74 Years Ago AND Today in Rutgers Football History

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WCTC (1450 AM and 98.3 FM), New Brunswick began its on-going radio coverage starting with the September 27, 1947 Rutgers 40-28 loss at Columbia. WCTC went on the air December 12, 1946 and was owned by Chanticleer Broadcasting and its station manager James L. Howe(Rutgers Class of 1932) who sold WCTC in 1959. The call letters were taken from the Rutgers nickname at the time, ChanTiCleer. The first coach’s show also started on September 26, 1947 with the “The Harvey Harman Show” airing each Friday at 7:30 p.m. They even “recorded” his October 31 show on vinyl disk when he couldn’t be at the studio on air day.

And today:

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[Phi_1055]

VERY cool to learn that about the call letters.

 

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The first Rutgers Football broadcast team back in 1947 was Bob Bell (Rutgers Class of 1947) who did play-by-play and Ed Isaacs (Rutgers Class of 1939) who did color. They also partnered in 1948, 1949 and 1950 seasons.