Top 40 competitors

[Roger Kolakowski]

Springfield was almost a "Hartford / Springfield" market as I remember it,
with WHYN winning South of the city...

Roger
WA1KAT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SteveOrdinetz" <hykker@grolen.com>
To: "Boston Radio Interest Board"
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: Top 40 competitors


> Rick Kelly wrote:
> >On 6/15/06, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Following up on Boom Boom Brannigan's years at WPTR when it was a Top 40
> >>station:  I'm curious about the ratings wars that existed in metro areas
> >>such as Albany, Hartford, Providence, Portland, Manchester, and Boston
back
> >>when each of those cities had (in most cases) two dominant Top 40
stations.
> >>In Albany-Schenectady-Troy, for example, which station carried the top
> >>ratings most of the time --- WPTR or WTRY?   Can anyone comment on the
other
> >>aforementioned cities, and others?
> >
> >In Albany, WTRY dominated, although WPTR had the occasional "bump".
> >In Hartford, WDRC dominated.
>
> Funny how perception differs from reality...I grew up in small-town
> southern Vt. where WPTR boomed in (so to speak) and WTRY was barely
audible
> I always thought WPTR was the market leader.  Likewise in Buffalo, from
> what I hear some little graveyard channel station was a major thorn in
> WKBW's side.  Of course outside the metro KB's superior signal won out.
>
> WKBR pretty much owned Manchester thru the 60s into the mid 70s despite
> WFEA having a better signal.
>
>