Lots of people have mistaken the call letters of WTKK for WTTK (most recently the Track gals in the Herald).
Fr. Coughlin obviously was poking fun at this
Jockstraps probably would better be discussed on jock radio!
According to bostonradio.org (
http://www.bostonradio.org/timeline.html)
>>1977 WTTK flips to rock
This had been WCOP-FM (100.7) which switched calls to WTTK a year earlier. The AM sister station,
WCOP, became top 40 WACQ in '77 as well. A year later, WTTK/WACQ were bought by Tanger
and then in '79 both flipped to beautiful music as WHUE AM and FM (I remember their ads: Beautiful
Music for YOU)--I think General Cinema owned them. Later 100.7 became (briefly) WCOZ-FM and
then WKKT (the Cat? IIRC) with CHR, and finally it became WZLX classic rock. Anyway, THAT
is WTTK. WT
KK is the calls for "Boston's Talk Evolution" at 96.9, the former WJIB-FM
("Ding ding! Ding Ding! Ding!" Ring that ship's clock*)
After the Imus incident last year, Howie started to jokingly refer to WTKK as "WTKKK" (ironically
enough, a station that would soon be pursuing his services...unsuccessfully).
Had 96.9 got Howie you coulda had Boston Herald Radio--not owned by the paper, but they
would be featuring Howie...Graham (he writes op-eds for them)...Eagan...and McPhee (though
she's leaving Herald Square at the end of the week). Who else? Barnicle, now doing commentaries
during the Imus show, still writes on occasion for the paper. Oh, and starting Wed.? Severin is in
the Herald, too.
*--as anyone who's ever had a "ship's clock" knows, the bells are as follows:
1 bell: 12:30, 4:30, or 8:30
2 bells: 1, 5, or 9
3 bells: 1:30, 5:30, or 9:30
4 bells: 2, 6, or 10
5 bells: 2:30, 6:30, or 10:30
6 bells: 3, 7, or 11
7 bells: 3:30, 7:30, or 11:30
8 bells: 4, 8, or Noon/Midnight
No bells: The clock is broken. Get it fixed.
