RE: Double letters in Boston-market calls

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Well, I don't recall 740 simulcasting WXHR-FM 96.9, but I do recall a short 
period when 740 had the WXHR (AM) calls. I think the station was sold shortly 
afterward and became WCAS--targeting Watertown, Cambridge, Arlington, 
Somerville, and Belmont. That was before the folk-music format, which the 
station also did as WCAS. And I remember the morning man from the WXHR (AM) 
period. I thought he was way too talented to be on a 250W daytimer. His name 
was Patrick Downey. The music mix on 740 at the time was probably not all that 
different from what was on some of the other beautiful music stations, although 
I think it tended to be brighter than most. The most comparable station in the 
market right now is probably WBOQ.

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> 
> --- Magnadan <magnadan@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> At one point I had something I picked up at a Radio
> Shack-- it was a chart listing what was then the call
> letters of different FM stations, and up top, in big
> letters, "WWEL 107.9" (or maybe "WWEL 108"). Wish I
> still had that--a bit of promo radio memorabilia.
> 
> At one point, wasn't there a glut of beautiful music
> stations (or easy listening) in the market? You
> had WJIB 96.9, WWEL 107.9, WWEL 1430, WSSH 99.5
> and maybe a few others like WHUE (AM) 1150 and
> WHUE-FM 100.7, and maybe even one or two others?
> I remember reading something in the paper at the
> time mentioning that there were about 7 stations
> in all with "beautiful music" or something like it.
> 
> Also, I used to have a bit of a newspaper from '67 or
> so (when I was all of 5!) with an ad which said
> something like, "Beautiful...the all-time X/R

> Hit Parade. WXHR 740/96.9" (and a cartoon of a bee
> next to a flower.) Again, I no longer have it
> but I'm guessing WXHR was beautiful music or
> easy listening at the time?