Boston Radio Studios

[revdoug1@myfairpoint.net]

Tell us about WNAC and WCOP.  I'm curious.   I remember the WNAC 
building.  (What's there now?)
-Doug


Quoting Thomas Heathwood <heritageradio@msn.com>:
> Yes, Both WBZ and WVDA had studios (at different times) in the Hotel 
> Bradford. I visited the WBZ studios as a young child,  and I was a 
> guest with
> Sherm Feller once on WVDA - Both studios had peculiar layouts with extremely
> tall ceilings.  But not as peculiar as WNAC at 21 Brookline Avenue, and not
> nearly
> as beautiful as WCOP at 485 Boylston St. 
> Tom Heathwood    HeritageRadio@msn.com<mailto:HeritageRadio@msn.com>
> Heritage Radio Theatre -  VintageRadioPlace.com/broadcast             
>    6/1/10
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jim Hall<mailto:aerie.ma@comcast.net>
>   To:
> boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org<mailto:boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
>   Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:12 PM
>   Subject: RE: Boston and ABC Radio
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>   I know that WEZE studios were in the office building section of what was
>   then the "Statler Hilton" in Park Square (now known as the Boston Park
>   Plaza). These were the studios right on the street on the first 
> floor with a
>   big curved plate glass window (St. James Ave and Columbus Ave 
> intersection). 
>   I am assuming that these were also the WVDA studios. 
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From:
> boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org<mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org>
>   [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
>   Dan.Strassberg
>   Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:27 AM
>   To: A. Joseph Ross
>   Cc:
> boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org<mailto:boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
>   Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio
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>   I believe that is what happened but I have no proof. For sure, the
>   Yankee/Mutual affiliation stayed with WNAC when WNAC moved from 1260
>   to 680. WVDA was cobbled together from the old WNAC 1260 transmitter
>   in Milton and/or Quincy and the Boston studios of the old WLAW 680,
>   whose main studio was in Lawrence, the CoL. I believe that WLAW
>   originated more programming from Boston than it did from it's "main"
>   studio in Lawrence. The WVDA studios (which had been the WLAW Boston
>   studios) were in a well-known Boston hotel, whose name I keep
>   forgetting. That hotel had previously been the site of WBZ's studios
>   and also the studios of WBOS (not just the FM station but also WBOS
>   (AM) 1600, which became WUNR many decades ago). 
>
>   It makes sense that when 680 became WNAC, the ABC affiliation would
>   have moved from 680 to 1260 (WVDA), because both WLAW and WCOP had
>   been ABC affiliates (something that was possible because WLAW was
>   officially not a Boston station despite having the market's second
>   best signal in Boston) and Plough Inc, WCOP's new owner, did not want
>   WCOP to continue its network affiliation. Despite a 5-kW signal that
>   was inferior downtown and elsewhere to 680's 50-kW, WCOP had been the
>   "real" Boston ABC affiliate for several years before Plough bought it. 
>
>   I think it was established many years ago on this list that, even
>   though three or four stations had maintained studios in the same
>   Boston hotel at various times, they did not all occupy the same space
>   at different times. Indeed, there was probably a time when that hotel
>   was home to at least two unrelated radio stations at the same time. 
>   Somebody, please supply the hotel name so I can say, "Oh, yeah."
>   (Wasn't it on Stuart St? It was neither the Parker House nor the
>   Touraine, IIRC.) Thanks. 
>
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>   Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net<mailto:dan.strassberg@att.net>)
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com<mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>>
>   To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com<mailto:dlh@donnahalper.com>>
>   Cc:
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org<mailto:boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>>
>   Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:42 AM
>   Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio
>
>   > I wonder whether
>   > WVDA picked up the ABC affiliation from WLAW when that changeover
>   > took place. 
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