WCAP 55th Birthday Party Report__Berkshires

[Doug Drown]

"Boom Boom"'s real name is, if I'm not mistaken, Joseph Motto.  He started
with WPTR way back in the early '60s, if not before, stayed with the station
until it dropped the Top 40 format in the mid-'70s, then showed up years
later on WMVI.  I don't think he ever owned WMVI, though.  Does anyone know
what he's doing now?

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Osborne" <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>
To: "Stephanie Weil" <stephanie@gordsven.com>; "Dan Strassberg"
<dan.strassberg@att.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: WCAP 55th Birthday Party Report__Berkshires


> On Thu, June 15, 2006 14:01, Dan Strassberg wrote:
> > In fact, I don't even know whether
> > > Brannigan might not still own 1160 (ex-WMVI; the
> > calls are now WABY, I
> > > believe.
>
> To which Stephanie Weil <stephanie@gordsven.com>
> replied on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:24:23
>
> > It used to be WVKZ and did horse-races.  A real
> > oddity when I first
> > visited Troy, NY back in 1998.
> >
> A clarifications - the radio station you mentioned
> that broadcast horse races was not AM 1160.  That was
> WVKZ (AM 1240) Schenectady - they used to be owned by
> Capital District Off Track Betting (OTB), and
> broadcast a full slate of horse races and other
> betting info.  I'm not sure if they were on 24-7 at
> that time, but I can't imagine the station possibly
> turned any kind of profit under that format; it was
> just an outreach of OTB.  I'm not sure when it was
> sold or even who the current owners are, but AM 1240
> now runs Scott Shannon's Real Oldies satellite format,
> and has a signal that does well in the city of
> Schenectady itself, but is horrible pretty much
> everywhere else.
>
>                                  Matt Osborne
>                                  Schenectady, NY
> > That would have been the WABY at AM 14. Or 1400 for
> > those of you with
> > full-size radio dials. ;)
> >
> > It's a shame that the Capital District has no fairly
> > decent stations to
> > listen to, outside of AM 1160 and WROW-AM 59
> >
> > -- 
> > Stephanie Weil
> > New York City, NY, USA
> >
>
>
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