AM radio and Max (Mac?) Richmond

[Kevin Vahey]

Joe

The automakers resisted but the intense lobby came from the NAB as they
didn't want Congress to mandate a rule similar to the mandatory VHF/UHF of
a decade earlier. Radio executives in the big markets were for the most
part clueless about FM and when the FCC mandated stations in the top
markets could no longer simulcast AM and FM more than 12 hours a day we saw
automation creep in. RKO General hit paydairt with WRKO-FM and then rolled
the dice by blowing up WNAC for WRKO.

In Boston the first hint that things were changing was when WJIB launched
in 1967 and destroyed WEZE in a matter of weeks. The Herald-Traveler was
clueless about WHDH-FM as was Plough with WCOP-FM.

CBS rolled out "The Young Sound' on all their FM's and at least tried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXm2UcOBKWQ

Westinghouse was clueless and wound up selling WBZ-FM to Greater Media in
the early 80's for petty cash.





On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:31 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> 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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