Boston and ABC Radio

[Jim Hall]

740 was indeed WXHR(AM) for a while. There was a short-lived Boston radio
print magazine on newsstands (maybe for 6 months) and I remember a clever ad
WXHR had. 

WXHR in big letters on top, then "740 AM/FM 96.9" below that in slightly
smaller letters, then the kicker "Clear Channel/50,000 watts" beneath that.
The "clear channel" applied to the AM (yes, it was a clear channel...but we
forgot to mention that WE are not the dominant station) and the "50,000
watts" applied to the FM (well...equivalent to 50,000 watts at 500 feet
maybe). 

-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Dan.Strassberg
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 7:41 PM
To: Peter Q. George; Boston Radio Interest
Subject: Re: Boston and ABC Radio

I think you are right about Kaiser-Globe. And I think I remember 740 
when it was (briefly) WXHR (AM). But if I'm not mistaken, Bob Bittner 
told me that he had never been able to confirm that the the WXHR calls 
ever resided at what is now WJIB (AM). IIRC, Bob also said that there 
is some reason to believe that today's WJIB (AM) was also (briefly) 
WJIB (AM) in a former life many years ago. AFAIK, the calls that the 
station had for most of its life under the ownership of Harvey Radio 
were WTAO.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
eFax 1-707-215-6367

----- 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: Monday, 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
> ***********************************************************
>
>
> --- 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)?
>>
>> -----
>> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
>> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>>
>> ----- 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?
>> >
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
>> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>>
>>
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