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Rim Shooters

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What rim shooters do you listen to? For some reason I have been picking up 92 PRO FM on my clock radio within the past week or so. I live just Northeast of Downtown Boston. Listening to the station, they sound much fresher and than Kiss does.

When I used to listen to Pro FM in the past during the 1990's, I almost always preferred them to Kiss and WZOU, although 'ZOU was neck and neck with them in my oppinion.

Last night I also picked up Lite Rock 105 from there too.

Of course there is also WPLM, WSRS and WBOQ that I tune into when I can also.

Which rim shooters do you listen to?
 
I live in Revere area and also used to get those stations as well, as well as sometimes now.
92 Pro FM-I used to also get 92 Pro FM in Danvers, Ma
96.3 The Rose
WXLO 104.5
I used to be able to get 93.3 WSNE. WSNE comes in all the way just pass Danvers. As soon as you get into Beverly, you strart losing it.
When I was staying in Haverhill, Ma for a weekend (this was around 1992) I picked up 94.1 WHJY Crystal Clear on a table top radio.
 
From Northbridge MA, I listen quite a bit to 101.1 from Manchester NH, about 60-70 mi away; they seem to emit a lot of power to the South. And the format is just a little 'lighter" than BCN and "heavier" than ZLX.
 
I live south of Boston ( Canton, Stoughton and E.Bridgewater) . Some Rim shooters I listen to, 96.3 The Rose,Hot 106,Fun 107,WFAN NYC,and Big City 101. Here some Strong R.I. stations I listen to 94.1 WHJY, 95.5 WBRU,and 103.7 WEEI.
 
FPB said:
What's a rim shooter?
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Not what most of the posters in this thread think it is.

A classic "rimshotter" (the correct term) is a station licensed to a small community on the outskirts of a larger metropolitan area, with just enough signal over the metro area to target listeners there from a distance.

WXRV is a Boston rimshotter, as are WCRB on 99.5, and arguably 107.3, 97.7 and 93.7, though they've all moved closer in to town in recent years. WFNX started as a rimshotter, too, though it's now in the heart of the market. WPLM-FM tried to be a Boston rimshot in years gone by, though they now seem to focus entirely on the South Shore and Cape.

The Providence and Worcester and Cape stations cited above aren't Boston rimshotters, even if they can be heard in Boston - they all focus on serving their own home markets, and don't try to sell ad time or actively go after listeners in Boston. Indeed, those markets have rimshotters of their own - 99.7, 100.3, 102.7 in Providence, for instance, or 98.9/100.1 in Worcester.

And hearing WFAN in Rhode Island or on the South Shore? That's DX...
 
Scott Fybush said:
The Providence and Worcester and Cape stations cited above aren't Boston rimshotters, even if they can be heard in Boston - they all focus on serving their own home markets, and don't try to sell ad time or actively go after listeners in Boston. Indeed, those markets have rimshotters of their own - 99.7, 100.3, 102.7 in Providence, for instance, or 98.9/100.1 in Worcester.
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102.7 (Narragansett Pier, RI) is a simulcast of AM 1290 Providence, so it's not really a Providence rimshotter. It's meant to serve southern RI, while 1290 serves Providence.
 
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