…this is probably my favourite piece of Paul Harvey’s work, a short commentary on the night of 22 November 1963, after President Kennedy’s assassination. You may want to note how Harvey’s closing comments seem to mirror Chet Huntley’s commentary on that night’s Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC-TV. And, for those of you in Texas and Oklahoma confused by the station identification of WBAP as being in Dallas on 570 kHz, WBAP and WFAA Radio (the latter of which is now KLIF, itself a station unrelated to the original KLIF on 1190) had been locked into a confusing FCC licensing arrangement that, by 1963, dictated that the two stations would shift frequencies, networks, cities of license and transmitting power – ABC in Dallas on 570 with 5000 watts, and NBC in Fort Worth on 820 with 50,000 watts – several times a day. Eventually, everyone involved grew so tired of the shifting, which led to a lot of announcers’ gaffes over the years, that in 1970 WBAP finally paid WFAA $3,500,000 to stay on the weaker 570 with ABC while they kept the stronger 820 with NBC. Of course, in te years since then, WFAA Radio was sold by the Dallas Morning News, while NBC’s radio network evaporated into oblivion and WBAP was eventually bought by ABC…
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