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[JIBGUY]

ooops... I meant to type "Sam", not "same"

 

[Laurence Glavin]

Same brokered time on WNTN-1550 in the 70's and 80's and I think also 1330 at one time.

I believe it was during the period that AM 1330 used the call letters WHET.

 

[raccoonradio]

Yes, I think the show (on WHET, etc.) was mentioned either in radio listings in the Globe or maybe the short lived Radio Waves (circa 1979) magazine.

 

[LowellRadio]

Anyone listen to Sam Poulten and "Your mother should know?" Pretty funny, not bad. Definetly old time local radio. Sunday night 8-10pm WCAP 980am

 

[DanStrassberg]

Same brokered time on WNTN-1550 in the 70's and 80's and I think also 1330 at one time.

I think YMSK with Poulten as host was on 1330 on Saturday evenings for a period of maybe three years. Could even have been longer than three years. When was this? Not sure. I believe (but am not certain) that the program started on 1330 when it was WHET. I believe that WHET were 1330's first calls after WCRB (AM). Wes the sequence of calls simply WCRB, WHET, WDLW, WRCA? I think so, but I might have gotten the order wrong and I might have missed some calls. I suspect that somebody can even furnish approximate dates for 1330's various call-sign changes.

Oh, and wasn't YMSK with Poulten on FM (also on Saturday evenings) at some point? Which FM station(s) carried it? My guesses at possibilities are WZBC and WMBR, but I really don't know.

I think 1330 changed from a three-tower array to a two-tower array (both at 750 South St) in 1977. I think (but again, am not sure) that the calls were still WCRB (AM) at the time. I'm quite sure that YMSK was on the air during the period when the array was being replaced and 1330 was operating ND under STA at very low night power. Also, 1330 in NYC (WNYM at the time, I believe) had not yet moved from its Staten Island site to its current Hackensack site. From the Staten Island site, the NYC 1330 pushed a HUGE nighttime skywave toward Boston, probably limiting the Waltham 1330's NIF to something in excess of 50 mV/m. The combination of the wicked interference and the low STA power (my guess is maybe 30 watts) made the station almost inaudible where I live. Nevertheless, I remember picking it up (sort of) and calling Poulten when he took listener calls. I asked him how long the interim (STA) operation would last. He made fun of my question, to which he obviously had no answer.

 

[inorm99]

Getting up to the minute local news, weather and traffic at nights on the weekend is a real problem everywhere near Boston. WCAP serves the Merrimac valley very well when they they ARE live, but when they go into "The Beatles and Before", it may as well be Peoria

Lowell Radio - You've got to be kidding. WCAP was birdfeed during the October snowstorm. Not one local newscast or announcement......tens of thousands of people with no power but WITH transistor radios. WCAP should have been ashamed of themselves. Didn't Poulten say time and time again "we want news on the air 5 minutes after it happens". He blew it that weekend - and because of that I haven't turned it on since then...and have told every advertiser they had why I don't listen anymore.

I agree with you. While WCAP eventually did succumb to the power outage, they were on the air long after most in the MV had lost power and back on long before most had their power restored. It really was disgraceful.