Re: WHCN as we knew it is blown up

[Norm Rosen <inorm99@earthlink.net>]

You mean Zarkov is no longer calling earth?

Matthew Osborne wrote:

> 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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