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New calls for 103.7 Westerly

reelyreal

reelyreal

This has been covered in much detail over on the Boston board, but...

Entercom has applied for and reserved the WVEI-FM call letters that are currently on 105.5 Easthampton, MA for WEEI-FM Westerly. The WVEI-FM calls will now be in Providence, the WEEI-FM calls will move up to 93.7 Lawrence/Boston, and the WWEI calls will now be on the Easthampton station.
 
That poster on the Boston board's right: it SHOULD be WERI-FM again. Now if only it were classic rock again.
 
Which WEEI Network stations does Entercom actually own? I don't imagine they can move call letter if they don't own the station.
 
Entercom owns the stations in Boston, Westerly, Worcester and Springfield. The rest (Cape Cod, Keene and the stations in Maine) are affiliates owned by other companies.
 
Actually, if one precisely defines "started out", WERI-FM started out simulcasting WERI (1230) which was in a a traditional "local" format at the time with a wide mixture of music and some local news.

It was on the air only a few days before being driven off through blacking out WPRO-TV 12 (the original call) in all of South County. Somebody hadn't considered second harmonics when making the allocation.

The station remained silent for about 10 years before returning from a different transmitter site (originally co-sited with the AM on Margin Street) and with Channel 12 having added translators.

It was owned by Augie Cavallaro when the FM was put on the air and sold to Nat Urso (Bear Broadcasting) during the silent period. Nat had no idea what he had with the FM license and it languished until one of his children got into the business and figured it out.
 
The WERI/WERI-FM simulcast was in 1960 (could have been part of 1961 also) at which time the localized programming with a wide variety of music was the long time format. The top-40 era was sometime after Bear Broadcasting (Nat Urso and family) bought it and the FM stayed off the air for many years after being shutdown due to interference with Channel 12, then WPRO-TV.
 
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