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Odd Programming Pairing

MarcB

MarcB

Just read on The Connecticut board that starting Monday Don "Quack Quack" Imus will be airing on WCCC AM 1290 in West Hartford, which is a Classical formatted radio station. Don "Quack Quack" Imus and Classical music seem like an odd programming pairing. (Even if WCCC AM 1290 is a flea-powered AM at 490 watts daytime and 11 watts at night). It was different when 1290 featured STERN and CLASSICAL MUSIC because back in 95 when WCCC-FM picked up STERN, 1290 simulcasted its FM counterpart and the syndication contract with the station stipulated WCCC-FM 106.9 and WCCC 1290 AM, so even after the AM changed formats to Classical in 2000, they still had to carry STERN.
 
Does WCCC have many advertisers paying for the music played on the station? If not, Imus is picking up the bill.
 
trusty said:
Does WCCC have many advertisers paying for the music played on the station? If not, Imus is picking up the bill.
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Mostly mom & pop businesses located throughout the Farmington Valley where their signal is the clearest, unlike their big powerful FM live and local 24/7 Rock Sister Station which has a lot of big-name advertisers read: National and Regional advertisers.
 
There are few classical music stations left...and I'm surprised there are any on AM anywhere. Who wants to listen to symphonic music in low fidelity monaural?

If they make it clear that their survival depends on ratings from Imus, their listeners shouldn't be too upset.
 
I'm interested in the recent FCC filings for WCCC-AM. It appears that there was a filing to increase the tower height, then a filing to reduce it again. Was this all associated with the conversion to a foled unipole? Also, how did the 490 watts occur in the first place? I thought the odd daytime powers only came up in more recent years. Maybe I haven't been following AM enough. I understand the 11 watt nighttime.
 
I was living in the Hartford area (Manchester)in the early 70's. I believe, WCCC -AM was a thousand watt daytimer only. The FM just seemed to be an afterthought. They were a very bad top 40, competing with WDRC and WPOP (which dropped top 40 for sports). I would imagine that WCCC would have been a good starting point for new jocks.
 
WCCC-FM was always the hard rocking AOR station that would take a break a couple of times a day to air Paul Harvey in his entirety. Talk about an awkward segue! Circa 1983, and the jock (who always had that "stoned" sound) had to transition from Led Zeppelin or BOC or Lynyrd Skynyrd into Paul Harvey.

Yet he was quite popular! If I'm not mistaken, WCCC carried him for years.
 
Getting back on the thread topic...

Other examples of radio shows/personalities that seem to be odd fits on certain radio stations: Does anyone remember when Rocky Allen used to do his "morning zoo" radio show on WABC in New York?

Also, the syndicated Rick & Bubba show was carried on news/talker WLAC in Nashville, but from what I read on the Nashville board, the station has dropped the show.
 
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