Is it just me or is WROR and WHCN in Hartford CT are very similar to each other. Both are classic hit stations yet they are heavy on rock
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WROR plays only hit singles. WHCN plays plenty of album tracks along with Top 40 hits.
While I'm not trying to hijack any of a number of threads that have been discussing active/classic/alternative rock stations and playlists ad nauseam, seeing mention of WHCN triggered a memory:
WHCN in Hartford was once a member of "The Concert Network", along with WXCN in Providence (the network's flagship station), WBCN (!) in Boston, and WNCN in NYC These stations operated via "FM relay", which meant that the network was interconnected via picking up the OTA signal of the CN station closest to it for re-transmission. IIRC, the network ceased operation in the fall of 1963 when WXCN left the air.
WHCN in Hartford was once a member of "The Concert Network", along with WXCN in Providence (the network's flagship station), WBCN (!) in Boston, and WNCN in NYC These stations operated via "FM relay", which meant that the network was interconnected via picking up the OTA signal of the CN station closest to it for re-transmission. IIRC, the network ceased operation in the fall of 1963 when WXCN left the air.
WXCN in Providence being the flagship, does that mean they originated the programming there?
I wonder which station got the most "hops"? I wonder how the quality on the end station was.
It's been a while, and WXCN left the air in September of 1963, IIRC. In fact, I got my first FM receiver earlier that spring, so I didn't listen all that much.
But from visits to the station with a buddy, who, like me, loved anything to do with radio, we got the impression that the Concert Network was headquartered in Providence, and some programming very likely may have originated there. There were no studios for live performance, just a room with a DJ running a console and some very high-quality turntables and reel-to-reel machines. I don't think that any of the stations were market leaders, so they were lucky if one of them got tapes of concert or operatic performances.
Maybe someone else would know whether all four stations were co-owned. When WXCN left the air, the other three did not. In fact, WBCN continued with classical programming until they went progressive rock in 1968.
>>picking up the OTA signal of the CN station closest to it for re-transmission
That was done some years ago in an amusing incident many here will remember--AM 1150 (WNFT at the time?) was temporarily simulcasting WAAF 107.3 with rock. So a cleaning crew went into the 1150 studio and flipped
the receiver that was playing WAAF to a station more of their liking, WJMN 94.5 (CHR-rap)...unaware they were switching the radio being used to then rebroadcast...thus the unintentional format flip....
That was done some years ago in an amusing incident many here will remember--AM 1150 (WNFT at the time?) was temporarily simulcasting WAAF 107.3 with rock. So a cleaning crew went into the 1150 studio and flipped
the receiver that was playing WAAF to a station more of their liking, WJMN 94.5 (CHR-rap)...unaware they were switching the radio being used to then rebroadcast...thus the unintentional format flip....
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