Boston and ABC Radio

[Dan.Strassberg]

I find the lobby a little creepy--like suddenly, it's 1914 again. Do
you suppose that the residents are aware that Woodrow Wilson is no
longer president. The prices on the units are unblievable, though. A
1-bedroom unit for under $40,000. An equivalent condo in Manhattan
would be over $1 million! However, I wonder what the odds are of being
able to get to your car in that huge lot (visible through the window
of one of the units) without being mugged.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Larsen" <tlmedia@triad.rr.com>
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "A. Joseph Ross"
<joe@attorneyross.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio


>I remember that the Hotel Bradford had previously been the site of
>WBZ's studios.
>
> And the Hotel Kimball in Springfield for WBZA...now luxury condos
> with an impressive foyer.
>
> http://www.kimballtowers.com/
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio
>
>
>>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.
>>
>> -----
>> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
>> eFax 1-707-215-6367
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
>> To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
>> Cc: <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.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
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