Original WGBH-FM signon/off

[Aaron Read]

And Emerson just BARELY beat WBUR, I might add...my research showed that 
WBUR came on the air in March of 1950...a scant five months after WERS.

Mind you, that simple fact didn't stop WBUR from promoting themselves as 
the first non-commercial Boston station.  I saw several entries in old 
BU yearbooks and newspapers where they said they were the first.  :-)

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Aaron Read
readaaron@friedbagels.com
Boston, MA 02446-2204


Russ Butler wrote:
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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?)