Memories of John Garabedian and V-66...

[Doug Drown]

<<General Tire also somehow controlled (perhaps
through an LMA) CKLW even though the Big 8 was not/is not a US station.>>

I think I'm correct in saying that General Tire (RKO General) fully owned
CKLW, and was forced to sell it shortly before it lost the licenses to its
other broadcasting properties --- this because the Canadian Radio and
Television Commission had passed an edict stating that non-Canadian
companies were no longer going to be able to own Canadian radio and TV
stations.

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>; "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>;
"Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Memories of John Garabedian and V-66...


> The WGTR calls in Paxton must have stood either for General Tele-Radio or
> General Tire and Rubber. I kind of think 1943 was well before General Tire
> and Rubber established the wholely owned Radio/TV subsidiary General
> Tele-Radio. General Tele-Radio held all of General Tire's broadcast
licenses
> but it was, AFAIK, 100% owned by General Tire. Besides the Yankee Network,
> General Tire may have owned several other regional networks that,
together,
> constituted a large part of the Mutual Network (which I don't think
General
> Tire owned). Networks that General Tire may have owned in whole or in part
> include Don Lee Broadcasting on the West Coast, Intermountain Network in
the
> Rockies, and the Texas State Network in (of course) Texas. Stations
besides
> WNAC that General Tire held included WOR, KFRC, KHJ, WHBQ, and (I think) a
> station in DC--maybe WWDC. General Tire also somehow controlled (perhaps
> through an LMA) CKLW even though the Big 8 was not/is not a US station.
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> To: "Jon Maguire" <w1mnk@tampabay.rr.com>; <markwa1ion@aol.com>;
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Memories of John Garabedian and V-66...
>
>
> >
> > >>Doug said--
> > >>The WGTR calls probably came from WPTR or they were intended as a
> > >>resurrection of the original WGTR, which I believe was the earliest
> > >>incarnation of what is now WAAF.  Donna, help us out here!
> >
> > Well, all I know (and I don't know much!) is that the WGTR calls go
> > back to November of 1943, when the late great John Shepard 3rd's FM
> > station, originally called W1XOJ and then W43B, was re-named with the
> > call letters WGTR.  That stood for General Tire Company, named after
> > the company which had purchased a controlling interest in the Yankee
> Network.
> >
>
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