WKLB Frequency Change?

[Donna Halper]

On 7/10/2018 6:26 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> WEZE was in a good spot circa 1965 as 'The Wonderful World of Music' was
> consistent and their major competitor was WHDH that tried to juggle music,
> news and sports. NBC even dropped WEZE in favor of WCOP to get Monitor
> cleared in Boston.  WBZ and WMEX fought for the younger audience with 1030 doing well in the
> burbs and 1510 well in the city and the North Shore.

And many of us who worked in Boston still remember walking past the WEZE 
studios (street-level, Statler Office Building, in Park Square), and 
watching the announcers on the air.

Kevin wrote--
> Donna - Have you ever looked into Kaiser/Globe's odd decision to have 3
> separate offices and studios for TV, FM and AM?

Bob Bitner might know something more about that.  It's been a while 
since I did any research on Kaiser-Globe.  But as I recall, the company 
made other puzzling decisions too. Kaiser was an Oakland CA based firm, 
weren't they? And I do recall (vaguely) WKBG-TV going on the air in late 
1966.  It seems the company's execs weren't always sure how to handle 
the various media properties they owned in Boston, and evidently, they 
did not want to give the impression that they were trying to consolidate 
them all into one unit-- this was, of course, the era before media 
consolidation became popular. They also owned individual properties on 
the west coast, including a TV station in Los Angeles, and KFOG Radio in 
San Francisco.  Anyway, I'm fairly certain they had separate GMs and 
even separate sales staff at their various Boston properties. But I 
don't recall much more than that.

-- 
Donna L. Halper, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
Lesley University, Cambridge MA