Original WGBH-FM signon/off

[Rick Levy]

Russ Butler wrote:
>>
In 1951, I read a small announcement in the Globe that a new FM station
would begin broadcasting on the dial....  [Lowell Institute... Council]
was organized by six colleges and universities in Boston with the Lowell
Institute... to provide initial funding to get the first, non-commercial FM
radio station on the air in Boston. <<

Then they obviously didn't succeed.  The honor of being the first NCE-FM on
the air in Boston belongs to WERS, which made its debut in Nov. 1949 as a
10-watter.  It was up to 330 Watts ERP by the time GBH signed on.  By then
WBUR had also gone on the air.

Just keeping the historical record straight.  (Where is Donna when we need
her?)