Thunder 107.5 was CHR when it first moved, then country, which eventually led to 999 The Wolf
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Radio History for the Portland and Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester markets.
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WHEB-AM 750 went dark for good in the early 90's. I think there was a deal made with the city to lose one tower, the AM, so the WHEB-FM tower could have more height added..
Thunder 107 was a continuation of the FM 103 CHR format initially. The bumper stickers were very colorful.. WBLM had a cool one out around the time that was a take off of Pink Floyd's, The Wall album !
You can find an old 92.5 W-LYT commercial on Youtube..
Thunder 107 was a continuation of the FM 103 CHR format initially. The bumper stickers were very colorful.. WBLM had a cool one out around the time that was a take off of Pink Floyd's, The Wall album !
You can find an old 92.5 W-LYT commercial on Youtube..
Gadon said:If I could make money with all this useless radio knowledge I have, I would grow up and be Scott Fybush !!
Those two concepts are, I think, mutually exclusive
But having been namechecked, I'm compelled to note that there's some incomplete (and now woefully out of date) history I wrote back in 1996 on Maine Radio here:
http://bostonradio.org/essays/maine-hist
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I should have proof read before posting!!! WRQN did become WLOB-FM in 1978, at the time of the flip to AOR. And yes...
Z-101 became Y-101 at the time of the flip to A/C. The staff of Z-101 became aware that something was up when the
PD of WMGX alerted one of the jocks that there was an application to change the calls to WYNQ in late 1981. I was told at the time that WJBQ objected to the new calls, so they were never implemented, but the format was flipped to operator assisted/automated A/C, and the slogan became Y-101. Go figure...blowing up a 6.2 12+ radio station....which broadcast with less than 3000 watts in those days....
Z-101 became Y-101 at the time of the flip to A/C. The staff of Z-101 became aware that something was up when the
PD of WMGX alerted one of the jocks that there was an application to change the calls to WYNQ in late 1981. I was told at the time that WJBQ objected to the new calls, so they were never implemented, but the format was flipped to operator assisted/automated A/C, and the slogan became Y-101. Go figure...blowing up a 6.2 12+ radio station....which broadcast with less than 3000 watts in those days....
Andy Taylor said:
chris560 said:
Slight correction, Chris....Eric M (you DID get his name right) was never PD. He was the only member of the Star Station-era fulltime staff to survive the 1983 blowout (Dewar canned on the weekend, rest of staff on a Monday). Eric became Production dir. Memory cells are creaking, but I believe Chris Garrett handled some local PD-ish duties, though most direction was coming from a West Coast programmer(format patterned after the then "K-ROCK" but later toned down). Eventually Jim Rising came on board. Last I knew, Eric M had returned to Maine after being in PA for a time, but I'm not sure what he's doing. Knew him at WHEB (I wasn't on the FM) and later worked for him at WSSH Lowell. Scripted EVERYTHING he said on air, but always made it sound like he was doing it off-cuff. Good guy. Great thread guys....with all the changes over the years, nice to see some effort to save the history.
After Thunder, 107.5 was Oldies for a couple of years.Bob Anderson did mornings & the rest of the day was Satelite,(Jim Zippo,Charlie Fox).Underminer said:
"Does anyone know what happened to Eric? I remember him leaving to head toward northern Maine, but from there never really heard much about him."
Eric Marenghi was at WMWX Mix 99.9 in Auburn for quite a while.He left when they switched to WMEK Kiss 99.9. After that I heard him doing mornings at WOXO 92.7 in Norway.
Eric Marenghi was at WMWX Mix 99.9 in Auburn for quite a while.He left when they switched to WMEK Kiss 99.9. After that I heard him doing mornings at WOXO 92.7 in Norway.
The same Floyd Wright. He left WHEB for WPTR in Albany,then ended up in Hartford.I believe he was replaced by E.J. Crummy @ WHEB who went on to WAAF,WNBC & for alot of years after had a talk show in Los Angeles.KML-224 said:
WMGX signed on in 1977. The format flip to Coast was not on the station's 30th anniversary (another Wikipedia error).
When I was growing up in the 60's it was a top 10 music station. Paul LeBlanc did the AM slot and I seem to recall a fellow named Bob Prince did the evening. Jock McKenzie did sports but I don't remember much more. I don't recall when they went to the talk format but am sure it was after 1970.wpxt said:
I remember from around 1977,TOH ID,WTSN Dover,The Best Music Station in the Seacoast.Paul Leblanc (who I think just retired after 40 years of mornings @ 1270.)was on mornings and Jim Sebastion afternoons.I think WTSN was the better Top 40 of the three,WHEB,WTSN & WWNH at the time in the N.H. Seacoast..
The OTHER story I heard (about WHEB-750) is that the then-owners wanted to move it to Kittery or York, so that it would be over the then-750-mile distance from co-channel WSB in Atlanta, Ga. That would enable WHEB-750 to have normal nighttime service. The FCC said 'no' to that (allegedly) and also allegedly, the WHEB-750 owners turned in the license in protest. Perhaps there was no other option, as most people were not buying stations in 1991 or so. Had I known, I would have loved to have grabbed that station. (730, 740, 750 what a hoot!). - However, those 3.... 730, 740, and 750 were quite short-spaced. --BB
JIBGUY....haven't been by the site in a few years, but it was easy to tell the towers apart: the old AM tower was a free-stander, which sat in the marshy area (Sagamore Creek, I think) to the immediate right of the building. The old FM tower was a guyed tower to the rear of the building.JIBGUY said:
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