WMEX 50 KW DA days

[Doug Drown]

Were WWKB (nee WKBW) and WGR once co-owned?  Seems I recall that WKBW was
originally a religious station.

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Chuck Igo"
<chuckigo@maine.rr.com>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: WMEX 50 KW DA days


> 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.
>
>