WPTR/WDCD

[Kevin Vahey]

In 1966 WPTR was one of three radio stations that were official hosts of
the Beatles at Suffolk Downs (along with WBZ and WMEX)

At night they were very popular in Montreal as the station came in much
stronger than signal challenged CFOX.

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:

> On 6/16/2012 8:21 AM, Mark Watson wrote:
>
>  I was in Albany last weekend and WDCD was off the air. IIRC didn't they
>> file a notice with the FCC to temporarily go silent while they try to
>> find a new format? Agreed it's sad to see a 50,000 watt blowtorch go
>> dark but apparently WDCD's owners (Crawford I believe) must be losing
>> money with 1540 if they made the decision to take it dark.
>>
>
> They did indeed file a silent STA, and they were very much off the air
> when I was last through Albany a week ago.
>
> Crawford killed off a low-rated oldies format on WDCD's sister station,
> 96.7 (which had been using the WPTR calls) and moved the paid religion and
> WDCD calls from 1540 to 96.7. It may or may not have been losing money on
> 1540, but it's certainly losing much less money (or making more money, as
> the case may be) on 96.7, where there's not a four-figure monthly power
> bill to deal with.
>
> s
>