Original WGBH-FM signon/off

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 12 Aug 2007 at 10:01, Russ Butler wrote:

> Ending with a pleasant "Good night" at about 10 p.m. having signed on
> at 5 p.m. for the evening's programming/  Ah, the memories linger on!

Ah yes.  When I first got an FM radio in December 1958, many stations 
signed on around 5 PM.  WBUR and WERS signed on at 2 PM during the 
school year, 5 PM in the summer.  WEEI-FM did a simulcast of the AM, 
but they didn't sign on until 2 PM, with a very impressive sign on 
announcement.  WBZ-FM signed on at 5 PM and did classical music until 
midnight.  Later they began simulcasting the AM from 6:00 am until 
the 5:00 PM start of separate programs.  WXHR signed on at 4:30 PM.  
Other AM simulcasts signed on early in the morning, even though the 
AM stations were on 24 hours.

One time, around 1959 or 1960, I was up around 2 AM to watch an 
eclipse of the moon and turned on the radio.  There were only two 
stations operating in the entire FM band:  WHDH-FM and WCOP-FM, both 
simulcasting the AM. 

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