Boston and ABC Radio

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 I saw an ad in an old North Shore newspaper from 1967 or so;a cartoon of a smiling bee above a flower with the legend--"Beautiful...The X/R all time hit parade. (WXHR) AM 740/FM 96.9"

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Q. George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>
To: Boston Radio Interest <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>; Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 1:37 pm
Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio


Well in fact, it wasn't GE that installed the original beautiful music format on 
the original WJIB (96.9).  It was Kaiser Broadcasting (with co-ownership with 
The Boston Globe) who began 'JIB in May of 1967.  K-FOG/San Francisco was also 
owned by Kaiser Broadcasting.  Both 'JIB and K-FOG used their call-letters to 
denote an ocean setting with the beautiful muisic to match.  96.9 was originally 
WXHR-FM, owned by Harvey Laboratories (along co-owned WXHR/740 and WTAO/WXHR-TV 
Channel 56).  K-FOG was co-owned with KBHK-TV Channel 44, San Francisco.  


Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
"Scanning the bands since 1967"

radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:

> From: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio
> To: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 10:40 AM
> GE DID own 96.9. Indeed, it was GE,
> which had had a lot of success with the beautiful music
> format on FM (most notably at KFOG in San Francisco), that
> installed that format at 96.9 in Boston and renamed the
> station WJIB. But I vaguely recall that NBC also owned WJIB
> at some point. Remember, GE owned RCA which owned NBC. And
> when RCA folded, didn't GE sell off the RCA brand name to
> one or two Japanese companies and then directly absorb NBC?
> And isn't GE's ownership of NBC only just now supposedly
> coming to an end (with the announced intended sale of NBC to
> Comcast)?
> 
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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>
> To: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <joe@attorneyross.com>;
> "'Scott Fybush'" <scott@fybush.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:09 AM
> Subject: RE: Boston and ABC Radio
> 
> 
> >> NBC owned WJIB?
> >> 
> > [Brian Vita] Wasn't that GE?
> > 
> 
> 
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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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