Re: WEVD (was WFAN New York)

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Mark Shneyder wrote:

> To raise money for the newspaper which went from daily to weekly combined
> English/Yiddish edition in 1984, the Forward Association sold the FM
> frequency for $40 million dollars to Spanish broadcasters back in 1987.
> The original Forward building on Lower East side was also sold to Chinese
> Immigrant Society. 

I believe it still has the Forward logo in Yiddish on the front.  There
was a story about this a few years ago in the newsletter of the National
Yiddish Book Center.  They also told how they managed to salvage one of
the old Yiddish linotype machines and reassemble it at their warehouse in
Holyoke, so that visitors can get linotype slugs with their name in
Yiddish.  The Forward has switched to using MacIntosh computers to do
their layouts. 

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