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Boston's Legendary WBZ Newsradio Celebrates 100 Years

Side issue here: since Wednesday, I have not been able to access talkers.com on either my desktop or laptop, and I tried with three different browsers on each. Tonight on my iPhone I was able to access the site via Safari, Firefox, and Firefox Focus. Still can't do so on my iMac or MacBook Air. I get redirected to a page telling me I need to update Adobe Flash, which looks suspicious to me. I mention this because the **************** article on WBZ's Centennial was mentioned on talkers.com

Has anyone else had issues with talkers.com, or am I in some twilight zone? An email to Michael Harrison who is the editor of talkers.com elicited no response to date.
 
WBZ actually began in Springfield, Mass., about 50 miles west of Boston. Westinghouse had a plant in that city on the Connecticut River. Eventually WBZ broadcast on the clear channel frequency of 990 kilocycles from Springfield while it also had a low power rebroadcaster, WBZA, at 1240 kHz in Boston.

The main transmitter moved to Millis, equidistant from Boston, Worcester and Providence. The transmitter in Springfield became the rebroadcaster. With the enactment of NARBA in 1941, WBZ moved a few spots up the dial to 1030 and WBZA was eventually taken off the air.
 
Gregg. said:
WBZ actually began in Springfield, Mass., about 50 miles west of Boston. Westinghouse had a plant in that city on the Connecticut River. Eventually WBZ broadcast on the clear channel frequency of 990 kilocycles from Springfield while it also had a low power rebroadcaster, WBZA, at 1240 kHz in Boston.

The main transmitter moved to Millis, equidistant from Boston, Worcester and Providence. The transmitter in Springfield became the rebroadcaster. With the enactment of NARBA in 1941, WBZ moved a few spots up the dial to 1030 and WBZA was eventually taken off the air.
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If my memory serves me, WBZA in Springfield was taken off the air so Westinghouse could purchase WINS 1010 in NYC.
 
nowradioguy said:
Side issue here: since Wednesday, I have not been able to access talkers.com on either my desktop or laptop, and I tried with three different browsers on each. Tonight on my iPhone I was able to access the site via Safari, Firefox, and Firefox Focus. Still can't do so on my iMac or MacBook Air. I get redirected to a page telling me I need to update Adobe Flash, which looks suspicious to me. I mention this because the **************** article on WBZ's Centennial was mentioned on talkers.com

Has anyone else had issues with talkers.com, or am I in some twilight zone? An email to Michael Harrison who is the editor of talkers.com elicited no response to date.
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No issues with talkers.com on this end.
 
When I go to talkers.com, which I haven't done for a week or two, I get:

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With Edge, it brings up a scam page, and using the Back button goes to another scam page, ad infinitum. I guess they got hacked or forgot to renew their domain name ownership?
 
Cap-n Spackle said:
When I go to talkers.com, which I haven't done for a week or two, I get:



With Edge, it brings up a scam page, and using the Back button goes to another scam page, ad infinitum. I guess they got hacked or forgot to renew their domain name ownership?
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Thank you; nice to know I'm not the only one prevented from accessing the site.

Only way for me to read talkers.com is on my iPhone. Not happy about that.

Methinks Michael Harrison was more concerned with his Talkers convention last week and his weekly podcasts. Let's see what happens this coming week.
 
Cap-n Spackle said:
When I go to talkers.com, which I haven't done for a week or two, I get:



With Edge, it brings up a scam page, and using the Back button goes to another scam page, ad infinitum. I guess they got hacked or forgot to renew their domain name ownership?
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Whether I use Firefox, Safari, or Vivaldi I got the same khrappie result.
 
Gregg. said:
WBZ actually began in Springfield, Mass., about 50 miles west of Boston. Westinghouse had a plant in that city on the Connecticut River.
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Springfield is roughly 80 miles west of Boston. Furthermore, the Westinghouse plant (with WBZ's towers mounted on its roof) was situated in East Springfield, not on the Connecticut River.

Scott Fybush's 2001 retrospective includes a photo of the former Westinghouse site: WBZ at Eighty.
 
Gregg. said:
WBZ actually began in Springfield, Mass., about 50 miles west of Boston. Westinghouse had a plant in that city on the Connecticut River. Eventually WBZ broadcast on the clear channel frequency of 990 kilocycles from Springfield while it also had a low power rebroadcaster, WBZA, at 1240 kHz in Boston.

The main transmitter moved to Millis, equidistant from Boston, Worcester and Providence. The transmitter in Springfield became the rebroadcaster. With the enactment of NARBA in 1941, WBZ moved a few spots up the dial to 1030 and WBZA was eventually taken off the air.
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Yes, I know, let's not let the facts get in the way or a good promotion, LOL!
 
Cap-n Spackle said:
RIP Dean Johnson

This made me start trying to remember the name of the other guy who used to share fill-in duties with Johnson during the overnight. I can hear his voice in my mind but can't come up with his name. If memory serves, he commuted from Maine?
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Are you thinking of Bruce Stephens or Pat Desmarais?
 
Wimmmex said:
Are you thinking of Bruce Stephens or Pat Desmarais?
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I think Bruce Stephens was out of CT; don't know about Desmarais.

Ah, but that was back in the good ol' days when 'BZ had live, local talk on both Saturday AND Sunday evenings, not the schlock that's on now. As I recall, these were reasonably intelligent and knowledgeable hosts, with no drama; and they used to get callers! Oh, yeah, and live, local OVERNIGHT talk seven nights a week. I guess back then one didn't need to be a hard right winger with a flair for drama to be a successful talk show host. Said host(ess) could take a balanced approach and not scream or yell or go nuts to get a point across. If I could nominate one I'd like to hear regularly on 'BZ, it would be Nancy Shack (formerly "Sandy from The Howie Carr Show", but with none of HIS quirks and venom.)
 
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