WRPW-740 Cambridge

[JIBGUY]

Back in 1980, the then-WCAS applied for call letters "WRPW", but never used them. Does anyone know anything about this, and what WRPW may have stood for?

(Maybe it was going to go religious, and RP stands for Repent?.... just funnin' ya... but one never knows.....)

 

[Time Traveler]

That is curious...WCAS was still doing AOR, with Larry Miller as PD, in 1980. The change to gospel occurred early in the spring of 1981, with new call letters WLVG, I believe....

 

[Varulven]

LVG Love Gospel - I believe you are right on those call letters.

 

[raccoonradio]

I remember those calls, too. Details on the 740-Cambridge freq:

http://bostonradio.org/stations/6146.html

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I remember those calls, too. Details on the 740-Cambridge freq:

http://bostonradio.org/stations/6146.html

No mention of the potential WRPW calls there though.

I remember it as far back as WTAO and WXHR-AM because my parents listened to classical music on it in the early 60's. I didn't catch much of the WCAS local service and pop music programming in the late 60's/early 70's, but I loved the folk-rock format in the mid/late 70's.

I enjoy the current WJIB too, especially on my home AM stereo. I'm going to try adding AM stereo to my car by plugging my AM stereo Walkman into one of those low-power FM transmitters which is meant to broadcast your iPod into an FM car stereo, and see how WJIB sounds that way. The reception should be good enough in the areas I'm usually in, at least in the daytime.

I have an actual Sony car AM stereo/FM stereo from the mid-80's which I had in my previous car, but the FM section on it was so poor that I don't want to use it again, and I don't want to deal with wiring two stereos into my current car. Broadcasting the AM stereo Walkman into my conventional FM car stereo may be a passive solution which won't require rewiring anything in my dashboard, and will let me keep my more modern car stereo which has much better FM reception and a lot more audio power than the Sony with AM stereo had.