Re: WORL (was 1957 airstaffs)

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

Dan wrote:
>>
>Yes, and the original calls were WBSO, weren't they? This was when the
>station was owned by Roger Babson and had its TX site on the campus of
>Babson College in Wellesley. The station lost its license in the mid 40s for
>an unauthorized transfer of control. I think by the time it lost its
>license, it was WORL and had its studios in the Myles Standish Hotel in
[snip]

Babson really did sell it in 1935.  Three guys bought it, Eynan/Phalen and
somebody whose name I forget; it moved severa times and then was being run
by Arde Bulova and Harold LaFount.  The station lost its license in the late
40s because the FCC decided Bulova and LaFount had done some nasty stuff at
their New York station (!) so they yanked the licenses of their other
station too.  that is part of what got the Boston media so excised-- the
Boston staff had done nothing wrong and was being punished for the sins of
their group owner...    

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