...and speaking of anniversaries...

A. Joseph Ross joe@attorneyross.com
Thu Jun 11 02:00:31 EDT 2009


On 10 Jun 2009 at 23:33, Doug Drown wrote:

> Somewhat the same but not quite:  The original WABC in New York that
> became WCBS.  A few years later (1953, I think) ABC managed to obtain
> the old call letters and WJZ-TV 7 was thus transformed into WABC-TV. 
> (We could throw DuMont's WABD 5 into all this too, just to confuse
> things all the more.) Still later, WAAM-TV 13 in Baltimore became the
> present WJZ-TV, while the WAAM calls (which actually originated in
> Newark) were picked up by WHRV (AM) in Ann Arbor.  Today the WHRV
> calls are held by an NPR FM affiliate in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
 
And now I believe there are again WJZ radio stations in Baltimore.

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