RE: Double letters in Boston-market calls

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 8 Jul 2003 at 12:40, Bob Nelson wrote:

> 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? 
 
WXHR was a classical music station.  They claimed to be the first commercial FM classical 
station in the Boston area.  Around 1967 was when 740 and 96.9 were sold to Kaiser-Globe 
and went off the air for a time before returning as WCAS and WJIB.

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