American Top 40 in the Boston market

[A Joseph Ross]

I was aware of the WGNA call for some reason, but not the others.

My family moved from the Albany area in 1957, when I was in 6th grade.  
I liked to listen to WOKO when they had a regular weekly all-Elvis hour 
or two.   Elvis was at his height at the time and, as I said, I was in 
6th grade.

On 3/4/2021 11:27 PM, Dave Doherty wrote:
> WOKO was the first radio job I ever had. And, yes, it was 1460 in Albany, down the street from where I lived as a teenager in the late 1960s.
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> I worked at WOKO off and on for a couple of years through two owners, and it was an eye-opening experience in many ways.
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> The WOKO call sign went away in 1983 when the owner changed format to all-news WWCN. Since then, it went back to WOKO a year, then WGNA for about four years while it simulcast the FM of the same call, then Disney for over a decade as WDDY, and since 2014, it's been WOPG .
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> The Burlington FM picked up the WOKO call in 1990.
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> It was also used by an FM in Paxton, IL for about a year 1983-1984.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of A Joseph Ross
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2021 8:51 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: American Top 40 in the Boston market
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> WOKO?  I remember when that call was in Albany.  When did that change?
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> On 3/2/2021 4:49 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> <<On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:06:14 -0500, "James Duffy" <jimduffy75@gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> took over Countdown America.  This initiated several affiliate
>>> changes that did not all occur at once.  When Dick Clark moved to
>>> Countdown America in November of '85, WROR picked it up from top40 WHTT.
>> Did (CBS-owned) WHTT ever carry (CBS-syndicated) Top 40 Satellite
>> [sic] Survey with Dan Ingram in this timeframe?
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>> 		    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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>> Ingram's is the countdown show I remember most from growing up; it
>> aired on WQCR 98.9 in Burlington (now WOKO) -- and it was distributed
>> on a pair of long-playing discs, not satellite.  WQCR ran an illegal
>> contest when they were airing Ingram, call in Monday evening and name
>> the Nth song on Sunday's countdown and they would give you "all the
>> songs" on that week's chart -- by which they actually meant they would
>> give you the "destroy after air" syndication discs, complete with
>> Ingram's patter, commercials, prerecorded promos, and everything.[1]
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>> (I just got out my 1989 M Street Directory to see if Q-99 had switched
>> to WOKO by then, but they were still WQCR.  A quick rundown of the
>> Spring '88 Arbitron 12+ AQH ratings for the Burlington-Plattsburgh
>> market: WXXX 95.3, 19.8; WIZN 106.7, 16.9; WEZF 92.9, 14.1; WQCR 98.9,
>> 9.6; WJOY 1230, 9.0; WVMT 620, 7.3; WDOT 1390, 5.1; WLFE 102.3, 3.4.
>> Who gets ratings like that any more?  None of the Plattsburgh stations
>> made it into the Arbitron book, not even class-C WGFB 99.9.  WNCS was
>> still on 96.7 in Montpelier, an unrated market, and -- I did not know
>> this -- was apparently competing with WORK for the 104.7 allocation.
>> M Street also gives Birch ratings, which included non-commercial
>> stations, and Vermont Public Radio's WVPS got an 8.1 in the Spring '88
>> Birch book.[2])
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>> -GAWollman
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>> [1] The set that I received was, I think, lost in a flood in 1991.  I
>> can remember two bits of Ingram patter, one talking up Peter Gabriel's
>> "In Your Eyes" 'in your ears', and one talking up Sting's "Russians"
>> 'yes, the Russians _are_ coming'.  Unfortunately, these songs charted
>> about a year apart so I have no idea whether either one was on the
>> discs that I "won".
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>> [2] I'd love to see the intab for either of these surveys just to
>> assuage my curiosity about how much listenership CFQR, CJFM, and CHOM
>> were getting south of the 45th parallel, before all the drop-ins came
>> on the air and made those frequencies uncopyable.
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