WKLB Frequency Change?

[Ben Levy]

Callsigns are still needed to report a violation to the FCC… and COL is useful in determining where you are when lost.

Ben

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 4:47:14 PM, A. Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
> 
> That's now, but back then it was different.
> 
> 
> On 7/9/2018 3:28 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>> Joe
>> 
>> Ratings in Boston are all digital now - call signs mean NOTHING
>> 
>> WMJX took a hit a couple of years ago when Dunkin Donuts rolled out in-house radio - previously all franchises in Boston were ordered to tune in 106.7
>> 
>> Today we have three different owners in Boston sharing the WBZ calls on AM-FM-TV
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:02 AM A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    I thought I had heard that WCRB suddenly jumped in the ratings,
>>    and that
>>    jump was attributed to people saying they were listening to WCRB when
>>    they were actually listening to WCLB.
>> 
>> 
>>    On 7/8/2018 12:18 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
>>    > On 7/8/2018 8:37 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:
>>    >> That FB post (from John Kosian) was showing off a shirt from 20+
>>    >> years ago!
>>    >>
>>    >> WBCS was one of two competing country stations in the 90s,
>>    replacing
>>    >> smooth
>>    >> jazz WCDJ. It was up against Fairbanks' WCLB 105.7 (ex-WVBF). WCLB
>>    >> became
>>    >> WKLB fairly quickly,
>>    >
>>    > I was there, consulting WCLB when some of this occurred-- if my
>>    memory
>>    > serves me well, the call letter change reflected the old Arbitron
>>    > diary process of listeners being asked to remember and then
>>    write down
>>    > the call letters; research showed lots of folks were getting the
>>    call
>>    > letters wrong and writing down stations other than WCLB, even if
>>    > that's what they were listening to.  So the management decided a K
>>    > would be easier to distinguish than a C.
>>    >
>> 
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