How many daytime only stations are left?

[Kevin Vahey]

WBZ does have the backup transmitter in Boston (Allston)

The WXKS,WUNR,WRCA complex at 750 Saw Mill Brook in Newton is very close to
the Boston city line (West Roxbury)

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Laurence Glavin <lglavin@mail.com> wrote:

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>  >From: Kevin Vahey
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> >Sent: 01/10/13 01:16 AM
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> >To: Garrett Wollman
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> >Subject: Re: How many daytime only stations are left?
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> >I suspect WILD might have done it 10-15 years ago if transmitter was in
> >Boston but low power out of Medford at night was useless.
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> >I believe Boston was the largest city in the country without a fulltime AM
> >transmitter inside the city limits.
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> How about ANY AM TRANSMITTER AT ALL WITHIN CITY LIMITS?   Historically
> speaking, every AM station licensed
> to Boston or oriented to Boston operated transmitters beyond the City
> Limits, although one, 1260, is very close,
> and when they were in North Quincy, AM 1510, was also  within walking
> distance of any spot in Boston.  AMs
> licensed to Boston: 590 (xmtr Medford); 680, after changing COL to Boston,
> (xmtr Burlington); 850, after changing
> COL to Boston (xmtr Needham); 950 (xmtr Saugus); 1030, (xmtr Hull); 1090
> (xmtr Medford); 1150 (xmtr Lexington);
> 1260, (xmtr North Quincy); 1510 (xmtr first North Quincy, now Waltham).  I
> think it's safe to define WJDA in Quincy
> WKOX in Framingham and WLYN in Lynn as outlets that attempted to serve
> their communities rather than being Boston outliers, but
> AMs at: 740 in Cambridge; 1330 in Waltham (started as suburban-oriented,
> but after a format switch to classical became
> Boston-oriented); 1430 in Meford; and 1600 in Brookline, xmtr Newton.
> WNTN in Newton went on-the-air with the likes of
> Fred B. Cole and Bill Marlowe to appeal to Boston listeners.  When WKOX-AM
> 1200 moved physically to a point near
> Boston at the triplex in Oak Hill Park, it became the latest station close
> to The City with transmitter outside the
> city limits.  (AM 1060, WQOM is a special case).