Passing of Joe Kruger

[chris2526]

Hi Laurence, though not necessarily very organized there were many file 
cabinets in Medford. These contained every document and even Western Union 
telegraphs to and from the FCC from planning stages of WIBL on 1540 and 
starting with the application process of the 107.9 Medford allocation.

I had the original WISK-FM construction permit, telegram giving program test 
authority and license granted under the WISK-FM call letters.

I agree they were not in use very long before being changed to
WHIL-FM I remember to this day one of my best friends parents had just 
purchased a new Magnavox console stereo and he wanted to play a record for 
me by a new musical rising star....Wayne Newton of all people.

When I saw that it had an AM-FM tuner I went nuts....he said what the hell 
is that?
That day was the one and only time I ever heard WUPY-FM 105.3
licensed to Lynn broadcasting from Peabody, from then on I begged him
to let me check out the FM stations, one of these sessions hearing
 WISK-FM, Medford at 107.9 a one shot deal. I cannot remember what
type of music was being played.
Somewhere amongst my treasures I may have some thing with
the WISK-FM call letters, possibly promotional material.

In my younger days going through all the stuff in those file cabinets
were what I imagined heaven must be like so with every one
of the original participants long gone I am by default have the most
knowledge person of the 1430 and 107.9 frequencies still alive.
Though Arnie Ginsburg was around for quite a while, even in those
days if it was something he was involved with or interested him,
his memory was only fair to good.  He never had much interest in
details involving things of this nature.....the kind of useless stuff 
we all live for.

In the 90's while working at CBS as the defacto transmitter engineer
while doing much of the upgrading of the WRKO and WHDH transmitter
sites I had an equally thrilling time going through a half century of
RKO General (AM-FM and also TV moved to RKO upon the sale
of channel 7) and paperwork of WHDH AM-FM-TV all stored
at the AM transmitter.
I had to throw away many 30 yard dumpsters keeping a few
things here and there.
Now a days history and tradition are totally disposable like the
WHDH call letters

Happy New Year,

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>; "chris2526" 
<chris2526@comcast.net>
Cc: "boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: Passing of Joe Kruger


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "A. Joseph Ross"
>To: chris2526
>Cc: "boston Radio Interest"
>Subject: Re: Passing of Joe Kruger
>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:31:58 -0500

>On 29 Dec 2008 at 23:33, chris2526 wrote:

> and in 1960 obtained Bostons last open FM allocation 107.9 Mhz WISK-FM
> WHIL-FM
> WWEL-FM

>WISK-FM? What was that?

>107.9 started as WHIL-FM.

For at least one issue, the Vane A. Jones North American Radio-TV Log
gave the call letters WISK for the 107.9 operation in Medford.  I have
no recollection of ever hearing those calls, though.  I believe that
by the time I became aware of a weak FM at 107.9 transmitting from a valley,
the call letters in use were WHIL-FM.

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