Re: WSRS ( W1XOJ )

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

There was intense competition for the CP to build Channel 5 in Boston. One of 
the applicants was CBS, which wanted to build WEEI-TV on Channel 5. This was 
years before WBZ moved its TV transmitter to Needham. CBS, which withdrew from 
the competition before the CP for the old WHDH-TV was awarded to the Herald, 
was THE FIRST company to propose building a tall TV tower in the Newton-Needham-
Route 128 area. WBZ's first tall(ish) tower was on Soldiers' Field Rd, WNAC-TV 
was in Medford, and WGBH-TV was in Milton. I imagine that if Channel 5 had 
first been licensed to Worcester, its original site would have been Asnebumskit 
Hill in Paxton, but before too many years had gone by, it would have moved to 
the Newton-Needham area and would have become a Boston station in all but name. 
Does anyone else remember when Storer Broadcasting was going to buy Channel 9 
in Manchester NH and move it to a tall tower, which it proposed building in 
Georgetown MA? Who said that move-ins were a 90s thing? The proposed WMUR move 
must date back 50 years or more.

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> In a message dated 7/9/2003 1:51:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, sid@wrko.com 
> writes:
> 
> > >>what is now WSRS was WTAG-FM.<<
> > 
> > ...and was originally meant to be WTAG-TV, Channel 5.  The First Report and 
> Order in the FCC's television proceedings in 
> > 1947 allocated Channel 5 to Worcester
> 
> The story I heard is that the Boston Herald was trying to make inroads to the 
> west of Boston so they could get some readership and advertisers in the 
> Worcester area.  This, of course, was Telegram & Gazette territory, owners of 
> WTAG.
> 
> The T&G cut a deal with the Herald.  We'll give you the license for Channel 5, 
> and you keep your newspaper out of our territory.
> 
> Thus WTAG-TV became WHDH-TV (Channel 5) before it got on the air. 
> 
> Also...I believe WSRS originally stood for West Wide Radio Station.  Pre-stereo.