Happy 30th birthday, WHUE...

[Kevin Vahey]

I am fairly certain that when WHUE signed on it was the end of using
the Lexington transmitter location as a studio.



On 1/1/09, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
> (from Will Burpee on the NY Radio Message Board:)
>
> This doesn't involve a New York station, but it did happen on New Year's
> Eve. In Boston, WACQ (1150 AM, the former WCOP-AM) and WTTK (100.7)
> switched from top 40 and AOR, respectively, to easy listening on January
> 1, 1979. WACQ's last song was "We Are the Champions", and the announcer
> said, "If you think it's an end...in a way, it's also a beginning." It
> ended precisely at midnight, with the new format and call letters
> beginning straight up at 12: "This is WHUE, AM and FM, Boston. Happy New
> Year." The first two songs were "Auld Lang Syne" and the Carpenters'
> "We've Only Just Begun".
>