Re: WDRC / Big D (Was Re: Censorship at WTKK)

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

But don't you remember when the 1220 station in Hamden (now owned by
QuinnipiacCollege and I'm blanking on the calls) was either WDDD or WDEE and
referred to itself on the air as Big D or maybe Connecticut's Big D
twelve-twenty. (I can't remember whether the calls were WDDD or WDEE but I
know that the WDEE calls have since been, and maybe still are, in Detroit.)
I think the Hamden station--not WDRC--was Connecticut's first "Big D.

P.S. Marty: Sorry I left you out of my impromptu list of mailing-list
regulars who didn't make the cookout. Posting such lists is always
dangerous, and I was thinking of LTAR regulars whn I composed it.
--

Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin J. Waters <mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu>
To: Howard Glazer <hmglaz@webtv.net>
Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: WDRC / Big D (Was Re: Censorship at WTKK)



>        Also, the use of "Big D" goes way back past about 20 years, when
>the FM flipped to oldies and went heavy calling itself Big D 103. WDRC (AM)
>dropped CBS and went top 40 in, for some reason I seem to recall this,
>October 1958. It's my understanding that "Big D" and "the Big D" were used
>to refer to the AM almost back to then, or right from that start, and
>certainly by the early '60s. It was cranked up again when the FM went to
>oldies to evoke that history with the AM. I think it was used on the AM
>almost up to then or right up until then. They had always kept up limited
>simulcasting to the extent the rules allowed it and really had the same
>format on both stations through the '70s. IIRC, during times of the day
>when the FM was not simulcasting, they used "Big D" back then, although it
>may not have been "Big D 103".