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WJIB under Bittner for 30 years; 5 years for FM translator

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Bob Bittner's WJIB 740 is celebrating its 30th anniversary right around now. Also 5 years ago the FM transmitter at 101.3 went on the air.
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WJIB returns to FM

No, not the seagulls-and-ship's-bell dentist-office station some of you may remember from your youth, but Bob Bittner's WCAS-successor oldies station that's been on 740 AM for awhile now. It's at 101.3 FM, but with a caveat: It's a low-power station so you may not hear it most places - and if...
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"No, not the seagulls-and-ship's-bell dentist-office station some of you may remember from your youth, but Bob Bittner's WCAS-successor oldies station that's been on 740 AM for awhile now. It's at 101.3 FM, but with a caveat: It's a low-power station so you may not hear it most places - and if you're south of the Fenway and hear hip hop instead, you're hearing a Dorchester pirate station that's been using the same frequency"

Note: the pirate was soon silenced. At one point I drove to a park near the WJIB studios and stick to record them and the 101.3 pirate was indeed cutting in up to just a few miles away.
 
They had a request show yesterday where they actually played phone calls on the air. I think this is the first time they ever did that.
 
Good for Bob Bittner!

Here's to many more years of New England's Little Radio Empire That Could! (as he owns station tin Cape Cod and in Maine)
 
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