WCOP circa 1961 aircheck

[Doug Drown]

I can understand the purchase of WXHR-FM and WTAO-TV, but I wonder why the
Globe, apparently trying to create a major broadcasting presence in town,
would have wanted a 250-watt AM daytimer . . . unless they might have had a
plan to make it into a 50,000-watt daytimer(?).  Would that have been
possible, with WACE operating on 730 out of Chicopee and WHEB on 750 in
Portsmouth?  Would've had to have an awfully tight directional signal.

Doug
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: "SteveOrdinetz" <hykker@grolen.com>; "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: WCOP circa 1961 aircheck


> On 15 Mar 2005 Doug Drown wrote:
>
> > Question about WCAS: In the late '60s, When Kaiser/Globe bought
> > Channel 56 (the old WTAO-TV) and put it back on the air as WKBG, were
> > WTAO-AM (later WCAS) and WXHR-FM (later WJIB) originally part of the
> > deal?  I can't remember.
>
> Kaiser/Globe bought all three stations and changed their call letters and
identities, bringing
> Channel 56 back on as WKBG (though the earliest ads in the newspapers said
"WXHR-
> TV"), changing 740 (at that time WXHR (AM)) to WCAS, and 96.9 (WXHR-FM) to
WJIB.
>
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