Re: WHCN as we knew it is blown up

[Matthew Osborne <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 Martin Waters
<martinjwaters@yahoo.com> wrote:
>    Sometime Friday (I'm pretty certain) the run of
> WHCN 105.9 Hartford as the market's original
> progressive rock / later classic rock station ended.
> Cheap Channel turned it into "the river" or "the new
> river," although I guess "river" can be any format
> you
> want.

<snip>

>    The new blurb at whcn.com lists the music as
> including Doobies, Aerosmith, Joel, Matchbox 20,
> Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones, Creed, Mellencamp,
> Zeppelin, Clapton, Goo Goo Dolls, Eagles, etc. It's
> more the mix -- much more recent-hits/pop-ish --
> that's different. And the bumpers are much more
> hit-radio up-beat style.

Sounds to me like what they've done at WRVE
Schenectady/Albany/Troy, NY.  Basically they've redone
their prefab "Mix" format with "River" liners and
such, but it is basically the same thing as their
"Mix" format you can hear and many many markets around
the country.  (WRVE was known as 'The River' before CC
bought them out and were actually pretty well known in
the market already, and the changes made to WRVE's
playlist by CC weren't that drastic from what they
were playng before so I guess they decided to leave
the "River" moniker intact)

                           Matt Osborne
                           Hyde Park, NY

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