AM radio and Max (Mac?) Richmond
A Joseph Ross
joe@attorneyross.com
Tue Feb 20 00:21:12 EST 2018
I had a converter like that in the late 1970s into the '80s, that I got
at Radio Shack. I wanted it because WCRB had turned their AM signal
into WHET, without classical music most of the time. It, too, required
tuning the car radio to 1400, but it had a screw adjustment to move the
signal to one side or the other of 1400. I set a button on the radio
for 1400, for ease of using it. I found that whenever I went out to
Amherst, the FM converter at 1400 had a strong enough signal to come in
over WHMP 1400 in Northampton. And the converter had an off button for
listening to AM, so that I could listen to WHMP when I wanted to.
I remember that when I installed it in my car, I had to park my car in
front of my apartment building and run a long extension cord out the
window down to the car, so that I could solder the connection to the
car's power supply.
On 2/19/2018 9:01 AM, Bob Nelson wrote:
> I remember my older brother had an AM radio in his truck and bought an
> FM converter that also had a cassette deck.It was made by Craig.
>
> Example of an FM converter for cars, by Lafayette.Sticker says you
> must tune to 1400 for it to work (but what if you're near an existing
> station on that frequency?)
>
> https://youtu.be/P14oRjhxnJ0
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 8:48 AM Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com
> <mailto:kvahey@gmail.com>> 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 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
> <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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