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Hartford Ratings 11/2/23
- Thread starter MarcB
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Happy to see KoolRadio (WNTY-AM990 & FM Translator W241CG/Southington) go from a 0.2 - 0.8. Interesting that WRYM has has a N/A rating for months, then a 0.6 last month, & then an N/A this month
It's probably known well here that I've been away from radio paychecks for several months* now, so an idle, duh, Autumn 2023 question or two might be excused due to rustiness. Npw, I realize that there is only a finite number of format categories to go around ; that there exists frequent overlap in genres, especially for music stations. Labels can be confusing.
Well, the linked Hartford book in the O/P has WRCH listed as 'Adult Hits' instead of what I remember as being AC. So,
1. Does not being regarded as AC prohibit them from going All-Christmas? I thought only AC stations were allowed to do that. And heck, maybe they ARE caroling by now.
2. Can someone supply a few artists and song titles to distinguish for me the difference between Adult Hits and Classic Hits? Is there a distinct target age separation, DMZ cutoff year, or gender or demo (or other) fence?
c. Does 'WRCH' still broadcast from that standalone building with four or five towers outside it? (A few of us visited there long ago when 910 was Beautiful Music and the opulent *homemade* audio control board had huge volume pots and two turntables sitting on TOP of it, at eye level for the jock to put the tone arm needle down on the correct album track to cue up.)
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* Elapsed time estimated at 360 months
Well, the linked Hartford book in the O/P has WRCH listed as 'Adult Hits' instead of what I remember as being AC. So,
1. Does not being regarded as AC prohibit them from going All-Christmas? I thought only AC stations were allowed to do that. And heck, maybe they ARE caroling by now.
2. Can someone supply a few artists and song titles to distinguish for me the difference between Adult Hits and Classic Hits? Is there a distinct target age separation, DMZ cutoff year, or gender or demo (or other) fence?
c. Does 'WRCH' still broadcast from that standalone building with four or five towers outside it? (A few of us visited there long ago when 910 was Beautiful Music and the opulent *homemade* audio control board had huge volume pots and two turntables sitting on TOP of it, at eye level for the jock to put the tone arm needle down on the correct album track to cue up.)
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* Elapsed time estimated at 360 months
Steve, that building now houses Gois Broadcasting's Mega 101.7 & 910/WLAT. There are 3 (not 4 or 5) towers behind the building that transmit 910/WLAT. The building used to be the (Dick) Robinson Media Arts Center & the flagship building for the CSB (CT School of Broadcasting) but that has moved to Executive Dr. in Farmington along with Audacy's WRCH-FM, WTIC-AM/FM & WZMX-FM. It is now called the CSB Media Arts Center
The building on Birdseye Road in Farmington that used to be WRCH 100.5/WRCQ 910 back in the day and .ist recently home to CSB is now a medical building.
CSB is now in at 6 Executive Drive. Amy Grey boss lady at Full Power Radio is a Career Councilor there.
Audacy is at 10 Executuve Drive. Lite 100.5 WRCH, Hot 93.7 WZMX, 96.5 TIC, and 1080 WTIC.
Gois Broadcasting is at 135 Burnside Avenue in East Hartford. Mega101.7 WLAT/910, Exits 105.3 WNEZ/1230, and La Raza 97.5 WKND/1480.
CSB is now in at 6 Executive Drive. Amy Grey boss lady at Full Power Radio is a Career Councilor there.
Audacy is at 10 Executuve Drive. Lite 100.5 WRCH, Hot 93.7 WZMX, 96.5 TIC, and 1080 WTIC.
Gois Broadcasting is at 135 Burnside Avenue in East Hartford. Mega101.7 WLAT/910, Exits 105.3 WNEZ/1230, and La Raza 97.5 WKND/1480.
I stand corrected, didn't know that it is now a medical building, & that Gois is now in E. Htfd. But, the 3 towers are 910/WLAT
I'd'a sworn that the night we left Queens and toured Hartford's radio aura (and sampled the teen scene debauch along the Berlin Turnpike) that the 910 New Britain station had at least four towers. The array was in the shape of a tall 'L'.
Could have been four ; maybe five sticks. We somehow got close enough to the formation that we had to look up at the lights. I lined up the car's whip aerial with the towers that were in line as best as possible, and we all got to listen to WRCH's Beautiul Music come in on the whole analog Rambler dial.
With one exception. There was no audio on 910. Just this huge electromagnetic black hole. We must have been 'monitoring' right in their huge SE nighttime lobe.
Could have been four ; maybe five sticks. We somehow got close enough to the formation that we had to look up at the lights. I lined up the car's whip aerial with the towers that were in line as best as possible, and we all got to listen to WRCH's Beautiul Music come in on the whole analog Rambler dial.
With one exception. There was no audio on 910. Just this huge electromagnetic black hole. We must have been 'monitoring' right in their huge SE nighttime lobe.
Steve, I stand corrected. It is a 4 tower array. They use one tower daytime @5kw & 3 @2.8kw Directional (Nighttime Only)
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