WKLB Frequency Change?

[A Joseph Ross]

Really!  Where?

On 7/10/2018 6:25 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> 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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> https://books.google.com/books?id=zGOkrNrrOfwC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=wkbg+1050+commonwealth&source=bl&ots=G91k6jcHAD&sig=N8WffB2YqXyeGKN7omWqX4-tsGQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrntWlyZXcAhWmUt8KHUIACfkQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=wkbg%201050%20commonwealth&f=false
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> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:05 PM A. Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com 
> <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
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>     On 7/10/2018 12:38 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
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>>     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.
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>     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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