Re: [Swprograms] Re: Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway

["Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was missing some of those intermediate stages...thanks for clearing them
up

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Rubin" <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Re: Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway


> >Yes, it was Sportsradio 1050 for a couple of years.  WHN was purchased by
> >Emmis Broadcasting, made ainto the first sports station and rechristened
> >1050 WFAN until WNBC 66 came up for sale and purchased by Emmis who
switched
> >formats.  They then traded 1050 with WEVD-FM, for their FM station and
WEVD
> >which by that time was a talk station simply moved to 1050 AM where it
> >remeined in the ratings cellar (and still does as ESPN Radio which is
leased
> >to ABC).
>
> I believe Emes sold 1050 to Spanish Broadcasting System (WSKQ) which
> traded with the Forward Association for WEVD-FM.
>
> WEVD, of course, stands for Eugene Victor Debs, the railroad union
> leader and Socialist Party founder/cofounder who ran for President in
> 1920 from Atlanta Federal Prison where he had been sent for making a
> speech protesting WWI.
>
> IIRC, the Fox broadcast center at 205 E. 67th St. is the Trans Lux
> Theater and has been the home of Fox 5 New York (WNYW - now there's a
> set of call letters for an SWL) since it was WABD, owned by Allen B.
> Dumont.
>
>
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