Like the old times at WBLM

[Daniel Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Pierce" <DSLRPIERCE@peoplepc.com>
To: "Daniel Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>; 
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Like the old times at WBLM


> My first radio job was at WCOU-AM/WAYU-FM in 1981.  Back then, the AM was 
> a CHR format and the FM was an automated Country station.  In 1982 we 
> switched the CHR to the FM as "94 Rock" and put the AM on the bird (I 
> forget the format or provider).

At some point in the 80's, WAYU got a power increase and started to 
broadcast from the old WBLM tower in Litchfield.

When I was at WAYU, the FM was country and the AM was nostalgia off the 
bird.  When Steve came in, he changed the format to "Hit Country" and tried 
to make the format more hip.  Two or three years later all country stations 
had taken such an approach, though with much tighter play lists than Steve 
favored.