob Murphy. As usual there's a party going on in the studio background. You'll hear Terry Walker, Ivan Jeffries, Joann Rose and her sister Karen going wild! This the debut of "Bob Murphy Day" at The Hot One. We love him and miss him, and on this show we all became him!  This particular aircheck shows the essence of what "The Hot One" was all about:  music; fun; and Bob Murphy forever. 

I'd like to extend my sincere gratitude to my good friends Bill DeFelice, and Joe E. Reynolds for this once-lost aircheck of WHOT. Without them none of this would have been possible (in more ways than one!) As Bob Murphy would have said, "Thank you SO much, and so very much!"

The story of Brooklyn Pirate Radio WHOT is a big one - and more of it is in its way - stay tuned and go wild with Hank Hayes!