Re: MESSAGE ID: 1EC610858

["Paul R Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

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> From: Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>
> To: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>;
boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: MESSAGE ID: 1EC610858
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 1997 6:37 AM
> 
> At 06:35 AM 7/31/97 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> > I block on the guy who ran the place (Joe somebody-- it will
> >come back to me)
> 
> Scallan
> 
> >getting the Red Sox
> >and other teams was supposed to also be in the cards.  All I remember
about
> >that time in late 1980/early 1981 was that the station's plans fell
through,
> 
> The new TX _did_ save the Red Sox for WITS--for one season anyhow. They
> already had the Sox when the TX was in N Quincy. After the construction
of
> the State St South office complex, the nighttime signal, which was
already
> horrendous everywhere but in Quincy itself, the portions of Boston near
the
> water, and the North Shore, became totally unlistenable throughout most
of
> the market. As a stopgap measure, WITS leased time on WDLW (1330) to
provide
> coverage for Sox night games in the western suburbs (as far south as
Dedham,
> or so). Then, WITS applied to improve its ground system. I understand
that
> they made that mod--to no effect. Next they applied to modify the non-CH
day
> pattern to add some additional null fill-in to the southwest. They never
> made that mod because their second application, to move to 411 Waverley
Oaks
> Rd on the Waltham-Belmont line was approved first. WITS was able to
> demonstrate that, from the Waltham site, the nighttime signal in downtown
> Boston would be the second strongest of any Boston AM--exceeded only by
WBZ.
> The signal in Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Arlington, Winchester, and much
of
> Lexington also improved dramatically. but in the rest of the market
> (Westwood, for example, where the station was not and still isn't audible
at
> night), there was no change. And on the North Shore and in Quincy, the
> signal got worse. Rumor has it that a key Red Sox exec lived in Westwood.
> When the upgrade to 50 kW-N still left the Sox without a signal he could
> listen to at night, renewal of WITS' contract with the sox became a dead
issue.
> 
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> Dan Strassberg (Note: Address is CASE SENSITIVE!)
> ALL _LOWER_ CASE!!!--> dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
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WITS also leased out ALL night games in 1978 to WWEL-FM (Kiss 108-WXKS-FM
now) (I remeber, because that's what I listened to at night).

- -Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

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