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Hartford-New Haven Radio a Look Back to 2000

MarcB

MarcB

I'm starting to plan my 10 year high school reunion which will be held sometime in 2010 and that got me thinking about radio. Here's what has changed.

Back in 2000 Urban Music was relegated to the AM Band - JAMZ 910.

WZMX 93.7 FM was doing Infinity's Version of the Jammin' Oldies Format, which they called Dancin' Oldies.

WHCN 105.9 FM was Classic Rock.

The Buckley AM stations were still playing Adult Standards Music. (I don't think they had yet switched to The Best of Everything music format).

990 AM in Southington was LMA'd to El Principe Broadcasting and was doing Spanish Tropical as La Brava 990. That came to an abrupt end in September 2000 in court where El Principe was evicted from the airwaves due to non-payment, etc. In October of that year Blaze Communications LMA'd the station 72 hours a week and they did a harder urban format than JAMZ 910 was doing. BLAZE 990 played lots of hip-hop, lots of old school, and dedicated its entire airday on Saturdays to Caribbean Music.

1300 AM in New Haven I believe was still Adult Standards.

1320 AM WATR in Watebury was still Adult Standards.

1380 AM WFNW in Naugatuck was still Portugese.
And that's they way it was.
 
kms575 said:
So, in other words, very little has happened. Nice way of getting a plug for 990AM though!!
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
BTW, MarcB: You still haven't answered my question. What's a Disater? And are you going to educate your Gladiator classmates on what a disater is at the reunion?
 
kms575 said:
So, in other words, very little has happened. Nice way of getting a plug for 990AM though!!
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*sigh* Which proves a theory that I have always believed. Hartford/New Haven is a boring place for radio. As for 990 they're part of both markets so why wouldn't their changes be mentioned. New London on the other hand has had many changes.

In New London Market back in 2000:

980 was Sports I think. (I know they were talk then sports then talk again and now Spanish for the past few ywars. I don't remember the year they went from talk to Sports).

102.3 was still Rock. (They Went Classic Rock in 01, went AC in 03, Talk in 05? And back to Classic Rock in 08).

98.7 was still Standards. (I can't remember when they went to Classic Hits. Was it 06 or 07?)

104.7 was still based on Long Island. (What year did Mohegan LMA the station and make it the Wolf? Which changed to Talk last year?)

105.5 status quo format-wise.

106.5 status quo format-wise.

107.7 was Modern AC (What year did Redwolf buy it and make it Urban?)
 
MarcB said:
*sigh* Which proves a theory that I have always believed. Hartford/New Haven is a boring place for radio.
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You must have stayed up all night to dream up that theory. Yet, that hasn't stopped you from posting your musings here.
MarcB said:
As for 990 they're part of both markets...
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If you say so. ::)
 
MarcB said:
98.7 was still Standards. (I can't remember when they went to Classic Hits. Was it 06 or 07?)
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Weren't they "Z-Rock" before they were standards?
 
In 2000 was Radio 104 still in its pre-Dee heyday?

I'd be interested in knowing how many people were employed at these stations in non-sales roles back then vs. today. It would probably be an astounding difference. And then decades before, a huge decline in jobs.
 
Whale said:
In 2000 was Radio 104 still in its pre-Dee heyday?

I'd be interested in knowing how many people were employed at these stations in non-sales roles back then vs. today. It would probably be an astounding difference. And then decades before, a huge decline in jobs.
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I think it might have been starting its steady decline by then.
 
I actually miss JAMZ 910, as crazy as that sounds! Like WYBC-FM 94.3 of New Haven, they would play some adult urban contemporary, which made for a good music mix. At least Tampa has the right idea. I was on a 4-day visit from the 12th to the 15th. They have a similar station on 1150 AM. Like WYBC-FM, they carried Tom Joyner in the morning. Going by the reception at my motel and at Tampa International Airport (TPA), it must've been a 5,000 watt station, because the reception was pretty decent at both locations.

I was also a fan of 93.7 during the Dancin' Oldies days.

The current Radio 104.1 will never match the Radio 104 I knew and loved in 1996-97.

WKSS-FM 95.7 had yet to be buried by 93.7's eventual switch to urban/hip-hop.

SIGH! I miss those days!
 
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