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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Attack dya, OK, but where is the BEFF?
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Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 16:06:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  9 16:06:39 1984
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[Hit Radio, W***!!]

>      Every market is different, and perhaps there is a spot of land
> in the United States where a textbook CHR station will shoot up to
> #1 in three months.

In Boston, WHTT first aired in February 1983.  By the summer (June) they
were #1 in Boston's market.  (I don't have the data available but I know
where it can be found, in the Billboard article on the rebirth of
HitRadio.)  It may be the case, as mit-eddie!nessus says, that WHTT is
no longer #1 in its market, because since then (as you pointed out
earlier in this article) other stations have converted to CHR (WCOZ, for
example).  Boston may have the most CHR stations of *any* major market
in the U.S. (WHTT, WXKS, WCOZ, WMJX is playing more hits these days and
less easy listening).  I can see how they are all competing for the same
audience and dividing it between them.

Anyhow, I'm still a WABC fan for life.  There will never be anything
like it again in radio, as far as I'm concerned.
-- 
Those who know me have no need for my name.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{decvax!genrad, eagle!mit-vax, allegra!banyan, whuxle, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds