Re: "frequency shorthand"

["Ira Apple" <iapple@erols.com>]

You are correct on both counts, confusion with FM and the early 1970s.
Though I am not sure the exact year I would guess 1030 came back about 1974.

Ira Apple

- -----Original Message-----
From: 'A. Joseph Ross' <lawyer@world.std.com>
To: David W. Harris <dwh@totalnetnh.net>
Cc: Martin J. Waters <mwaters@wesleyan.edu>;
boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: "frequency shorthand"


>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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