WMGX Portland to Flip Formats

[Doug Drown]

Harvey Radio Laboratories was the original owner of WTAO-AM (now WJIB),
WXHR-FM (now WTKK, I think) and WTAO-TV 56.  If my memory is correct, the
studios were located at the Cambridge-Arlington line, in the neighborhood of
the present Alewife T station.  I don't know whether the building is still
standing.  The TV station went on the air in the mid-'50s as an indie, and
was dark by 1960.  It was around 1966 that Kaiser Broadcasting and the
Globe, in joint partnership, bought it and put it back on the air as WKBG.
(I think they bought the radio stations, too, as it sticks in my mind that
GE later bought the old WJIB-FM from the Globe.)

-Doug


--- Original Message ----- 
From: "John J. Francini" <francini@mac.com>
To: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>; "Stephanie Weil"
<stephanie@gordsven.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: WMGX Portland to Flip Formats


> Really!  I came to know of Channel 56 in the mid-to-late 60s.  When
> did the frequency first sign on?  What were the previous owners?
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> j
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> At 1:36 -0500 3/10/06, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> >On 9 Mar 2006 at 18:05, John Francini wrote:
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> >>  56- WLVI-TV (b. WKBG-TV)
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> >And previously WXHR-TV and originally WTAO-TV.
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> >A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
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> John Francini <mailto:francini@mac.com>
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