Re: WBZA

[fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)]

Dan says:
> >
> But then or later, Westinghouse ultimately DID buy KFWB. So here's a good
> question: If it was WBZA that went to make room for WINS, what went to make
> room for KFWB?--WOWO? KEX?
> 

Not WOWO; Westinghouse had them until 1982.  I think it was KEX; my 
1971 BY shows them as having been bought by Golden West (Gene Autry's
company) on 9/1/62; while it lists KFWB as having been bought in 1966.
So perhaps Westinghouse unloaded KEX in 1962 when a good deal came along,
and then had the room to acquire KFWB four years later without needing
to shed anything else.

It would have made sense for Westinghouse to get rid of KEX in the 
early sixties; they had been involved in a nasty, expensive fight to
get TV Channel 8 in Portland, which they lost to KGW, owned by Seattle's
King Broadcasting.  Without TV, I imagine KEX had little if any
remaining value to Westinghouse in that era.

In any event, by 1966 Westinghouse had taken on the form it would
have for some two decades: radio in NYC (WINS), Boston (WBZ),
Philadelphia (KYW), Pittsburgh (KDKA), Chicago (WIND), Fort
Wayne (WOWO), and Los Angeles (KFWB); FM in Boston and Pittsburgh;
and TV in Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Francisco (KPIX) and
Baltimore (WJZ).  

It wasn't until 1982, with the sale of the FMs and WOWO, that the group
would change again.

- -s

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