Here is a little bit of stuff about my early days at WTBS.
In the earliest days, the MIT campus radio station called itself WMIT. At some point the FCC decided that campus stations had to register their callsigns with the FCC, and WMIT was already taken. So WMIT became WTBS, the "Technology Broadcasting System". Later, as documented elsewhere, WTBS sold its callsign to Ted Turner and became WMBR. WMBR has been reported to stand for both Walker Memorial Basement Radio and Massachussetts Bay Radio. I think (denied by all who actually know the transaction) that it stands for WM B R -- William Barton Rogers -- the founder of MIT.
On this page are some pictures and some audio and notes about the program that I was most involved with during my days there in the early sixties. This page has been updated as a result of a visit that I and my partner-in-crime, George Hippisley (W2RU), made in June of 2009.
Circa 1963 picture of WTBS Master Control and K1BC ("then"), later used on a WMBR T-shirt:
June 2009 picture of WMBR Master Control, showing two TTs
June 2009 picture of WMBR Control B, showing three TTs (and K1BC "now"):
