Licensed to non-actual locations

[Dan.Strassberg]

Right you are! And when I referred to the OLD Pru, I was mistaken; I
meant the OLD Hancock tower. sorry!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hall" <aerie.ma@comcast.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:28 AM
Subject: RE: Licensed to non-actual locations


> There is a very short timeline for the Concert Network on
> http://www.wncn.org/Ownership___Management.html
>
> Wikipedia claims the programming originated in Boston at WBCN
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAXQ
>
> I think WBCN at the time was at the top of the old John Hancock
> building
> (the weather beacon one).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On
> Behalf Of
> Dan.Strassberg
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:38 AM
> To: A. Joseph Ross
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations
>
> I think there must have been an affiliate in the Hartford area--on
> Meriden Mtn where most of the Hartford FMs are. WQXR-FM must have
> been
> a pretty easy catch from Meriden Mtn. Meriden Mtn to Worcester is
> another easy hop. And, of course, Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton (where
> WTAG-FM was and where its successor, WSRS, still is) to Zion Hill in
> Woburn (where WXHR was) is duck soup. At one point, there was an FM
> in
> Hartford named WHCN, which was co-owned with WBCN (the CN part of
> both
> calls stood for Concert Network). I think those two stations used a
> direct over-the-air relay from Meriden Mtn to Boston--although I
> don't
> know where WBCN was in those days. Maybe Top of the OLD Pru (which
> is
> much shorter than THE Pru). WHDH-FM (now WJMN) was there until the
> (then) new tower for the old WHDH-TV (5) was built Newton. That
> tower
> is now FM-128.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations
>
>
>> On 30 Jan 2008 at 9:11, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
>>
>>> The 'QXR Network relayed WQXR-FM's classical music programming
>>> across central and western New York via over-the-air pickup and
>>> rebroadcast.
>>
>> Sometime in the late 50s/early 60s, WTAG-FM in Worcester and WXHR
>> in
>> Boston were also part of the QXR network.  I assume WXHR got the
>> programming over the air from WTAG-FM.  I don't know how WTAG-FM
>> got
>> them.
>>
>> As I recall, WTAG-FM was a QXR affiliate first.  When I got my
>> first
>> FM radio in December 1958, WXHR was signing on at 4:30 PM.
>> Sometime
>> in the next year or so, they joined the QXR network and expanded to
>> a
>> full broadcast day.
>>
>> -- 
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>>
>>
>