Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Attack dya, OK, but where is the BEFF? Message-ID: <2089@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 16:06:39 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2089 Posted: Sat Jun 9 16:06:39 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 06:58:40 EDT References: <1429@unc-c.UUCP> Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 24 [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