WEZE, WCOP and NBC

[Jon Maguire]

1150 was WCOP thru 1975, when I left the engineering ranks. It was owned 
by Schering Plough.

Jon Maguire

Doug Drown wrote:
> I remember WEZE's glass-paneled streetside studio on Boylston Street from
> when I was a kid.  The station was proud of its NBC affiliation, and it was
> a major player in the Boston radio market.  For whatever
> in-hindsight-foolish reasons, WEZE dropped its NBC affiliation around 1965
> or so and WCOP picked it up.  I think by the time I was in college (1969)
> WCOP had been sold, changed its call letters, and Boston was bereft of NBC
> Radio.  That was the case until a few years later when WMEX became WITS,
> which didn't last long.  After the mid-'70s,  I don't remember Boston having
> an NBC outlet again until the early- to mid-'80s when WRKO signed on with
> the network.  It remained an affiliate until a couple of years into Westwood
> One ownership, when it picked up CBS after WEEI was sold.
>
> NBC really hasn't had a consistent presence in Boston since WBZ dropped it
> back in 1956.  And, of course, the network barely exists now, but that's
> another (sad) story . . .
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:18 PM
> Subject: The unimpressive run of 1150 AM was: WTTT
>
>
>   
>> With yet another format change on 1150 you have to look back at this
>>     
> station
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>> as being the worst performing AM in Boston history.
>>
>> When you consider the full time AM's to Boston  590, 680, 850, 1030, 1150,
>> 1260, and 1510  the 1150 license has done very little of note in its
>> history.  ( I didn't include 950 or 1330 or 1600 )
>>
>> Every other AM at one time was the most listened to station in the city as
>> even WEZE 1260 was huge in the mid 60's before WJIB (96.9) came along and
>> blew it away.
>>
>> Certainly 1150 must lead in call letter changes ( with 1510 right behind )
>>
>> In my lifetime only once did 1150 matter to most Bostonians. They were a
>>     
> NBC
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>> station in the 60's and they had the rights to the 1967 World Series.
>>
>> Also remember 1150 fondly for Monitor in the 60's before the station
>>     
> flipped
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>> to country.
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