The old WUPY Lynn tower?

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

>From Bostonradio.org:

http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/40824

The next North Shore FM entry came on August 1, 1961, when Harvey Sheldon
put WUPY (105.3 Lynn) on the air, playing jazz music.

WUPY ran 1.4 kW from a transmitter site off Route 1 in Peabody and studios
at 23 Central Avenue in Lynn. Its main claim to fame during its short life
was as one of the first Boston-area FM stations to broadcast in multiplex
stereo. After a brief silent period, Sheldon changed the station's calls to
WUPI, but that, too, was short-lived, and 105.3 was silent by the time the
next North Shore FM made its debut.

On August 1, 1963, Puritan Broadcasting Service Inc. put WLYN-FM (101.7
Lynn) on the air. Unlike the failed WUPY/WUPI, WLYN-FM had the support of an
AM sister station, WLYN (1360), whose programming it simulcast during
daylight hours. WLYN-FM started out 1 kW at 175 feet (later increased to 3
kW/170 ft) from the AM 1360 tower off Route 107. Both stations' studios were
at 156 Broad Street in Lynn.

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Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Doug Drown <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>wrote:

> I have only a vague memory of WUPY . . . remind me of when it operated.
> There were quite a few daytimers that went on the air and had short lives
> during the waning days of AM Top 40, IIRC.   -Doug
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>> I just noticed while driving by the area near the Rte 128 and US-1
>> intersection in Peabody that the small self supporting tower behind the auto
>> repair shop is gone. I have been told that tower was built for the short
>> lived WUPY in Lynn way back when. I suspect the tower was in bad shape since
>> for years it just had a few two way antennas attached when one would think
>> it would be loaded up with stacks of cell phone antennas making some money
>> for the owner of that vertical real estate. :)
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