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Hartford Ratings Updated 07/14/23
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Question for some folks here.
Back on Long Island, WDRC-FM was almost a daily tune-in. In fact, they had a nice signal just across the border into Suffolk County along the North shore. The furthwe East you went, the louder they were. I remember them showing up in the L.I. book on occasion, with stuff like a 0.4 almost regularly. That was quite a feat for a station so far inland (CT's closer WEBE, WPLR, WEZN and WICC used to show, too).
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I'm curious if WDRC was ever the #1 FM in Hartford back 'in the day' -- the late 70's, maybe -- when AoR competitors were WHCN, Triple C, WPLR, WHVY Springfield.
Latest figures have them as #7, and as the only listed Classic Rock station.
But how high did they ever attain, and when / if, anyone?
Back on Long Island, WDRC-FM was almost a daily tune-in. In fact, they had a nice signal just across the border into Suffolk County along the North shore. The furthwe East you went, the louder they were. I remember them showing up in the L.I. book on occasion, with stuff like a 0.4 almost regularly. That was quite a feat for a station so far inland (CT's closer WEBE, WPLR, WEZN and WICC used to show, too).
WDRC-FM Radio Station Coverage Map
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Latest figures have them as #7, and as the only listed Classic Rock station.
But how high did they ever attain, and when / if, anyone?
Never beat the TIC twins, but did very well for some years. You can see them from 1975 to 2003 in the chart I have linked.
@DavidEduardo
Hey! Thanks much, David!
1978 was one of those eroding and fragmenting mass-appeal pop music years. Disco was still viable, the newer 'Punk' was getting traction, Rap was hitting some mainstream, and the initialism AoR had devolved into something I probably would have trouble passing language tolerance here.
I do see 1978 being a big dip for D-103 -- enough of one for them to make a switch to Top 40 in early 1980. A bunch of us unknowingly wound up visiting on the day before the move and there was some staff grumbling as they labelled carts for the new format the next day.
Thanks once more for the numbers!
Hey! Thanks much, David!
1978 was one of those eroding and fragmenting mass-appeal pop music years. Disco was still viable, the newer 'Punk' was getting traction, Rap was hitting some mainstream, and the initialism AoR had devolved into something I probably would have trouble passing language tolerance here.
I do see 1978 being a big dip for D-103 -- enough of one for them to make a switch to Top 40 in early 1980. A bunch of us unknowingly wound up visiting on the day before the move and there was some staff grumbling as they labelled carts for the new format the next day.
Thanks once more for the numbers!
I believe DRC-FM hit No. 1 in the meaningless numbers as a '70s/'80s classic hits station for one book in 2013 or 2014, not long before Buckley sold it to Connoisseur, which flipped it to classic rock as The Whale before deciding to abandon the Hartford market.
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