Re: newspapers versus radio-- 1947

[KEVIN VAHEY <fenway@zip1.ziplink.net>]

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Donna Halper wrote:

> So, since we were discussing how WBZ airs commercials for other stations
> (even for their competition), back in the "good old days", the lines were
> drawn a bit more strictly. Case in point: on 6 August, 1947, WCCM in
> Lawrence went on the air.  But you would never have known it from reading
> the Lawrence Evening Tribune.  Because the Tribune still owned WLAW, the

  Well it wasn't much better in the Merrimack Valley circa 1969 either.
The LOWELL SUN (via the Costello family) made it clear that one could not
run ads on both WXPO-TV 50 and the Sun. And alas WXPO didn't have the cash
to sit out the bluff......

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