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Country Radio in Hartford Area

MarcB

MarcB

My boss at Illusions Dance Club in Wolcott and I were discussing Country Radio stations in the Hartford area before the arrival of Country 92.5 WWYZ in 88. Illusions opened as a Top 40 place in 84 went country sometime later and has been a Mixed Music Club for around the past 8 years or so.

I mentioned:

104.1 WWCO-FM Waterbury from the mid 70s
1550 WEXT? West Hartford
1220 W??? Hamden

Who else in the area was doing country before Country 92.5 came along?

I know much later WSNG AM 610 in Torrington was doing Country until the went dark in early 96 before being bought by WDRC.
 
WFIF 1500 was country back in the sixties and into the early seventies; WIOF 104.1 probably put a damper on the Milford daytimer. WIOF was WWCO-FM only in its earliest days as country; it was WIOF well before they dropped country in 1978.

WSCR 1220 Hamden was the New Haven area's country station for a little while in the eighties. 1220 may have gone country for a brief period in the early seventies as WCDQ. They tried everything there in that decade.

WKHT 1230 Manchester switched from standards, and dumped the WINF calls, in spring 1984 when it went country. WNAQ 1380 Naugatuck became a simulcast of WKHT later in the eighties. Both switched to business news (WFNS & WFNW) when WWYZ went country. Ethnic programming followed a short time later.

WMLB 1550 still ran some country middays after switching from WEXT in the seventies.
 
Did you hear....new country station eastern Long Island WJVC 96.1 FM...
or www.licountry.com

Why you ask? Well, 92.5 FM has great ratings on Long Island so why not get on the country bus. Just sayin'..
 
Yeah, but that would probably be heard mostly in Eastern Connecticut, and not so much Hartford... and they'd likely opt for WCTY. ;)
 
butchfm said:
Did you hear....new country station eastern Long Island WJVC 96.1 FM...
or www.licountry.com

Why you ask? Well, 92.5 FM has great ratings on Long Island so why not get on the country bus. Just sayin'..
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The coverage area of 96.1 is not nearly as large as 92.5's coverage area. You can hear 96.1 in the New Haven area and on to the east, but the signal is weak to non-existent in the Hartford area. 92.5's transmitter is located well south of Hartford (in Meriden) which is why it puts a good signal into Long Island.
 
WKCI-FM has their transmitter in Hamden at Radio Towers Park. West Peak is home to WWYZ-FM, WZMX-FM, WKSS-FM, WDRC-FM, WMRQ-FM, WHCN-FM and NOAA Weather Radio.
 
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