'67 radio: WBZ

[mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

       Steve Ordinetz wrote:

> The way I recall 'BZ's weekend schedule to be:

>Sat..6-9:30 Carl DeSuze
>9:30-2:30   Jay Dunn
>2:30-7(?)   ?
>7-11:30     Jeff Kaye (replaced by Ron Landry in '66)
>overnite    Dick Summer

>Sunday 6-9:30  Carl DeSuze (on tape)
>9:30-2:30   Dave Maynard (top 30 countdown)
>2:30-6      Bruce
>6-8         Jeff Kaye/Ron Landry Hootenanny (replaced in 67 with Dick
>Summer's             Subway)

>I can't for the life of me remember who did Saturday afternoons...obviously
>someone else pulled a 7 day week (yuck) since I don't remember that shift
>being pre-recorded (it was easy to tell when it was recorded...a noticeable
>loss of audio quality.  The difference was audible even ~100 mi away!)
>Don't think BZ used weekenders.

        I also am stumped as to who did Saturday afternoon. I'm pretty sure
they did not use parttimers, so it must have been one of the six regular
DJs. I also believe that no one was on seven days a week, live or taped,
but each was on six days a week. They signed off Sunday night (seems
quaint, doesn't it), so the overnight problem was solved. Seems as if
having no parttimers also was a bit unusual. When someone was sick, they
would just stretch the shifts out to cover.
        But, I remember the rest of the schedule a bit differently. The
Hootenanny show, at least circa 1963-66, was Saturday 6-8 p.m., not Sunday.
Jeff Kaye / Ron Landry did it and it was taped. Also, Sunday morning,
before Dave Maynard at 9:30, I believe they ran not Carl DeSuze, but rather
religion / public affairs, as they did Sunday evening. Music was only on
Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 6 or 7. And Bruce Bradley was on Sunday afternoon,
definitely, at 2:30, often on tape although sometimes -- particularly in
the summer, when he did the show from Nantasket Beach -- he was live.
        I also don't remember that the taped shows had noticeably lower
audio quality. Thanks to Ampex, there was no reason they should have. I
just remember them as being noticeable because they didn't read the weather
or give the temperature, the sports scores were dropped in by the newsman,
and they still had the old-fashioned announcement "transcribed" once an
hour or so.
        And they didn't really try to hide it. They sometimes would comment
that the show was taped. Other DJs would turn up in the studio of the taped
or the live show and make off-mike wisecracks. The explanation would be
that so-and-so was working in the other studio taping his show or that the
show was being taped while so-and-so was on the air in the other studio and
he had come in get a cart or a record or to light his fellow DJ's foot on
fire while he was reading a spot, or whatever.

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