WROR/WBMX

[Matthew Osborne]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:01:27 -0400 "A. Joseph Ross"
<joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 8 Aug 2007 at 0:00, Eli Polonsky wrote:
> 
> > The WPTR calls were brought back to the AM
> frequency
> > they had originally been on before they were
> directly
> > moved to FM. 
> 
> But before that, there was an FM station in the
> Albany area that had 
> the WPTR calls after the AM station dropped those
> calls.
> 

That is correct.  When Albany Broadcasting bought the
old WCDA 96.3 FM (which I believe was doing a
satellite country format at the time imaged as 'CD
Country'), they replaced those call letter with
WPTR-FM, trying to play off the heirtage of the old
WPTR 1540 AM during their country format period. 
This, however, failed miserably against the
well-established 50 kw Class B signal of market leader
WGNA (96.3 is only a class A at 6 kw IIRC) and soon
after they changed to urban contemporary as WAJZ,
which they are to this day.

                          Matt Osborne
                          Schenectady, NY


       
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