What station in New England has the longest continuing call letters and COL on the same frequency that only changed by treaty mandates?

[Kevin Vahey]

Scott made a strong case for WSAR in Fall River on Facebook

WEEI and COL go back to 1924 but you have the shift from 590 to 850 in
1994 which blurs things.

The post-WWII years had to be fascinating. with WHDH (850) and WLAW
(680) building out massive transmitter locations in Needham and
Burlington. The WHDH towers in Needham were for a short time the
tallest manmade structures in New England.



On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 3:17 AM Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/21/2023 4:48 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> > What station in New England has the longest continuing call letters
> > and COL on the same frequency that only changed by treaty mandates?
> >
> > I am thinking of WTIC in Hartford (1925) - WBZ was Springfield until
> > 1931 - Boston was WBZA and then they flipped calls.
>
> True about WTIC; I can't think of any station earlier with the same
> continuous calls or COL.  Also true that WBZ was in Springfield at
> first, although they did open up their Boston studio in February 1924.
> And let's not forget WDEV in Vermont, which goes back to July 1931 and
> those call letters are still in Waterbury VT, aren't they?
>
>
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> Donna L. Halper, PhD
> Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
> Lesley University, Cambridge MA
>