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

[Peter Q. George]

>  
> 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.


WHDH-FM was a 100% simulcast until 1965 when they
moved the transmitter from the Old Hancock Tower to
the Channel 5 tower in Newton.  At the same time they
initiated Stereo operation for the first time.  The
station aired a background music format with a couple
of MOR selections for good measure.  In 1967, they
experimented with what would be called Progressive
Rock (automated of course).  I'd never heard anything
like it before.  Imagine hearing something from Ray
Conniff followed by "Incense And Pepermints" from the
Strawberry Alarm Clock!  But that was being aired on
'HDH-FM until the middle of 1968.  Harold J. Clancy,
who was oblvious to what aired on the FM finally got
wind of it and said "There is NO way THAT kind of
music will be aired on WHDH-FM!"  And so the 'HDH-FM
foray into Progressive Rock ended quietly.  But it was
no BIG loss as WBCN was already going gangbusters with
"The American Revolution" (now 24/7 Progressive Rock).
 

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
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