WBZ cuts Leveille, Cuddy, Dyett, poss. Desmarais

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 1 Jan 2009 at 13:58, Bob Nelson wrote:

> >>No way in h*ll CBS would put Stair on WBZ.
> 
> You'd be more likely to hear THIS:
> 
> (just after midnight)
> "WBZ now leaves the air. WBZ is owned by CBS Radio and broadcasts on a
> frequency of 1030 kiloHertz as authorized by the Federal
> Communications Commission..."
> 
> (Switch off station. sssssssssss!)

That's not all that unreasonable.  Many FM stations back in the early 
days used to sign off at midnight or 1 AM.  And that included a 
number of FM simulcasts of AM stations that were on 4 hours.  In 
fact, I remember when many FM stations used to sign on in the late 
afternoon.  In the early 1960s, when I had an FM radio, WEEI-FM used 
to sign on at 2 PM and then simulcast the AM until midnight.  

I also remember when WXHR went from signing on at 4:30 PM to signing 
on at 7 AM.  I once called the station and asked why they had been 
signing on at 4:30, and they said it was because of the (late 50s) 
recession.

I was up around 2 AM sometime in early 1960 to watch a lunar eclipse 
(it wasn't a school night) and turned on my FM radio.  There were 
only two stations operating at all in the entire FM band:  WCOP-FM 
and WHDH-FM, both simulcasting their AM sister stations.  Other AM-FM 
simulcast operations that I could usually hear in the daytime (WEEI, 
WNAC/WRKO-FM, WLLH, WKBR, WCRB) were all off the air.  (WBZ-FM wasn't 
a simulcast most of the time.  They played classical music without 
interruption except for legal IDs from noon to midnight, and 
simulcast the AM from 6 or 7 AM to noon)

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