"It's the programming, stupid!"

[Kevin Vahey]

One reason why WHIL-FM limped along with country was that at night WCOP
(1150) could not be heard north of Revere.

The old WHIL-AM had one show with a huge audience in the late afternoon -
the racing results from Suffolk Downs or Rockingham. The race results was a
big deal in the 50's and 60's as that is how the 'street number' was
calculated before the state lottery came to be. The old Record-American
also printed 2 editions based on the horse results - the 7 Races and Payoff
edition.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Jim Hall <aerie.ma@comcast.net> wrote:

> Was the former WHIM in Providence (1110 AM) co-owned with WHIL during the
> country music years? They also programmed country music and given the
> similarity in the call letters I am wondering if they had the same
> ownership. I vaguely remember reading that the reason WHIL went country was
> that it had been successful in Providence for WHIM.
>
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> From: Kevin Vahey [mailto:kvahey@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:15 AM
> To: Jim Hall
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: "It's the programming, stupid!"
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>
> The wiki history says the switch from WHIL country to WWEL happened in late
> 1972 which is how I remember it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXKS-FM
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> WWEL tried to make a big splash with quadraphonic sound which went nowhere.
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> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Jim Hall <aerie.ma@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > It was still WHIL-FM at the time, with the FM antenna still in Medford,
> so
> > it didn't get out as far as WXKS-FM does now from the Pru.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
> > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > Bob DeMattia
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 7:53 AM
> > To: boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org
> > Subject: Re: "It's the programming, stupid!"
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > * 107.9 still country*
> > >
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> >
> > I recall 107.9 was WWEL trying to complete against WJIB with beautiful
> > music. I don't ever remember it being country.
> >
> >
> > To make the picture more complete, you could also add the dozens of local
> > /1kw stations like WJDA and WESX  that are now satellite fed and/or
> > brokered.  These stations may never have been tops in the ratings but in
> > local communities, their ratings were pretty good.
> >
> >
> > -Bob
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