RE: Manchester oldies

["Gary F" <gff@mediaone.net>]

I really disagree with Gavin on this one.  I find WQLL to be a much better
oldies station than WNNH.  WNNH leaves out a lot of music because Clark
(owner) doesn't like it.  WQLL has a much wider playlist and plays more
music per hour than WNNH.  WQLL also doesn't interrupt their flow at a
crucial daypart like WNNH does to simulcast Ch 9 TV news (that one has never
made any sense to me at all!)
The only big mistake I thing WQLL makes is ignoring the Massachusetts area
of the Merrimack Valley where their signal is very strong.  They could be
serving a much wider area than they are.

- -gary
former WNNH mid-day guy and production director


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Gavin
B. Burt
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 7:52 AM
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: Manchester oldies


Formatically, WQLL is much more focused than WNNH is.

This was written by someone into the
Boston-Radio-Interest mailing list.  While I may just
be a 19 year- old who is too young to know anything
about oldies, I certainly like WNNH more than WQLL for
the following reason:  They play more oldies, which
translates to my listening longer.  On stations that
are like WQLL, I don't bother listening past the
commercial because I know the chances are better than
2 to 1 that the next song that comes on will be a
burnout.  Come to think of it, I wouldn't bother
listening to WQLL period.

That is what I believe is wrong with Albany radio.
How can people stand to hear "Brown-Eyed Girl" played
on five stations, ten times a day?  I can't.  But I
hear quite a lot about how "it works".  Maybe it does,
but if everyone were a button pusher like I am, how
would advertisers survive?

No, maybe WNNH isn't very focused when it comes to
oldies.  But then one could might that about another
great station, WCKM in Lake George, N.Y.  But the
advertisers of both stations will get heard by me.

Gavin Burt, Burt, Burt (sorry, just being like our
local radio stations)
gbbradio@yahoo.com

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