WATD(AM) now WBMS

John Andrews w1tag@charter.net
Tue Mar 5 15:52:39 EST 2019


And, I'm listening to it at home in Holden (NW of Worcester) at 3:50 P.M.

John Andrews

On 3/5/2019 1:30 PM, Bob Nelson wrote:
> 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?
>>
> 


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