WCOP

[Kevin Vahey]

I can recall WCOP was very popular with teens in Newton and Waltham at night - WMEX had issues :)

I lived in Cambridge and my Mom used to put the phone up to the radio so her sister could hear Jerry Williams in West Newton.

I am guessing COP decided that going MOR and running NBC's Monitor made more sense for them with the bottom line. 

WEZE at the time had become #1 in Boston with the beautiful music format. They would remain king until WJIB blew them away around 1967. I am guessing WEZE did not want to run Monitor and NBC went shopping and found WCOP.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.orgDate: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:17:45 
To: Boston Radio Interest<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Reply-To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Subject: Fw: WCOP


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: WCOP


> WCOP was (and WWDJ still is) nulled at night toward CHSJ St John NS,
> which must have left 1150 (for 700) 30 years ago, and has now left 
> 700
> for FM (probably more than five years ago). Communities on the North
> Shore lie in this null.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
> To: "Doug Drown" <vzeej5wn@myfairpoint.net>;
> <boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org>; "A Joseph
> Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>; "Boston Radio"
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>; "Donna Halper"
> <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: WCOP
>
>> WMEX had one signal advantage at night and that was the north shore
>> above Revere as WCOP just vanished.
>