Word: fm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FM transmitter located on University property will broadcast educational programs and full concerts of the Boston Symphony next fall if a construction permit is granted to the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council by the Federal Communication Commission...
...F.C.C., on advice of one of its officials, has held some FM channels open for non-profit educational institutions, after granting others to regular commercial stations...
...huge loss. When WBMS made the shift to disk jockey programs, the wail set up by Bostonians was enough to prove the popularity of an all-music station. Former assistant manager John R. Thornton has taken advantage of this to set up a new station, WXHR on the FM band, using the WBMS fiasco as a guide...
...greater tone range. Moreover, WXHR is on the air during the evening from five to eleven o'clock. This means that WXHR has a wider "good music" audience than WBMS which was required to signoff at sundown and therefore was limited to the housewife group. Thornton also feels that FM listeners are more progressive and intelligent, and that night time FM can become a possible competitor to television...
...sale price, Les Hoffman got the chain's wholly owned four radio stations, one FM station and Los Angeles' television outlet KTSL-plus the chain's programming contracts with 41 West Coast members of its network. He also got Don Lee's 20% stock interest in the Mutual Broadcasting System, and $5,000,000 in cash from liquidation of Salesman Lee's Cadillac franchises...