AM radio and Max (Mac?) Richmond

[A Joseph Ross]

Seems to me WBCN had to be involved there, too.  I think it was in 1968 
that they changed their format away from classical music and eventually 
went to progressive rock.  I think that many college students had FM 
radios, if for no other reason than to listen to the student-operated 
stations around.  I know at UMass (Amherst), just about everybody had Fm 
in order to listen to WMUA.

On 2/19/2018 4:00 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> 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 Bostonthe 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>                 <mailto:gallen2@nescaum.org>>
>                 To: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
>                 <mailto: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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