Fw: WTHT

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Strassberg <Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net>
To: Jibguy@aol.com <Jibguy@aol.com>; dlh@donnahalper.com
<dlh@donnahalper.com>; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.com
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.com>
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: WTHT


>In response to a question posed on today's LTAR, WTHT Hartford was on 1230.
>After it went dark (in the early 50's I think), the frequency was
eventually
>occupied by WINF Manchester. The Manchester station has been broadcasting
in
>Spanish for many years now; I think it was the first all-Spanish station in
>the Hartford market, but I don't remember the calls.
>
>As for WKDM (now WNNY) in New York, Donna said that the station on 1380 in
>New York (1350 pre-NARBA) had had many calls. Not so, according to Jaker et
>al. The station began in 1927 as WKBQ and in 1931 became WBNX. It retained
>those calls for 53 years until it became WKDM in 1984. In the early days of
>radio, before AM directional antennas were developed, many AMs shared time
>and WBNX was involved in one of the longest running share-time
>arrangements--with WAWZ in Zeraphath NJ (now an FM station). Today, I
>believe there are only two AM share-time arrangements still in existence in
>the US. The oldest is on 580 and involves WIBW Topeka KS and KKSU in
another
>town in Kansas whose name escapes me. The other is between two stations on
>1450 in Cicero IL on Chicago's south side. This one is unique in datating
>back only to the 50s or 60s. One of the most famous share-time
arrangements,
>on 1240 in Chicago, ended only a little over a year ago. WSBC acquired WCRW
>and WEDC to end an arrangement that must have been in effect for over 60
>years.
>