Re: Boston FMs in the 1950s

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

On 19 Jun 99,  Martin J. Waters wrote:

>         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.
 
WBOS-FM may have been authorized in 1958, but it wasn't on the air until 
early 1960.  I don't know about summer 1958, but by the time I got an FM 
radio in December 1958, WNAC-FM had become WRKO-FM. They had
an automated legal ID, heard only on FM, on the hour and half hour, which 
said, "This is WRKO-FM in Boston."

There are some people who insist that the WRKO calls on FM came later, but 
I heard it the first day I had an FM radio, in December 1958.


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