Re: Fwd: Re: TV locations

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 06:26 PM 7/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
>-- [ From: Robert W. Paine * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
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>Date: Wednesday, 16-Jul-97 02:13 AM
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>From: Robert W. Paine          \ PRODIGY:     (TEBZ17A) To:   Boston
>Radio Interest    \ Internet:    (boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.
>mit.edu)
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>Subject: Re: TV locations
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> According to an article I photocopied - and I'll try to locate it soon
>to give the reference - WBZ/4 operated from a makeshift studio in the
>Hotel Bradford for several days after the June 1948 sign-on. The studios
>at Soldier Field Road were not completed in time for the inaugural
>broadcast but were finished within a week or so, perhaps longer. 
> WLAW had remote studios in Boston for a time, and in 1950 moved them to
>the vacated WBZ studios in the Bradford. WLAW was purchased by The
>Yankee Network in 1952 and WNAC moved to the 680 frequency. 1260 was
>sold to Victor Diehm (spelling?) and became WVDA. WLAW-FM was shut down
>and the license returned to the FCC. 
>
I _like_ that explanation because, in a post earlier this week, I was trying
to say that I though that was what happened to WLAW AM. I was kind of
shouted down by other members of this group, however. Several posters
insisted that the WLAW AM license was turned back to the FCC and that WVDA
was a new station. My suspicion was that WVDA was actually a continuation of
WLAW's AM license (and, of course, WLAW's Boston studios and the old WNAC
transmitter and frequency). If that _is_ the case, by the way this group
reckons things, WPZE will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 1999.

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