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Overnight at WFTQ/WAAF

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dhoule

I remember hearing about an incident at WAAF and WFTQ in Worcester. . Usually, if one person used the Men's Room, he would let the other guy know so that he could get buzzed back in. Well, the two guys (the AM guy and the FM guy) ran into each other in the Men's Room. Nobody to let them back in. The FM guy then broke down the door and had to pay for it.

Dave
 
Speaking of WAAF

Why the large drop in ratings from Summer 04 to Summer 05? I don't listen, so I'm just curious.

> I remember hearing about an incident at WAAF and WFTQ in
> Worcester. . Usually, if one person used the Men's Room,
> he would let the other guy know so that he could get buzzed
> back in. Well, the two guys (the AM guy and the FM guy) ran
> into each other in the Men's Room. Nobody to let them back
> in. The FM guy then broke down the door and had to pay for
> it.
>
> Dave
>
 
What is up with WAAF

> Why the large drop in ratings from Summer 04 to Summer 05?
> I don't listen, so I'm just curious.

Thats a good thing to bring up. Wasn't WAAF one of the top rated stations in Boston before? By looking at those ratings Entercom might as well flip WAAF and let WBCN take the listeners. WAAF is even lower then MikeFM.

Now if Entercom did flip WAAF what should the new format be?
 
Re: What is up with WAAF

> > Why the large drop in ratings from Summer 04 to Summer 05?
>
> > I don't listen, so I'm just curious.
>
> Thats a good thing to bring up. Wasn't WAAF one of the top
> rated stations in Boston before? By looking at those ratings
> Entercom might as well flip WAAF and let WBCN take the
> listeners. WAAF is even lower then MikeFM.
>
> Now if Entercom did flip WAAF what should the new format be?
>

107.3 WEEI-FM. That seems to be the only thing that Entercom can do right in the Boston market.

But if they did want to be experimental, how about Smooth Jazz? Entercom has an SJ station in Sacramento, but perhaps the 107.3 signal would be too lacking in the city of Boston/Inner Loop area for such a format to work.
 
Re: What is up with WAAF

I am curious is WAAF tweaking their format a little?
I don't listen to them that much,but was listening today and heard AC/DC and then Pink Floyd.
What do listeners of WAAF think?
Are they countering WBCN putting some good classic songs in the mix by doing the same thing?
 
Re: What is up with WAAF

> 107.3 WEEI-FM. That seems to be the only thing that Entercom
> can do right in the Boston market.
>
If they would simulcast WEEI-am they could run 107.3 in mono and that would improve their signal in Boston proper.
 
Re: What is up with WAAF

> I am curious is WAAF tweaking their format a little?
> I don't listen to them that much,but was listening today and
> heard AC/DC and then Pink Floyd.
> What do listeners of WAAF think?
> Are they countering WBCN putting some good classic songs in
> the mix by doing the same thing?
>

Interesting how their following is perceived as leading.

Which is the battle WAAF has always had to fight.

And we're far from done.
 
Re: What is up with WAAF

> > Why the large drop in ratings from Summer 04 to Summer 05?
>
> > I don't listen, so I'm just curious.
>
> Thats a good thing to bring up. Wasn't WAAF one of the top
> rated stations in Boston before?

It never was, simply because the signal isn't great in town. It's done fairly well at times considering that, though.
 
Well...I personally know of a situation, where the weekend overnight guy, on WAAF, locked himself out of the studio, when using the men's room, back in 1978, when WFTQ was automated. The RECORD being played on WAAF, tracked all of the way through, and the stylus bounced over onto the paper, on the center of the album, creating a white noise like situation, which apparently went on for hours. As a matter of fact, I ended up getting my first radio gig, at WAAF, doing weekend overnights, the following weekend....heh...heh...heh...


I remember hearing about an incident at WAAF and WFTQ in
> Worcester. . Usually, if one person used the Men's Room,
> he would let the other guy know so that he could get buzzed
> back in. Well, the two guys (the AM guy and the FM guy) ran
> into each other in the Men's Room. Nobody to let them back
> in. The FM guy then broke down the door and had to pay for
> it.
>
> Dave
>
 
Re: What is up with WAAF

> What do listeners of WAAF think?
> Are they countering WBCN putting some good classic songs in
> the mix by doing the same thing?
>
They've been doing that for years, at least since when BCN was playing nothing but but Limp Bizkit and other nu metal skater punk silliness. Not that there's anything wrong with PF, but it just doesn't fit into AAF's image as the hard rock station of Boston.
 
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