Re: Made-up callsigns (was: WBZ-TV News on WSBK...)

[Ron Bello <RBello@BelloAssoc.com>]

The 1976 Broadcasting Yearbook lists WLTI at 91.5MHz and 1.7kw
located at 1 Textile Ave.  Phone number (617) 459-0579

Three changes in the 1977 edition.
Call became WJUL.
Address now 1 University Avenue.
Phone is (617) 459-0570


At 06:13 PM 3/26/02 -0500, Dave Faneuf wrote:

>
> > Hmm, I'm far from the most aware of alums in this stuff, but I
> > _think_
> > (and can find out for sure for you) that the carrier current freq.
> > was
> > 620 kHz as WLTI (Lowell Technological Institute, formerly Lowell
> > Textile
> > School) and the room was in the Sullivan Building in one of the
> > original
> > structures as of 1952.  I think FM (1.7 kW directional) was in 1970
> > or
> > 1971, with the calls to WJUL ("University of Lowell) in 1976.  The
> > Alumni Library addition was underway at that time ("Lydon" addition)
> > and
> > the late Joe Kopycinzki was in charge of the facility AND was the
> > advisor to the Audio Visual Society.  Joe recalled to me (I was AVS
> > Pres. for a bit about 20 years ago) that the radio station
> > approached
> > him and asked if AVS could consider co-opting WLTI.  Joe went
> > further
> > and offered up a big bunch of undefined space in the pending
> > building
> > for a state of the art studio.
> >snip<
> > Bill O'Neill
>
>I remember WLTI being a 10watt FM that was located in the basement of
>Eames Hall in what later became a laundry room.  I was not privy to the
>politics of the move and increase of power, but I did shows from the new
>studios at 1.7kw prior to 1976 and the calls were still WLTI, as a matter
>of fact I never did a show in the old studios in Eames Hall.
>
>I asked Joe Kopycinzki how the calls WJUL came about and he smiled and
>said it was the "jewel" of the Merrimack Valley.
>
>WLLH  (Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill)  I had heard, don't know how true it
>is, that the original plan was to place a xmitter in Haverhill as well as
>Lawrence and that's where the call signs came from.
>
>Dave