Music Till Dawn on WEEI

[Doug Drown]

>CBC got all the Canadian clears with the exception of French 730 in 
>Montreal which was one of the few private broadcasters allowed to beam 
>south. Marconi's CFCF really got hosed considering they were perhaps
the first station in North America with a license.

CKAC 730, if memory serves, was Montreal's second station and, though it 
broadcast primarily in French, was bilingual.  It was Montreal's CBS 
affiliate for many years.
That may have had something to do with it.   -Doug


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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Music Till Dawn on WEEI


> OK we know politics played a major role in what stations got favorable
> channel assignments. NBC Westinghouse and GE especially were taken
> care of.
>
> Directional patterns arrived in the early 30's after the the test on
> 620 that involved Milwaukee and Tampa.
>
> When did the government then start to calculate patterns across the
> board? How did established who got clear channels?
>
> Obviously it was no accident that NY and Chicago were assigned
> adjacent clear channels. 660 670, 710 720, 770 780, 880 890  for
> example.
>
> CBC got all the Canadian clears with the exception of French 730 in
> Montreal which was one of the few private broadcasters allowed to beam
> south. Marconi's CFCF really got hosed considering they were perhaps
> the first station in North America with a license.