Re: 1957

[Jim <aerie@mediaone.net>]

I lived in Somerville near Tufts at the time.  I don't remember what the
program was now, but there was something on WTBS on Saturday nights that I
just HAD to listen to.  So every Saturday night I would steal aluminum foil
from my mom's kitchen to hang on the rabbit ears antenna I was using on my
FM radio, desperately trying to bring in WTBS well enough to listen to. :)



At 08:33 AM 6/23/99 EDT, Shawn Mamros wrote:
>>I also remember that when WTBS, now WMBR, first came on, I found that I 
>>couldn't receive it in Bedford at all.  Not even as badly as I was getting 
>>WHRB.  But that was a few years later, I understood about low power 
>>stations by then, and I simply assumed that I was too far from the 
>>station.
>
>Heck, with all of ten watts of power off of the top of a three-story
>building (which is all the station had for its first ten years on FM,
>1961-71), WTBS was probably lucky if it made it out to the near side of
>the Arlington hills, never mind going beyond that...
>
>Anybody know just how far the station's reach was in those days?
>(I wasn't born yet, and even by the time that came around, I was
>still 600 or so miles away... the 86th harmonic of KDKA was probably
>stronger than WTBS! :-)
>
>-Shawn Mamros
>E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu
>

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