Fw: Contract "Employees" On Full-Power Major Market FM

[Dan.Strassberg]

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From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: Contract "Employees" On Full-Power Major Market FM


> WOR (recently purchased by CCU), one of New York's premiere AMs, has
> depended on brokered time since I was a little kid in the Bronx, 70 years
> ago. Carleton Fredericks and Martha Deane (later known by her real name,
> Mary-Margaret McBride, on other NYC-licensed 50-kW AMs) were just two of
> the
> personalities who purchased time from WOR, where they were mainstays of
> the
> schedule. In fact, I believe that what is alleged to have been the very
> first commercial program anywhere was brokered time. From what I've read,
> it
> aired 91 years ago in 1922 on WEAF (now WFAN), which was then owned by
> AT&T. The program was a half-hour commercial for real-estate. I would not
> be
> surprised if a Web search would yield the name of the real-estate broker
> and
> the name and location of the property.
>
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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 1:56 PM
> Subject: Contract "Employees" On Full-Power Major Market FM
>
>
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