RE: WORL (was 1957 airstaffs)

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Donna Halper wrote:

> The change to the call letters 'WROL' occurred out of a big controversy in
> the late 1940s over the denial of license renewal by the FCC to the original
> owners of what was then WORL (Arde Bulova and George LaFount, I believe);

Huh?  Something's not right here.  The change to WROL was in 1978, so how
did that have anything to do with the 1940s controversy?

> New owners finally took over several years
> later (1951, I believe), but the WORL calls were gone by then... the new
> owners tried to get as close to the former calls as they could, because many
> people had fond memories of the station even then, and were still upset at
> its having been taken off the air.

Again, huh?  The station used the WORL calls through the 50s and until the
change to WRYT in 1966. 

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