Re: WWZN adds programming

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Was this before or after the demise of the country format on 1330--then known 
as WDLW? My recollection of country on 1330 is that it began either in the late 
70s or early 80s and lasted quite a while. Before country, 1330 was standards 
WHET. I know that the standards format was running in the summer of 1977 when 
the two-tower DA with 300' top-loaded towers replaced the old three-tower DA, 
which used 200' non-top-loaded towers. Between the better pattern and the more 
efficient antenna system the signal northwest of Boston improved big-time. 
(Except that 1330 in New York began transmitting full-time from Staten Island 
at that time and the nighttime interference intensified to a horrendous extent, 
but that situation improved enormously when the New York signal was moved north 
to the WWDJ site in Hackensack. The new pattern dramatically reduced radiation 
toward Boston.) Before it was WHET, 1330 was WCRB (AM). I think that the 
station's WCRB days must have ended around 1975.
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> I was Chief Engineer of 1510 at the time...when the country format was dropped 
> (WKKU at the time), we went back to simulcasting WSSH-FM until ownership decided 
> to do time brokerage to a spanish format group.
> 
> It's been a while, so unfortunately I can't put dates with these occurances, but 
> I can tell you that the day we turned off the country format the phones lit up 
> with unhappy Hank Williams fans.
> 
> John Kennedy