Re: Fwd: Re: Ken Mayer

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

On 14 Sep 2003 at 14:31, Laurence Glavin wrote:

> Wasn't the show simulcast on WBOS-FM, which although it was
> broadcasting with just 15,000 watts horizontal only at
> about 280 feet, STILL covered a much greater portion
> of the metro area than WBOS-AM?  If true, that would
> explain why so many remember the phone#.
 
No.  WBOS-FM only carried "Music Theater."  I'm not sure Ken Mayer was still on WBOS 
by the time WBOS-FM came on the air.

Music Theater consisted of beautiful music, with a very eclectic selection, much like what 
Bob has been doing on WJIB.  It was on originally for a few hours in the afternoon on WBOS 
AM.  When WBOS-FM came on sometime in February 1960, Music THeater was expanded 
to cover most of the day, from 6 AM to 7 PM and again after 10 PM, leaving only the 7-10 
block for the leased-time ethnic stuff.  The leased-time stuff also ran all day on Sunday until 
10 PM.  At first, WBOS-FM was on only simulcasting the AM and only during the hours that 
Music THeater was on, apparently under program test authority.  They had an elaborate ID 
that ran something like "These are the Music THeater stations, WBOS-AM, 1600 kilocycles 
at the top of your AM dial and WBOS-FM, now conducting periodic program tests at 92.9 
megacycles on the FM band."  I think they forgot to mention the COL, since I was unaware 
for a long time that it was Brookline.

This program test phase lasted for a couple of months, as I recall.  Finally, when it was over, 
they began running Music Theater on FM separately during the hours when AM was doing 
the leased-time programs.  I don't think Ken Mayer was still there by then, but he was never 
on FM.  Only Music Theater was ever on FM.

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