Re: WMTW call letters-- I FOUND THEM

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

Great job, Donna.

Just to make sure we have everything correct: 1490 is now WBAE.  The call
letters were changed when the long time simulcast with WPOR-FM was ended and
the station picked up the "Music of Your Life" format.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: WMTW call letters-- I FOUND THEM


> At 08:54 AM 5/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >As I recall, 1490 in Portland was WMTW (AM) a fairly long time before
there
> >was a WMTW-TV or a WMTW-FM.
>
> It would have to be really long ago, because in my Radio Annual for 1956,
> 1957 and 1958, it lists WPOR at 1490 in Portland.  I don't find any change
> in the early 60s either-- according to my old Vane Jones Radio/TV Station
> Guide from 1966, WPOR is still at 1490.  Okay, I just found the answer,
and
> Dan S. is right.  When what is today WPOR went on the air in 1946, as a
> member of the Yankee Network, is used the call letters WMTW.  But
> evidently, it only used those calls in the late 40s, since my Radio Annual
> for 1949 is the last one where those calls are used.