Re: Some WBUR history

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

A lot of stations use a letter from their calls with their frequency such as
Q-106.  Q-Sky could have simply been a positioner and would likely have been
used in a movie to avoid accidentally stumbling on a real station's calls.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>
To: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>; "Dave Faneuf" <tklaundry@juno.com>;
<bobonradio@yahoo.com>
Cc: <dan.strassberg@att.net>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: Some WBUR history


> And what about the radio station in the movie "FM", wasn't is Q-Sky(?) and
> the actually never used "W" or "K" for the calls, but actually used
> "Q-something?"
>
> -Paul Hopfgarten
> -Derry NH
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Bill
> > O'Neill
> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:09 PM
> > To: Dave Faneuf; bobonradio@yahoo.com
> > Cc: dan.strassberg@att.net; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: RE: Some WBUR history
> >
> >
> > If I had to guess, and this is just a guess when Harry wrote WOLD he
> > used
> > poetic license, it has nothing to do with reality other than the story
> > of
> > the DJ he wrote about, or the FCC
> > df
> >
> > Yep, right up there with WKRP and WJM-TV, along with that "five
> > thousand watt radio station in Fresno, Arizona" that Ted "Baxter"
> > Knight cut his teeth at.
> >
> > Bill O'Neill
> >
> >
>