FW: WSMN (Was: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

[David Moisan]

A memory popped up:  Clif and Claf were Clif Keane and Larry Clafin, sportswriters, who had a (weekly? Nightly?) show, and who also were on the pregame show when WITS had the Sox.

Sadly, one day, when they were in their pregame show, Larry Clafin suffered a massive heart attack and died.  That was it.  I don't remember what happened afterwards, but as we know, WITS did not have the Sox contract for much longer after that.

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From: Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> On Behalf Of Bob Nelson
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 3:16 PM
To: Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>
Cc: (newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: FW: WSMN (Was: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

WMEX 1510 was WITS for awhile--Infomation, Talk and Sports.
"The WITS' End of the Dial"

A cartoon in the Globe made fun of one of their shows (Clif and Claf?) with the caption The WITlesS Wonders

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 2:32 PM Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>
wrote:

>
> Weather, Sports, Music & News is what Al Rock always told me when I worked
> there in the 70's.            Across the street, WOTW stood for the
> original owner, Otis T Wingate (of Wingate's Pharmacy).
>
> Gary F.
> Gary’s Ice Cream – Chelmsford Creamery, Inc.  Chelmsford, MA 
> garysicecream.com Ice Cream College – classes in Massachusetts and 
> Florida icecreamcollege.com
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> -----Original Message-----
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> To: Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>; 'Doug Drown' < 
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> Subject: WSMN (Was: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia
>
> What did WSMN stand for?  Salem, Manchester, Nashua?
>
> Or did it stand for nothing at all?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary's Ice Cream" <gary@garysicecream.com>
> To: "'Doug Drown'" <ashboy1951@gmail.com>; "'Ken VanTassell'"
> <kenwvt@gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:47 PM
> Subject: RE: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia
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>
> > Kresgees
> >
> > Gary F.
> > Gary’s Ice Cream – Chelmsford Creamery, Inc.  Chelmsford, MA 
> > garysicecream.com Ice Cream College – classes in Massachusetts and 
> > Florida icecreamcollege.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boston-Radio-Interest
> > <boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> On Behalf Of 
> > Doug Drown
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:36 PM
> > To: Ken VanTassell <kenwvt@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Boston Radio Mailing List
> > <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> > Subject: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia
> >
> > Wonder what he thought the K stood for?
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:52 AM Ken VanTassell <kenwvt@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> When I was in High School back in the mid 70's my English teacher 
> >> told the class that all the station call signs that started with W 
> >> were all owned by Westinghouse. Needless to say I had to correct him.
> >>
> >> -Ken
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 9:11 AM Rob Landry 
> >> <011010001@interpring.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I noticed recently that WGBH's WCRB has started using "We're 
> >> > Classical Radio Boston", which the old WCRB used briefely in the
> early
> >> > '90's.
> >> >
> >> > But of course the call letters originally had nothing to do with 
> >> > the format, but stood for Charles River Broadcasting, which ran 
> >> > WCRB(AM) for several years as a full service station in Waltham 
> >> > before adopting the classical format in 1950-51.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Rob
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Donna Halper wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On 6/10/2019 10:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> >> > >> I am always amazed at the "Call Letters Meaning" section of 
> >> > >> entries
> >> for
> >> > >> radio and TV stations on Wikipedia. I wonder who writes them 
> >> > >> (and
> >> why).
> >> > For
> >> > >> example, WNEU in Merrimack NH has listed that its call letters 
> >> > >> stand
> >> for
> >> > >> "New (or Nueva)
> >> > >
> >> > > I spend way too much time fixing errors on Wikipedia, 
> >> > > especially with
> >> > regard
> >> > > to radio history.  The "meaning" of call letters is a frequent 
> >> > > area of contention.  Often, folks confuse an advertising slogan 
> >> > > for what the
> >> > call
> >> > > letters meant-- the call letters were often sequentially 
> >> > > assigned back
> >> > in the
> >> > > old days; but then the sales department retrofitted those calls 
> >> > > with a slogan, and everybody in the audience assumed that's 
> >> > > what the call
> >> > letters
> >> > > must represent. As you and I know, many of the folks who 
> >> > > contribute to Wikipedia are not media historians, so their 
> >> > > contributions (although
> >> > > well-meaning) are sometimes not accurate. Fixing the mistakes 
> >> > > is an
> >> > ongoing
> >> > > battle, sad to say.  And no, WHDH never stood for "we haul dead
> >> > haddock..."
> >> > > ;-)
> >> > >
> >> > > --
> >> > >
> >> > > Donna L. Halper, PhD
> >> > > Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies Lesley 
> >> > > University, Cambridge MA
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>
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