RE: 96.9

[Ron Bello <RBello@BelloAssoc.com>]

In spite of the official explanations.....
Fairbanks (owner of 105.7 at the time)
moved the WCLB call to their FM
station in West Palm Beach, FL.

There are still street signs pointing to
WCLB studios in Framingham.


At 01:29 PM 3/12/03 +0000, Chuckigo@att.net wrote:
>to Bill O's inquiry, Garrett replied:
> >>No, you're thinking of 105.7 which was WCLB for quite a while,
>actually -- the Archives show that they were WCLB from Feb. '93 to
>July '95.<<
>
>the change of 105.7 WCLB to 105.7 WKLB was made, at least on the record for
>official explanations, due to perceived call letter confusion between WCLB 
>and
>WCRB.  during my brief stint at WCLB, we had to "punch" the L.
>
>one fun note of the country war that was waged in Boston was the WBCS 
>campaign
>focused on how "We don't spell Country with a "K"!"  turns out spelling 
>doesn't
>always count. ;-)
>
>and as we've noted before, WKLB was, in the 70's, the call letters for Grahm
>Junior College's carrier-current am 640.  the four Grahm buildings were
>Wadsworth, Kenmore, Leavit and Beacon.  (the original calls for the station
>were WCSB for Cambridge School of Broadcasting)
>
>- -Chuck (with a K) Igo