Follow-up To NERW Piece On W221CH

[Peter Q. George]

Well, in fact they (the jocks) would say (after the TOH Drake jingle "WRKO.....Boston!") the jock would say "AM and FM!".  (Pre-Drake, before June 1967, WRKO had a PAMS sung Legal ID.... "WRKO and WRKO-FM, Boston!.)  After 6:00 PM, you would hear, on the FM only, "And now ladies and gentlemen...." (CLICK!) "And the hits just keep on coming on 98.5 WRKO-FM Boston!", (jingle) "WRKO-FM, ALL MUSIC!!!", ARKO had begun it's 12 hours of non-duplicated programming.  Dale Tucker, the last Program Director of WRKO-FM (before WROR) kind of moved away from the R-KO format and got the station ready for the eventual switch to Stereo with Drake Chenault's new "Hit Parade" format, just before Dale moved out of Boston.



Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Sat, 2/28/09, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Follow-up To NERW Piece On W221CH
> To: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 6:22 PM
> One thing I was curious about why.
> 
> Back in 1967 when WRKO-AM came to be they then simulcast AM
> on FM from
> 6AM to 6PM and then ran ARKO for the other 12.
> 
> The AM jock would then cut into FM at the top of the hour
> and simply
> say WRKO-FM Boston. I have clips of Arnie Ginsburg and
> Chuck Knapp
> doing this.
> 
> So was a live ID required back then or was this possibly an
> AFTRA
> concession by RKO General.