WTFM and Friendly Frost

[alok]

There was a mention recently here in another thread that WTFM was owned at one time by the Friendly Frost Appliance store chain in the NYC area.
I never knew that.

Looking some things up after that ,it turns out that Friendly Frost also owned WGLI 1290 in Babylon at about the same time ( 1961 ) ,that I never knew either.

Did Friendly Frost own only these two broadcast properties or did they own more,if so ,where?

Does anybody know the history of Friendly Frost Stores as well as another appliance store chain in the NYC area called VIM.

Al

 

[pjc1961]

VIM Appliance Store as part of a larger photo of 7th Avenue + 125th Street in 1938 - includes comments from the poster about the history of VIM Stores past and present:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/15192#comment-151963

Friendly Frost begins broadcasting from The WTFM Sound Center - July 1961 Billboard:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Di...epage&q="friendly frost" appliances&f=falsect

Discussion board that brought up and addressed Friendly Frost stores:

http://www.gothamcenter.org/discussions/viewtopic.php?id=2982

Images of Friendly Frost stores and ads:

http://www.google.com/search?q="fri...SxoQSBhYGgBQ&ved=0CGUQsAQ4Cg&biw=1280&bih=702

Friendly Frost owned 94.3 FM from 1961 to 1965 but sold it off to Greater Media when WTFM moved its transmitting antenna to the Chrysler Building in 1965.

Story on WWSK-FM The Shark's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWSK