Mattcatlover456 said:
Signal-wise it’s neither: 101.7 has been, and will continue to, transmit from 1 Financial Center, across from South Station, Downtown Boston.
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Signal-wise it’s neither: 101.7 has been, and will continue to, transmit from 1 Financial Center, across from South Station, Downtown Boston.
CTListener said:
Are you kidding? Rockers immediately dropped top 40 radio just as soon as they could acquire an FM receiver! Boston? Psychedelic Furs? Surely you jest! Mixing rock genres? Damn right he has a legitimate bitch!
I suggest that you keep listening to Radio Disney or whatever else your mom lets you listen to. You know nothing about Rock and Roll... Or Rock and Rollers!
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Yes in some ways a "trainwreck" approach, oddball segues, can be GOOD if it's variety etc. Trouble
is their focus is still kind of narrow. No "oh wows", rock heavy but who knows.
On Rt 114 in Danvers/Peabody area today and on some side roads and I found WHBA was fading a bit.
Yes I know that the stick is in Boston not Lynn, but consider the fact that Peabody is technically one town
over from their COL, Lynn...
>>top 40 radio was in the '60s and '70s
Lot fewer rock/top 40 stations back then though. Now things are divided into diff. genres etc.
Thinking of the move to FM, check out the intro to WKRP in Cinncinnati--the car radio shown is...AM only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go-tz1m_TY
is their focus is still kind of narrow. No "oh wows", rock heavy but who knows.
On Rt 114 in Danvers/Peabody area today and on some side roads and I found WHBA was fading a bit.
Yes I know that the stick is in Boston not Lynn, but consider the fact that Peabody is technically one town
over from their COL, Lynn...
>>top 40 radio was in the '60s and '70s
Lot fewer rock/top 40 stations back then though. Now things are divided into diff. genres etc.
Thinking of the move to FM, check out the intro to WKRP in Cinncinnati--the car radio shown is...AM only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go-tz1m_TY
iyiyi said:
I appreciate rock, pop, soul, country, folk, classical, Celtic, you name it. I enjoy true musical variety. I was there, my friend, when WBCN went free-form -- a 13-year-old awed and amazed at what I was hearing on my mom's (well, actually my dad's) FM tuner. But I never abandoned top 40, and as years went by I found new genres of interest. Much of that interest was nurtured by the sampling of those other genres I'd hear on top 40 radio: "The Unicorn," "El Condor Pasa," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Stand By Your Man," all that soul music from Memphis and Detroit and Philadelphia and New York. I curse Lee Abrams to this day for what he did to FM -- his "Superstars" format allowed you "Rock and Rollers" to insulate yourselves from everything but British and American rock. Variety? Yeah, it ran the gamut from the Alan Parsons Project to ZZ Top. No soul, no folk, no country, no authentic blues or classical. The Harbor isn't going to offer any of those either, but at least it isn't going to back itself into a hipper-than-thou, today's-sound-is-all-that-matters corner like WFNX or a fossilized snapshot of the late '60s through early '80s like WZLX and its ilk. Rock on.
Here's the Clear Channel strategy: copy WROR, and put it on a weaker signal. Good luck! 
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