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why wasnt the sports hub caled then fan????

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i look at all the other cbs sports radio staions and wonder why wasn't it called the fan as well?? where did they get the name sports hub??
 
The "Hub" is often used to describe Boston and they probably wanted to appeal super local.

The "Fan" to most around here is attributed to "yankee talk" so they prob wanted to shy away from any early launch confusion. People thinking it was just the NYC station expanding here wouldn't support it as much.
 
"Boston's claim to fame as “The Hub of the Universe” was the work of none other than Oliver Wendall Holmes. In 1858, Holmes referred to the Massachusetts State House Building as the “Hub of the Solar System”. Bostonians liked the sound of that so the nickname, with minor modifications, stuck. When the now defunct Filenes built their flagship store at the corner of Washington and Summer Streets, a fancy bronze marker was installed to forever give credence to the name."

Or so says someone on the internets.
 
I didn't know about the Oliver Wendell Holmes connection.......you learn something new every day. I do, however, remember the headline (sometimes used sarcastically) "PENNANT FEVER GRIPS HUB" being used since I was a kid, which was a long time ago. I probably first saw it in the old Record-American. I assumed 98.5 took it from that context.
 
And of course the classic bit of John Updike sportswriting from the New Yorker, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," about #9's last game.
 
My understanding is that boston was tagged "The Hub" because it was where so many trains stopped. You can see it in the Bruins logo. It looks like train tracks comming in and all meeting at the B in the center.
 
To the best of my recollection, no radio station around here ever used the calls WHUB, although for a time analog channel 66 did. There's a WHUB-AM in Tennessee, but no WHUB-FM. I wonder why CBS didn't use them.
 
raccoonradio said:
We had one station with call letters that almost sounded like WHUB: WHUE (100.7/1150), beautiful music from Gen. Cinema
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Close only counts in particle physics. I think. Not sure.
 
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