Re: Bring Back "Heritahe" Calls

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

Laurence Glavin wrote:
>On today's (06/01) LTAR, featuring Donna Halper, who has not become
>too big to consort with the "little people" after all,
>a few minutes were given to "heritage calls" and how they've
>disappeared as stations have been bought and sold, and formats flipped.
>One of the big offenders has been AM 1150 in Boston.
>It's been sold again, this time to Salem Communications,
>an outfit that has either held on to meritage calls (WMCA, NY) or restored 
>them.  It seems to me it might be
>a good idea to bring the call letters WCOP to 1150.  They're
>currently in use by a college FM in Joe-jah.  Maybe for
>a small stipend they could pull a Turner Broadcasting and acquire
>the calls for AM 1150 here...or under the crazy-quilt call-letter
>regulations these days, make WCOP the calls for an AM station in Boston,
>while they remain on an FM in snake-handling, moonshine
>making, inbreeding country.


Southern slurs aside, I see nothing that would be gained by restoring the 
WCOP calls to 1150...even in the unlikely event that country music returns 
to that frequency.  WMCA gave WABC a good fight "back in the day"....WCOP 
never really had a day.  Are you suggesting we return 107.9's calls to WWEL 
too?

Lot of good "heritage" calls do in most instances...1250 in Manchester has 
it's original calls...the station has languished at the bottom of the heap 
for 20-odd years thru numerous owners and formats.  People tune in for the 
programming, not the call letters.