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Central Mass. Does anyone remember when 560 WHYN was a music station?

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cartman2002

This is the first in my string of thread about what was current station was once under a different format?

My first station is 560 WHYN in Springfield, Ma and I'm wondering what was like listening to that station when it was first a top 40 and then AC station before it became a talk radio station around 1989.

Please let me know?
 
My first top-40 station in the 70s was 56 HYN. It was a great small-market station, good reverb and great jingles. One of the DJs I remember was "Jungle Man" who took requests and was on in the evening when I was doing homework. There are some sites out there that have some airchecks as well as the great news sounder they used.
 
I worked there part time in 85-86, when they were going by “56 WHYN, The Spirit of Springfield.” Walt Pinto was afternoon drive and the PD, one of the best. The format was MOR leaning AC, and they carried the Sox. Great place to work with a good atmosphere.
 
GlennSummers said:
I worked there part time in 85-86, when they were going by “56 WHYN, The Spirit of Springfield.” Walt Pinto was afternoon drive and the PD, one of the best. The format was MOR leaning AC, and they carried the Sox. Great place to work with a good atmosphere.
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Did you talk to anyone there after they drop the music format for talk radio?
 
I definitely remember WHYN and their competitor WTXL-1490 as well. I used to hear them in the '60s and early '70s when passing through the Springfield area...and I could always pull WHYN in too in the Fitchburg/Leominster area where I lived at the time as well. But with WRKO, WEIM and WKOX-FM/WVBF I had little reason to DX them most of the time. WHYN was always a really good sounding Top 40 station during that era...
 
VoiceofWayne said:
I forgot about Jackson Hill and Amos Moses -- wow. I do remember Al Baker and the best news sounder ever..
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I found out Jackson Hill "Holden Hills" had passed away a couple of years ago. Amos is in NY as an actor been out of radio for a while but there are some video airchecks on Youtube of him on air at Jammin 105 NY in 1999 and 2000.
and airchecks at CBS -FM
 
VoiceofWayne said:
My first top-40 station in the 70s was 56 HYN. It was a great small-market station, good reverb and great jingles. One of the DJs I remember was "Jungle Man" who took requests and was on in the evening when I was doing homework. There are some sites out there that have some airchecks as well as the great news sounder they used.
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Jungleman was Peter Pratt after HYN he worked for a brief time spinning Music of Your Life on WMAS AM 1450 til about 1989. I worked across the hall from him on FM 95 WMAS and never knew that was "Jungleman" until someone told me a few years after he left.
 
560 is a classic frequency, WHYN in Springfield and "WFIL 56" in Philadelphia, I more or less remember 1490 (WSPR) West Springfield, being a decent oldies station a few years back, but their 250 watts didn't go very far, about 10 miles into Connecticut it was gone.
 
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