Tower Question

[Kevin Vahey]

Kaiser/Globe had a very small window to get Ch 56 on the air before the FCC
would have pulled the WXHR-TV license.

Once WKBG-TV was up and running they then turned WXHR-AM into WCAS. and
then later in 1967 would flip WXHR-FM into WJIB.

In retrospect it is curious that all 3 Kaiser-Globe stations has separate
studios.  56 was in Allston. WCAS was in Central Sq Cambridge and WJIB
wound up on the waterfront.

The stations were never bundled as a package and all 3 would eventually
wind up with separate owners.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:19 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> Interesting detail.  I have a couple of quibbles.
>
>
> ​WJIB​
>
> 2. You mention the Kaiser-GLobe "consortium" (I'd call it a partnership or
> joint venture) putting channel 56 back on as WKBG in 1966.  I know the
> Archives also gives that date, but how certain are we of that date?  I'm
> not as certain of this as I am of #1, but I think this is too early.  I
> seem to remember all three of the Harvey Labs stations being sold at once
> to Kaiser-Globe, taken off the air, and then brought back in their new
> identities.  But I also remember hearing WXHR classical programming on 740
> AM, which became WXHR (AM), on my car radio while I was in law school,
> which I started in fall 1967.  I could be wrong on this one, but I think it
> was later than 1966.