Re: Same calls since day 1

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 11:49 PM 5/31/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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. 
>
Another one that I omitted on the FM side is WATD. I think they've been At
The Dump since day one.

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