Re: Bring Back "Heritage" Calls

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

>Steve wrote--
>
>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?

I think our friend Laurence from Methuen's point was not that we should 
worship all the old calls-- that wasn't my point either-- but rather, there 
is a tendency to take stations whose history in a market was very long and 
very respected and just throw that all away when the station's ownership 
changes.  I applauded the management at WBZ which may have changed its own 
name from Westinghouse to CBS/Infinity/Viacom/whatever but which left the 
WBZ calls intact.