[BC] WBZ as a IB

[cld@admin.umass.edu]

Alan- that's really amazing! Thanks for posting that. 
Can I let Chris Tracy know about this for his website as well? Would you mind?

Chuck Dube
Amherst


Quoting Alan Kline <akline at netins.net>:

> As long as we're on the subject, I've scanned a letterhead from WBZ-WBZA
> from 1927, with an Ekko stamp attached.
> 
> It's at:
> http://www.snugglebunny.us/WBZ-WBZA.jpg
> 
> (Barry, Donna, Scott...if any of you find this interesting or useful,
> please feel free to "borrow" it.  I have a larger scan available if you'd
> like...)
> 
> ak
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Dan Strassberg wrote:
> 
> > I always thought that WBZ's IB status was the result of its having a
> > synchronized station, WBZA Springfield (which, incidentally, was
> originally
> > WBZ). Westinghouse first put WBZ on the air from a Westinghouse factory in
> > Springfield. A year or so later, a synchronous transmitter was added to
> > serve Boston and the WBZA calls were assigned here. Next, the call signs
> > were flipped and eventually the Boston was signal improved while
> Springfield
> > remianed 1 kW-U from the original rooftop antenna. Not until Westinghouse
> > wanted to add its seventh major-market AM did WBZA have to go--because the
> > acquisition of another station would have put the company over the
> ownership
> > cap. IIRC, WBZA bit the dust to allow the purchase of WINS. If I'm right
> > about that, the sacrifice of the Springfield "station," which generated no
> > measurable revenue, was one of the smarter moves in US broadcast history.
> I
> > can't say for sure that WBZA really was a factor in WBZ's IB status, but I
> > don't think WBZ was classified or reclassified as a IA until WBZA went
> > silent. Somebody will surely post the date--which must have been in the
> late
> > '50s or early 60s.
> 
> 
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