Re: 560 WGAN

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

I don't know about WBZ back then; I grew up in New York City. For sure, back
in the 40s--and probably even earlier--WOR _always_ referrred to itself as
71 on the dial. I don't know when WOR made the switch from 71 to 710. In
WBZ's case, WEEI-FM (now WODS and co-owned with WBZ) started identifiying
its dial position as 103, which was at least potentially a source of
confusion for listeners. In WBZ's case, I think it was the FM at 103.3, more
than the switch to digitally tuned radios, that motivated the change in how
the frequency was described.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@world.std.com>
To: Dib9@aol.com <Dib9@aol.com>
Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: 560 WGAN


On 14 Apr 2001,  Dib9@aol.com wrote:

Just for historical reference, it seems to me that back in the 1950s and
at least the early 60s, stations used to use their full dial position.
WBZ was "Radio 1030," etc.  Sometime later, they started dropping the
final zero in AM stations (WBZ became "Radio 103"), and FM stations
started to drop the decimal or round up ("FM 97" for WJIB 96.9, for
example).  So this is a return to an older, and more correct, form.