[BC] Curt Gowdy Dies

[Scott Fybush]

Donna Halper wrote:
> 
>> Scott wrote--
>>
>> The WCCM calls, incidentally, were some (pre-Gowdy) owner's idea of a 
>> Roman numeral representation of "800," the station's frequency.
> 
> Not just "some owner"-- but a guy with many years in the Boston market.  
> His name was George Jaspert, and he had been the GM at WBZ in the 1920s 
> and worked as a GM in the midwest during the 30s.  He came back to 
> Boston to put WCCM on the air, which happened, I believe, in 1947.

And am I correct in recalling that the FM that became WCGY was 
originally WGHJ, which were Mr. Jaspert's initials?

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