Don't forget WHDH-FM/94.5 (was Re: att Donna Red Sox announcer list)

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 2 Aug 2007 at 13:13, Peter Q. George wrote:

> Also, don't forget WHDH-FM 94.5 ("AM85/FM95" on billboards back in
> the day) from 1948 until around 1971.  Many times, it was not a
> straight simulcast of the games as some Red Sox ads were AM only or
> FM only. I recalled during the "Impossible Dream" season of 1967, I
> had a portable GE AM/FM radio and switched back and forth between
> the AM and FM sides and wondered why the ads were "different".  I
> stayed with the FM side as the games sounded much cleaner,
> especially when they were home games (during away games, they used
> 5 kHz telco loops). 
 
Well, by 1967, the FCC was requiring separate programming on AM-FM 
combos in large markets.  So the ability to run separate ads on AM 
and FM during the games was possible.  I doubt that they ran separate 
ads when they were doing 100% simulcasting.

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