Just dug up this telescoped aircheck from a day just prior to Father’s Day in 1987.
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WHDH is no longer with us – it went away when 590 WEEI owners purchased WHDH, deleted the heritage Boston station and planted WEEI at 850, a much more powerful signal, where Sportsradio 850 WEEI still resides to this day. The WHDH call letters still reside in Boston on Channel 7.
The days of “Full-Service Adult Contemporary (A/C)” radio are all but gone, but WHDH and WBZ (1030 Boston) were prolific radio leaders in listenership and billing with the format that met it’s peak in the 70s and 80s. I was certainly blessed to have had even a relatively brief opportunity to take the format out for a spin.
