Re: "frequency shorthand"

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

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, David W. Harris wrote:

> Martin J. Waters wrote:  "...one of the earliest instances of an AM
> station changing its reference to its own frequency that I recall is
> WBZ. Sometime relatively early in the game -- it seems like it may have
> been the very early '70s -- it dropped "Radio 1-0-3 and became "Radio
> 10-30." I can only guess that was done at least partly because 103 also
> is an FM frequency."

Interestingly enough, they were "Radio 1030" circa 1960 and, sometime
around 1962 or 63 or thereabouts, changed to "Radio 103." 

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