RE: Ugo San Antonio Obit

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

So if someone writes WXKS in their diary, it is assumed to be WXKS(AM) 1430?
(I suppose most WXKS-FM diary entries say KISS or KISS-108 anyways)

Maybe a better example is WTIC in Hartford......a "WTIC" entry would be
automatically credited to 1080AM vs 96.5FM?

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of A.
> Joseph Ross
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:53 AM
> To: Laurence Glavin; Dan Strassberg
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Ugo San Antonio Obit
>
>
> On 7 Apr 2002 at 8:06, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>
> > So maybe 93.7 first signed on when it would not have been
> granted WCCM-FM
> > and the owner just used his own initials.
>
> No, WGHJ signed on around 1960 or 1961.  At that point, WBZ-FM,
> WCOP-FM, WHDH-FM,
> WEEI-FM, etc. were all on the air.  That's why I was curious
> enough to call the station and
> ask why it wasn't WCCM-FM.
>
> > The use of separate FM calls didn't really take hold again
> until the 70s,
> > when FMs were mandated to program separately from the affiliated AMs.
> > Since advertisers no longer got time on the FMs as a "free"
> bonus with AM
> > buys, it became important for the stations to be recognized as separate
> > entities in the ratings. If the calls were essentially the same, credit
> > for the FM listenership would have gone to the similarly named AM.
>
> I wonder whether that's why WXKS (AM) still has those calls.
>
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