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"WCTY Lite Hits 101" - What Is This?!

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Was doing a bit of Googling and was shocked to see listed amongst the currently existing Hall-owned radio stations in New London, alongside Kool 101 and WNLC, something called "WCTY Lite Hits 101":
http://www.yelp.com/biz/w-c-t-y-lite-hits-101-fm-new-london

At first, I thought that this a name that 100.9 FM was previously going by before its "WTYD - Tide 101" era (then again, I see that "Wtyd" is still listed after all these years, LOL). Yet when the frequency first started broadcasting, they were WTYD. And I am aware that prior to flipping to oldies, they were a "soft rock" station for several years, but they were still using the WTYD call letters that they used when they were "The Tide." With that said, it's weird seeing the WCTY call letters assigned to a frequency other than 97.7. Perhaps the listing was for both WCTY and then-WTYD? I thought that previously, it was not WCTY, but WNLC (per this article) that was housed with WTYD/WKNL. PLEASE tell me that this is just an error or an oversight, and not a planned format flip/call letters switch... or I'm hallucinating... or both!!
 
DToTheJ said:
Was doing a bit of Googling and was shocked to see listed amongst the currently existing Hall-owned radio stations in New London, alongside Kool 101 and WNLC, something called "WCTY Lite Hits 101":
http://www.yelp.com/biz/w-c-t-y-lite-hits-101-fm-new-london
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Ever looked at the radio station listings in the Yellow Pages? In most places, they're full of outdated call letters, old addresses and long-dead slogans, the residue of phone lines that were ordered long ago and never had the billing name changed, or were disconnected and never deleted from the listings, or whatever.

Way back when the internet was still in black and white (green and white, actually, at least on my dumb terminal), we used to have fun on Usenet comparing the outdated station listings in our local phone books.

This is just an updated version of that - all that Yelp does is scrape phone listings from local phone companies, and clearly someone ordered a line long ago for WCTY and WTYD and wanted it listed as "WCTY/Lite Hits 101." The stations may have changed, the listing never did.
 
Scott is right. There are lots of screw-ups in the phone book.

Both the Contest Line and Office Line for WZMX are listed as 860-677-6700. And I think it's still listed as WZMX Z-93.7 (Z-93.7 has been gone 10 years this March).

WNTY unexplicably got changed to WMTY in the phone book. Never got changed to WXCT. The ADD Radio Group is still listed in the phone book too and they haven't owned WXCT since 2004.

In the phone book it shows:

Under The Letter A:
The ADD Radio Group 440 Old Turnpike Road 860-621-1750.

Under The Letter W:

WMTY 440 Old Turnpike Road 860-621-1750.
 
@Scott: Thanks for setting me straight... Weird that both stations would be classified on one line like that, but it all makes sense now...

@MarcB: Your "take a trip to California and get some glaucoma medicine"... I don't get it... Dr. Joy Browne reference?

And @ManBehindTheMic: What was it you just said about MarcB being obsessed with stations like WNTY/WXCT again? ::)
 
A lot of my co-workers want WXCT back on the air en Ingles, so it's not just me.

If I won the Powerball Lottery I'd buy WMRQ 104.1 and it's 97.1 Translator that simulcasts its HD2 La Bomba Channel. Then I'd buy WXCT. I'd make 104.1 the new home of La Bomba and use the 97.1 translator to relay WXCT which I would program with a Greatest Hits Format plus play-by-play of The New York Giants and NASCAR.
 
MarcB said:
A lot of my co-workers want WXCT back on the air en Ingles, so it's not just me.

If I won the Powerball Lottery I'd buy WMRQ 104.1 and it's 97.1 Translator that simulcasts its HD2 La Bomba Channel. Then I'd buy WXCT. I'd make 104.1 the new home of La Bomba and use the 97.1 translator to relay WXCT which I would program with a Greatest Hits Format plus play-by-play of The New York Giants and NASCAR.
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I realize this is a purely "dream world" scenario, but in the interest of being technically correct...

WXCT would not legally be allowed to rebroadcast on what's becoming W246CB because the protected contour of the translator covers an area outside the daytime protected contour of WXCT.

In this scenario, you'd have to rebroadcast WXCT on one of WMRQ-FM's HD subchannels, and then you could rebroadcast that signal on the FM Translator in Bolton.


By the way, I caught the 97.1 signal on Route 6 headed from Manchester to Providence... that signal was incredible tonight!
 
Yes I agree ,about unupdated info in phone books are always behind. I found an 1989 phone book with Country 92.5 as the old Natural 92.5 format.they switched in 1988.
 
Would Spanish even work in the market on a FM? One format I think would work but its not one I would listen to is Urban AC. Sell 104.1 to CBS Radio to program it, would do nicely as they already owns Hot 93.7
 
Well, considering 104.1's previous owner (Clear Channel), I would think a sale of that frequency to CBS would be more feasible under its current ownership (Red Wolf) if the resurrection of WMRQ ain't working out for them... Reason being, between two major chains, why would you want to "feed the giant"? Though, as long as the price is right, anything is possible...

According to the latest ratings, the Hispanic population has exceeded 10% - just slightly higher than the Black population, in fact... So maybe it's a good opportunity for such an FM in the market?
 
It could work but I just wouldn't want to see that on a FM format and in Hartford. I'd rather see sports talk on FM then that format.
 
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