Word: wrko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just to thank its many listeners for making this year such a great success, radio station WRKO has instituted a "Christmas Wish" contest. All its many listeners have to do is mail in their wish and the station will try to fulfill...
...just to thank its many graduate students in psychology who listen, WRKO has awarded a group of Harvard graduate students their own personal Christmas Wish--a year's subscription to the CRIMSON...
When Harvard football, soccer, and cross-country teams all take the trek--nigh impossible except by Mohawk charter--to Cornell, fans are generally left twiddling their thumbs in Cambridge. But not this weekend. WRKO-AM and FM is leaping noisly into the breach with a three-day program of New England's All Time Top 300 that is designed to turn thumb-twiddlers to foot-stompers...
While any list that claims "Somewhere My Love" by the Ray Connill Singers is the 88th all-time great hit is ludicrously far from being authoritative, still the WRKO programming this weekend will keep you on your toes and will have less than normal Nancy Sinatra. I just may be irrationally disappointed because, despite the obvious junk in the lower depths, not one of the three songs I voted for made the list...
...acquires fore flashback reels (it now has 16), WRKO could provide special goldie segments, to satisfy the buffs who still bemoan the departure of WORL's Ken Carter. And expansion of WRKO-FM into a 24-hour rock station would be a final service (presently, the nine hours after midnight are filled with mush music and talk shows). This would enable the hub's serious devotees to escape Dick Summer, Boston's biggest "drab-gabber," who currently has a popular music monopoly in the prime listening hours after midnight...