Re: WBZA

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

On 13 Feb 00,  Mark Casey wrote:

> About this time -- 1961 or 62 -- WBZA was just a slave station for mildly
> rockin' top 40 WBZ and WBZA was no longer at the Kimball.  The other thing
> was, WBZ was running a contest "Why is Jefferson Kaye the world's biggest
> ham" They shut off  'BZA during the middle of the contest and I never found
> out why Jeff Kaye was the world's biggest ham! (Because my 6 transistor
> radio couldn't get Boston very well, , and WBZ on evening skywave here,
> just East of Springfield, is hard enough to listen to voice, never mind
> music--Oh well!)

I remember listening to WBZ in Amherst in the mid-60s.  It was fine in the 
daytime.  At night, it sometimes came in fairly well, other times not so 
well.  I often wished WBZA were still around, though I'm not sure its 1000-
watt signal would have made much difference in Amherst.


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