Boston AM dial 50 years ago

[Dan.Strassberg]

Couple of errors popped out: In 1963, WNAC 680 was DA-1; it has been DA-2
for many years but, AFAIK, not all the way back in 1963. In 1963, WMEX ran 5
kW DA-1 from a two-tower array in Quincy (no longer in use by any station).
50-kW-D and the third tower in Quincy didn't come along until the end of the
'60s or maybe the beginning of the '70s. And I suppose you didn't mention
that WCRB 1330 is now co-located with 1200 as well as 1600 because you
didn't mention 1200 in your list. BUT 1200 should have been listed--as a 1
kW daytimer on 1190, WKOX, licensed to Framingham and transmitting from a
single tower at what is now the two-tower WSRO-650 site.

BTW, among all Boston-area AMs, does the 1190 (and later 1200, 1060, and
650) Mt Wayte site hold the record for the largest number of tower
collapses? (Collapses don't include towers that were intentionally
razed.)There are other contenders for those honors; 1430 being one.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Connelly" <markwa1ion@aol.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 7:58 PM
Subject: Boston AM dial 50 years ago


> With the current media coverage (some would say 'feeding frenzy') about
> the JFK assassination 50 years ago, I thought I'd look back to that period
> in terms of metro-Boston AM radio stations.  I was 14 at the time, a
> freshman at Arlington High School and, as noted at
> "http://swling.com/blog/2013/11/listener-post-mark-connelly/", was already
> seriously dug into radio and electronics from both the aspect as
> entertainment medium and scientific hobby.
>
> I invite historians among you (Donna Halper, Dan Strassberg, et al.) to
> look over and critique the listing below for accuracy.  I have not
> included stations from towns much beyond Route 128 so Lowell, Brockton,
> etc. aren't included.
>
> Mark Connelly
> South Yarmouth, MA
>
> -----
>
>
> WNAC - 680
> talk, variety, Yankee Network news, Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcast on
> Saturday afternoon, affiliated with TV Channel 7
> 50 kW day and night, three-tower DA Burlington, MA same as present WRKO
>
> WCRB - 1330
> classical music ("Concert Radio Boston")
> 5 kW day and night, three-tower DA Waltham, MA near Brandeis U., about 5
> miles north of present WRCA Newton site which is now co-located with 1600.
>
> WMEX - 1510
> Top 40 music (famous DJ's include Melvin X, Arnie Ginsberg), talk (Jerry
> Williams)
> 5 kW day and night, three-tower DA Quincy, MA about half a mile east of
> then/now 1260 site.  Present WUFC - 1510 site in Waltham, MA (about 12
> miles NW) got started around 1981 when 1510 went to 50 kW day and night.
>