Re: WHDH and Blue/ 1956

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

On 9 Jun 99,  Sven Weil wrote:

> Atlantic Broadcasting Company owned WABC-880 in New York at that time.
> This station later became WCBS-AM, principal station for Columbia
> Broadcasting. 

Not at that time.  CBS owned WABC-880 for quite some time during the 1940s 
at least.  I don't remember the date, but I think it was sometime in 1947 
that WABC became WCBS and WEAF became WNBC on the same day.
 
> They had nothing to do with the American Broadcasting
> Company, which used WJZ-770 as it's principal station after NBC sold off
> it's Blue Network.  WJZ changed to WABC somewhere in the mid to late 40s
> or so, I think.   

WJZ and WJZ-TV became WABC and WABC-TV in 1953.


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