AM radio and Max (Mac?) Richmond

[A Joseph Ross]

I always wondered why it took so long to get FM into cars.  Some people 
told me that FM reception wouldn't work in cars, but I couldn't see why 
not.  Obviously, once we got FM in cars, it worked fine.


On 2/19/2018 12:21 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> Mac Richmond by 1970 saw that FM was not going away but WBOS was no longer
> for sale. I remember that Mac was concerned by WRKO-FM ( WROR ) and WKOX-FM
> which would become WVBF.
>
> What delayed FM was US automakers were reluctant to offer AM-FM tuners and
> the NAB lobbied hard to keep the status quo.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Glenn Spatola <gspatola@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Richmond owned WPGC AM and FM in Morningside, MD,
>> (a suburb of Washington, DC). It was my favorite station when I was
>> stationed in MD in the very early 70s.
>>
>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:54:21 -0500
>>> From: George Allen <gallen2@nescaum.org>
>>> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
>>> Subject: Re: Arnie "WooWoo" Ginsberg interview: The Sounds of the 60's
>>>
>>
>>
>>> ...In 1971 roughly 2 months before he died I wound up having lunch with
>>> Mac Richmond who owned WMEX and he told me he made a huge mistake not
>>> buying 92.9 when Champion offered it to him for cheap money..
>>>
>>> Mac had problems with a FM he owned in Washington but  he grasped
>>> that college students were buying FM tuners in Boston but the offer
>>> to buy WBOS was off the table.
>>>
>>>
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