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70-689: WCCM (1490 kHz ) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Spanish CHR format. Licensed to Haverhill, Massachusetts , United States, the station is owned by Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Limited Partnership, a partnership between Pat Costa and his chief investor, The Eagle-Tribune . Under a local marketing agreement , WCCM is programmed by Costa Media Boston LLC, a similarly-named but separate company controlled by Jose Villafañe. WCCM also operates on two translator stations , W255DA (98.9 FM ) in Salem, New Hampshire and W279DH (103.7 FM) in Haverhill. Plans for

140-654: A local marketing agreement with Jose Villafañe's Costa Media Boston LLC, and relaunched as a Spanish CHR station branded as "LatinX 103.7". Villafañe, a former executive for Entravision , Univision , and Radio Unica, saw WCCM as the first station in a planned network of Spanish-language stations in the Northeastern United States; by 2022, Costa Media Boston had expanded "LatinX" to sister station WUBG (1570 AM) , began operating two stations in Washington, D.C., and obtained an option to acquire WCCM and

210-611: A 1978 interview. On September 29, 1950, WHAV announced it would join "the Liberty Broadcasting System – third largest network in America". Liberty Broadcasting System began in 1948 with 42 affiliates and offered a sports format. It was operated by Gordon McLendon , out of KLIF in Dallas, Texas. McLendon and Ted Husing handled all football broadcasts for the network. McLendon, who pioneered radio's transition into

280-478: A direct copy of WEAF, WEEI agreed to simulcast programming from the New York station via a direct phone line. WEEI's debut on September 29, 1924, included a four-hour commencement program including a dedicatory address from Edison Light president Charles L. Edgar, in addition to live classical music selections, operating at 303 meters (990 kHz ) with 500 watts of power. WEEI's alliance with WEAF included airing

350-506: A distress sale stemming from an FCC investigation (initiated by copywriter Madolyn Roberts) into equal employment opportunity issues. The FM station went on to become WLYT and later WXRV . That owner is now known as Beanpot Broadcasting Corp., a Delaware corporation with principal offices in Bedford, New Hampshire . By August 1993, WHAV shifted its music format from adult contemporary to oldies , while retaining its talk programming. WHAV

420-535: A drama, "One Way Ticket", starring Fred Waring and Myrna Loy. The new studios, being designed by local architect Clinton F. Goodwin, would be ready later that year. In an interview during the early 1980s, Goodwin admitted he toured other stations, including WEEI (590 AM) in Boston to determine how best to design the studios. That may explain why the station's facilities convey a 1930s' appearance. The new one-story studio building contained two large studios – one containing

490-413: A frequency of 46.5 MHz (a frequency then assigned to FM) and use a 1,000-watt Western Electric (AT&T) transmitter. At that time, Western Electric operated a manufacturing facility in the city. Russ predicted the station would cost $ 30,000 to $ 50,000, operate eight hours per day at the start and employ 11 people. One of the first delays in moving the station forward was a debate over the location of

560-552: A more detailed treatment of this and the above frequency ranges, see Electromagnetic spectrum . Gravitational waves are also described in Hertz. Current observations are conducted in the 30–7000 Hz range by laser interferometers like LIGO , and the nanohertz (1–1000 nHz) range by pulsar timing arrays . Future space-based detectors are planned to fill in the gap, with LISA operating from 0.1–10 mHz (with some sensitivity from 10 μHz to 100 mHz), and DECIGO in

630-489: A nightly sports talk show with Craig Mustard was launched on August 20, 1990. WEEI also carried Sports Byline USA and CBS Radio Sports broadcasts not cleared by WRKO. The all-news format continued in other dayparts until September 3, 1991, when WEEI became an all-sports station. Following the format change, the station began simulcasting its programming on WVEI in Worcester to reach central Massachusetts . Upon

700-631: A separate Christian format, was later divested (and became WMKI ). WADN (1120 AM) in Concord started adding financial programming in 1997, eventually changing its format to business news/talk entirely; WADN's call letters were changed to WBNW in December 1998 – a move to reinforce that station format's link to the former WBNW. Incidentally, a format similar to WBNW's was installed onto 1260 AM, renamed WBIX , in September 2015 after Salem reacquired

770-590: A simulcast of WEEI, returning to the WVEI call sign in 2000. As a business news station, WBNW's programming was mostly supplied by Bloomberg ; the station was the first affiliate of Bloomberg Radio , which had previously only aired on its New York City flagship station, WBBR . Local news segments were outsourced to Metro Networks . WBNW's lineup also included a local talk show, The Money Experts , and Bruce Williams ' syndicated talk show; both programs previously aired on WHDH. WBNW also carried Boston Bruins games during

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840-581: A station for the people of Haverhill and the people in our surrounding towns. What concerns you directly, your lives and businesses, your community betterment will always get first priority on the WHAV airwaves. In its application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), The Gazette sought authority to construct a 300-foot (91 m) tower on Ayer's Hill, the highest point of land in Haverhill. The station would transmit at

910-473: A transmitting building would be built on Silver Hill. The first 160 feet (49 m) of the tower would be for AM transmissions at 1490 kHz, while an isolated 80-foot (24 m) mast on the top would be erected for later FM transmission at 96.1 MHz. James B. Dunbar, commercial manager of the station, said The Gazette reached agreement with the City of Haverhill to swap its approved call letters of WHGF with

980-499: Is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base units is s , meaning that one hertz is one per second or the reciprocal of one second . It is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves . For high frequencies, the unit is commonly expressed in multiples : kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz). Some of

1050-519: Is the aim of the officials of WEEI to make the station individual and original. Although WEAF of New York has been borne in mind while the plans were being made, the Edison Light Station will not be copied from WEAF. It is intended to make the station outstanding in the broadcasting field. Lloyd C. Greene, profiling WEEI's forthcoming launch The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston built and signed on this station as

1120-477: Is the photon's energy, ν is its frequency, and h is the Planck constant . The hertz is defined as one per second for periodic events. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined the second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium -133 atom" and then adds: "It follows that

1190-452: Is usually measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), or gigahertz (GHz). with the latter known as microwaves . Light is electromagnetic radiation that is even higher in frequency, and has frequencies in the range of tens of terahertz (THz, infrared ) to a few petahertz (PHz, ultraviolet ), with the visible spectrum being 400–790 THz. Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in the low terahertz range (intermediate between those of

1260-673: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater , an attempt to revive radio drama, as well as a local overnight talk show with Bruce Lee (no relation to the martial-arts actor), a holdover from the previous format. But by the end of the 1970s, WEEI was all-news around the clock. On December 27, 1977, while engaged in traffic reporting, a Hughes 269B helicopter operated by WEEI lost power and crashed into an apartment building in Quincy while attempting an emergency landing, killing pilot Richard Banks and reporter Chip Whitmore. A fire developed in

1330-472: The 1994–95 season , while the Bruins signed a deal with WBZ to carry its broadcasts starting in 1995. Sister station WFXT was sold back to Fox Television Stations soon afterward. ARS then announced on August 15, 1994, that it would purchase the programming and call letters of WEEI from Back Bay Broadcasting, effective August 29. As part of this transfer, WHDH's call letters were changed to WEEI and its format

1400-712: The 1994–95 season ; the games did not move with WEEI to 850 AM due to conflicts with Boston College basketball . In 1995, Peter Ottmar, who ran Back Bay Broadcasting, consolidated his broadcast holdings, which also included WARA in Attleboro , WWKX in Woonsocket, Rhode Island , and WICE in Pawtucket, Rhode Island , under the Back Bay name; that July, WICE was relaunched as WPNW, which largely simulcast WBNW but featured its own Metro Networks-produced local inserts for

1470-647: The Eagle-Tribune formed ETP Ventures Inc. and purchased the Haverhill Gazette . Ownership of WHAV and the Haverhill Gazette had come full circle. In September 2002, Costa-Eagle rearranged the programming of its three stations: WHAV's " Impacto " programming moved to 1110 AM as WCEC, the tropical music programming of WNNW (1110 AM) moved to 800 AM, and the talk and sports programing of WCCM (800 AM) replaced WHAV on 1490 AM. WHAV formally changed its call sign to WCCM on September 23, 2002. In 2004,

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1540-508: The Providence market. American Radio Systems, which had held an option to buy WBNW since its launch, traded this option to Salem Communications in 1996 in exchange for KDBX in Banks, Oregon . While WBNW initially announced that "there will be no change of owner" and that "as far as Peter Ottmar is concerned, no one has an option on the station", Salem exercised this option to purchase

1610-449: The 0.1–10 Hz range. In computers, most central processing units (CPU) are labeled in terms of their clock rate expressed in megahertz ( MHz ) or gigahertz ( GHz ). This specification refers to the frequency of the CPU's master clock signal . This signal is nominally a square wave , which is an electrical voltage that switches between low and high logic levels at regular intervals. As

1680-468: The 1970s. In some usage, the "per second" was omitted, so that "megacycles" (Mc) was used as an abbreviation of "megacycles per second" (that is, megahertz (MHz)). Sound is a traveling longitudinal wave , which is an oscillation of pressure . Humans perceive the frequency of a sound as its pitch . Each musical note corresponds to a particular frequency. An infant's ear is able to perceive frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20 000  Hz ;

1750-574: The FCC conditionally granted the license December 10, 1945. A major blow to the FM project came, however, when the FCC moved FM's spectrum assignment from the 42–50 MHz band, allocated just before the war, to the 88–106 (later expanded to 108) MHz band. This had the effect of rendering 500,000 receivers obsolete. The Gazette responded by filing an application for a 250-watt AM station. "Mr. Russ said establishment of an AM station for local coverage does not mean

1820-535: The New York station's coverage of the 1924 World Series , headlined by Graham McNamee . WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island , was added to the simulcast, while WNAC suspended operations during the games to avoid any potential interference. The station broadcast on various frequencies over the next several years, settling on 590 kHz in 1927. In 1926, WEEI became a charter member of the NBC Red Network and remained an NBC Red affiliate until 1936, when

1890-575: The all-news format, hiring a new morning anchor and shifting the station to a 30-minute clock (it previously followed a one-hour clock); however, the CBS Radio Network's decision to shift its Boston affiliation to WRKO effective September 3, 1990 (ending a 54-year link with WEEI) for reasons that included WRKO having a stronger news commitment, which compelled WEEI to join the ABC Direction Network , led to speculation that

1960-476: The average adult human can hear sounds between 20 Hz and 16 000  Hz . The range of ultrasound , infrasound and other physical vibrations such as molecular and atomic vibrations extends from a few femtohertz into the terahertz range and beyond. Electromagnetic radiation is often described by its frequency—the number of oscillations of the perpendicular electric and magnetic fields per second—expressed in hertz. Radio frequency radiation

2030-572: The building following the crash. WEEI was put up for sale in April 1983, after CBS reached a deal to acquire KRLD in Dallas–Fort Worth from Metromedia ; that September, a deal was reached to sell the station to Helen Broadcasting; the company was owned by the Valerio family, who also owned Papa Gino's . Although Metromedia canceled the sale of KRLD after it was granted permission to own both

2100-482: The change to all-sports, WEEI featured the Andy Moes show and Glenn (Ordway) and Janet (Prensky) , a short-lived experiment in bringing a " Bickersons "-type format to sports radio. Also part of the roster was Boston sports talk pioneer Eddie Andelman . WEEI also began to carry Boston College Eagles football in 1992, replacing WBZ . However, the change was followed by a dramatic drop in its ratings; additionally,

2170-525: The company has abandoned plans for its FM station. It was decided to apply for an AM station when it became apparent facilities were not going to be developed as fast as first believed possible for FM stations. The company plans to operate the AM station in conjunction with (what would now be a 20,000-watt) FM station when the later station is set up." The following month it was announced that impressive art deco studios would be constructed in downtown Haverhill, while

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2240-440: The event being counted may be a complete cycle); 100 Hz means "one hundred periodic events occur per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic event—for example, a clock might be said to tick at 1 Hz , or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2 Hz . The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s ) in general or, in

2310-442: The first incarnation of WEEI, from which the call sign was derived. The electric company established WEEI as a public relations vehicle and extensively promoted the new venture weeks before launching, highlighting the usage of the latest and most advanced radio equipment. A Boston Globe profile specifically cited AT&T 's success with WEAF as Edison Light's inspiration for WEEI; while the company stressed that WEEI would not be

2380-471: The frequency. For a short period, Salem Communications operated WEZE-FM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, billed as "Easy 104.7". Though unusual, FCC rules allow co-owned stations in different cities to share call letters between themselves. Salem purchased the Pittsburgh station as part of a strategic move to compete against a Christian-formatted AM/FM competitor, but would have to run another format until

2450-449: The hertz has become the primary unit of measurement accepted by the general populace to determine the performance of a CPU, many experts have criticized this approach, which they claim is an easily manipulable benchmark . Some processors use multiple clock cycles to perform a single operation, while others can perform multiple operations in a single cycle. For personal computers, CPU clock speeds have ranged from approximately 1 MHz in

2520-413: The highest normally usable radio frequencies and long-wave infrared light) is often called terahertz radiation . Even higher frequencies exist, such as that of X-rays and gamma rays , which can be measured in exahertz (EHz). For historical reasons, the frequencies of light and higher frequency electromagnetic radiation are more commonly specified in terms of their wavelengths or photon energies : for

2590-616: The hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9 192 631 770  hertz , ν hfs Cs = 9 192 631 770  Hz ." The dimension of the unit hertz is 1/time (T ). Expressed in base SI units, the unit is the reciprocal second (1/s). In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form. As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed ; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 10  Hz ), MHz (megahertz, 10  Hz ), GHz (gigahertz, 10  Hz ) and THz (terahertz, 10  Hz ). One hertz (i.e. one per second) simply means "one periodic event occurs per second" (where

2660-530: The late 1970s ( Atari , Commodore , Apple computers ) to up to 6 GHz in IBM Power microprocessors . Various computer buses , such as the front-side bus connecting the CPU and northbridge , also operate at various frequencies in the megahertz range. Higher frequencies than the International System of Units provides prefixes for are believed to occur naturally in the frequencies of

2730-409: The newspaper that "The Gazette long ago recognized the need of a Haverhill radio station and has long been in agreement with your premise that a newspaper is the logical proprietor of a broadcasting service, especially because the dissemination of news is the primary task of both press and radio." He defined WHAV's mission during the inaugural March 16, 1947, broadcast: WHAV is going to be your station —

2800-434: The other Costa-Eagle stations. In January 2024, WCCM and WUBG rebranded to " Exitos Boston ", with no change in format. In August 2024, Costa Media Boston agreed to acquire WCCM and translator W279DH outright for $ 1.25 million. KHz The hertz (symbol: Hz ) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle ) per second . The hertz

2870-484: The police department's radio station, WHAV. Al Taylor, recruited from WCAU in Philadelphia, and a former newspaperman who had interviewed Adolf Hitler , would become the first program director, and Herbert W. Brown became chief engineer. With transmission facilities completed, the inaugural broadcast of the AM station was set to take place March 16, 1947, from temporary studios downtown. Programs that day included

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2940-662: The quantum-mechanical vibrations of massive particles, although these are not directly observable and must be inferred through other phenomena. By convention, these are typically not expressed in hertz, but in terms of the equivalent energy, which is proportional to the frequency by the factor of the Planck constant . The CJK Compatibility block in Unicode contains characters for common SI units for frequency. These are intended for compatibility with East Asian character encodings, and not for use in new documents (which would be expected to use Latin letters, e.g. "MHz"). WEZE It

3010-706: The radio station and KNBN-TV in Dallas–Fort Worth, the sale of WEEI still went forward. Helen Broadcasting continued the all-news format. CBS retained WEEI's FM sister station until the 2017 sale of its radio division to Entercom . The station was acquired by Boston Celtics Communications (a group that shared ownership with the Boston Celtics basketball team) on May 10, 1990; the Celtics also simultaneously purchased WFXT (channel 25) from Fox Television Stations . The Celtics initially pledged to continue

3080-495: The remainder of the 1960s, WEEI was New England's first talk radio station (though the station also played middle-of-the-road music ) and home of such hosts as Howard Nelson, Jim Westover and of Paul Benzaquin , one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in Boston history. In the 1960s, the daily WEEIdea feature presented cleaning and cooking tips from housewives. By May 1972, WEEI had six full days of call-in talk programming. On weekdays, morning drive time from 6 am to 10 am

3150-413: The requisite piano – and a small announcer's booth. There was also a large lobby with a double-paned window looking into the largest studio. Offices, just off the lobby, included a newsroom with a built-in bin to capture teletype paper. The basement contained record storage areas, an announcers' lounge and the chief engineer's office and work area. WHAV-FM finally went on the air April 14, 1948. WHAV-FM, as

3220-441: The return of WCEC's Spanish-language " Impacto " talk programming to 1490. The WCCM call sign returned to 1490 on April 3, 2018. The station has aired Spanish-language broadcasts of Major League Baseball 's Boston Red Sox from 2014 to 2019 and since 2022, with Uri Berenguer as the play-by-play announcer. On August 4, 2021, the " Impacto " Spanish news/talk programming moved back to WMVX (1110 AM) ; WCCM then entered into

3290-564: The rules for capitalisation of a common noun ; i.e., hertz becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles but is otherwise in lower case. The hertz is named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who made important scientific contributions to the study of electromagnetism . The name was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1935. It

3360-413: The specific case of radioactivity , in becquerels . Whereas 1 Hz (one per second) specifically refers to one cycle (or periodic event) per second, 1 Bq (also one per second) specifically refers to one radionuclide event per second on average. Even though frequency, angular velocity , angular frequency and radioactivity all have the dimension T , of these only frequency is expressed using

3430-641: The sports programming was replaced with oldies; in May 2005, while continuing with English-language programming in the daytime, an overnight block of Spanish-language programming was added to WCCM's lineup as a response to the sale of WAMG , Costa-Eagle's primary competitor for Spanish-language programming in Greater Boston , to a sports talk operator. On July 30, 2007, the station changed its call sign to WCEC, ahead of an August 1 programming swap that saw WCCM's English-language talk programming move to 1110 AM, and

3500-452: The staff was released. That left Johnson and an engineer playing all taped programs from the newly introduced Presto-brand commercial reel-to-reel tape recorders. Johnson, who joined the station in June 1951, changed his status to part-time, but remained until his retirement in 1985. WHAV-FM was dark by 1953 and its transmitter ended up 30 or so miles away at WCRB . The virtually insolvent WHAV

3570-402: The station in December 1996. As part of this transaction, that December 15, Salem changed WBNW's call letters to WEZE and changed the station's format to Christian radio ; in effect, this new WEZE licensed to Boston became the successor to the previous WEZE (1260 AM) licensed to Boston. Concurrently, the previous WEZE changed its call letters to WPZE, and, after both simulcasting WEZE and airing

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3640-732: The station struggled financially, at one point losing $ 80,000 a week, leading to rumors of a sale of WEEI. Still, WEEI improved its morning ratings after it became one of the earliest affiliates of Imus in the Morning from WFAN in New York City on July 12, 1993. On March 16, 1994, the Boston Celtics reached a deal to sell WEEI to Back Bay Broadcasting; shortly afterward, the rights to Celtics broadcasts passed to American Radio Systems (ARS, which would shortly become part of CBS Radio ), owner of WRKO and WHDH , effective with

3710-416: The station that would become WCCM began during World War II in the offices of The Haverhill Gazette , a daily newspaper serving what was, in the middle of the century, a shoe-manufacturing center 30 miles (48 km) north of Boston. The Gazette , as early as 1944, planned an FM radio station, but had to wait for the end of wartime controls on new construction. John T. Russ announced on April 14, 1945, in

3780-464: The station was leased by CBS and became an affiliate of that network. CBS bought WEEI outright from Boston Edison on August 31, 1942. An FM sister station, WEEI-FM (103.3 FM, now WBGB ), went on the air in 1948. Until 1960, WEEI, through CBS Radio , was the last Boston radio station to devote a large amount of its program schedule to "traditional" network radio programming of daytime soap operas, comedy shows, variety shows, and similar fare. For

3850-484: The station was shifting to an all-sports format. Though this was played down by station officials, WEEI, which had already carried Celtics broadcasts since 1987, expanded its sports programming after the sale; WEEI became the flagship station of the Boston Bruins (replacing WPLM-FM ) in 1990 (however, Celtics broadcasts were given priority, resulting in some Bruins broadcasts moving to WVBF or WMEX ), and

3920-456: The television age, also hosted a show, "Great Days In Sports", which recreated great sports events from the past. WHAV joined Liberty just as the nationwide network grew to 240 affiliates with 10 hours of programs a day. At its peak, Liberty had 458 affiliates, but folded in 1952. It was a difficult time for radio, and WHAV-FM was not exempt. One major obstacle was The Gazette' s mistaken idea that FM-receiving sets would be readily available after

3990-491: The tower. The Gazette indicated its selection of Ayer's Hill was second to Silver Hill, a more centrally located city-owned parcel. Mayor Glynn and some alderman were willing to sell or lease the Silver Hill site, but others held out for using the site as a war memorial. J.R. Poppele, chief engineer of WOR in New York, conducted the original survey of sites. The Gazette ultimately bought the Silver Hill site at auction and

4060-480: The unit hertz. Thus a disc rotating at 60 revolutions per minute (rpm) is said to have an angular velocity of 2 π  rad/s and a frequency of rotation of 1 Hz . The correspondence between a frequency f with the unit hertz and an angular velocity ω with the unit radians per second is The hertz is named after Heinrich Hertz . As with every SI unit named for a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (Hz), but when written in full, it follows

4130-403: The unit's most common uses are in the description of periodic waveforms and musical tones , particularly those used in radio - and audio-related applications. It is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as a representation of the energy of a photon , via the Planck relation E  =  hν , where E

4200-451: The war, according to Mrs. Natalino. To work around the problem, WHAV worked with local bus lines to have FM music piped into buses. However, she said, the FCC banned the action when bus riders complained of being "a captive audience". The FCC also placed restrictions on simulcasting, requiring more of FM programs to be original and adding substantially to programming costs. As debts mounted, former News Director Edwin V. Johnson recalled, most of

4270-526: Was WASH-FM in Washington, D.C., in time for President Harry S. Truman's inauguration. The stations were the second in Massachusetts to become associated with Continental and the eighth in New England. Vaughn Monroe made an appearance on the stations during the grand opening of the new studio building to promote what would be a Big Band format, said Jackie Natalino, former music librarian, during

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4340-490: Was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) ( Conférence générale des poids et mesures ) in 1960, replacing the previous name for the unit, "cycles per second" (cps), along with its related multiples, primarily "kilocycles per second" (kc/s) and "megacycles per second" (Mc/s), and occasionally "kilomegacycles per second" (kMc/s). The term "cycles per second" was largely replaced by "hertz" by

4410-452: Was changed from talk radio to sports radio, with on- and off-air personnel also being reassigned; 590 AM's call letters were concurrently changed to WBNW. WBNW simulcast the "new" WEEI for a week before Back Bay Broadcasting launched a business news format. The ownership transfer also saw WVEI break from its simulcast of WEEI to become a separate sports radio station for Worcester, WWTM; WWTM was acquired by ARS in 1996 and gradually returned to

4480-463: Was eventually changed to The Ellen Kimball Show . Later, newsman Ben Farnsworth took over the Saturday call-in segment from 10 am to 2 pm. Paul Benzaquin handled 2 pm to 6 pm weekdays. Although its talk radio format was popular, the station went all-news in 1974, following the lead of several other CBS-owned stations. At first, WEEI was not 24/7 all-news; the station's late-night schedule featured

4550-457: Was hosted by newsman Len Lawrence (Leonard Libman), followed by Ellen Kimball from 10 am to 2 pm. Kimball was hired from WIOD in Miami , where she had replaced broadcaster Larry King after he was arrested on December 20, 1971. Ellen is believed to be one of the first women to host a daily, four-hour, call-in talk show, six days a week. Originally called Boston Forum with Ellen Kimball , the name

4620-462: Was not being monitored. The Costa Communications stations were transferred to Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures Ltd. when the owners of the Eagle-Tribune bought a 49 percent stake in the company and returned to broadcasting (the newspaper previously owned WLAW and WLAW-FM). Costa-Eagle would go on to purchase WCCM (800 AM) from Curt Gowdy Broadcasting Corp. in 1998; later that year, the owners of

4690-445: Was partly financed by WPRO-FM , a Rhode Island station on an adjacent frequency (92.3 MHz) as a condition of its own power increase, as former chief engineer Ted Nahil once remarked. Tom Bergeron , who would go on to host Hollywood Squares , America's Funniest Home Videos and more recently, Dancing With The Stars , got his start on WHAV in the mid-1970s. In 1981, WHAV AM and FM were sold to Northeast Broadcasting Company in

4760-574: Was sold in 1954 to Edward I. Cetlin and Henry R. and Morris Silver. The Silver brothers were owners of a successful Manchester bottling company and former owners of WFEA in Manchester, New Hampshire , and WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire . Free for the asking, WHAV's new owners would revive 20,000-watt WHAV-FM on 92.5 MHz in 1959. Stereo did not come until the 1970s for WHAV-FM when it aired an automated " beautiful music " format. A power increase to an effective radiated power output of 50,000 watts

4830-473: Was the custom of the day, simply simulcasted the AM programs. Despite its earlier frequency announcement, the FM station was licensed on 92.5 MHz. "FM broadcasting opens a new era for radio in Haverhill. It will give WHAV a second voice and will reach out into homes within a 50-mile radius of the city", The Gazette announced. WHAV AM and FM joined the Continental Network, whose key station

4900-477: Was turned over to Eastern Media of Methuen, Massachusetts , in March 1995; this made it a sister station to WNNW (1110 AM) in Salem, New Hampshire . WHAV would air Spanish-language programs and dub itself " Radio Impacto "; the subsequent sale of WHAV to Costa Communications would be challenged by Haverhill city officials, claiming that, as the only station staffer to speak Spanish worked on Sundays, its programming

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