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Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 12/3: Canada's CRTC Gets Busy



On 4 Dec 99,  Scott D Fybush wrote:

> WDIS (1170 Norfolk) has its call letters back, as the FCC reinstates
> the station's license and pending applications after accidentally
> cancelling them over the summer.

I'd heard that the FCC accidentally cancelled the station's license, but 
what's with the call letters?  Did the station stop operating?  What 
pending applications?
 
> Two obituaries to report: Eileen Kneeland, who served as the midday
> host on WBZ and WEEI in the 1940s, was a pioneering cooking-show host on
> Boston TV in the 1950s, and later taught at Endicott College in Beverly,
> died in late November.  

She was also the "Lady of the Bookshelf," in the early 50s on Channel 4.  
That was a local program for children, one of many which appeared in the 
6:00 PM block, right after Howdy Doody.


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