The Eastern Massachusetts Radio Timeline: the 1980s

Mar. 12: Sheridan Broadcasting files to sell WILD (1090 Boston) to local entrepreneur H. Kendell Nash. (Granted June 25.)
Aug. 26: Nash Communications completes its acquisition of WILD.

Mar. 2: WILD (1090) files to move to 720 kHz from a new site in West Roxbury, adding a directional array and night power. The application is returned by the FCC on April 30 because of prohibited overlap with WCAS (740 Cambridge).
May 18: WILD files for a license to cover on its power increase to 5 kW.

Dec.: WHUE-FM sold to First Media, becomes WCOZ for one week, then goes silent.

Mar. 31: Southfield Communications LP (Douglas Tanger) agrees to buy WVCA-FM (104.9 Gloucester) from Simon Geller for $1 million; the FCC approves the sale on May 26.
May 18: WVCA-FM (104.9 Gloucester) applies to move to a new transmitter site, on Kondelin Road in Cape Ann Industrial Park, where it would operate at 2.5 kW from 110 meters above average terrain (up from 75 m on the old tower).
June 8: The sale of WVCA-FM (104.9 Gloucester) to Southfield Communications closes. Geller retires to an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
June 18: WVCA-FM (104.9 Gloucester) adopts new callsign WBOQ, keeping the classical music format but with the new station identity “W-Bach”.
June 30: The FCC grants WBOQ (104.9 Gloucester)'s application for a new transmitter site with increased power and antenna height.
Oct. 27: WBOQ (104.9 Gloucester) applies to amend its previously granted construction permit, reducing the requested power from 2.5 kW to 1.531 kW while increasing antenna height from 110 to 136 meters above average terrain, at the same Cape Ann Industrial Park site.

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