WMUR

[Doug Drown]

Kevin:  I don't mean to contradict you, but I'm not too sure about that . . 
. the WSRS studio was, and is, on the left going up Asnebumskit Hill, while 
I remember the WWOR/WJZB building being near the top, at the end of the 
road, where the transmitter was.  I thought --- maybe I'm wrong --- that the 
WJZB building was originally the edifice John Shepard built for the Yankee 
Network's experimental FM station back in the early '40s.  Maybe Donna can 
clear this up.  -Doug



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
To: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
Cc: "(newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest" 
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: WMUR


>I am pretty certain that WJZB Channel 14 used that studio at one point
> as WSRS shared studios with WJZB In the mid 60's.
>
> My Dad took me there one night around 1964.
>
>
>
> On 3/21/08, Sid Schweiger <sid@wrko.com> wrote:
>> >>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
>> WAAF/WEEI/WEEI-FM/WKAF
>> WMKK/WRKO/WVEI/WVEI-FM
>> 20 Guest St / 3d Floor
>> Brighton MA  02135-2040
>> P: 617-779-5369
>> F: 617-779-5379
>> E: sid@wrko.com
>>
>>
>>