...When Boston TV and radio stations used to sign off. In the 1970s, WBZ, WMEX and WRKO would go off the air on Sunday night after midnight. Only WHDH at 850 AM and WEZE at 1260 AM would stay on all night on Sundays(WHDH would go off the air early Sunday morning at 3 or 4 a.m). WBCN-FM would be on the air most Sunday nights, while WROR-FM and WCRB-FM would go off the air. When your station went off the air, it was a very lonely place on the radio(unless, of course, you could pick up a clear channel station like WABC or WLS).
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I remember....
- Thread starter blackgold
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I remember 93.7 WCGY going off Sun nights at midnight...for tech. maintenance or something.
One time in Beverly I had WEEI 850 on and they were running ESPN or something. At 3 AM, on came the voice of
Jim Cutler saying they were going off for maintenance...
KOA Denver suddenly boomed in.
One time in Beverly I had WEEI 850 on and they were running ESPN or something. At 3 AM, on came the voice of
Jim Cutler saying they were going off for maintenance...
KOA Denver suddenly boomed in.
WBOS (WUNR) at 1600 would also stay on the air, at least until 2 AM, with the Kenny Mayer show. WBZ would sign off at 5 after midnight, but very shortly the auxiliary transmitter from SFR would come on with the engineer playing music and "this is WBZ Boston testing the auxiliary transmitter" periodically. I sometimes wonder if the engineer wanted to be a DJ. But WHDH stayed on all night.
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