Paul Connors on HitRadio 103 WHTT Boston | July 4, 1984
Thanks to Paul Connors, we have yet another great clip of him, this time holding down morning drive on HitRadio 103 WHTT!
Paul commented that when he took over mornings, WHTT was in a three-way CHR war with WKXS-FM “Kiss 108″ and 98.5 WROR, which had taken a CHR direction earlier in 1983. By the time of this aircheck, WROR had returned to the AC fold, and 94.5 was still AC WCOZ… a few short months from morphing into “Boston’s Zoo” - WZOU!
WHTT really cooks here! One thing we Bostonians remember were the HitRadio jingles, and honest-to-goodness variety (not diversity) in music. Sadly, it all came to an end in 1986 when CBS blew it up and flipped, first to AAA as WMRQ (those calls eventually went to Hartford) as “Boston’s Quality Rock”, then, 9 months later, to the now legendary Oldies format as WODS “Oldies 103″.
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Paul I remember listening to you in Portland Maine.Was it ‘JBQ or G-98?
I was at ‘JBQ from November, 1981-February, 1983 and again from August, 1984 until April, 1985. I also worked part-time at FM103 (WGAN-FM, which had just flipped from Beautiful Music to CHR!) in the summer of ‘85. This was before WJBQ became WWGT “G98″, in 1986.
Hi Paul, I miss those days when you were at WHTT. I am a mobile DJ now and those were the days, the summer of 1984 that made me really want to be a DJ and I still play a lot of the music from your days at WHTT, thanks for the inspiration. I kind of get butterflies listening to the samples of you and the music in the back ground. It fells like you are still here in Boston, then, reality check!
About time we got a good aircheck of WHTT. At MIT, where I was a student at the time, many of us listened to Kiss 108 or WEEI-FM as it gradually transitioned to CHR. I remember the evening WEEI-FM switched over to WHTT (and have it on tape too); we all circled the stereo to listen to whatever was coming. Those of us who grew up in NYC with WABC were excited to finally have a real musicradio station playing contemporary hits separated by the banter of capable DJs. Kiss 108’s music tended toward one side of the spectrum; COZ toward the other; but WHTT was down the middle and ended up with a huge share, at least in our dorm. It’s a shame it was so shortlived, but thanks for sharing! One request, Paul, if you happen to have any of those top-of-the-hour jingles (WHTT had three over the years, I think) or weather backings in the clear, it would sure be nice to hear them! In any case, good to hear your voice again.
Would you care to share the call letter change with us? It will get online if you do.
I was in between going to a Catholic grammar school and Boston Latin Academy (an invitational school), and I used to record a lot of stuff off WHTT, WZOU, and many others from the radio my parents gave me. A lot of things don’t change…hazy hot and humid in 1984 is the same as hazy, hot and humid in 2006!
This is a small world - Paul, we worked together briefly at WNEB, Worcester in ~1978-79 while owned by Harold Segal; I did the Saturday night shift and later Sunday mornings under the name Jay Green. Whereas it was a hobby for me, and upon heading for college at MIT in fall ‘79 I left the broadcasting airwaves for good, I always wondered if you’d stayed in radio. Stuart Gitlow’s post above is another coincidence - we overlapped at MIT, and I believe crossed paths in the Biology Dept. From what Stuart says, chances are good I heard you in Boston, where I remained until 1989, not knowing it was you! Where are you now? As for me, these days radio remains a hobby, mainly as a General Class ham, W3MIT.
Best wishes to you,
John Greene
Hi John,
I left radio after 22 years (beginning at age 15!) in 1998 and have been taking pictures with scanning electron microscopes since then!
Paul
Even at the ages of 7-10, this was the only station to listen to in Boston on the ride to and from school every day! I miss the 80s!!!