Stations that couldn't hack it (was FOX Manchester, N.H.)

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 09:12 AM 8/2/97 -0700, Dan Cole wrote:

>> 
>> WSTG in Hampton was another one.....Can anyone else add any?

>
>WVNH, Salem, NH,  in 1977.  Signed on in January.  Half the staff fired
>in February when the owners didn't immediately make all their money
>back.
>They were comprised mostly of local business and political types who
>knew nothing about radio...and it didn't take them long to run the
>station into the ground.
>

Realistically, did the station ever have a chance?  1977 was about the time
that FM really started to take off....even stations like WRKO with good
programming and a good signal were beginning to feel the pain.  WVNH had
neither.  Weren't they doing some form of Adult Standards when they first
signed on?

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