Bay State Banner First Newspaper To Comment On WILD

[Martin Waters]

--- On Thu, 6/9/11, Laurence Glavin <lglavin@mail.com> wrote:
> As of Thursday afternoon, 06/09, neither the Boston Globe nor the >Boston Herald has seen fit to take note of the change in format at WILD->AM 1090. However, one print & internet news organ has published a story >about it:the Bay state Banner . . .

    The Banner says that WILD "was a local, black-owned station from 1973 . . ." Within the context of the article, especially, this suggests that's when it first carried a "black" format -- which is incorrect. That goes back to at least the late '50s or early '60s.