Boston AM dial 50 years ago

[Jon Maguire]

I worked at WCOP from '70 to '75 and as far as I recall, we carried NBC 
the whole time. But then the mind is the *second* thing to go :-) I 
remember recording a concert at the Greek Orthodox Church for NBC's 
Sound of Christmas series. I probably have the tape in my Warehouse 13.

Jon Maguire WMEX/WCOP/WVMT alumni
On 11/25/2013 1:32 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote:
> On 11/23/2013 11:39 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
>> When did NBC move to WCOP?  ( Red Sox 1967 World Series was on 1150) -
>> I listened to Monitor in the mid 60's so somebody was clearing it.
>
> I'm not sure who was carrying NBC in the 1960s, but I don't think WEZE 
> was carrying much more than news and maybe the Jewish religious show 
> "The Eternal Light" on Sunday.  I don't think WCOP began carrying NBC 
> until sometime in the early 1970s, but I could be mistaken.  I wasn't 
> paying close attention to that at the time.
>
> I know that for awhile ABC was on WVDA/WEZE in the 1950s, and after 
> WEZE became the NBC affiliate (after WNAC dropped NBC), ABC was 
> carried on WTAO, and occasional evening ABC programs may have been 
> carried on sister station WXHR.  Also, Mutual was on WORL for awhile 
> in the late 50s or early 60s, after WNAC dropped it.
>