milton77 said:
They couldn't park the WMAQ calls anywhere. They were always owned by NBC, and they're still used on Ch. 5. But they let Westinghouse use them when they bought 670 back in the late 1980s.
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They couldn't park the WMAQ calls anywhere. They were always owned by NBC, and they're still used on Ch. 5. But they let Westinghouse use them when they bought 670 back in the late 1980s.
FightingIrish said:
So then they would still be available if they wanted to use them for radio, right?
FightingIrish said:
In fact, Group W and NBC had such a good working relationship that WMAQ/670 still shared the same studio space as WMAQ-TV when both moved to the NBC Tower!
The only other former NBC O&Os to keep their original calls and dial positions are KNBR-AM in San Francisco and WKYS-FM in Washington, DC. (WWRC-AM in Washington, DC doesn't count because of the extra W added to it, as well as bouncing around to two different frequencies in the late 90s. Nor would I count WTAM in Cleveland, Ohio, which reverted from WWWE to its original NBC-O&O-era call in 1996.)
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