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Markets with Two Classic Rock Stations

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Gregg.

There aren't many. But a few cities have two Classic Rock stations. Often one will rock harder and one will go more pop. Or one will play 1960s to 1990s, while the other goes with more recent Classic Rock.

Boston: WZLX...iHeart...#4 tie -- WBOS...Beasley...#19 -- WBOS rocks a little harder with more recent Classic Rock.

Denver: KQMT...Audacy...#3 -- KRFX...iHeart...#7 -- KQMT leans slightly more pop, KRFX is a bit harder edged.

Portland OR: KGON...Audacy #5 -- KFBW...iHeart #5 -- How funny. Both Classic Rock stations are in a tie! KGON is the one with decades of heritage.

Salt Lake City: KRSP...Bonneville #8 -- KAAZ...iHeart #18 -- KAAZ started out as harder-edged classic rock but may have shifted to some current and recent titles.

Charlotte: WRFX...iHeart #8 tie -- WXRC...local owner, does not subscribe

Portland ME: WBLM...Townsquare #1 tie -- WFNK...local owner #4 -- WFNK leans more pop and calls itself "Classic Hits." But it is a rock station. WBLM leans a little harder but not by much. Both stations are 100,000 watts.
 
Phoenix:
KSLX 100.7 covers the entire valley (and then some) from South Mountain.
KYOT 95.5, another South Mountain stick, is kinda between Classic Rock and something a bit newer.
KBSZ 1260/97.3 in the East Valley, transmitting from Apache Jct (AM) and northeast Mesa (FM).
KCDX 103.1 Florence skirts the East Valley, but is essentially the owner's personal jukebox. It qualifies as Classic Rock, IMHO.
 
Gregg. said:
There aren't many. But a few cities have two Classic Rock stations. Often one will rock harder and one will go more pop. Or one will play 1960s to 1990s, while the other goes with more recent Classic Rock.

Boston: WZLX...iHeart...#4 tie -- WBOS...Beasley...#19 -- WBOS rocks a little harder with more recent Classic Rock.

Denver: KQMT...Audacy...#3 -- KRFX...iHeart...#7 -- KQMT leans slightly more pop, KRFX is a bit harder edged.

Portland OR: KGON...Audacy #5 -- KFBW...iHeart #5 -- How funny. Both Classic Rock stations are in a tie! KGON is the one with decades of heritage.

Salt Lake City: KRSP...Bonneville #8 -- KAAZ...iHeart #18 -- KAAZ started out as harder-edged classic rock but may have shifted to some current and recent titles.

Charlotte: WRFX...iHeart #8 tie -- WXRC...local owner, does not subscribe

Portland ME: WBLM...Townsquare #1 tie -- WFNK...local owner #4 -- WFNK leans more pop and calls itself "Classic Hits." But it is a rock station. WBLM leans a little harder but not by much. Both stations are 100,000 watts.
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KFBW is more likely to play a 90s or later song.
 
Although FM 99 WNOR out of Norfolk, VA is labeled as Active Rock, it sure plays a lot of older songs. It's my understanding that due to a lack of suitable new material, Active Rockers have had to fill in the gaps with older songs. This allows FM 99 and its sister station Classic Rock 106.9 The Fox, to complement each other. They almost seem to work together as one, if that make sense.
 
I haven't checked lately but at one time Myrtle Beach SC had WYAV "Wave 104", which is regular classic rock. and WRXZ "Rock 107" which is "classic rock that really rocks". WRXZ was mainstream at one time and might have gone back to that. Not sure whether it was ever active but it played a lot of those songs.
 
Hartford, CT, has no classic rocker of its own (WHCN is rock-leaning classic hits) but both WPLR New Haven and WAQY Springfield, MA, show up monthly in its beauty pageant numbers. They are basically the same station, playlist-wise.
 
Tampa Bay has WXGL ("classic hits" but is practically classic rock) and WPBB (a harder-edged station focused on 80s/90s).

The [immediate] San Francisco Bay Area has KSAN and KUFX, with the latter being more focused on San Jose and its environs despite having studios in Daly City.
 
In the Hartford area, you can get four classic rock stations, although each serves a different area of Southern New England:

102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford
102.1 WAQY Springfield
99.1 WPLR New Haven
95.1 WRKI Brookfield
 
Gregg. said:
In the Hartford area, you can get four classic rock stations, although each serves a different area of Southern New England:

102.9 WDRC-FM Hartford
102.1 WAQY Springfield
99.1 WPLR New Haven
95.1 WRKI Brookfield
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True. I was in Meriden and received all four, the first three with signals strong enough to be heard well inside a brick building. I needed to be in the car to get I-95.

Now I'm in the Upper Valley (eastern Vermont) and can get only one classic rocker (WHDQ Lebanon, NH) at home or in the car. But the dial is dotted with no less than six country stations, three local or semi-local and three fringe. Much of Connecticut is limited to WWYZ for country music, as there isn't much overlap with either WRNX from Amherst, MA, or WCTY from Norwich, CT.
 
I forgot Asheville NC. WQNS "Rock 105.1" reduced its power so I don't pick it up any more since I don't change stations in Asheville other than the oldies station which is a translator, and once I can't pick it up any more it's back to classic country. I tend to forget about that one, but WTMT "105.9 The Mountain" used to be "Everything That Rocks" (mainstream). Now it's classic, although it may rock harder than the other one.
 
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