December 11, 2006
Progressive Talk Fades Away in Boston
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*Progressive talk will soon be history, it
seems, in eastern MASSACHUSETTS, as Clear Channel's continued
corporate retreat from the format brings a format change at WKOX
(1200 Framingham) and WXKS (1430 Everett), which have struggled
to find an audience since flipping from leased-time Spanish (on
WKOX) and standards (on WXKS) in October 2004.
 Almost
from the first day of the new format, rumors began flying about
its possible demise. In the last few weeks, as Air America's
financial struggles worsened and other progressive talkers slipped
away from the format, the rumors began getting louder. Then,
last week, Brian Maloney's "Radio Equalizer" blog spotted
a Clear Channel help-wanted ad for salespeople for the new "Rumba
1200/1430," and while the company still hasn't officially
confirmed the move, it's becoming clearer that the progressive
talk format will be replaced by Spanish tropical music within
the next few weeks.
Much has been written, here and on the message boards, about
the challenges WKOX/WXKS faced in finding an audience, most notably
a pair of night signals that served only listeners in the MetroWest
and north suburban areas, completely missing Boston, Cambridge
and much of the rest of the market. Unlike some of the more successful
progressive talkers around the country (most notably two other
Clear Channel signals, KLSD San Diego and KPOJ Portland, Oregon),
WKOX/WXKS never added any local personalities to the national
lineup of Air America and other syndicated hosts it carried.
In a market so intensely focused on its local politics, many
interpreted the lack of local presence as a sign that Clear Channel
wasn't committed to the format in Boston over the long term.
In the end, though, local factors may not have determined
the demise of progressive talk on WKOX and WXKS. Instead, it
was a national trend within the company, which is in the process
of pulling the format off the air in markets from Madison, Wisconsin
to Cincinnati to - rumor has it, at least - Los Angeles. With
questions arising about the future of Air America as a 24-hour
programming network, it's understandable that broadcasters looking
for a turnkey syndicated product are getting uneasy about sticking
with progressive talk, and we should note that Clear Channel's
hardly alone in that respect, with companies such as Citadel
(in Binghamton) and Entercom (in New Orleans) also dropping the
format in recent weeks.
Could progressive talk find a home on another signal in town?
There are always "what if" options in play, it seems,
and it's never out of the question that a committed, deep-pocketed
investor could purchase WWZN (1510) from Sporting News Radio,
for instance, and move the format there. (We'd note that Sheldon
and Anita Drobny, who were early investors in Air America before
selling their stake, have been trying to grow their new Nova
M talk network, for instance.)
Beyond WWZN, whose signal problems and transmitter-site lease
issues have bedeviled owner after owner, there's Radio One's
WILD (1090), which is also for sale. WILD quietly moved from
black gospel back to Radio One's syndicated talk format in the
last few weeks, for whatever that's worth.
 So what, then, of
"Rumba"? For a market that's 7% Hispanic overall (with
much higher densities in the city of Boston and several neighboring
communities), Boston has long trailed other similar-sized cities
when it comes to Spanish-language radio. Mega Communications
tested the waters for several years with its "Mega 890/1400"
(WAMG Dedham/WLLH Lowell), before it exited the Northeast completely
and those stations flipped to sports. Today, Spanish-speaking
listeners in Boston have to tune to several weaker AM signals
(WRCA 1330 Waltham, WLYN 1360 Lynn, WUNR 1600 Brookline) that
carry a variety of leased-time programming - or they have to
struggle to hear the Spanish-language signals from Costa-Eagle's
WNNW (800) and WCEC (1110) up in the Merrimack Valley.
The arrival of "Rumba" promises to upset that balance.
Clear Channel has shown a strong committment to Spanish-language
radio both nationally and regionally - most notably, in NERW-land,
with the flip of WSNI (104.5 Philadelphia) to "Rumba 104.5"
as WUBA this past August. In Philadelphia, Clear Channel had
the benefit of a five-FM cluster to work with, providing full-market
coverage from day one for "Rumba." In Boston, "Rumba"
will face some of the same signal problems progressive talk did
on the 1200 and 1430 signals, especially in the Merrimack Valley,
where neither signal is very good even by day, and along with
that, the strong preference shown by Hispanic audience nationwide
for FM music signals over AM. But with no Spanish-language FM
in the market, "Rumba" promises to be the strongest
option on the dial - and it will be stronger still when construction
is complete on the long-pending WKOX move to Newton and power
increase to 50 kW. (NERW research director Garrett Wollman drove
by the Oak Hill transmitter site last week and reports that after
many delays, construction is now underway out there.)
For those keeping track, there's still progressive talk on
the air in NERW-land in western Massachusetts, at Saga's WHMP/WHNP/WHMQ
trimulcast, as well as in Portland (WLVP 870 Gorham), Burlington/Plattsburgh
(WTWK 1070 Plattsburgh), Rochester (WROC 950), Buffalo (WWKB
1520 and WHLD 1270 Niagara Falls), Ithaca (WNYY 1470) and of
course in New York, at Air America-leased WWRL 1600.
One more Clear Channel Boston note: Deirdre Degata is out
as midday jock at WXKS-FM (107.9 Medford), with Shelly Wade of
sister station Z100 in New York voicetracking the Kiss 108 shift
in her place. Also out: Chris Kung, promotions coordinator at
WJMN (94.5), as well as WJMN jocks Maverik and Hustle Simmons.
Gee-Spin moves from middays to nights at Jam'n to replace Maverik,
which means middays will be tracked from Los Angeles by Suzy
Tavarez of KIIS (102.7).
*There's a changing of the guard at the helm of Boston's biggest
public broadcaster. After 36 years with WGBH, the last 22 of
them as the station's president, Henry Becton announced last
week that he's stepping down next fall. Becton, who oversaw a
huge expansion of WGBH's local and national production efforts,
culminating in the station's impending move to a new studio facility
overlooking the Mass Pike in Allston, says he'll remain with
the station in an advisory role. Effective October 1, 2007, he'll
be replaced by executive VP/COO Jon Abbott as WGBH president.
 *The
facility swap that moved classical WCRB (102.5 Waltham) to the
Lowell-licensed 99.5 facility was heavily promoted - but even
so, the word didn't quite get to everyone. With the WCRB website
yet to relaunch (and no contact information available there at
the moment), a few disgruntled listeners found their way to the
WCRB page at our sister site, The
Archives@BostonRadio.org, where they seemed to think they
were writing directly to the station. The common thread? Nearly
all of them were writing from Rhode Island and northwest Connecticut,
areas that were on the fringe of WCRB's 102.5 coverage but well
outside the reach of the Lowell 99.5 signal.
(And a parenthetical note: classical listeners in Boston are
learning just how fortunate they are that WCRB has survived in
any form. In Washington, it appears that Bonneville may be on
the verge of selling classical WGMS to Redskins owner Dan Snyder,
which puts the future of the classical format - already relegated
to a pair of rimshot FM signals - in jeopardy there.)
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*On the western edge of PENNSYLVANIA
- literally on the state line, in the case of one transmitter
site - there's a format change to report at WLOA (1470 Farrell)
and WGRP (940 Greenville). They've dropped their simulcast with
Youngstown-market oldies signal WANR (1570 Warren) and are now
running sports from Sporting News Radio.
A call change across the state: in the Scranton market, WPGP
(88.3 Tafton) becomes WLKA as it joins EMF Broadcasting's national
"K-Love" contemporary Christian network.
An update on that Scranton-area tornado that silenced much
of the market's TV dial a week ago: on the radio side, WVIA (89.9
Scranton) was also off the air when the tornado cut power to
Penobscot Mountain. The other FMs up there, WMGS (92.9), WBHT
(97.1) and WBSX (97.9), reportedly stayed on with generator power.
(And to clear up some confusion from last week, "Froggy
101," WGGY 101.3, is not at Penobscot - it's at the Bald
Mountain site above Scranton.)
The Clear Channel budget-cutting ax swung in Harrisburg last
week, leaving WHP (580) afternoon news guy Dave Eddy out of a
job. (He tells NERW he's looking for new opportunities in the
sports play-by-play arena, where he's spent much of his career.)
Down the hall at "Kiss FM" WHKF (99.3 Harrisburg),
PD/afternoon guy Jeff Hurley moves to Lancaster's WLAN-FM (96.9)
for afternoons, replacing J.T. Bosch, who becomes PD of WHKF
in addition to WLAN-FM. WLAN-FM morning guy Dennis Mitchell adds
assistant PD duties there as well.
Another all-Christmas signal to add to the list: Backyard
Broadcasting's WRVH (107.9 South Williamsport) is calling itself
"Holiday 107.9" for the moment, we're told...
*The syndicated Mancow show has a new affiliate
in southern NEW JERSEY, as WJSE (102.7 Petersburg) picks
up the show to replace "Scotty and Alex" in morning
drive. (They've moved on to WYSP in Philadelphia.)
*Clear Channel is consolidating its five
FM stations in NEW YORK into a single facility. It's reportedly
signed a 15-year lease for more than 120,000 square feet of space
on the first four floors of 32 Avenue of the Americas in lower
Manhattan. Sometime next year, WHTZ (100.3 Newark) and WKTU (103.5
Lake Success) will move across the Hudson from their separate
studios in Jersey City, while WAXQ (104.3), WWPR (105.1) and
WLTW (106.7) will all move south from their separate facilities
in Midtown Manhattan. (Clear Channel had earlier planned to move
all five stations into the Manhattan Mall, but a lease deal there
fell through.)
A weekend jock at WWPR was in critical condition Sunday after
being shot 13 times during a robbery outside his northern Manhattan
apartment early Friday morning. Carl Blaze, whose real name is
Carlos Rivera, is normally heard Friday and Saturday nights on
the station's mix shows. Police are looking for a suspect in
the attack.
At WFAN (660 New York), overnight host Evan Roberts gets a
big promotion: he's joining Joe Benigno on the 10 AM-1 PM weekday
shift at the big sports station. Meanwhile, sister station WFNY-FM
(92.3 New York) brought a New York institution back to the airwaves
on Thursday, giving longtime WABC (and later WOR) talk host Bob
Grant a one-hour tryout.
 Syracuse
isn't usually in the vanguard where new formats are concerned,
but it gets the distinction of being the first market in NERW-land
to get a "Movin" outlet, the Alan Burns-consulted rhythmic
AC format that gained early toeholds in Seattle and Los Angeles.
The newest "Movin" is Craig Fox's trio of FM signals
in the Salt City - WOLF-FM (96.7 Oswego), WWLF-FM (100.3 Sylvan
Beach) and W243AB (96.5 Westvale), which made the flip from Radio
Disney on Thursday. Radio Disney continues on the air in Syracuse
on WOLF (1490), WWLF (1340 Auburn) and WAMF (1300 Fulton).
In Albany, WHRL (103.1) morning host Jason Keller has added
a new gig: he'll also do an hour of talk, from 6-7 PM weeknights,
for sister Clear Channel station WGY (810 Schenectady.)
Another small piece of fallout from the Clear Channel format
shuffling in the Catskills: with 99.3 in Ellenville becoming
country WRWC, simulcasting WRWD-FM (107.3 Highland) from Poughkeepsie,
there's no more need for the country simulcast on WRWD (1370
Ellenville), so that small AM signal becomes WELG, with standards.
(Its original calls, WELV, are now in use on an LPFM in Ellenville
on 107.9.)
 An
early Buffalo traffic reporter has died. Jack Sharpe was working
at WEBR (970, now WNED) when he became the second helicopter-borne
traffic reporter in the nation in 1959. He left WEBR in 1974
to spend 15 years as town supervisor in Amherst. Sharpe was inducted
into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1999. He was 80
years old.
*Some changes are on the way at Clear Channel's
RHODE ISLAND talk station: WHJJ (920 Providence) is replacing
longtime afternoon fixture Arlene Violet with the syndicated
Sean Hannity show, effective today.
 Also
out is midday host Howie Barte; in his place, the station will
move Helen Glover's local show to 12-3 PM, filling her former
late morning slot with the Pittsburgh-based Quinn and Rose show
on delay, from 9-12.
Violet, who served as Rhode Island's attorney general from
1985-1987, had been with WHJJ for 16 years. She says Clear Channel
will pay her nine months' salary to end her contract, which was
to have run through 2008.
*Our best wishes for a speedy recovery to
NEW HAMPSHIRE TV meteorologist Josh Judge of WMUR
(Channel 9) in Manchester, who was injured in a hit-and-run accident
early Friday morning in Windham. Judge was airlifted to Mass
General after the crash, where he was reported in good condition
over the weekend. Police have an arrest warrant out for a Salem
man who admitted he was driving the other car and left the scene.
*A veteran VERMONT station manager
has moved on to a new phase in her career. After 22 years in
radio, Karen Marshall left Clear Channel Burlington, where she'd
been general manager, in late November, and has started a new
job as Northern New England area sales manager with Comcast's
Spotlight advertising division. Tom Barney takes over as general
manager at Clear Channel Burlington.
*In CANADA, CBC-TV is pulling the
plug on its 6 PM "Canada Now" national newscast. As
part of its plan to return its local stations to more local identities,
"Canada Now" will begin to be phased out next spring,
starting at CBUT in Vancouver. In its place, local CBC stations
will return to the hourlong 6 PM newscasts they had been doing
before the introduction of "Canada Now" a few years
back.
 At
Montreal's CINW (940), they're mourning business editor Patrick
Letang, who chronicled his battle with colon and liver cancer
on a blog he kept on the Corus talk station's website.
Pat was also a frequent contributor to several industry message
boards, keeping us all abreast of the latest developments on
Montreal's radio scene. He died Wednesday (Dec. 6) at age 46,
survived by his three sons, Justin, Jordan and Jeremy and his
wife Ana.
Another Montreal obituary: Jack Finnigan, a veteran host at
CJAD (800), died Dec. 2 of diabetes and heart disease. Finnigan,
who'd been with CJAD since 1972, was 65.
And in Kingston, CFFX (Oldies 960) has lost its morning host.
"Andy K," whose real name was Andy Kuhn, died last
Monday (Dec. 4) of pneumonia. His long career took him to stations
such as CFOX, CHOM and CKGM in Montreal and CHUM in Toronto,
and he was a frequent guest at the "Monday Nighter"
radio gatherings in Toronto.
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was covering one, five and ten years ago this week, or thereabouts
- the column appeared on an erratic schedule in its earliest
years as "New England Radio Watch," and didn't go to
a regular weekly schedule until 1997. Thanks to LARadio.com
for the idea - and thanks to you, our readers, for the support
that's made all these years of NERW possible!)
December 12, 2005 -
- Three northeast PENNSYLVANIA radio stations will be able
to stay on the air under new ownership, now that the FCC has
agreed to allow their owner, who was convicted of child-molestation
charges, to sell the stations rather than to surrender their
licenses. Regular NERW readers already know the background here:
Doug Lane, longtime owner of WWDL (104.9 Scranton, now WWRR),
WICK (1400 Scranton) and WYCK (1340 Plains), was arrested in
March 2004. Prosecutors say Lane's history of molesting teenage
boys extended back several decades, with the statute of limitations
having expired on some of the earliest incidents.
- In the past, the FCC has handled similar charges against
licensees (most notably Michael Rice, who owned stations in Missouri
and Indiana) by revoking the stations' licenses - and indeed,
to this day, Rice's former frequencies in Columbia, Missouri
and Terre Haute, Indiana remain dark. In this case, though, prosecutors
in Lackawanna County had a different idea. They asked the FCC
to allow Lane to sell the stations to Bold Gold Media, which
owns four nearby stations (WDNH/WPSN in Honesdale, WYCY in Hawley
and WDNB in Jeffersonville, N.Y.) and which has been operating
the Scranton stations under an LMA for several months. Out of
the $1.9 million sale price for the stations, $300,000 would
be set aside for reimbursement to victims and for contributions
to victim-assistance agencies. The remainder would be put into
a court-supervised account, with the money (plus interest) going
to Lane if he wins the appeal of his conviction and to the county
if the conviction stands on appeal.
- There's probably nothing we can add to the media hype surrounding
the impending departure of Howard Stern from terrestrial radio,
so we won't even try. But there is some news surrounding his
NEW YORK flagship station: the calls will apparently change from
WXRK to WFNY-FM when it becomes "92.3 Free FM" in January
(the WFNY calls are also in use on AM and for an LPTV up in Gloversville,
and we're sure owner Michael Sleezer got a nice deal from Infinity
to share them for New York City use.) The new WFNY-FM will have
a new manager, as Mark Chernoff gets promoted from operations
director at WFAN to VP/programming for both WFAN and WFNY-FM.
And current WXRK afternoon guy Chris Booker will stay with 92.3
in its new incarnation, handling evenings.
- CANADA's regulators are getting impatient with Aboriginal
Voices Radio's repeated requests for extensions of time to build
its stations in British Columbia, Calgary, Montreal, Kitchener-Waterloo
and Ottawa. AVR, which currently operates only one station, Toronto's
CFIE (106.5), asked the CRTC last week for a sixth extension
in Ottawa and a second extension in Montreal (including an extension
of time to find an alternate frequency, since it was denied its
initial choice of 100.1), among other requests. The CRTC says
it's putting AVR "on notice" that it will use this
proceeding to decide whether to grant the broadcaster any further
extensions for its unbuilt stations. In documents filed with
the CRTC, AVR indicates that it still hasn't purchased a transmitter
for the Ottawa station, and that similar purchases for Montreal
are on hold until a new frequency (tentatively 106.7) is approved.
December 10, 2001 -
- Listeners to Sporting News Radio in northern NEW JERSEY have
long complained about the phasing problems that have made WSNR
(620 Newark) almost unlistenable in most of the area. But if
the Sporting News flagship is granted its latest application,
those problems will be replaced by a powerful signal over the
region. In its application, WSNR wants to build seven new towers
(painted, lit and 107 meters tall!) in the Hatfield Swamp of
West Caldwell, near where US 46, I-80 and I-280 all meet. That's
not very far from the site in Livingston that AM 620 used for
much of its life (as WVNJ, WSKQ and WXLX) before losing the land
to residential development. Since that site was leveled in 1998,
620 (under later calls of WJWR and WSNR) has used a five-tower
array it built just south of WLIB (1190 New York) in the Lyndhurst,
N.J. tower farm. But while that site offered decent penetration
into Manhattan, it forced 620 to throw a null over the very areas
in New Jersey it was licensed to serve. That problem should be
solved if WSNR is granted this application, which calls for 8200
watts day (from all seven towers) and 5000 watts at night (from
five of the seven). We'll keep you posted...
- We'll skip down to DELAWARE for the next bit of news: the
return of WNRK (1260 Newark) to the airwaves. Local observers
had given this one up for dead when it lost its transmitter site
to development (detect a theme this week?) and signed off June
25, but we're happy to report that the station returned to the
air November 21. The National Radio Club's DX News reports this
week that WNRK was purchased by John Vincent (owner of nearby
WAMS 1600 in Dover), who's got the station running Christmas
tunes from a 197-foot longwire antenna at a site less than 1000
feet from the old WNRK location. The plans for WNRK call for
its new 250-watt nondirectional signal to move to a Valcom fiberglass
antenna (like the one in use at WSHP 1480 Shippensburg PA and
proposed for WGCH 1490 Greenwich CT) sometime next year.
- It's all about history in CANADA this week: Wednesday (Dec.
12) marks the centenary of Marconi's transmission of the Morse
letter "S" to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland
from Poldhu, Wales, and several big celebrations are planned.
The CBC is pulling out all the stops for a "Tuning the World"
special that will run from 8:30 AM until 1 PM on Wednesday on
Radio One, featuring live broadcasts from around the world. There's
more going on as well on the CBC; check out their special site
at www.tuningtheworld.com for all the details. (LATE UPDATE:
A labor-management dispute at the CBC forced the cancellation
of the live portions of the broadcast; taped segments were heard
for much of the day on shows such as "This Morning"
and "Ideas".)
New England Radio Watch, December 10-12, 1996
- Salem Broadcasting is wasting no time
exercising its option to buy Boston's WBNW (590) from Back Bay
Broadcasting. As of Sunday morning, December 15, WBNW will drop
its business news and talk format to become the latest outlet
in Salem's chain of religious and conservative-talk stations.
WBNW was the product of American Radio Systems' purchase of the
call letters and format of the old WEEI (590) in August 1994.
At that time, ARS was not permitted to own three AMs in Boston,
so it took the WEEI calls and sports format to the former WHDH
(850), kept its talker WRKO (680), and sold the 590 facility
to broadcaster Peter Ottmar, who also owned WARA (1320 Attleboro
MA) and WWKX (106.3 Woonsocket-Providence RI). After a few weeks
of rebroadcasting WEEI, WBNW debuted in September 1994 with a
mix of Bloomberg Business News, local business talk, and satellite
talk such as Bruce Williams.
- WBNW's salespeople were dismissed on
Monday, and it's not clear whether any of WBNW's other staffers
(mostly board operators) will stay on under Salem. WBNW is likely
to move from its current studios, the old WEEI facility in the
Schrafft Center in Charlestown, to the studios of Salem's existing
Boston operation, WEZE (1260), in Marina Bay, Quincy.
- Salem will move WBNW out of its studios
in the Schraffts Center in Charlestown (where 590 has been located
since 1990, when it was still all-news WEEI -- how long ago that
now seems!), and into the WEZE studios in Marina Bay, Quincy.
A published report in the Boston Globe quotes WEZE execs as complaining
about the high rent they'll also inherit for the 590 transmitter
site in Medford...but there's not much they can do about that,
NERW thinks. The existing 1260 site, south of Boston in Milton,
Mass., would not be suitable for 590.
- Fans of the Bloomberg business programming
formerly heard on 590 won't be completely out of luck. WADN (1120)
in Concord announced that it will be picking up Bloomberg business
reports several times hourly during the day, as well as carrying
three hour-long blocks of Bloomberg programming. WADN's signal
outside the western suburbs is spotty to non-existent, though,
and the business news isn't exactly an ideal fit to the station's
nominal format of folk music. On the other hand, WADN is also
reported to be in financial trouble, and anything that can draw
a few more listeners will probably be tried out there.
- One more brand-new station out there:
WSHX is now on the air at 95.7 from Danville VT, joining sister
stations WNCS (104.7 Montpelier VT) and WRJT (103.1 Royalton
VT) as AAA "The Point." With the addition of WSHX in
the Northeast Kingdom region, Northeast Broadcasting now reaches
most of Northern and Central Vermont, from just north of Rutland
up to the Canadian border. The Northeast Kingdom is getting awfully
over-radioed, as WSHX joins existing AM-FM combos WIKE 1490 Newport/WMOO
92.1 Derby Center (locally owned and operated by Tom Steele),
WSTJ 1340/WNKV 105.5 St. Johnsbury (which also own WMTK 106.3
Littleton NH), and WGMT 98.3 Lyndon, which holds a CP to increase
power and move to 97.7. All that for a few thousand people and
a lot of cows...yes, there's a reason Tom named his FM "WMOO"!
- A familiar voice has returned to the
Boston airwaves on WROR (105.7 Framingham-Boston). Joe Martelle,
the longtime morning host at the original WROR (98.5, now WBMX)
began his new afternoon shift at the new 'ROR last week, after
his non-compete agreement with WBMX came to an end. It's been
more than a year since Martelle's been heard in Boston; he was
sidelined by illness, then ousted from his morning spot at WBMX
in favor of John Lander.
- The holiday spirit is in full swing
on the New Hampshire seacoast, as WSTG (102.1 Hampton NH) returns
to an all-holiday music format for the second year in a row.
"The Stage" used holiday music for all of last December
as a transition from its old "Seacoast 102" AC format
to the current mix of AC and standards. This year's run of holiday
music started December 1 and will last through Christmas.
- Sold!: Clear Channel Communications
has closed on its purchase of Radio Equity Partners, creating
a new radio-TV combo in the Providence market, as WWBB (101.5
Providence, oldies "B101") and WWRX (103.7 Westerly,
classic rock "WRX") join CBS affiliate WPRI-TV 12 under
the Clear Channel umbrella. The deal also gives Clear Channel
WHYN and WHYN-FM in Springfield MA. WHYN is a news-talker on
560, and WHYN-FM is hot AC on 93.1. Congratulations to WHYN PD
Gary James and the staff, by the way, for what NERW hears was
a phenomenally successful reunion sock hop last month!
- Also closed is the deal that transfers
news/sports WNEZ (910 New Britain-Hartford CT) from American
Radio Systems to Mega Spanish Broadcasters. Look for a format
change at WNEZ any day now; we'll keep you posted.
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centerfold of WBZ in Boston, and from KGO San Francisco to KOIL
Omaha to Philadelphia's famed Roxborough tower farm, captured
in a dramatic dusk shot with the lights all aglow.
This sixth annual edition once again contains plenty of historic
dates from radio and television history in the Northeast and
beyond, and as always, it comes to you shrink-wrapped and shipped
first class mail for safe arrival.
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