WCCC-FM (was Re: Howie Carr remembers the heyday of WBCN)

[Peter Q. George]

BTW:  Here's the FCC coverage area for WCCC-FM

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM580030.html


Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"

radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Peter Q. George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Q. George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>
> Subject: WCCC-FM (was Re: Howie Carr remembers the heyday of WBCN)
> To: "Ted Larsen"torchia@technologist.com"" <tlmedia@triad.rr.com>, "A. Joseph Ross" <Joe@attorneyross.com>
> Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 2:16 PM
> Hello, Bud,
> 
> WCCC-FM 106.9 comes in just fine in Westfield, it always
> has.  It's only 10 miles west of Springfield and less
> than 35 miles North from Hartford.  The AM on the other
> hand was always weak, and nobody listened to it.  But
> if you had a decent AM radio, you could hear it somewhat.
> But the AM was always ID'ed on both AM and FM. But in answer
> to your comments, most people on campus at WSC back in '79
> listened to either WCCC-FM 106.9 or WAAF 107.3 (which today
> 'AAF no longer covers the area after their transmitter site
> moved).
> 
> In fact, virtually every Hartford station (Class B FM) like
> WDRC-FM, WTIC-FM, WHCN-FM comes in fine in Amherst.  In
> fact, I was driving to Amherst two weeks ago and listened to
> WDRC-FM 102.9 from Palmer, MA all the way to Amherst and
> never lost it.  Got 'DRC-FM in full Stereo all the way
> up UMass Amherst.  Sounds to me like you might have a
> receiver or antenna problem.   
> 
> BTW: I lived in Western Massachusetts from '77-'80 and
> 'CCC-FM was a favorite of mine. And I've been in this
> businesss for 32 years, so I DO know what stations cover
> where. 73.
> 
>     
> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
> "Scanning the bands since 1967"
> 
> radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Bud Torchia <torchia@technologist.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Bud Torchia <torchia@technologist.com>
> > Subject: RE: WCCC
> > To: radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
> > Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:46 AM
> > Quoting
> > your posting on Boston radio group: 
> >   "Yup.  It is the
> > same WCCC you remember as a student at UMass.  I
> was 
> > 
> > a regular listener to CCC while I went to school at
> > Westfield State 
> > 
> > College back in in the 70's."
> > 
> > My comment: 
> > If you attended Westfield State which is west of
> > Springfield, and WCCC-AM can just
> > 
> > about cover the metro Hartford Market, and WCCC-FM
> can
> > barely cover Hartford County,  how could
> > 
> > you have possibly listened to either station in
> Westfield,
> > Massachusetts!  I have my doubts as well if 
> > 
> > Joe Ross could hear either station In Amherst as
> well.
> > 
> > I never have heard of anyone getting the WCCC carrier
> up
> > the Connecticut river valley that well.
> > 
> > 
> > Bud Torchia (who, up until five years ago lived in
> West
> > Hartford.) 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
>                
>            "Scanning the
> bands since 1967"
> radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
> radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
> ***********************************************************
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/20/09, A. Joseph Ross <Joe@attorneyross.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: A. Joseph Ross <Joe@attorneyross.com>
> > Subject: Re: Howie Carr remembers the heyday of WBCN
> > To: "Ted Larsen" <tlmedia@triad.rr.com>
> > Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> > Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 3:44 PM
> > On 20 Jul 2009 Ted Larsen wrote:
> > 
> > > Seeing WCCC certainly brings back some long
> forgotten
> > memories. I was
> > > dating my future wife who lived in NYC and I was
> > always driving my VW
> > > Beetle from Boston to the Big Apple when the
> station
> > was all classical
> > > which I liked. Their format was called "The Hot
> 100."
> > When CCC was out
> > > of range I'd switch to WCBS for all-news.
> >  
> > Wasn't there a WCCC in Hartford in the mid-1960s? 
> > Seems to me I 
> > heard an FM station with that or similar call letters
> when
> > I was at 
> > UMass then.
> > 
> > -- 
> > A. Joseph Ross, J.D.         
> >          617.367.0468
> > 92 State Street, Suite 700       
> >     Fax: 617.507.7856
> > Boston, MA 02109-2004       
> >    http://www.attorneyross.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
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