WMEX 50 KW DA days

[Donna Halper]

At 07:57 PM 5/7/2006 -0400, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>Sounds like an urban legend for sure. I think the WWKB/WGR array dates back
>to NARBA (March 1941) or possibly even earlier. I doubt whether Bud Ballou
>had even been born when it was designed

Bud Ballou died suddenly in April of 1976-- there were lots of rumours, but 
the only thing the obit said was he died of an aneurysm, as I recall.  He 
was 34.  He has been on two top 40 stations in Syracuse before coming to 
Boston-- I think he came here sometime in mid 1965.