Herald: Ch 4 going back to "WBZ" brand

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Fybush" 
>To: "Doug Drown" 
>Subject: Re: Herald: Ch 4 going back to "WBZ" brand
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:34:01 -0500

>Doug Drown wrote:
> I've often wondered: How did Westinghouse get away with obtaining the old
> WJZ call letters when it obtained Channel 13 in Baltimore? I assume it had
> something to do with the company having originally owned WJZ when it was in
> Newark.

>Indeed it did. The FCC of 1957-58 was unusually amenable to 
>granting semi-new 3-letter calls. Not only did they buy 
>Westinghouse's "heritage" excuse for wanting WJZ in Baltimore, but 
>they allowed the University of Texas to call its new FM station 
>KUT, notwithstanding that the U of T had sold the original KUT(AM) 
>in the thirties and it had changed calls since then.
>I doubt today's FCC would be so willing to bend.

>s

Too bad;  in this day and age of radio stations in one city and
a TV station in a fifferent city sharing calls, wouldn't
be a hoot if some group bought WDZ in Decatur, IL and changed one 
of its TV's to WDZ-TV?

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