WCOP circa 1961 aircheck

[Donna Halper]

Actually, WCOP had a bunch of owners.  Joseph Kirby put them on the air in 
1935, but then he dropped dead a year later and his wife ran the station 
till Arde Bulova (of the watch company) and Harold LaFount bought it circa 
1937.  The two of them got into trouble with the FCC and in 1944, the 
station got sold again.  Cowles Broadcasting owned it for a while but sold 
it briefly to the late lamented Boston Post newspaper.  The Boston went 
belly up in 1956 and in May of that year, Plough acquired it.  I think they 
owned it till around 1978 when GCC Communications acquired it.  I believe 
that Mega bought it in 1998, and after that, as Dan pointed out, it was 
purchased by Salem.