WATD(AM) now WBMS

[Bob Nelson]

And I did manage to pick up 1460 today halfway decently in N. Reading,
simulcasting WATD (Van Morrison song).

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 11:07 AM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote:

>
> WBMS 1090 ran a classical music format and was programmed by Richard L.
> Kaye, according to what I was told. When it dropped the format circa 1950,
> Ted Jones at WCRB saw an opportunity and hired Richard to program
> classical music on 1330. The transition to the classical format took a
> couple years, according to what Dave MacNeill told me. WCRB-FM 102.5
> signed on in 1954, and the rest is history.
>
>
> Rob
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Bob Nelson wrote:
>
> > Yes. AM 1090, from 1946 to the late Fifties when it became WILD.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 10:15 AM Doug Drown <ashboy1951@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Wasn't there a WBMS in Boston decades ago?
>