WMUR

[Sid Schweiger]

>>I understand that the Telegram & Gazette put in for channel 5 in Worcester but I'm not sure if they got as far as the CP...<<

I can confirm that.  As a former CE of WSRS (while Norman Knight owned it, and long before the Paxton building was remodeled), I was once rummaging through some old files and came across the original blueprint for the building.  Right above the front entrance door, where "WSRS" was displayed for many years, was the call sign "WTAG-TV."

WSRS was, of course, originally WTAG-FM.  The T&G sold it off when they decided that FM was going nowhere (brilliant decision, that)...and as late as the early 1980s, when WSRS was the undisputed ratings leader in the then-separate-from-Boston Worcester market, the GM of WTAG was telling people that FM wasn't a factor in the market.


Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom New England
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