RE: Double letters in Boston-market calls

["Magnadan" <magnadan@comcast.net>]

I remember WWEL-FM.  "This is WELL, W-WELL.  Beautiful music at the top
of your FM dial."  Then one day it was Kiss 108.

But before it was WWEL wasn't it WHLL... Or was it WHIL?  They played
Country music at 107.9.  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On Behalf Of
Dan.Strassberg@att.net
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:06 AM
To: DonKelley@aol.com
Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: Double letters in Boston-market calls


Thanks, Don. Indeed! And the AM, then a daytimer, was WWEL (AM). How,
umm, well 
I remember "It's 11:00 and all's well at WWEL Medford." I was
hospitalized for 
almost two weeks with a ruptured appendix in 1973 and I remember
listening to 
WWEL in my hospital room. Now, did WJIB and its beautiful music format
already 
exist when WWEL adopted a similar format? You kind of have to believe
that 
whichever station adopted the beautiful music format later got the idea
for its 
IDs from the one that did the format first. Of course, neither WJIB nor
WWEL 
was first with beautiful music in the Boston market. Those honors
probably go 
to WMEX and the Theater of Beautiful Music in 1956--right before Mac and
Dickie 
Richmond bought the station out of bankruptcy. When the Richmond
brothers 
flipped WMEX to Top 40, WBOS (AM) took over with the WBOS Music Theater.
And in 
the same timeframe, WNAC 680 did Music From Studio X with Bill Marlowe
during 
the evening hours. I guess, however, that in this market, the
predecessor to 
all of those programs/formats was American Airlines "Music Till Dawn,"
which I 
believe was heard overnights at different times earlier in the '50s on
both WBZ 
and WEEI 590.
 
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> Kiss 108 used to be WWEL-FM (107.9).