RE: Same calls since day 1

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

- -----Original Message-----
From:	owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On Behalf Of 'A. Joseph
Ross'
Sent:	Sunday, May 31, 1998 11:50 PM
To:	Dan Strassberg
Cc:	boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org; dlh@donnahalper.com
Subject:	Re: Same calls since day 1

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

But both WBOS and WBCN were NOT the orignal calls at their frequencies.
I believe WBMS was at 104.1 originally, and WBZ-FM had 92.9 at first.
So, if Frequecny is the determining factor, neither WBCN nor WBOS or WBOS-FM
would qualify.
- -Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

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