Prov.: Oldies 790; WPRO AM simulcast on 99.7

[Kevin Vahey]

The old WEAN was a clone of WHDH while WICE was the fiesty little Top
40 station on 1290.

WICE was the first station that demonstrated to me as a teen what a
directional station was. I went to prep school in Woonsocket only 12
miles from their transmitter in North Providence and there was no
signal whatsoever. If you were driving on 146 the signal vanished in
Lincoln.

Our Top 40 options were WPRO, WBZ and later WRKO-FM and occasionally
WWON (now WOON)

WICE was very popular in Providence, Pawtucket and Cranston but WPRO
owned the rest of the state. WICE had one superjock King Arthur Knight
who wound up at WMEX for awhile and a newsman with a great set of
pipes Charles Scoville (sic) who later went to WPRO. Bill Corsair who
later was Glick's biggest rival in the overnight clear channel wars
also worked at WICE.

WPRO had Joe Thomas at night who was huge statewide. WPRO-AM just
morphed into PRO-FM and is still chugging along.

On 3/12/08, Paul Hopfgarten <paul@derrynh.net> wrote:
> Wouldn't WEAN make more sense, considering the music era they'll be
> playing...
>
> -Paul Hopfgarten
> Derry NN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Vahey
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:17 AM
> To: Eli Polonsky
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Prov.: Oldies 790; WPRO AM simulcast on 99.7
>
> Wonder if they will bring the WICE calls back as they seem to be available.
>
> Citadel added Imus in Washington and Atlanta in recent days and I
> suspect WLS may happen sooner than later now.
>
> If there is a firesale who picks up the pieces? Entercom stock is
> tanking as well.
>
> I fear Salem will wind up with WLS.
>
>