Re: more about...WEZE rock

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Sat, 3 May 1997 11:01:09 +0000, Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net> said:

> At 05:00 AM 5/3/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> 
>> Meanwhile, since several folks asked, here is a brief history of WEZE/WVDA,
>> which at one time began its life out in Lawrence as the late great WLAW...
>> _______________________________________________________________________
> Well, yes. But by the way this group reckons things (and I think by the way
> most radio historians reckon), that's _not_ correct. We would trace what is
> now WPZE back to WNAC or a predecessor and we would trace WRKO back to WLAW.

I would not.  I follow the ``continuous chain of ownership'' model,
which means that we recognize three separate stations with distinct
histories:

WLAW 680 (R.I.P.)
WNAC 1230 - WNAC 1260 - WNAC 680 - WRKO 680
WVDA 1260 - WEZE 1260 - WPZE 1260

We would have to look carefully at the history to determine how the
WNAC-WLAW transaction was structured, since there are three
possibilities:

1) WNAC and WLAW swapped licenses.  This would have meant that, for at
least a legal instant, there was a 1260 licensed to Boston, but owned
by the old owners of WLAW, which was then sold to Diehm.  

2) WNAC bought WLAW and sold the 1260 license in separate
transactions, with FCC approval of the first contingent on the second.

3) WNAC bought WLAW and turned in the 1260 license, then sold the 1260
facilities to a completely new licensee.

If (1) were true, then we would describe the history of WLAW together
with 1260.  However, this alternative seems to me the least likely of
the three.

In all cases, the FCC would also have had to agree to change the 680
city of license to Boston (or rather, ``Boston and Lawrence''; I have
a tape of such an ID).

- -GAWollman

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