Re: Same calls since day 1

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

On Sun, 31 May 1998, Dan Strassberg wrote:

> If you exclude noncommercial FMs, of which quite a few, including the two
> biggies, WGBH and WBUR, retain their original calls, there are also WHRB and
> WCRB. That is, there is also WCRB if WCRB is still technically WCRB-FM, even
> though there is no longer a related WCRB (AM). If WCRB-FM became WCRB (FM)
> after the AM on 1330 became WHET, then WCRB doesn't (quite) qualify. In New
> York, WQXR is still technically WQXR-FM, as far as I know, even though there
> no longer is a WQXR (AM).

There's also WBCN and WERS.  WCRB-FM did become WCRB at some point.  The
same is true of WBOS, formerly WBOS-FM. 

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