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Baltimore Radio My Way

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92.3-AAA-B 92.3
93.1-Country- Cat Country 93.1
95.1-Oldies-95.1 The Wolf
95.9-Classic Rock-Max 95.9
97.5-A/C-97.5 The Breeze
97.9-Jazz-CD 97.9
99.1-Alternative-99.1 HFS
100.7-Classic Hits-100.7 The Hawk
101.9-Rhythmic CHR-Hot 101.9
102.7-Top 40-Z 102.7 Baltimore's #1 Hit Music Station (All DJs from 104.3 move to 102.7 FM)
103.1-Hot A/C-Mix 103.1
103.7-Sports-103.7 Ravens FM
104.3-Hip Hop-Power 104.3
105.7-Dance-105.7 The Beat
106.5-Urban Contemporary-V 106.5
107.9-Rock-107.9 Navy FM
 
One change I'd make to your list would be 97 Underground back on FM radio. Other than that......sssswwwwweeeeet!!!! I also applaude your removal of Country music from Havre de Grace 103.7......it just is not a 'country' town.
 
Really??? Havre de Grace is not a country town? Have you EVER spent time there?

Also, the changes to 101.9, 106.5 make no sense. Do you even understand the business. Also, the names given to the stations (Hawk, Cat, etc) are small market and have no place in Baltimore. If you want Cat and Froggy, you've got the small markets close by (Frederick, Salisbury-Ocean City and Harrisburg).
 
Spent time there? Yes in fact. From May 26 1964 to January 1977 I spent time there. The only thing country about Havre de Grace was when the wind blew down 155 and carried the smell of fertilizer. In school there were only a few kids from farms and nobody wore chaps or 10 gallon hats. The majority of residents listened to WLPL,WKTK or later 98Rock. WHGD was a part time Rock station. If anything it was a nautical town(city actually,check the census) there was no farmers markets but plenty of fish houses and seafood restaurants. Now its populated heavily by artist types who may listen to XCY but probably more likely to listen to oldies or MOR stations. Most of XCYs fans are across the river in the confederacy of Cecil County with its southern transplants. Elkton would have been a much more suitable location for a country format and there are plenty of Ford pickups with rebel flags and shotgun racks that blare country music but even alot of those are tuned to WPOC. I'm sure the atmosphere has changed from what I knew especially since 103.7 walks all over most other signals on a good day. But even with the John Deere spreader effect I managed to pull in the Grasonville signal of WHFS when working on the waterfront by laying an antenna extension on the floor near water level......water cleanses ya know. Maybe I should have said WASN'T a country town. Another point: During the 4th of July fireworks display the bandstand plays mostly Rock and standards not much country at all. Level,Churchville and Darlington are rural farm towns but they're outside the City limits. I grew up directly behind the Lighthouse Inn/Corcord Lounge/Ebb Tide and never did it book Country bands....I fell asleep to the sounds of Blues,Jazz and Rock rolling out of the backstage doors. There were alot of bars too...not one of them Redneck hangouts.
 
I grew up in Havre de Grace. Worked radio there. That IS a country town. Walk into ANY business and you will here one of the following playing: WXCY, WPOC, WLIF or WQSR. Some things change since 1977. For instance, the station is now 50kw. It may not be a country town in your eyes, but argue that with natives. It has a strong revenue base and from where the tower is, it reaches two valuable markets.

Elkton would have been a good choice, but the fact is that WXCY would not have a share in Baltimore. It MIGHT get into Philly, but not well enough. Where WXCY is now, it reaches into the Baltimore market, so the station can grab those fringe agency buys. I know the programming staff, sales staff and GM--and they are doing fine.
 
In case it wasn't clear in my post I grew up in Havre de Grace too and about the only place I heard WPOC playing was The Sportsmans Center on Otsego Street. You certainly didn't hear it at McIhennys,the 5 and 10,Golls Bakery,A&P,Tuck's or later Popi's Pizza,The Fish House,Golden Crab,Tony's Barber Shop or a few others I can't recall at the moment. You may have caught it at Western Auto depending on who was working but it was usually LPL or KTK when the young guys were there. I know it wasn't on at Bruno's or The Sugar Bowl which was a little before my time but was the old DoWop crowd. You may have heard country on the jukebox at Tim's Tavern but again there was more rock and crooner stuff there. Once in a while someone would play it at the Legion but the old timers would usually get grouchy about those damn hillbillies. I'm not talking about what Havre de Grace is NOW I am talking about before and during the period that WHDG/WASA was purchased and flipped to WXCY. It had a small city feel not a country town mentality,there were very few Southern accents,or attempts at accents,the majority of pickup trucks was Chevy and I didn't see any rebel flags until I moved east/"south" across the river to Ceciltucky. As for it being in the Baltimore market I see WPOC tromping it from the start and observe numbers much like the ones CBS/Infinity/Viacom used to justify flipping WHFS. For that matter WSTW would be a good place for XCY since they are owned by the same company and there are alot of Wilmington ranchers and cowboys ( the Midatlantic Dallas/Atlanta) in addition to lower,slower Delaware and Marylands Eastern Shore. I see it as the equivalent of bringing a monster/tractor pull truck to a muscle car dragstrip and insisting it fits in. During the era WXCY was being setup Havre de Grace was a place of long haired post hippie teens and young adults with biker/Cheech n Chong vests,Army jackets and combat boots NOT mullets,ten gallon hats and pointy toed boots.
 
The problem with your post, as with many people that "think they can run a radio station" is that you are thinking in the past. WXCY NOW is making good money, gets good numbers in its market. Now, I agree, WSTW would be prime for a flip, but it would not work to compete against the Philadelphia country that already has a strong hold there. That is why the country in Delaware moved to 94.7 again...they knew they could not compete and did not want to.

I remember when WXCY came on the air. They had a odd mix of AC and Country. Like most stations, they migrated to a more commercially viable format...and it has worked. I hear WXCY in many businesses. I actually hear it in more Perry Hall locations that WPOC.
 
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