WEZE, WCOP and NBC

[Doug Drown]

Jon: Thanks for the info.  I remember WCOP becoming WHUE, then WSNY.  Was the station still with NBC when you left?  And did Schering Plough still own the station when it did the format and call letter change?

-Doug
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jon Maguire 
  To: Doug Drown 
  Cc: Kevin Vahey ; Dan.Strassberg ; boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:14 PM
  Subject: Re: WEZE, WCOP and NBC


  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
  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
  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
  to country.