Re: WHSR-FM (91.9), Winchester High School

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I seem to remember them at 95.something, but perhaps I'm forgetting these
days.  In any case, I have an aircheck of them that I taped around 1976/77,
a couple of female "jocks" were in the studio and cueing up Fancy Colours
by Chicago.  

At 11:46 AM 7/26/97 -0500, PETER GEORGE, N1GGP wrote:
>     WHSR-FM was one of the earliest suburban 10 watters in the Boston
>area.  It was built and engineered by an Arnold W. Ginsburg.  YES, the
>same man we all know and love as Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg.  It hit the
>air in 1959 serving the town of Winchester and surrounding towns.  It
>had a fairly high antenna.  I used to pick it up on a regular basis in
>my town of Randolph, some 30 miles away....NO kidding.  It was a very
>well run radio station for so many years.  However, the 1978 ruling
>that required all ten watters to increase power or risk losing their
>protected status or move to a "empty" channel in the commercial band.
>Through a long list of mismanagements and technical gaffes, not to
>mention "Proposition 2 and half"...WHSR-FM died in 1991.  Someone
>thought that it was OK to move the station to 89.3 FM.  Who ever did
>the engineering moved it to 89.3 with "FCC permission".  The occupants
>of 88.9 and 89.7 got wind of it and called the FCC.  They had to get off.
>The folks at WHSR-FM called WUMB-FM to ask it they could go back to 91.9
>of which they were licensed to operate.  WUMB said "OK, as long as no
>one would make any complaint".  Needless to say, they didn't have a 
>chance.  WUMB made a complaint to the FCC and ordered WHSR-FM to vacate
>the premises.  There were plans to help WHSR to move to 97.9 with the
>special permission with  the then WROR 98.5.  However, the problem was
>not with WROR, but WOKQ/97.5.  By the time everything was straightened
>out, WHSR-FM never took the time to fill out the necessary paperwork
>to move to 97.9.  As a result, a thirty-three year old station died.
>It was a crying shame, indeed.  It was so useless.
>
>-Pete-
>
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