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Cincy stations that have been on the Hot 100 panel

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NoWayNoCC

What Cincinnati stations over the years have reported to Billboard's Hot 100 panel (before the Hot 100 was decimated in 1991)?

Q-102 did for many years, but there was actually a time when it apparently did not, despite clearly being the area's top-rated CHR.

I've found some old Billboards on Google Books, and in one ish from February 1983, I noticed there was one Cincinnati station on the panel. Not Q-102, and not WCLU either. Instead they had...

W-LITE!!!

For Pete's sakes, why???

I'd expect WLLT to report to the AC panel, not the Hot 100 panel. Why did Billboard include an AC on the Hot 100 panel instead of a CHR that had much higher ratings? In how many other markets did this happen?

Was it just to boost the chart performance of wimpy ballads? Is that all it was?

Was it because Q-102 didn't want to be on the Hot 100 panel, so Billboard thought they could use an AC instead?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Come to think of it, did WCLU ever report to any trades?
 
A little history. In the 70's WKRQ - Q102 reported to Radio and Records as the only parallel one (top market) station in three states (Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky). I don't ever remember reporting to Billboard, but we might have sent them the playlist or called it in. At the peak of our late 70's success as a Top 40 (I HATE the term CHR) we seriously considered dropping all reporting to trades. The time and effort it took to deal with all the record reps who called me AT HOME almost every day was just not worth it. I ended up leaving (a big mistake) and not sure what happened after that.

Reporting is and was great when you needed attention from the record pigs.
 
I just found a Billboard from July 1978 in which both WSAI and Q-102 were apparently Hot 100 reporters.

Apparently, WSAI did play "Only The Good Die Young", although someone in an earlier thread said they had banned it.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
What Cincinnati stations over the years have reported to Billboard's Hot 100 panel (before the Hot 100 was decimated in 1991)?

Q-102 did for many years, but there was actually a time when it apparently did not, despite clearly being the area's top-rated CHR.

I've found some old Billboards on Google Books, and in one ish from February 1983, I noticed there was one Cincinnati station on the panel. Not Q-102, and not WCLU either. Instead they had...

W-LITE!!!

For Pete's sakes, why???

I'd expect WLLT to report to the AC panel, not the Hot 100 panel. Why did Billboard include an AC on the Hot 100 panel instead of a CHR that had much higher ratings? In how many other markets did this happen?

Was it just to boost the chart performance of wimpy ballads? Is that all it was?

Was it because Q-102 didn't want to be on the Hot 100 panel, so Billboard thought they could use an AC instead?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Come to think of it, did WCLU ever report to any trades?
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A wild guess on WLLT, that was about the time they became W-Lite. Just prior to that date they held another set of alliteration call letters WYYS, Yes 95. They were Top 40 but evolved to AC.

Billboard reporting stations were really screwy in the early 80's. Many were former AM Top 40's that became "The station you grew up with has grown up with you". They were AC/oldies but still reported as Top 40 adding amazing stiffs because they were "image records that appealed to the demo", translation: boring music.
 
Rob hits that nail on the head. WING in Dayton stayed a Top 40 reporter long past their change to AC.
They called it "Adult Radio". I always wondered if that meant they finally grew pubic hair at the base of the tower.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
Come to think of it, did WCLU ever report to any trades?
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Which version of WCLU? Their heyday was getting 10 shares in the mid 60's playing country before WUBE 1230 dropped Top 40 & went country in April 1969.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
NoWayNoCC said:
Come to think of it, did WCLU ever report to any trades?
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Which version of WCLU? Their heyday was getting 10 shares in the mid 60's playing country before WUBE 1230 dropped Top 40 & went country in April 1969.
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The top 40 version of WCLU in the '80s.
 
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