WAR OF THE WORLDS

[Scott Fybush]

On 7/11/2012 12:22 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> But WAS it Bound Brook? Scott Fybush says Wayne. Gets confusing because
> of two NYC stations use (at different times) of the WABC calls. So we
> are left with the question of which WABC was in Bound Brook (even though
> neither station had the WABC calls at that time) and which WABC was in
> Wayne (even though neither station had the WABC calls at that time, either).
>

There is no question. The history is very clear on this. The station 
that was in Bound Brook until 1943 was the 760/770 Blue Network facility 
then known as WJZ and today known as WABC. (It's still using the tower 
from Bound Brook, in fact - in 1943, it was dismantled and moved to the 
current site in Lodi). The station that was in Wayne from 1932 until 
1940 was the 860 CBS facility then known as WABC and today known as WCBS 
on 880.

(NBC's 660, meanwhile, was moving around Long Island from Bellmore to 
Port Jefferson before diplexing on High Island with WCBS in 1963.)

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