Re: WUPI/WUPY?

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Peter: You're forgetting that the move of WVCA (now WBOQ)
from 107.1 to 104.9 could not have happened if WUPY had 
remained. And WVCA could not have gotten its original 
107.1 alocation had WHRB-FM not moved from 107.1 to 
95.3. Moreover, I don't think that WAAF could have been 
licensed if WHRB had stayed on 107.1. Talk about domino 
effects!

But I find it very odd that the FCC would have licensed 
a Class B on 105.3 in Lynn. WVCA was and WBOQ is a Class 
A. Now, 104.9 was originally a Class A channel, so 
nothing but Class A stations were permited on 104.9. But 
my impression is that if Class Bs had been permited on 
104.9 back when Geller moved WVCA to 104.9, WVCA still 
couldn't have been a B because of first-adjacent WPJB 
(FM), which was a full B.

I believe that one of the reasons that WHRB was able to 
move to 95.3 is that, although WBRU (or whatever the 
calls of the Providence 95.5 were back then--I don't 
think it was connected with Brown U in those days) was a 
B, it did not have the maximum Class B facilities, 
whereas WPJB did.

Also, although WKOX-FM probably did not even exist as a 
CP when WUPY was granted, I think an allocation of a 
Class B on 105.7 in Framingham was part of the FCC's 
table of alocations from the git-go. Lynn is too close 
to Framingham for a second-adjacent full Class B, and 
when the allocation table was first published, I don't 
think the FCC envisioned the grant of FMs that could not 
increase to the full facilities for the station class.

This suggests that, decades before Docket 80-90, WUPY 
was a drop-in. All very curious.
--
dan.strassberg@att.net
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>     The demise of WUPY did have domino effect on the
> Boston FM allocations especially with suburban FM'er
> WKOX-FM/105.7 (now WROR-FM) in Framingham.  Like WUPY,
> WKOX-FM was a minimum Class B facility.  WKOX-FM
> eventually was able to power up to 50,000 watts (ERP)
> from the WKOX/1190 tower on Mt. Wayte Ave in
> Framingham.  Like WUPY, WKOX-FM was an early convert
> to FM Stereo in 1963.  The WKOX-FM programming was
> mainly Symphonic for the affluent western suburbs like
> Wellesley, Weston etc.......