WKLB Frequency Change?

[Kevin Vahey]

Joe

The TV studios were on Comm Ave in Allston before they moved to Dorchester.

Fred Cusick wrote that there was a minor problem with the Allston studio

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:05 PM A. Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 7/10/2018 12:38 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> I remember doing that in the late '60s when I had a summer job in Park
> Square.
>
> 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.
>
>
> I don't understand that, since the properties were already one unit, as
> WXHR.  Circa 1965, WTAO 740 became WXHR, and 96,9 changed from WXHR to
> WXHR-FM.  This was an effort to compete with WCRB for the AM audience, but
> since 740 was a daytime-only station, they couldn't compete in evening
> drive-time for much of the year.  Channel 56 had been on for awhile in 1953
> as WTAO-TV, but in the 1960s, when it was preparing to come back, it was
> running ads as WXHR-TV, though I'm not sure whether it ever got on the air
> with that call.
>
> I think the separate locations and calls for the stations had to do with
> the branding they wanted to have.  As a community station for Cambridge and
> vicinity, WCAS had studios in Central Square, and the WJIB studios on the
> waterfront were because of the nautical image, supported by the WJIB call.
> I think the TV station started out being at the FM and TV transmitter
> location in Woburn before the Morrissey Boulevard location.
>
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