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Red Wolf Completes Takeover of WDRC AM&FM

It should be interesting to see if they do something to try and improve the ratings. Also I know that the ownership is Red Wolf Broadcasting, but no one calls it that. It's called Full Power Radio. That's what the sign in the lobby in Glastonbury says. I've seen the pictures. All the email addresses they give out are addresses ending in fullpowerradio.com Plus on some site I saw a profile of Mr. Fuller and it said he was The President of Full Power Radio.
 
Apparently today, Wednesday, April 11th, was Amy and Holden's first day with the morning show at the WDRC-AM/FM building in Bloomfield. The clip was them claiming the building and some of the people there date back to 1922. What they never mentioned is how the audio of 104.1 has been crap the last few days. Nearly everything has been playing in mono. It's not my Walkman, since I tuned down to WDRC-FM 102.9 and they were in full stereo, overplayed "Trump"/Kia Of East Hartford ads and all.
 
As of early this afternoon, the "Big D" oldies format that Connoisseur inherited from Buckley was still running on 102.9-HD2, with the same bizarre mix of classics and stiffs. (Rascals' "See," anyone? How about the Rolling Stones' "Heart of Stone" or Eddie Cochran's "Sittin' in the Balcony"? All heard in a 30-minute stretch around 11 a.m.) Let's see whether it makes it to its third ownership group -- and whether Full Red Power Wolf Radio becomes the first to stream it and delight the oldies geeks.
 
104 had a strange automation this morning around midnight. The same songs on loop with no legal ID's for at least an hour and no commercials. I stopped listening at 1 am when I got out of the truck but I don't think they had the automation setup.
 
I'm trying to wonder what space in the Bloomfield building is WMRQ-FM using now? Is their studio new or was that a prior space WDRC-AM or FM may have used? (There was a recent youtube clip of Amy and Holden talking about the new space, with a partial "WDRC" (AM) logo visible in the background.
 
They should bring back the old DRC-FM oldies format with the jingles and all! Hartford area radio is definitely missing a classic hits type of station, and has way too many classic rock stations.
 
EastCoastRadio said:
They should bring back the old DRC-FM oldies format with the jingles and all! Hartford area radio is definitely missing a classic hits type of station, and has way too many classic rock stations.
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Full-Power Radio is filling that void with 96.1/990 and in Springfield with 1270/100.1 FM. No one will never put Oldies on a Full Power (no pun intended) FM radio station. There is one Classic Rock Station in Hartford. WDRC 102.9 The Whale. 99.1 is in New Haven and 102.1 is in Springfield. 105.9 is Variety Hits.
 
Would love to see them take something like Fun Tower Radio and use it for the HD 2 service. :)

I bet it would make them some $$$.
 
scottg said:
Would love to see them take something like Fun Tower Radio and use it for the HD 2 service. :)

I bet it would make them some $$$.
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No offense meant to you or Ron Sedaille, but how many people, on average and in total, stream Fun Tower Radio? Does either number get into four figures? And how many of those listeners are outside the Hartford market? Now, how many of those left have HD Radio receivers? Hmmm, I think we're talking mid-three-figures here, at best. Now, how would putting a hobbyist stream on HD2 make whatever-the-name-of-this-radio-company-is "some $$$"?
 
Now that 104.1 is at 869 Blue Hills Avenue in Bloomfield, that station probably has had more studio addresses than any other CT station.

- 65 Bank St. in downtown Waterbury, 1967-1971
- Straits Turnpike, Middlebury, 1971-1973
- Route 69, Prospect (after the split from WWCO AM), 1973-1992
- Ceder St., Newington (in with WPOP), 1992-?
- Downtown Hartford in the Clear Channel cluster
- Glastonbury under Red Wolf ownership
- now Bloomfield
 
WPRX 1120-AM has had the most studios. Since 1120-AM was LMA'd and eventually bought by NIEVEZQUEZ PRODUCTIONS their studios have been:

610-620 Main Street New Britain
10 Main Street New Britain
81 West Main Street Suite G New Britain
21-28 Sargent Street in Hartford
330 Main Street Hartford (during a brief LMA by Freedom Communications)
321 Ellis Street New Britain
321 Ellis Street New Britain (same building different location)
1253 Berlin Turnpike Berlin
1 Hartford Square New Britain

And going back to when they were WBIS.

Main Street Bristol
1019 Farmington Ave New Britain
Bradley Street Bristol

Were there others? Not sure.
 
Bill,

What was the logic of moving 104.1 to Prospect? I understand the station was still licenced to Waterbury (not Waterbury-Hartford), but that was an awkward location. It was far from the highways so it was inconvenient for the sales staff, and at that time, it was far from other business activity.
 
When I worked @Merv Griffin's Magic104/WIOF, I never heard a complaint from the sales staff as to the inconvenience of the location - it was only a mile or so down Route 69 (also known as "Magic Mountain") to Waterbury & I-84. As far as the TOH ID was concerned, it was "Magic 104 - WIOF Waterbury/Hartford".
 
amfmradio1 said:
That's 1019 Farmington Av. in Bristol
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Yeah I know. I meant to type Bristol and typed New Britain instead. Must've been from typing New Britain so many times when I was listing all the locations of WPRX's studios. LOL. I grew up in Bristol. As a child when I was 7 or 8 I wanted to ride my bike to the WBIS studios on Farmington Avenue. My parents said riding a bike on Stafford Ave and Farmington Ave was too dangerous. And my Mom said a radio station was no place for a child. (If I could remember the year they moved to Bradley Street it would help my memory as to how old I was when I wanted to ride my bike to the Farmington Ave studios).
 
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