RKO's Digs At TKK

[Dan Strassberg]

The Buckminster Hotel squares with my recollection as well. However, was
that hotel even still really a hotel by the mid-1950s? I arrived in Boston
in early June 1956 and I recall the building--still labeled by large signs
as a hotel--as possibly being used for other purposes. Maybe part of it was
indeed some sort of residential hotel. But wasn't a lot of it occupied by
the studios/offices of WNAC radio (680) and WNAC-TV (Channel 7)?

And while we're on those stations, I think 98.5 was still WNAC-FM and I
think it later became WRKO (FM) and then still later became WRKO-FM when the
AM adopted the WRKO calls. But when did the 98.5 calls change to WROR? And
was it already owned by CBS or one of its predecessors when it became Mix
98.5? And what, if anything, did the letters WROR stand for? Surely not Rock
ON Roll or Rock OR Roll!

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
Cc: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: RKO's Digs At TKK


> On 5 Aug 2007 at 15:20, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
> > While i couldn't find a nightime shot of the White Fuel sign, I found
> > the next best thing
> >
> > http://www.microstru.com/7981.html
>
> According to that, the sign wasn't on the Citizens Bank building, but
> on the Buckminster Hotel.  And it lasted until the early 1970s.
>
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