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22-506: WCAP may refer to: WCAP (AM) , a radio station (980 AM) licensed to Lowell, Massachusetts WCAP (Washington, D.C.) , a defunct radio station in Washington, D.C., which was on-air from June 1923 to July 1926 WOBM (AM) , a radio station (1310 AM) licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, which held the call sign WCAP from 1928 to 1950 Web Calendar Access Protocol World Class Athlete Program ,

44-520: A conservative bent in a city and state where Democratic voters overwhelm Republicans . In the 1970s, editor and firebrand Clement Costello, who was known for walking around in a cape, wrote that the U.S. should annex Mexico and was credited with helping to ruin John Kerry 's chances of winning the 5th Congressional District seat in 1972. In 2004, the newspaper again made waves when it endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election instead of Kerry, who

66-520: A news / talk radio format including both local talk programs and the nationally syndicated progressive talk shows The Thom Hartmann Program and The Stephanie Miller Show . WCAP also airs simulcasts of the morning and evening newscasts from WCVB-TV . Nights and weekends, the station broadcasts an oldies format called " Beatles & Before". WCAP's seasonal programming also includes live broadcasts of high school football and basketball matchups, and UMass Lowell River Hawks hockey . WCAP carried

88-670: A Lowell native who worked as a sports reporter for The Sun before going on to greater fame as poet laureate to the Beat Generation . Another Sun alumnus is Tom Squitieri , who won the Overseas Press Club Madeleine Dane Ross Award for his reporting on divided Cambodian refugee families living in Lowell and Thailand . The Lowell Sun is the smallest independent newspaper to have won an OPC award. Print shop owners and brothers John and Daniel Harrington founded

110-542: A United States Army unit headquartered at Fort Carson, Colorado Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WCAP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WCAP&oldid=1168812497 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

132-550: A five-year licensing odyssey that saw the station's city of license, proposed hours of operation, output power and call letters changed at various points during the proceedings. Station head Israel "Ike" Cohen established Northeast Radio Inc. in 1946. He sought a license at 1210 kHz in Lawrence and was granted the call letters WABW. However, when the call letters WCAP became available, Cohen took those calls, and later won approval to amend his application to seek 980 kHz, which

154-467: A new two-year contract with the team. Spinners broadcasts moved to WLLH in 2007, but returned to WCAP the following season, after the station's sale; it would continue to broadcast games until the team was dropped from Minor League Baseball in 2021. The station conducts an annual radiothon to benefit the Salvation Army each December. The Sun (Lowell) The newspaper's headquarters are in

176-460: A sick-out. Ray, who had been born in Lowell, pulled the first air shift on WCAP, and Ike Cohen kept a signed copy of the program log in his office for the rest of his life. It was Goulding's first on-air appearance on a Lowell station under his real name; he had previously worked at WLLH as Dennis Howard, taking the air name to avoid confusion with Phillip, who was an established news announcer in Boston at

198-427: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WCAP (AM) WCAP (980 AM ) is a radio station licensed to serve Lowell, Massachusetts , United States. The station is owned by Sam Poulten through the holding company Merrimack Valley Radio, LLC. The station's studios are located on Market Street in Lowell. WCAP began commercial broadcasting in 1951 after

220-704: The Lowell Lock Monsters and Lowell Devils hockey teams from the franchise's inception in 1998 until 2009, when the broadcasts moved to Boston-based WWZN . The station added Lowell Spinners baseball to its sports programming in 2003, replacing Lawrence-based WCCM as the team's flagship station. The station nearly lost the rights to the Spinners to WUML in 2005; a dispute between the University of Massachusetts Lowell and WUML's student programmers resulted in WCAP signing

242-535: The Lowell Sunday Sun in 1949; and buying out its only Sunday competition, the Lowell Sunday Telegram , in 1952. The paper remained in the hands of John Harrington's descendants—Thomas F. Costello, his sons John H. and Clement C. Costello, and grandson John H. Costello Jr. with a certain amount of drama and feuds —until it was purchased August 1, 1997, by MediaNews Group . The newspaper's circulation at

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264-496: The first floor of the former American Textile History Museum building in downtown Lowell. Before March 18, 2007, the newspaper occupied a succession of offices on Kearney Square, about half a mile away. One of the old news buildings, locally called "the Sunscraper," is a landmark high-rise topped with a huge neon "Sun" sign. The paper's most recent former home is across the street. The paper's editorials have, for decades, espoused

286-399: The paper as a weekly in 1878. In its earliest years, The Sun provided the growing Irish Catholic population a voice in a mill city that was run by wealthy Protestant factory owners. Over the years, the paper outlasted its competitors to become the only major newspaper in Lowell, converting to a daily in 1892 and buying out its last competitor daily, The Courier-Citizen, in 1941; a starting

308-811: The part of that applicant. When the family that owned the Lawrence Daily Eagle and Evening Tribune newspapers appeared poised to win approval for an upgrade of its station, WLAW, to 50 kW on 680 kHz (now occupied by WRKO ), Cohen sought and received approval to move the station license from Lawrence to Lowell, which at the time was home to only a 250-watt station, WLLH . The original investors in WCAP were Cohen and his brothers Theodore and Maurice, each with 20%, Ray Goulding , of Bob and Ray fame, and his brother Philip, an announcer at WMGM in New York City, where Israel Cohen worked as an engineer, each with 5% and engineer Ralph Floyd, 30%. Ray Goulding

330-560: The station went on the air. Phillip Goulding was quoted by the Lowell Sun newspaper of September 11, 1951, as saying the ousters came as a shock, and the brothers planned to contest it, however they sold their interest in the station to the Cohen brothers. The newspaper reported that the day following the firing of the Gouldings, the daytime-only station signed on two hours late as employees staged

352-405: The station, with both claiming that the other partner put WCAP in financial danger. The dispute ended on June 28, when Poulten agreed to purchase Smidt's 55-percent stake in the station, giving him full ownership. After having operated from studios on Central Street in Lowell since its 1951 sign-on, WCAP moved to a street-level studio on Market Street in 2019. During the week, WCAP broadcasts

374-538: The time was 52,234, daily, and 55,804, Sunday. When he purchased the paper, MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton noted that The Sun had "played a leading role in the development and growth of the Greater Lowell region," including downtown Lowell's rebirth and the establishment of minor-league baseball and hockey teams in the city. Following MediaNews' purchase (through The Sun) of Nashoba Publications weeklies covering several towns between Lowell and Fitchburg,

396-521: The time. The station was the third to bear the call letters WCAP; the original sign-on for both of the others, in Asbury Park, New Jersey (now WOBM ), and in Washington D.C. ( now defunct ) were voiced by sportscaster Ted Husing. Israel Cohen, at the time a broadcast engineer at WMGM in New York, secured Husing's services for the third WCAP sign-on. Israel Cohen ran the station until his death in 1994 and

418-496: Was station manager and Phillip Goulding served as program director. Ray hosted occasional afternoon programs. Ray Goulding was active in working to get the station on the air, appearing at a meeting of the Lowell Planning Board to advance an argument in favor of a transmitter and studio location that was rejected. The Gouldings were ousted from their positions in a stockholders meeting on September 10, 1951, three months after

440-551: Was succeeded by his brother Maurice. A deal to sell the station was made in August 2007, approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on September 25, 2007, and the transaction was consummated on November 21, 2007. The station is now owned by Merrimack Valley Radio, LLC. In early 2011, the two primary partners in the station, Clark Smidt and Sam Poulten, were involved in a legal dispute over operation of

462-404: Was then the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts. The Sun was once known beyond its circulation area as the home base of the late columnist Paul Sullivan, who until 2007 hosted a nighttime talk show on WBZ radio in Boston. Before the newspaper moved, he would regularly tout scoops from "Lowell's great newspaper at 15 Kearney Square." One of the paper's most famous alumnus is Jack Kerouac ,

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484-538: Was ultimately granted a construction permit in the spring of 1949 as part of a regional arrangement under which the Brockton Enterprise won approval to increase the power of its WBET from 250 to 1,000 watts at 990 kHz (the station later moved to 1460 to add nighttime service), and a mutually exclusive application for 980 in Newport, Rhode Island , was denied and dismissed for reasons including lack of candor on

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