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2000
WTYD 100.9 in New London flipped from AC to Oldies as KOOL 101 WKNL in February, just months after 102.3 abandoned the format.
A dispute over unpaid LMA payments leads to a court-ordered eviction of El Principe Communications from the airwaves of WNTY 990. El Principe retaliates by damaging equipment, leaving the station inoperable from the middle of September until the end of September. At which point the station began stunting with a mix of R&B Oldies, Disco Music, and Caribbean Music until a new LMA could be signed. Southington High School Football returned to the airwaves as did the Sunday Ethnic and Religious Programming.
In mid-October BLAZE Communications signed an LMA with ADD Radio for WNTY. Blaze Communications would program the station 72 hours/week (6AM-6PM) as BLAZE 990 with Hip-Hop/R&B/R&B Oldies, and Caribbean Music all day Saturday. Blaze Communications is headed by former WNEZ JAMZ 910 PD Philip Duncan.
2001
WZMX 93.7 flips from Jammin' Oldies to Hip-Hop in March.
Michael Gerardi sells WINY 1350 in Putnam to morning man Gary Osbrey in March.
WLAT and its Spanish format move to the more powerful 910 frequency. 1230 goes Spanish News/Talk (simulcast from WNNY in NYC) and takes on the former calls of 910 WNEZ in May.
Candido Carrelo sells WDJZ 1530 to Principle Broadcasting. Station flips from a simulcast of WFNW 1380 to Caribbean Programming.
Charlie Profit is hired as General Manager of WNTY in July. Blaze Communications LMA is terminated after non-payment of LMA payments, numerous attempts to sell the radio station, and programming the station outside of the agreed upon LMA times. The Caribbean Music on Saturdays is removed immediately replaced by Sports Programming. The plug was finally pulled on BLAZE 990 in November after a DJ left the station in the middle of the Apple Valley Classic High School Football Game, eventually leading to a "phone off the hook tone" going out over the air until the GM came down and switched the station over to FOX News Channel, which remained on the station 24/7 (except for NCAA Football and Basektball on Saturdays and NFL Football and Ethnic Programming on Sundays).
2002
WAVZ 1300 drops its long-time Standards format to go All Sports as 1300 The Zone in January.
Classical WCCC 1290 changes its calls to WTMI in January.
WHCN 105.9 flips from Classic Rock to Rock AC as The River 105.9 in February.
WDRC 1360 and its simulcast parts flip from a music format known as The Best of Everything to mostly talk known as "The Talk of Connecticut" (Some Adult Standards Music shows remain on the station to this day) at the end of January.
WNTY 990 launches a news-talk format "NOTTY 99 in mid-February."
WAXK 102.3 in Stonington flips from Hard Rock to Classic Rock as XL 102.3 WUXL, featuring the syndicated Bob & Tom Show in the morning in Feburary.
WICC 600 flips from AC to Talk in June.
WKCD 107.7 in Pawcatuck is sold to Red Wolf Broadcasting and flipped from Modern AC "Channel 107.7" to Hip-Hop "Jammin' 107.7" WHJM in September.
WAXB 105.5 in Danbury (Patterson) flips from Oldies B-105 to AC WDBY Y-105 in September.
Legendary Hartford radio personality Bob Steele died at age 91 in December.
2003
XL 102.3 flipped from Classic Rock to AC MIX 102 WXLM in March 2003. (This was shortly after a deadly fire at a concert in Westerly Rhode Island that XL 102.3 has given away to. Conspiriacy Theorists believe the format change was due to the fire).
WGCH 1490 in Greenwich is sold by John Becker to the Business Talk Radio network.
After 34 years WNTY 990 changes its calls to WXCT. News/Talk format remains. Nicknames and Monikers include "eXact Radio and 990 The X" in April.
After 8 year Ross Brittain ends his stint as morning show host as KISS 95.7 in July.
WMRQ 104.1 flips from Modern Rock to Hip-Hop as Power 104.1 WPHH in mid-September.
2004
840 Broadcasting buys WRYM 840 in March. WRYM segues from older Spanish tunes to more modern Spanish tunes.
WREF 850 becomes one first affiliates of Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel in April, replacing Jones Good Times and Great Oldies format.
New York City shock jocks Star & Buc Wild are hired as Power 104.1's morning team as they wait out a non-compete in NYC. They started in April on POWER 104.1. (After moving to WWPR in NYC they were fired).
WLAT 910/WNEZ 1230 are acquired by new company Freedom Communications in May. They later take over WKND 1480 after making their owner a partner in the company. They briefly LMA WPRX 1120.
Jammin 107.7 WHJM changes its calls to WWRX in June.
WXCT 990 is sold to Davidson Media Group and flips to Spanish AC as Supermax 990 The station is being LMA'd by Hippolito Cueveas and Paul Nunez in May. At first the LMA is for 72 hours a week (6AM-6PM Monday-Saturday, but soon changes to 24/6) in mid-August.
WKND 1480 becomes WNEZ GOSPEL 1480 in August
WNEZ 1230 becomes R&B Hits/R&B Oldies WKND. "The new 24 Hour Twice The Power WKND" in August.
WAVZ 1300 drops Sports Talk in favor of Progressive Talk 1300 The Voice in November.
2005
Scott Johnson sells WKZE AM/FM to Willpower Radio in May and moves studios to upstate New York before the end of 2005.
Nutmeg Broadcasting sells WILI AM/FM to Hall Communications in May.
MIX 102 WXLM in Stonington begins simulcasting the news-talk programming from sister station WSUB AM 980 in April. WXLM officially became News-Talk 102.3 at the end of June.
WSUB 980 becomes New London County's first Spanish station with the flip from news-talk to Spanish AC as Magia 980 in July.
Anda Productions LMA with Davidson Media Group for WXCT ends in July. Station flips to Tropical as POWER 990.
WNEZ 1480 becomes Spanish Oldies as La X-1480.
WNLC 98.7 flips from its long-time Standards format (dating back to when they were on 1510 AM) to Classic Hits as 98.7 The Sound in September.
WINE 940 and its simulcast partner WPUT 1510 flip from Standards to Sports Talk as "ESPN Danbury".
Charlie Profit is rehired for WXCT and flips station back to talk initially as "X-Radio 990 Talk Radio for Women" in October."
WDRC-FM 102.9 evolved from Oldies to Classic Hits in November.
WKZE AM 1020 flipped from simulcasting WKZE-FM to Progressive Talk.
2006
Sebeastian is hired as morning man at WCCC-FM 106.9 in January. (The station had been a Stern affiliate).
WKHL 96.7 flips from Oldies to AC as 96.7 The Coast WCTZ.
WEFX 95.9 changes call letters from WEFX to WFOX, keeping it's Classic Rock 95.9 The FOX format in place.
Charlie Profit's CAB Radio signs a 2 year LMA with Davidson Broadcasting to keep the talk format going. The station becomes "Talk Radio 990" in July.
WKZE AM 1020 becomes Public Radio formatted WHDD "Robin Hood Radio" under an LMA with Tri-State Public Communications.
2007
WAVZ 1300 flips back to Sports Talk. This time as ESPN 1300.
WTMI 1290 flips its calls back to WCCC.
WKND/WNEZ 1230 and 1480 flip-flop call letters and formats once again. WKND 1480 goes back to R&B Hits and R&B Oldies. WNEZ 1230 goes to a mix of Spanish AC and Spanish Talk.
CAB Radio's LMA with Davidson Media Group ends early. WXCT is LMA'd to Radio Cantico Nuevo a Spanish Christian Radio Network in May.
A transmitter fire temporarily silences WLIS 1420 in Old Saybrook in September.
Hip-Hop POWER 104.1 flips to Classic Alternative WURH "FM 104 One" in October. No jocks are ever hired.
Gois Broadcasting buys WLAT 910 and WNEZ 1230 in October.
Robert A "RED" Graham former owner of WMMM 1260 in Westport died in December.
2008
In Mid-March WXLM 102.3 in Stonington and WMOS 104.7 in Montauk swapped dial postitions. WLMX's news-talk format and calls moved over to 104.7 and WMOS's Classic Rock format moved over to 102.3, which became WMOS.
Gois Broadcasting buys WKND 1480 and improves the station technically - eliminating the frequency drift, improving the 500 watt daytime signal, and making use of the low power night time power in March.
Former WKND owner Richard Weaver-Bey died in May.
Budget cuts hit WDRC-FM. The station is Voice-Tracked outside of Morning and Afternoon Drive. Longtime PM Driver Doug Taylor is out. Larry Wells moves into PM Drive. Floyd Wright is moved from Overnights to Middays.
Budget cuts hit WTIC/WRCH. At WTIC 1080 Collin McEnroe is out in PM Drive, replaced with an all-news block. At WRCH 100.5 The Weekend Edition of Pillow Talk hosted by Glenn Colligan is replaced by the syndicated Delilah show. (Delilah now airs twice on Saturdays and Sundays). Colligan remains host of WTIC 1080's The Tag Sale in November. Stan Simpson's show is also canceled at WTIC.
The Ryan Gorman Show, the last local show on WELI 960 is elimated in December.
ESPN Radio launches an experimental FM station in Bristol. WX4ESPN operates on 98.1 with 134 Watts Analog and 13 watts HD. HD-2 is ESPN Depotes. HD-3 alternates between the 5 ESPN O&O stations. "98.1 Campus Radio" signal gets out pretty well.
2009
Red Wolf Broadcasting Acquires WURH 104.1 from the Aloha Station Trust. Station goes back to Modern Rock WMRQ "Radio 104.1". A new studio is built in Glastonbury in May.
Mike Stevens moves from Nights to the DRC-FM Morning show with Jerry Kristafer in July. Grahame Winters takes over nights. The station is now automated overnights.
WATR 1320 adds John Gibson, Alan Colmes, and FOX News Radio to its line-up of Oldies Music in August. (Their website still doesn't reflect the changes by years end).
Budget cuts hit WCCC-FM 106.9 - Sebastian is out, replaced by Prorgram Director Picozzi from the afternoon show in September.
Bob Ellsworth, host on WJMJ 88.9 died in October. Previously he was with WTIC.
Tri-State Public Communications acquired WHDD 1020 in Sharon. No changes are made. They previously were LMAing the station in the fall.
Red Wolf Broadcasting Acquires W248AB 97.5 in Bolton from Mountain Top Broadcasting. Station's signal is boosted to 60 watts and begins relaying WMRQ HD2. Station is Tropical La Bomba 97.5, which officially launched in November. It is the first FM Spanish station in Hartford since WLVH 93.7 died in the late 80s.
WCCC AM 1290 picks up the syndicated Don Imus Show for mornings in December.
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2000
WTYD 100.9 in New London flipped from AC to Oldies as KOOL 101 WKNL in February, just months after 102.3 abandoned the format.
A dispute over unpaid LMA payments leads to a court-ordered eviction of El Principe Communications from the airwaves of WNTY 990. El Principe retaliates by damaging equipment, leaving the station inoperable from the middle of September until the end of September. At which point the station began stunting with a mix of R&B Oldies, Disco Music, and Caribbean Music until a new LMA could be signed. Southington High School Football returned to the airwaves as did the Sunday Ethnic and Religious Programming.
In mid-October BLAZE Communications signed an LMA with ADD Radio for WNTY. Blaze Communications would program the station 72 hours/week (6AM-6PM) as BLAZE 990 with Hip-Hop/R&B/R&B Oldies, and Caribbean Music all day Saturday. Blaze Communications is headed by former WNEZ JAMZ 910 PD Philip Duncan.
2001
WZMX 93.7 flips from Jammin' Oldies to Hip-Hop in March.
Michael Gerardi sells WINY 1350 in Putnam to morning man Gary Osbrey in March.
WLAT and its Spanish format move to the more powerful 910 frequency. 1230 goes Spanish News/Talk (simulcast from WNNY in NYC) and takes on the former calls of 910 WNEZ in May.
Candido Carrelo sells WDJZ 1530 to Principle Broadcasting. Station flips from a simulcast of WFNW 1380 to Caribbean Programming.
Charlie Profit is hired as General Manager of WNTY in July. Blaze Communications LMA is terminated after non-payment of LMA payments, numerous attempts to sell the radio station, and programming the station outside of the agreed upon LMA times. The Caribbean Music on Saturdays is removed immediately replaced by Sports Programming. The plug was finally pulled on BLAZE 990 in November after a DJ left the station in the middle of the Apple Valley Classic High School Football Game, eventually leading to a "phone off the hook tone" going out over the air until the GM came down and switched the station over to FOX News Channel, which remained on the station 24/7 (except for NCAA Football and Basektball on Saturdays and NFL Football and Ethnic Programming on Sundays).
2002
WAVZ 1300 drops its long-time Standards format to go All Sports as 1300 The Zone in January.
Classical WCCC 1290 changes its calls to WTMI in January.
WHCN 105.9 flips from Classic Rock to Rock AC as The River 105.9 in February.
WDRC 1360 and its simulcast parts flip from a music format known as The Best of Everything to mostly talk known as "The Talk of Connecticut" (Some Adult Standards Music shows remain on the station to this day) at the end of January.
WNTY 990 launches a news-talk format "NOTTY 99 in mid-February."
WAXK 102.3 in Stonington flips from Hard Rock to Classic Rock as XL 102.3 WUXL, featuring the syndicated Bob & Tom Show in the morning in Feburary.
WICC 600 flips from AC to Talk in June.
WKCD 107.7 in Pawcatuck is sold to Red Wolf Broadcasting and flipped from Modern AC "Channel 107.7" to Hip-Hop "Jammin' 107.7" WHJM in September.
WAXB 105.5 in Danbury (Patterson) flips from Oldies B-105 to AC WDBY Y-105 in September.
Legendary Hartford radio personality Bob Steele died at age 91 in December.
2003
XL 102.3 flipped from Classic Rock to AC MIX 102 WXLM in March 2003. (This was shortly after a deadly fire at a concert in Westerly Rhode Island that XL 102.3 has given away to. Conspiriacy Theorists believe the format change was due to the fire).
WGCH 1490 in Greenwich is sold by John Becker to the Business Talk Radio network.
After 34 years WNTY 990 changes its calls to WXCT. News/Talk format remains. Nicknames and Monikers include "eXact Radio and 990 The X" in April.
After 8 year Ross Brittain ends his stint as morning show host as KISS 95.7 in July.
WMRQ 104.1 flips from Modern Rock to Hip-Hop as Power 104.1 WPHH in mid-September.
2004
840 Broadcasting buys WRYM 840 in March. WRYM segues from older Spanish tunes to more modern Spanish tunes.
WREF 850 becomes one first affiliates of Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel in April, replacing Jones Good Times and Great Oldies format.
New York City shock jocks Star & Buc Wild are hired as Power 104.1's morning team as they wait out a non-compete in NYC. They started in April on POWER 104.1. (After moving to WWPR in NYC they were fired).
WLAT 910/WNEZ 1230 are acquired by new company Freedom Communications in May. They later take over WKND 1480 after making their owner a partner in the company. They briefly LMA WPRX 1120.
Jammin 107.7 WHJM changes its calls to WWRX in June.
WXCT 990 is sold to Davidson Media Group and flips to Spanish AC as Supermax 990 The station is being LMA'd by Hippolito Cueveas and Paul Nunez in May. At first the LMA is for 72 hours a week (6AM-6PM Monday-Saturday, but soon changes to 24/6) in mid-August.
WKND 1480 becomes WNEZ GOSPEL 1480 in August
WNEZ 1230 becomes R&B Hits/R&B Oldies WKND. "The new 24 Hour Twice The Power WKND" in August.
WAVZ 1300 drops Sports Talk in favor of Progressive Talk 1300 The Voice in November.
2005
Scott Johnson sells WKZE AM/FM to Willpower Radio in May and moves studios to upstate New York before the end of 2005.
Nutmeg Broadcasting sells WILI AM/FM to Hall Communications in May.
MIX 102 WXLM in Stonington begins simulcasting the news-talk programming from sister station WSUB AM 980 in April. WXLM officially became News-Talk 102.3 at the end of June.
WSUB 980 becomes New London County's first Spanish station with the flip from news-talk to Spanish AC as Magia 980 in July.
Anda Productions LMA with Davidson Media Group for WXCT ends in July. Station flips to Tropical as POWER 990.
WNEZ 1480 becomes Spanish Oldies as La X-1480.
WNLC 98.7 flips from its long-time Standards format (dating back to when they were on 1510 AM) to Classic Hits as 98.7 The Sound in September.
WINE 940 and its simulcast partner WPUT 1510 flip from Standards to Sports Talk as "ESPN Danbury".
Charlie Profit is rehired for WXCT and flips station back to talk initially as "X-Radio 990 Talk Radio for Women" in October."
WDRC-FM 102.9 evolved from Oldies to Classic Hits in November.
WKZE AM 1020 flipped from simulcasting WKZE-FM to Progressive Talk.
2006
Sebeastian is hired as morning man at WCCC-FM 106.9 in January. (The station had been a Stern affiliate).
WKHL 96.7 flips from Oldies to AC as 96.7 The Coast WCTZ.
WEFX 95.9 changes call letters from WEFX to WFOX, keeping it's Classic Rock 95.9 The FOX format in place.
Charlie Profit's CAB Radio signs a 2 year LMA with Davidson Broadcasting to keep the talk format going. The station becomes "Talk Radio 990" in July.
WKZE AM 1020 becomes Public Radio formatted WHDD "Robin Hood Radio" under an LMA with Tri-State Public Communications.
2007
WAVZ 1300 flips back to Sports Talk. This time as ESPN 1300.
WTMI 1290 flips its calls back to WCCC.
WKND/WNEZ 1230 and 1480 flip-flop call letters and formats once again. WKND 1480 goes back to R&B Hits and R&B Oldies. WNEZ 1230 goes to a mix of Spanish AC and Spanish Talk.
CAB Radio's LMA with Davidson Media Group ends early. WXCT is LMA'd to Radio Cantico Nuevo a Spanish Christian Radio Network in May.
A transmitter fire temporarily silences WLIS 1420 in Old Saybrook in September.
Hip-Hop POWER 104.1 flips to Classic Alternative WURH "FM 104 One" in October. No jocks are ever hired.
Gois Broadcasting buys WLAT 910 and WNEZ 1230 in October.
Robert A "RED" Graham former owner of WMMM 1260 in Westport died in December.
2008
In Mid-March WXLM 102.3 in Stonington and WMOS 104.7 in Montauk swapped dial postitions. WLMX's news-talk format and calls moved over to 104.7 and WMOS's Classic Rock format moved over to 102.3, which became WMOS.
Gois Broadcasting buys WKND 1480 and improves the station technically - eliminating the frequency drift, improving the 500 watt daytime signal, and making use of the low power night time power in March.
Former WKND owner Richard Weaver-Bey died in May.
Budget cuts hit WDRC-FM. The station is Voice-Tracked outside of Morning and Afternoon Drive. Longtime PM Driver Doug Taylor is out. Larry Wells moves into PM Drive. Floyd Wright is moved from Overnights to Middays.
Budget cuts hit WTIC/WRCH. At WTIC 1080 Collin McEnroe is out in PM Drive, replaced with an all-news block. At WRCH 100.5 The Weekend Edition of Pillow Talk hosted by Glenn Colligan is replaced by the syndicated Delilah show. (Delilah now airs twice on Saturdays and Sundays). Colligan remains host of WTIC 1080's The Tag Sale in November. Stan Simpson's show is also canceled at WTIC.
The Ryan Gorman Show, the last local show on WELI 960 is elimated in December.
ESPN Radio launches an experimental FM station in Bristol. WX4ESPN operates on 98.1 with 134 Watts Analog and 13 watts HD. HD-2 is ESPN Depotes. HD-3 alternates between the 5 ESPN O&O stations. "98.1 Campus Radio" signal gets out pretty well.
2009
Red Wolf Broadcasting Acquires WURH 104.1 from the Aloha Station Trust. Station goes back to Modern Rock WMRQ "Radio 104.1". A new studio is built in Glastonbury in May.
Mike Stevens moves from Nights to the DRC-FM Morning show with Jerry Kristafer in July. Grahame Winters takes over nights. The station is now automated overnights.
WATR 1320 adds John Gibson, Alan Colmes, and FOX News Radio to its line-up of Oldies Music in August. (Their website still doesn't reflect the changes by years end).
Budget cuts hit WCCC-FM 106.9 - Sebastian is out, replaced by Prorgram Director Picozzi from the afternoon show in September.
Bob Ellsworth, host on WJMJ 88.9 died in October. Previously he was with WTIC.
Tri-State Public Communications acquired WHDD 1020 in Sharon. No changes are made. They previously were LMAing the station in the fall.
Red Wolf Broadcasting Acquires W248AB 97.5 in Bolton from Mountain Top Broadcasting. Station's signal is boosted to 60 watts and begins relaying WMRQ HD2. Station is Tropical La Bomba 97.5, which officially launched in November. It is the first FM Spanish station in Hartford since WLVH 93.7 died in the late 80s.
WCCC AM 1290 picks up the syndicated Don Imus Show for mornings in December.
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