Music Till Dawn on WEEI

[Doug Drown]

> Obviously it was no accident that NY and Chicago were assigned adjacent 
> clear channels. 660 670, 710 720, 770 780, 880 890  for example.

I had noticed that before, but I assumed it was something the networks had 
arranged.  I gather it's also no accident that the original CBS, NBC, and 
ABC television O&Os were given uniform channel allocations (CBS got 2 in NY, 
LA and Chicago, NBC got 4, ABC got 7).  Westinghouse and GE also got 
priority; WBZ-TV, Westinghouse's first TV O&O, got 4 and General Electric's 
WRGB originally got 4 in Schenectady.  Both were, of course, NBC affiliates.

-Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
To: <kvahey@comcast.net>; "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Music Till Dawn on WEEI


> >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
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" 
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:09 AM
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>
>> 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.
>