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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 286

Table Of Contents: 

	 Not to change the subject, but
	 Hear it Now
	 Re: Re: Re: clear-channel KFI-LA
	 The Black Mass
	 Clear Channels
	 WBZ's 75th anniversary
	 New York Radio; Norm Nathan
	 Captain Midnight decoders

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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 13:38:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Rudesill <lranger@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Not to change the subject, but
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Since what used to be the OTR Digest now seems to be the KFI Histroy/
Clear Channel Discussion Digest, I can only deem it fortuitous good luck
that I managed to hook up with the AMC-Dialog listserv early this week.
Those people know how to stay on-topic, [removed] Old Movies. A subject that is
actualley nearere and dearer to my heart than OTR.

Hopefully someday the OTR Digest will get back to wahat it's supposed to
be and I won't have to fast forward through an entire issue of KFI, Earl
Anthony, 50,000 watt stations that disappeared thirty years ago and
various sundry other meaningless talk.

I'm sorry if I sound petulent, but this stuff has gone on way too long
already. OTR is about shows and stars, not the stations that broadcast it.

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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 13:46:42 -0400
From: Harx1@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hear it Now
Message-ID: <960817134642_458800201@[removed]>

Okay folks, I need some advice.
I have the opportunity to buy a collection of albums called Hear it Now,
which is a collection of the Edward R. Murrow radio reports.  There seem to
be three volumes, containing in total 11 albums.   Since I never knew that
such volumes existed, I don't know if I am being taken, nor do I know what
the "going price" for such a collection would be.
Supposedly the albums are in good condition, but since I heard about this
over the internet, I'd like not to be taken (does that make sense?).
If anyone can give me any advice (like perhaps a price to ask for)  on this
I'd be most appreciative.

I would also appreciate if any responses could be e-mailed to this address:
st931200@[removed]

Thanks a lot to all who reply.

--KLB

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Date: 17 Aug 1996 00:35:38 GMT
From: kg@[removed] (KEN GREENWALD)
To: mschmid@[removed]
Cc: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Re: Re: clear-channel KFI-LA
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Thanks, Max --
for your humorous reply. I did not know about the mugging and the "What's the
frequency bit." Ah well, can't be on top of everything I guess. 
I will still try and find out the AM frequency for KFI. It would be simply to
just look it up on the newspaper, but I rarely buy a newspaper. So, today, I
will and will look it up. Hopefully, it will be listed. I don't know, as
radio out here in Los Angeles is pretty bad. 
The public radio station on the FM band are the only ones I listen to for
anything important, though I do listen to a few FM music stations. 
Boy how I wish OTR was still here. Then it wouldn't have to be called OTR!
Later.
Ken G.

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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 15:14:21 -0400
From: KWE001@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Black Mass
Message-ID: <960817151420_387529690@[removed]>

I have quite a few episodes of a program called "THE BLACK MASS".
Unfortunately there are no dates on them, so I was wondering if someone
out there is familiar with the show? When was it broadcast? Where did it
originate from? How many episodes are there? I'd appreciate any other info 
someone may have regarding this unique program.

Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.

Kevin Eastwood

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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Clear Channels
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 21:52:15 -0500
> From: vintage@[removed] (Andy Blatt)
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Clear Channels
> Message-Id: <v01540b00ae3991ad703a@[[removed]]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> 770 WABC (in the early days of radio, this was known as WCBS)

Not quite.  The station now known as WCBS was formerly known as WABC.  The
present WABC was WJZ.  In fact, WABC-TV began life as WJZ-TV.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WBZ's 75th anniversary
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

WBZ, Boston will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this September.  I
got a tour of the station last week for contributing some memorabilia.  It
seems that back in 1954, Hurricane Carol blew down the original WBZ-TV
tower, which once stood behind the present building.  At my request (I was
about 9 years old at the time), my aunt took some pictures for me of the
broken tower, and the people at the station now (many of whom hadn't been
born yet back then) were happy to receive this contribution to their
celebration.

I was shown one remnant of the old TV tower -- one corner of it remains
and is used to anchor a guy wire for the auxiliary radio tower.  The old
TV tower used to be visible on the horizon almost anywhere in the
Allston-Brighton section of Boston.

Now that Westinghouse has purchased CBS, WBZ is a CBS-owned station, and
the CBS eye has been added to the front of the station.  For many years
CBS owned WEEI in Boston, which they sold in the early 1980s.  They kept
the former WEEI-FM, which is now WODS, "Oldies 103."  And so, WODS is in
the process of moving into the WBZ building.

WBZ began life as WBZ, Springfield, with a transmitter atop the
Westinghouse plant in Springfield.  The towers which formed that
transmitter are still there, though they aren't used for anything now.
Westinghouse soon realized that Boston had a larger market for radio
broadcasting and opened WBZA in Boston.  Eventually, the two calls were
swapped, and the 1000-watt station in Springfield became nothing more than
a repeater for the 50,000-watt station in Boston.  WBZA in Springfiled was
closed in 1962, when Westinghouse acquired another station in another
city, and continuing WBZA would have put them over the legal limit of
stations.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:17:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New York Radio; Norm Nathan
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:46:02 -0500
> From: vintage@[removed] (Andy Blatt)
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: New York (previously clear channel) radio
> Message-Id: <v01540b01ae3ae7783857@[[removed]]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> I'm not sure when WEAF became WRCA which in turn became WNBC.  In 1945, 660
> am was still known as WEAF.  When RCA started regular TV broadcasting
> (1947-1949)
> their TV station was called WNBT, so possibly around that [removed]

I'm not sure either when the changes took place, but the sequence was that
WEAF became WNBC, while the TV station was WNBT.  Then, sometime in the
mid-1950s, both radio and TV (and probably their FM station, if they had
one) became WRCA.  Sometime in the mid-1960s, the radio and TV stations
became WNBC.  I think there was a parallel change of NBC's station in Los
Angeles to KRCA and KNBC.

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> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:42:08 -0400 (EDT)
> From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
> To: airwavesOTR <[removed]@[removed]>
> Subject: RE: Clear Channels, WBZ, Norm Nathan
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> 	Since more people seem to be getting the Digest now, Let me 
> repeat my question about Norm Nathan.  Anyone know much about him?  He 
> was filling in the week I heard himm, but when is he usually on the air?

Norm Nathan has been around Boston radio for a very long time and is
semi-retired.  I think he is on WBZ regularly on weekends, but I'm not
sure when.  Or maybe he's down to just filling in now.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 23:54:48 -0800
From: John Olsen <jrolsen@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Captain Midnight decoders
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I have just added some new photographs of Captain Midnight decoders to 
my web page, and would like to invite everyone to come view them.

I have a 1940-41 "Mystery Dial Code-O-Graph", which replaces the earlier 
photo of a replica.  Now the photo is of the real thing!  Also, a 1942 
"Photomatic Code-O-Graph", with a photo of Captain Midnight himself set 
in the top of the metal decoder.  And a 1947 "Whistling Code-O-Graph", 
one of the first plastic premiums produced for Captain Midnight or any 
other radio show.

These three new decoders are in addition to several other Captain 
Midnight decoders and patches.  So feel free to visit any time and see 
pictures of those fantastic premiums that you've heard about, and maybe 
even owned years ago!

While you are there, you may also want to visit my "One Man's Family" 
page, and see a half dozen of the booklets that were given away to 
listeners of Carlton E. Morse's nighttime drama.

The address is:

[removed]~jrolsen/[removed]

and you are welcome to visit any time, 24 hours a day.  We never close!




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