Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 3/10: Farewell, Judy Jarvis

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

At 11:26 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Scott D Fybush wrote:


>*Moving on to MASSACHUSETTS, we find the first Northeast spinoff from
>the Clear Channel - AMFM merger: WHMP (1400/99.3 Northampton), which
>go from Clear Channel to Saga, where they'll join WAQY (102.1) and
>WPNT (1600 East Longmeadow) in what's now a Springfield-market
>cluster.

Except that I don't think WHMP (AM) gets much of a signal into Springfield.

   Like WTKK and WROR,
>WBOS had been on the "FM128" tower in Newton, which will be left with
>just WBUR, WJMN, WBMX, WODS and WCRB once all the dust settles.

I keep wondering why WODS doesn't move to the WBZ-TV tower and save some 
tower rent.

>NERW can't help but hope that this is a prelude to the end of one of
>the last remaining rock-solid regulations left at the FCC.  For the
>last 15 years or so, when a three-letter call is changed, it's been
>gone for good, with no exceptions.  We'd love to hear WHN, KYA, KRE,
>KOH and the rest back on the air!  (Anybody for a return of WHQ? --
>heck, anybody besides me even know what WHQ was?)

Funny, I thought a station which once had a three-letter call could get it 
back.  At least that's what it said in a document on three-letter calls 
that I found somewhere on the Net a few years ago.  WHN, of  course, did 
get its three-letter call back once, back in the 1960s, but they gave it up 
again.


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