WICE....

["PETER GEORGE, N1GGP" <PGEORGE@WELLESLEY.EDU>]

     WICE/1290 was one of Providence's Top-40 stations back in the 1960's.
They tried to compete with WPRO/630 ("Pro-radio sixty-three, is W-P-R-O !!)
but had mucho problems.  One they did not have "Salty" Brine (need I say more ?)and secondly they had signal problems especally at night.  Lastly, WPRO had
92.3 FM which simulcasted WPRO-AM full-time and helped the areas that WPRO/630
had problems with at night.  I have a tape of WPRO-FM from 1959 where they
were in the simulcast mode.  I remember the jingle went like this.....

Mighty....
Mighty....
Mighty sixty-three, the place for you and me....
RADIANT...Radio PRO.....
On wonderful W-P-R-O,
wonderful W-P-R-O.....
IN PROVIDENCE !!!!!!!

     WICE/1290 is now WRCP, a station catering to the Portuguese community
of Providence and Fall River.  The WICE on 550 that existed later on had 
no relationship to the original WICE except for the call-letters.

- -Pete-

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