Re: WICE and early top-40

[dbassett@sover.net (Doug Bassett)]

On Sunday, August 3, 1997 SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>At 01:17 AM 8/3/97 -0400, Donna Halper wrote:
>
>>Speaking of stations we don't talk much about, how about WSAR?  "Fall
>>River's famous W S A R" went the singing jingle... there were a number of
>>important smaller market top-40 stations in the 50s and 60s. And whatever
>>did happen to WORC's Honest Dick Smith?  I recall from some of my record
>>promoter friends that WORC and WSAR actually broke some hits back in the
>>60s...  
>>
>>
>Never got to hear too much of them growing up in Springfield, Vt. with WCFR
>also on 1480.  'CFR was a daytimer, but the frequency was kind of a
>graveyard channel at night.  Do have a brief aircheck of them (WSAR) from
>early '70.
>
>Actually, in those days the smaller markets were where the hits were first
>played...the bigger markets kept tabs on what was happening in the
>small-to-midsize markets for hits they didn't want to go out on a limb on.
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but at one time weren't the calls of 1480 in Fall
River WCFR?

Doug Bassett
WKVT AM/FM
Brattleboro, Vt.


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