Re: VPR on 1370 Bennington

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

>Joe Ross wrote:
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>OTOH, when WFCR first started, it was a simulcast of WGBH, even including
>a joint ID.
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        By around 1971-72, at least, WFCR had a completely separate
existence. It ran some of the same programs as WGBH, but it was handled
like a network feed. In a lot of the cases, it really was a network feed,
as WAMC and maybe some other stations also were involved in some sort of
regional net setup whose name I don't remember. Morning Pro Musica is
probably the best-known part of that.

>When I started at UMass in 1963, WMUA had just gotten a new board.  I
>later visited WFCR, which was then located in a room in the School of
>Education, and was told that their board was the one that WMUA had
>replaced.

        Indeed. WFCR (What a great set of double-entendre calls, huh? A
college boy's dream.) had to beg for money everywhere, especially before
the CPB and all that was established. OTOH, around 1970, WMUA seemed to
have the UMass Student Senate in the palm of it hand. In only about two
budget years, it got money to go from 10w mono to 1 kW stereo with a new
antenna site (put on the air in 1971), as well as all the studio and
audio-chain equipment needed to upgrade to stereo. And we went shopping at
the Cadillac dealership. Top-of-the-line RCA stereo boards all around,
please. Advent speakers for the studio monitors, thank you very much.