[BC] Re WFMT original owner

[Dan Strassberg]

Wasn't WFMT originally WGNB owned by the Chicago Tribune. This would have
been back in the mid to late '40s, after the FCC moved the FM band to 88-108
MC but before -FM suffixes were allowed on FM call signs. FMs had to have
four-letter calls that were distinct from the calls of co-owned and
colocated AMs (hence WGNB). I think Tribune tired of FM really early on and
sold the station to Zenith, which changed the calls to WFMT and either
inaugurated the Fine Arts format or continued that format, which had started
when the station was still WGNB. It wasn't until more than a decade later
that the station was donated to WTTW.

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