Boston FMs in the 1950s

[mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

        This is from Jeff Miller's really excellent broadcast history
website: <http://members.aol.com/jeff560/jeff.html>. It responds to some of
the questions about Boston FM stations in 1957. This list is summer 1958,
the closest that he has posted:

WBUR 90.9; WBZ 106.7; WCOP 100.7; WCRB 102.5; WEEI 103.3; WERS 88.9; WHDH
94.5; WNAC 98.5; Brockton: WBET-FM  97.7; Brookline: WBOS 92.9; Cambridge
WGBH 89.7; WHRB 107.1; WXHR 96.9; Lowell: WLLH 99.5; Worcester: WTAG 96.1;
Winchester: WHSR 91.9.

        The 1950 list, understanding that some stations went dark between
1950 and 1958 and came back in various ways either before 1958 or later.
And, understanding that, yes, there were more FM stations in 1950 than in
1958:

        WERS 88.1 CP 10w; WBUR 90.9 CP 400w; WBZ 92.9 20 kw; WHDH 94.5 20
kw; WNAC 98.5 20kw; WCOP 100.7 20 kw; WEEI 103.3 20 kw; WBMS 104.1 20 kw;
Brockton: WBET 97.7 800w; WBKT 107.1 800w; Cambridge: WXHR 96.9 20 kw;
Fitchburg: WEIM 104.7 9 kw; Haverhill: WHAV 92.5 20 kw; Lawrence: WLAW 93.7
20 kw; Lowell: WLLH: 99.5 12.2 kw; Lynn: WLYN 105.5 500w; Paxton: WGTR 99.1
20 kw; Worcester: WBMY 95.1 CP [no power listed]; WTAG  96.1 10 kw.

        Also, WBOS-FM lists a start date of 1955 in the 1976 Broadcasting
yearbook.

        And the same source gives a start date for WHDH-TV of November 26,
1957, to be exact.

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