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95.1 WRKI
- Thread starter MarcB
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Placeholder format for WINE to keep it on the air until a new format (paid ethnic or religious) can be launched?
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JoeLouis
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Just like WATX in Hamden it's use it or lose it, they actually broadcast 162.4mhz weather out of Meriden, to hold onto their license until they got Connecticut Gold running.
As a kid from near JFK Airport in (iIrc) 1964, WINE signed on.
Again, to memory, they were initially Beautiful Music, with some fellow whose surname was Alexander doing a show.
A 1000-watt omni daytimer at their sign-on, they were a surprisingly easy catch with splashy NYC local WPAT 930 a convenient 90-degree null.
I do remember mention about 'the shores of Lake Candlewood' at times. (The lake shore was also the O/T home of ex-attorney Erle Stanley Gardner, from where he authored his later-years Perry Mason novels -- which were also hot stuff at the time.)
Nearing sunset, the huge CBM Montreal on 940 would start in, ushering out WINE, into the Saugatuck, away from the Danbury State Fairgrounds, and many other points of its daytime audience.
Again, to memory, they were initially Beautiful Music, with some fellow whose surname was Alexander doing a show.
A 1000-watt omni daytimer at their sign-on, they were a surprisingly easy catch with splashy NYC local WPAT 930 a convenient 90-degree null.
I do remember mention about 'the shores of Lake Candlewood' at times. (The lake shore was also the O/T home of ex-attorney Erle Stanley Gardner, from where he authored his later-years Perry Mason novels -- which were also hot stuff at the time.)
Nearing sunset, the huge CBM Montreal on 940 would start in, ushering out WINE, into the Saugatuck, away from the Danbury State Fairgrounds, and many other points of its daytime audience.
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JoeLouis
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I always remember WTOP 1500 in D.C. rolling over WFIF in Milford before sunset, even in parts of Milford (their transmitter was down in Devon) before WFIF could sign off they were steamrolled by WTOP unless you were a mile or less from the transmitter.
Thank you. I was up in New Fairfield last summer. WINE was clearly running at their nighttime power during the middle of the day.
I used to be a huge fan of WRKI but nowadays all they do is mostly just play Ozzy Osbourne and AC/DC over and over again which has me tuning out. Sure, they still mix in Zeppelin tracks which are always worth hearing but the station is no longer first choice on my dial in the Danbury area like it used to be.
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