Music Till Dawn on WEEI

[kvahey@comcast.net]

Scott will jump in if I misrembered this

I *think* the rules were 5 TV 6 AM and 6 FM stations were the most one
owner could have.

CBS had AM outlets in NY LA Chicago Philadelphia San Francisco and
Boston. When they bought a station in Dallas they had to sell WEEI and
they were sold to Papa Gino's pizza.

TV they owned NY LA Chicago Philadelphia and Green Bay. Green Bay???????

What I was told years ago was they did want to buy Channel 5 and 850
but the Herald never had a license to sell. They bought Green Bay to
hold the 5th slot until the Herald won the court case which never
happened. They wanted nothing to do with WCVB because they feared too
many preemptions of the network. CBS was so desperate in 1971 they
were looking into buying WXPO Channel 50 and printed a rather lengthy
booklet about doing so. They wanted to move 50 to FM128 but the idea
fizzled. CBS wanted nothing to do with RKO General but finally went
back to 7.



On 2/23/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> This raises a good question.  To my knowledge --- correct me if I'm
> wrong --- ALL of CBS' O&Os were 50 kw stations except WEEI.  Why didn't CBS
> ever try to change that situation?  For example, they might have tried to
> buy WHDH (with WHDH-TV thrown in for good measure).  Was such a move ever
> considered?  Seems to me it would have been smart strategically.
>
> -Doug
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>; "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Music Till Dawn on WEEI
>
>
> > I'm pretty sure that, at some point, Music 'Till Dawn was on WBZ. Most
> > of the CBS O&Os were 50 kW (WCBS, WCAU, WTOP, WCCO. KMOX, KCBS, KNX),
> > but the old WEEI 590 was not. American Airlines loved those big
> > skywave signals and when they got the chance, they moved the Boston
> > show to, arguably, the biggest nighttime signal of all (in the US).
> >
> > -----
> > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> > eFax 1-707-215-6367
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> > To: "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest"
> > <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:40 PM
> > Subject: Music Till Dawn on WEEI
> >
> >
> >>I just did I search on 'Music Till Dawn' on google. It appears the
> >>show
> >> started on the CBS owned stations in 1953 and was sponsored by
> >> American
> >> Airlines. It was unusual as it had a classical format. It appears
> >> that it
> >> also showed up in some markets on non CBS stations. It lasted until
> >> 1970
> >> when CBS then pulled the plug at WCBS to go to all news.
> >
>
>