WEZE

Broadcast area	Boston, Massachusetts
Branding	Family 590
Slogan	"New England's Christian Radio"
First air date	1924 (as WEEI)
Frequency	590 (kHz)
Format	Religious
Callsign meaning	EZE = Easy
Owner	Salem Communications
Website	www.wezeradio.com

WEZE is an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts on 590 kHz. The station is owned by Salem Communications, and airs religious programming. Image File history File links WEZE.png Summary Logo of WEZE Boston, Massachusetts, from the the stations website. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Official website: www. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A slogan is a memorable phrase used in a political or commercial context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the lower waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Religious is a term with both a technical definition and folk use. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Salem Communications (NASDAQ: SALM) is a Christian radio company operating in the United States, with 104 stations across the country, pending acquisitions, that are primarily concentrated in the nations biggest markets. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... Amplitude modulation (AM) is a form of modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is varied in direct proportion to that of a modulating signal. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Official website: www. ... Salem Communications (NASDAQ: SALM) is a Christian radio company operating in the United States, with 104 stations across the country, pending acquisitions, that are primarily concentrated in the nations biggest markets. ... Religious is a term with both a technical definition and folk use. ...

History

WEZE's history dates back to 1924 as WEEI, owned by (and whose callsign meant) Edison Electric Illuminating. In its earliest days, the station was a public relations vehicle for Edison. In 1926, the station had become a charter member of NBC Radio, broadcasting NBC Red network programming, before CBS leased them out in 1936 in response to WBZ being leased by NBC for its Blue network in 1932. Soon after, CBS completely bought WEEI from Edison. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Public relations is the art and science of building relationships between an organization and its key publics. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... NBC, the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... WBZ (AM) is the callsign for an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Viacom. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...

CBS was the last network to maintain a full schedule of radio comedy programs, daramtic series, variety shows, and soap operas in the traditional sense, so such programming took up much of WEEI's schedule until 1960. By the early 1960s, WEEI had a MOR format interspersed with talk programming, making the station a talk radio pioneer. By the mid-sixties, WEEI was all-talk, except in the overnight hours, where "Music 'Til Dawn" would continue for a few more years. Popular WEEI talk hosts ("talkmasters") of the period included Paul Benzaquin, Howard Nelson, and Len Lawrence. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ...

However, in 1974, this format was scrapped in favor of CBS's standard all-news format, which continued after Helen Broadcasting bought WEEI in 1983. (It's FM sister station remained -- and continues to be -- owned by CBS.) 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WODS, known on-air as Oldies 103. ...

By 1991, the Boston Celtics had become the owners of the station, and had interspersed sports programming into WEEI's schedule, before the remaining news programs were finally cancelled, taking the station all-sports. The station also took over operations of WVEI in Worcester to simulcast its programming in central Massachusetts. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... WEEI is a sports-talk radio station broadcasting from Boston, Massachusetts. ... Downtown Worcester, with City Hall at the right Nickname: The Heart of the Commonwealth, The City of the Seven Hills, Wormtown, Woo-town, Wortown (war-town), The City of Diners Official website: www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Boston Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq. ...

In 1994, American Radio Systems purchased the WEEI intellectual property, but FCC regulations prohibited them from actually taking over 590 AM. As such, the station was spun off and became WBNW, while ARS merged the old WHDH radio into WRKO and installed WEEI's programming on the 850 frequency. (WVEI was given up and became WWTM, but was later purchased by WEEI and has returned to WVEI.) 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The FCCs official seal. ... WRKO is an AM radio station based in Boston, Massachusetts, currently owned by Entercom and broadcasting on 680 kHz. ... WEEI is the highest rated sports-talk radio station in America. ...

WBNW's new business format (mostly supplied from Bloomberg) failed to catch fire, and so the station was sold to Salem Communications in 1996. Salem moved the religious programming and call letters of WEZE 1260 onto WBNW (which remains on the station to this day), while 1260 became WPZE and later spun off (and became WMKI). Bloomberg L.P. is a Financial Media Company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1982. ... Salem Communications (NASDAQ: SALM) is a Christian radio company operating in the United States, with 104 stations across the country, pending acquisitions, that are primarily concentrated in the nations biggest markets. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... WMKI is a childrens radio station in the Boston market. ...

Reference

• Archives at BostonRadio.org. The Boston Radio Dial: WEZE(AM). URL accessed on November 4, 2005.

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External links

• Official website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WEZE