Essentially true, yet being the Buffalo Sabres radio flagship WGR does quite well at night with ratings and also makes more than a few bucks. To revisit the signal discussion, although WGR has the best daytime signal in the market, the night signal in the eastern, highly populated suburbs is less than nominal. As the legacies say, "At night, WGR gets into Toronto better than it gets into Lancaster." BTW, That would be New York, not PA. Now KB... At night has no trouble getting into Lancaster. New York and still quite possibly, PA.
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I'm not sure how a thread about the birth of "KB Radio" turned into a discussion of the grounding system on the Larkin Building but these things happen. I seem to remember a huge neon sign on that tower with the call letters of the station in big red letters. You could see it from the Niagara Thruway and that must have been some nice advertising. WKBW was founded by Rev. Clinton H. Churchill who put Churchill Tabernacle at 1420 Main Street and WKBW Radio next door at 1430 Main. Later his son, Clinton D. Churchill, would take over as manager. Churchill Tabernacle became the TV studios. In 1962 the Churchills sold WKBW Radio and about a 50% interest in WKBW-TV. The sale price was about $14 million which was big bucks in 1962. They used some of the proceeds to buy KYA in San Francisco. The Churchills made an offer to most of the KB personalities to move to San Francisco. The takers included Russ Syracuse, Tom Saunders and newscaster Larry Brownell. Saunders once told me that his pay went up from $150 a week to about $225 a week, again 1962 dollars. Other Buffalo personalities also ended up in San Francisco but not at KYA.
I once got to meet Bob Wells who told me that WEBR stood for Electrical Broadcast Reproduction. I think that in many cases the call signs came from the government and the station owners concocted what they stood for. WKBW might have been an example.
I once got to meet Bob Wells who told me that WEBR stood for Electrical Broadcast Reproduction. I think that in many cases the call signs came from the government and the station owners concocted what they stood for. WKBW might have been an example.
The best threads take us to interesting, unexpected places. This one is fairly close to the topic, as it relates to listenership vs coverage of a station and its competitors.
If you are unhappy with the thread, maybe you can do a change.org petition... just saying...
... chortle. Nuance is sometimes lost in print. If it was a TV or radio script, the statement might have "read as scratching head" in the sidebar. Funny thing about the tabernacle TV studios and the radio studios next door, posters in previous threads who had worked in one or both of those buildings described them as dumps, with, IIRC, Bob Savage describing the radio newsroom as having a pet rat that visited often, especially at night. Ahhh, but what history and broadcast excellence emanated from those rat holes. ("Read with whimsical exhilaration.")
The best message boards are ones where moderators keep threads focused and on topic. People clicking on a topic don't care about going to "interesting, unexpected places". They're interested in the topic.
The only thing that makes this thread "fairly close" is that the discussion talks about two stations using amplitude modulation.
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