WKLB Frequency Change?

[A Joseph Ross]

I thought WBZ was always #1 in those days.

On 7/9/2018 2:00 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> 105.7 has had an interesting history going back to its WKOX-FM days.
>
> In the mid 60's a very unlikely station was #1 in Boston overall with a
> limited signal on 1260 AM (WEZE) and WKOX-FM adopted the format and
> developed a strong following with affluent listeners.This in turn prompted
> Kaiser//Globe to launch WJIB. WKOX-FM waved the white flag and went to Top
> 40 in 1969 and 2 years later were sold to Fairbanks and became WVBF.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:34 AM Ron Bello <rbello@belloassoc.com> wrote:
>
>> and didn’t Fairbanks move the WCLB calls to another of their stations ?
>>
>> Don’t know if it is still
>> ​ there but for many years after the call letter change and studios had
>> moved to the Pru,
>>
>> there was a sign at the top of the Edgell Rd / Main Street ramp from route
>> 9 in Framingham to the studios​
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, July 8, 2018, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Donna L. Halper, PhD
>>> Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
>>> Lesley University, Cambridge MA
>>>
>>>

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