1540 WPTR is gone

[Doug Drown]

I grew up in Ashburnham, where I listened to WPTR on-and-off just about
every day from the time I was eleven until I headed off to college. A lot
of my school friends were fans, too.

I visited the newly built Albany Street studio in Colonie once when I was
about 16, and had a chance to meet Joe Motto ("Boom Boom Brannigan") ---
one of the great moments of my adolescence.

-Doig

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:45 PM Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:

> WPTR was so popular in 1966 that one of their DJ's was chosen to introduce
> the Beatles at Suffolk Downs along with Arnie Ginsberg and Bruce Bradley.
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> https://www.mixcloud.com/jamiescott24/roger-scott-a-clip-from-his-final-show-on-wptr-november-1966/
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> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:59 PM Jim Hall <aerie.ma@comcast.net> wrote:
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> > I remember flipping between WPTR and WKBW at our summer place in New
> > Hampshire (before WRKO went top 40 and with WMEX's poor signal). We also
> > got CHUM or WHN, depending on which way you turned the radio.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boston-Radio-Interest <
> > boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> On Behalf Of Dave
> > Doherty
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 1:45 PM
> > To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> > Subject: 1540 WPTR is gone
> >
> > Albany's 1540 hasn't been WPTR since 2004, but the current owner turned
> in
> > the license last week.
> >
> > I grew up around Albany, before FM was a thing. WTRY and WPTR were "the"
> > stations for Top 40.
> >
> > I mention this because WPTR had a blowtorch signal with a DA pointed
> > mostly in the direction of New England back in the day, and some member
> of
> > theis list might remember...
> >
> > -d
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