The lights are out at the "Power" house!!

[kms575]

To you lazy Rockheads , You dont have to change your station , while driving a round trip to Boston ( 104.1 to 104.1 ) .

Uhmm....yeah, those 2 stations are quite different. Maybe you should actually listen to them before making your statement.

 

[CTListener]

I remember Hot 93.7 was Spanish a long time ago, what happened then, crappy ratings,I don't remember.as of now how many times 104.1 change formats and call letters since it was first on the air.Hahaha this reminds me of a million of changes on 1220 AM.

Be careful how you word that. 93.7 FM was WLVH-FM, a.k.a. The Latin Voice For Hartford, until 1990. If I'm not mistaken, the had a studio on Maple Avenue somwhere. The station has only been known as Hot 93.7 since March of 2001.

Or the myriad of changes to 990 AM in Southington. ;D

WLVH dropped Spanish for an all-weather format around 1990 or therabouts. It flipped to 93.7 WZMX about a year or 2 later.

All-weather wasn't really a format, IIRC. I believe the station had ownership issues and NOAA Radio was piped in just to keep something on the frequency. No ads ever aired during the NOAA simulcast.

 

[MarcB]

Marc - I remember it as 9/1/1992. I was doing weekends at WWCO at the time (which was then in a few motel rooms) and I edited an aircheck (in what used to be a bathroom) to send to the new Star for a similar position. CO was not in a motel in 1991. I should have filed this post under Career Memories and Crazy Stories.

I admit I was wrong and you were right. A quick check of the FCC's database shows WIOF changed calls to WYSR on 9/4/92. I don't know why I thought it was 91.

Anyway WWCO operating out of motel rooms? ;D Sounds like another station that is now part of the WDRC quadricast. The other station I'm refering to is WMMW 1470 in Meriden. There was an article in the Meriden Record-Journal a few years ago (that never appeared on their website) about the history of WMMW and it mention they operated out of a few rooms of a motel at one time.

 

[bub]

All-weather wasn't really a format, IIRC. I believe the station had ownership issues and NOAA Radio was piped in just to keep something on the frequency. No ads ever aired during the NOAA simulcast.

I believe your version is more accurate than mine. I do recall them running all weather around '90.

 

[bub]

Marc - I remember it as 9/1/1992. I was doing weekends at WWCO at the time (which was then in a few motel rooms) and I edited an aircheck (in what used to be a bathroom) to send to the new Star for a similar position. CO was not in a motel in 1991. I should have filed this post under Career Memories and Crazy Stories.

Anyway WWCO operating out of motel rooms? ;D Sounds like another station that is now part of the WDRC quadricast. The other station I'm refering to is WMMW 1470 in Meriden. There was an article in the Meriden Record-Journal a few years ago (that never appeared on their website) about the history of WMMW and it mention they operated out of a few rooms of a motel at one time.

You and the Record-Journal are correct about WMMW but it's true about WWCO...around 1992 or therabouts, WWCO operated out of the old Red Bull Inn, which incidentally, was used as temporary dorms for students at Post College back in the '60's until the campus dorms were constructed. Before the Red Bull, WWCO operated for a time out of the same building that housed the late AM 1590, WQQW at Broadcast Center in downtown Waterbury. As recently as 1991-92, Waterbury was the 8th largest radio market in New England with 3 AM's and an FM.

Off topic, but does anyone remember WBIS AM 1120 in Bristol on Farmington Avenue next to the Burger King?

 

[MarcB]

Or the myriad of changes to 990 AM in Southington. ;D

There's a big difference between all the changes at 104.1 and 990.

All the changes at 104.1 have taken place over a 15 year period (1992-2007). 4 formats over 15 years - HOT AC, Modern Rock, Hip-Hop, and Modern Rock again. Kind of weird that all the format changes at 104.1 over the past 15 years have taken place in the fall. STAR 104.1 was launched in September 1992, RADIO 104 was launched at the end of October 1994 (they officially didn't start calling themselves RADIO 104 until early 1995 and didn't take on the WMRQ call letters untul March 1995), POWER 104.1 launched in September 2003 and became WPHH on October 1, and now this fm 104 one launched on October 25, 2007.

All the changes at 990 have taken place over a period of only 8 years.

Spanish Tropical LaBrava 990 July 99 - September 15, 2000.

Dark September 15, 2000 until September 28, 2001 (Note: The station was only supposed to be off the air from 930PM 9/15 until 600AM 9/16, however after LaBrava was evicted equipment was vandelized and the station was inoperable).

Test Programming of Various Types 9/28/00 - 10/24/00. Test Programming included Spanish Music, a mixture of R&B Oldies and Regaee Music, and The Game Show Network's Greatest Game Show Theme Songs Volume 2. (The regular scheduled Ethnic and Religious Shows on Sunday aired as well as Southington High School Football).

Hip-Hop Blaze 990 - 10/24/00-Thanksgiving Day 2001. - Blaze Communications leased the station 6AM-6PM Monday-Saturday. No one leased the overnights so a CD of Blaze's regular music aired on repeat all night long. In September 01 Blaze Communications lease was terminated. The hip-hop format aired 6AM-9PM Monday-Friday. Overnights were leased to a Spanish Language Preachers. Saturday and Sunday Afternoons were filled with NCAA and NFL Games. Blaze unofficially died on Thanksgiving Day 2001 after a board operator deserted the station during the Southington High School Football Game.

FOX NEWS CHANNEL - More or less Thanksgiving Day 2001 until February 2002. The audio of FNC ran over 990 24 hours a day (aside from the Football games and ethnic programming on Sundays) as something to keep the station on the air while their GM readied their new format.

News/Talk - NOTTY 99 and later 990 The X - February 2002 until May 2004. Station was sold in May 2004, which is why the format changed.

Spanish AC/Local Programming - May 2004-August 2004. An outfit called Anda Productions Leased the station 6AM-6PM Monday-Saturday. They ran a Spanish AC format called SUPERMAX 990. Time was made available to lease out by anyone who wanted a show after 6PM. Studios for SUPERMAX Programming moved from Old Turnpike Road in the Plantsville Section of Southington to the Penthouse of the Channel 3 Building at 3 Constitution Plaza in Hartford.

Spanish AC Programming SUPERMAX 990 - August 2004 until July 2005. Format ran virtually 24/7. (except for Sunday ethnic shows).

Spanish Tropical POWER 990 - July 2005 until October 2005. - Anda Productions lease was terminated in July 2005. DMG flipped 990 to POWER 990, a tropical format programmed in house on Old Turnpike Road.

Talk - Talk Radio 990 CT's Talk Radio For Women - 10/05 until 5/07. DMG rehired 990s former GM to bring back a talk format in October 05. He signed a 2 year Time Brokerage Arangement to keep the format going in July 06. From my understanding the station wasn't making enough money and the station reverted back to DMG in May 2007.

Spanish Christian May 2007 - Present. Since May 10, 2007 at 330PM 990 has been leased out and running a Spanish Christian format, which is partially simulcast from WNSW in NYC. While I don't mind the programming (hey DMG can do what they want with the station), I have issues with how horrible the Audio Qualilty is. And it sounds just as bad on WNSW, which leads me to believe the programming is not originating at the WNSW studios.

 

[MarcB]

Off topic, but does anyone remember WBIS AM 1120 in Bristol on Farmington Avenue next to the Burger King?

I do because I'm a Bristol native. Coincidentially I correspond with a gentleman who worked at WBIS from 1976 until 1986. His name is Don Moline and he posts on these boards on occasion. He has shared lots of stories with me about the place. I'm not sure what the circumstances were, but sometime before WBIS was LMA'd to Nieves Broadcasting in 1993, WBIS had moved to Bradley Street in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Bristol.

 

[bub]

Off topic, but does anyone remember WBIS AM 1120 in Bristol on Farmington Avenue next to the Burger King?

I do because I'm a Bristol native. Coincidentially I correspond with a gentleman who worked at WBIS from 1976 until 1986. His name is Don Moline and he posts on these boards on occasion. He has shared lots of stories with me about the place. I'm not sure what the circumstances were, but sometime before WBIS was LMA'd to Nieves Broadcasting in 1993, WBIS had moved to Bradley Street in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Bristol.

And it was believed the owner had to move the station back to Farmington Avenue because he moved the station to Bradley Street without prior zoning approval, saying he couldn't run a radio station from a residential neighborhood. The owner moved it to Bradley because at the time, it was within walking distance of his house. The idea was he would drop by the station while he walked his dog and reset the satellite and automation for the night. Eventually, he gave up the fight and eventually the station. I still have a bumper sticker or 2 from WBIS from the days I applied for a job there.

I am familiar with Mr. Moline's posts on this board.

 

[rapking]

To you lazy Rockheads , You dont have to change your station , while driving a round trip to Boston ( 104.1 to 104.1 ) .

Uhmm....yeah, those 2 stations are quite different. Maybe you should actually listen to them before making your statement.

Lets see , One station plays Rock ,and the other station plays rock( with a Patriots Twist to it ) .

 

[Ozman]

I remember going to boarding school 1998-2001 in Pomfret Ct next to a cafe.... Vanilla coke anyone? I got to choose which 104.1 to listen to moving my antenna around. However... it looked like WBCN won out just a bit.
-OZ

To you lazy Rockheads , You dont have to change your station , while driving a round trip to Boston ( 104.1 to 104.1 ) .

Uhmm....yeah, those 2 stations are quite different. Maybe you should actually listen to them before making your statement.

Lets see , One station plays Rock ,and the other station plays rock( with a Patriots Twist to it ) .

 

[kms575]

To you lazy Rockheads , You dont have to change your station , while driving a round trip to Boston ( 104.1 to 104.1 ) .

Uhmm....yeah, those 2 stations are quite different. Maybe you should actually listen to them before making your statement.

Lets see , One station plays Rock ,and the other station plays rock( with a Patriots Twist to it ) .

I guess there is at least someone upset at the demise of Power 104!!

 

[ansky212]

I'm not surprised about the format flip. The Hartford area just never seemed like the type of landscape to support two Hip Hop/Urban stations.

 

[rapking]

To you lazy Rockheads , You dont have to change your station , while driving a round trip to Boston ( 104.1 to 104.1 ) .

Uhmm....yeah, those 2 stations are quite different. Maybe you should actually listen to them before making your statement.

Lets see , One station plays Rock ,and the other station plays rock( with a Patriots Twist to it ) .

I guess there is at least someone upset at the demise of Power 104!!

Not me . Hot 93.7 and 94.3 WYBC is my CT Stations . Wendy" The Man "just dont do it for me .

 

[kms575]

Well, IMHO, it's good to have alternative back in Hartford!

 

[scottg]

Off topic, but does anyone remember WBIS AM 1120 in Bristol on Farmington Avenue next to the Burger King?

Sorry I am late to the party, but if I remember correctly WBIS was at 1440.

 

[MarcB]

Off topic, but does anyone remember WBIS AM 1120 in Bristol on Farmington Avenue next to the Burger King?

Sorry I am late to the party, but if I remember correctly WBIS was at 1440.

WBIS was a 500 watt daytimer at 1440 until 1986. They spent some time dark and moved to 1120 with 1KW day/500 watts night. In 1993 Mr. Huber LMA'd the station to Nieves Broadcasting and the station became WPRX and the rest is history. (Aside from the fact Nieves Broadcasting bought the station outright in 1998 or 1999).

 

[Whale]

I have to admit I've been listening to 104.1 quite a bit. I had my reservations, since I'm upset at all the wasted time without modern rock, but I got over it.

I rarely listened to Power 104.1. Face it, straight talk radio will not work on FM, unless it's someone already established. It's been tried. With podcasts, AM, and internet radio, who the hell is going to listen to these talk shows on FM? Not to mention, if anyone still likes hip-hop.... there's another station for it. What kind of moron decided to flip Radio 104 anyway?

That said, the music is pretty good, I can't complain much except for some of the crap old songs and some of the WCCC hard rock crap that makes me avoid that station, but it does get boring without some actual human voices, so hopefully they'll add live presenters soon. Voice tracking makes me plug in my ipod.

 

[radiolives]

What kind of moron decided to flip Radio 104 anyway?

That moron is Clear Channel Hartford. They thought they could compete with CBS Radio's Rhythmic/CHR in the Hartford market but they couldn't.

 

[WPPCProductions]

Hows Jack104FM sound,It probably won't work,and die like WCBS JackFM New York.

 

[tiffanybaybay]

wow. I am suprised.

I just hope all you happy ppl remember who it was that changed radio to power in the first place.


They shafted the rock ppl for hip hop, then hip hop for rock, don't think money has loyalties.