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Remembering Hit Radio 103, WHTT

Retro said:
WKKT was only around for half a year or so. I think that it was originally WHUE, but do not quote me on that one. WHTT, on the other hand, lasted over 4 years, not including it's forerunner of WEEI-FM slowing morphing into the new calls for approximately for 6 Months also. And "Hit Radio" came in with a bang, catching the younger generation, as Kiss 108 continued on a much more adult learning, R&B induced CHR instead. For me, it was in-effect, WXKS-FM being what my parents listen too instead.
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I think 100.7 probably had one of the highest number of call letter changes since 1966, when they were WCOP-FM, "A broadcast service of Plough, Inc." WTTK, WSNY, WHUE, WCOZ (yes, for a few weeks in late '84-early '85), WKKT, and finally, WZLX.
 
nowradioguy said:
I think 100.7 probably had one of the highest number of call letter changes since 1966, when they were WCOP-FM, "A broadcast service of Plough, Inc." WTTK, WSNY, WHUE, WCOZ (yes, for a few weeks in late '84-early '85), WKKT, and finally, WZLX.
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And don't forget the bland AC format installed on 1150 AM after WCOP dropped country -- WACQ "The Station You Asked For." That was gone pretty quickly.
 
IIRC AM 1150 tried an all news format for a short period in the early 80's. I recall the minimal local news coverage was supplimented by the audio from CNN Headline News.
 
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Wimmmex said:
I thought it was Top 40...."Boston's New Q!"
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Was it? I don't recall much about it at all other than that "station you asked for" slogan. The music seemed nondescript to me. Maybe it was Top 40 and I just didn't give the station much of a chance to grow on me.
 
CTListener said:
Was it? I don't recall much about it at all other than that "station you asked for" slogan. The music seemed nondescript to me. Maybe it was Top 40 and I just didn't give the station much of a chance to grow on me.
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As I mentioned in my earlier post, they called themselves ‘Quality Rock’ on the air. I just couldn’t recall the call letters. I loved it! I would describe it as an early forerunner of the AAA formatted stations.

IIRC, it only lasted about 6 months before flipping to Oldies 103.
 
DavidZ said:
As I mentioned in my earlier post, they called themselves ‘Quality Rock’ on the air. I just couldn’t recall the call letters. I loved it! I would describe it as an early forerunner of the AAA formatted stations.

IIRC, it only lasted about 6 months before flipping to Oldies 103.
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Confusion has set in, and it's my fault. I mentioned WACQ 1150, the successor to WCOP(AM), and you are still stuck on WMRQ 100.7. Yes, I know 100.7 was "Quality Rock." That wasn't what was on 1150. I remembered that format as AC but apparently it was Top 40.
 
CTListener said:
Confusion has set in, and it's my fault. I mentioned WACQ 1150, the successor to WCOP(AM), and you are still stuck on WMRQ 100.7. Yes, I know 100.7 was "Quality Rock." That wasn't what was on 1150. I remembered that format as AC but apparently it was Top 40.
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You're both confused. WACQ was 1150 AM; don't know if it was also on 100.7 FM, which at that time, was sister to AM 1150. (This was all pre-duopoly.)

103.3 WMRQ was "Quality Rock". WMRQ was not on 100.7, AFAIK.
 
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