RE: WHEB (was Re: Garabedian)

[Gary F <garysice@tiac.net>]

How well I remember the old WHEB ID from 1969:    "This is WHEB at 750 on your dial and WPFM, WHEB's FM affiliate at
One-hundred-point-three, Portsmouth, New Hampshire" - it was voiced by then PD, Howie Leonard.  They were  using jingles
with the tag line "WHEB, Portsmouth...the talk of the town"

- -gary francis

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From: 	Richard Chonak[SMTP:rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us]
Sent: 	Tuesday, May 27, 1997 2:26 AM
To: 	boston-radio-interest@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: 	WHEB (was Re: Garabedian)


supersport wrote:
> I didn't know that Garabedian went to Knight after WMEX.  Did he consult
> with the New Hampshire properites, WHEB and WGIR-FM?  (Actually, it was
> probably too early for FM Rock in N.H. at that time.


When my family moved to New Hampshire in the mid-'60s, WHEB-FM seemed to be 
fairly new, and carried a simulcast of the daytime-only full-service AM 
(750).  Thousands of New Hampshireites probably still have their slogan in 
memory: "if you want to know what the weather's going to do, call 
four-three-six- two-eight-two-two."   

We kids couldn't make any sense of the announcement that WHEB was a "Knight 
Quality Station": uh, was that supposed to mean they were better in the 
evening?  :-) 

For a while, the FM side adopted the call letters WPFM -- maybe that 
happened when the station made the switch to FM stereo.  

Does anyone have the details of the history, about when the AM side went to 
a standards format, while the FM became a pop station and took back the 
original calls; and then later switched to album-rock or whatever it is now?

I should know more about this, since my Portsmouth High School buddy Jeff 
May had a job there for a while, DJing the weekend midnight shifts as one 
of a series of "Bill Silver"s.

- ---
Richard Aquinas Chonak, rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us

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