WCAP 55th Birthday Party Report__Berkshires

[Eli Polonsky]

> > From: Matthew Osborne <mattosborne1976@yahoo.com>
> CC: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
> To: Stephanie Weil <stephanie@gordsven.com>,
> 	Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:02:15 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: WCAP 55th Birthday Party Report__Berkshires
> 
> 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...

Shannon's satellite is actually the "True Oldies Channel".

EP