Gtr Media stations

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

"The curse of Hoffman" might just be broken if GM extricated the WBOS calls
from the 92.9 dial position.

But I cannot imagine GM tossing the 'BOS calls altogether....

IMHO, WKLB and its Country format should stay right at 99.5.

GM should "hook-up" WBOS at 96.9 with an R&B Oldies format (similar to  1150
has now and sadly is about to dump for espanol...que malo!) and move 'SJZ to
92.9, to try to "shake up" both stations...

Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH


- -----Original Message-----
From:	owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On Behalf Of Joseph
Gallant
Sent:	Wednesday, November 18, 1998 1:10 PM
To:	bluesradio_99@yahoo.com; fybush@world.std.com;
boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org; notquite@hotmail.com
Subject:	Re: WCOP and the lawsuit.

Here's more about Country radio:
The old WCOP dropped country for top-40 and the call letters WACQ
in May of 1977.
The lawsuit tookplace after that. The airtime purchase on WDLW-1330
(which had just been re-named, it was WHET and, after droppping it's
big-band/standards format in May, 1978, went beautiful music for 9
months, then a second-rate, low-budget top-40/AC format as of
February, 1979) began in the spring of 1979, and aired on weekends.
Within five months, Anthony Macaroni-Spaghetti (that's a sarcastic
note because of his dumping the big-band/standards format; his real
name was Anthony Martin Trigona) decided to hire the people who did
the weekend country block in September, 1979. At that point, WDLW
went country (I think it was 19 hours a day at first as I thought
WDLW aired Larry King's Mutual radio show overnights) full-time. For
a few years, WDLW was moderately successful, getting 1.7's and 2's
(in 12+ overall) in the Arbritrons, quite an accomoplishment for a 5-
kilowatt AM with a very directional signal. In fact, I don't think
the 1330 frequency ever had ratings that high before or since.
In 1983, WBOS-FM went country, and remained in that format for almost
the rest of the decade (dropping country in '89). WDLW remained a
country station for a few years, but then became "Showbiz Radio"
WRCA around 1988.
Ironically, had WDLW remained country for another year, it might
have benefitted when WBOS-FM dumped country in 1989, and might have
remained a country station until 1993 or 1994.
Of course, when WBOS-FM dropped country, C & W fans (in the immediate
Boston area) had to get better FM radios and/or better FM antennas to
receive WCAV-FM Brockton (back then LOCALLY PROGRAMMED!), if they were
in Boston or points south; or WOKQ-FM in New Hampshire if they were
north of Boston.
There was WKKU-1510 which was a country station from 1990 to 1993,
(and for one season, the Boston affiliate for Campbell Sports' Bruins
broadcasts) until WVBF-FM 105.7 became WKLB 105.7.
Speculation: After seeing a 12+ Arbritron rundown of the 1998 Summer
quarter in a recent issue of Billboard magazine, and noting WBOS had
the lowest 12+ ratings of any "big-signal" Boston-area FM outlet,
could WKLB-FM be on the move again, this time to 92.9 to take advan-
tage of a stronger signal in Boston and on the South Shore? Could WBOS'
current format be moving to 99.5? Or will that format--and the most
desirable call letters in the market--soon disappear?
Joseph Gallant
<notquite@hotmail.com>

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