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Re: WEZE Retro
- Subject: Re: WEZE Retro
- From: Hopper <wlnhwbhg@lr.net>
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 22:53:57 +0000
Lou wrote:
>
> In 1977, Clark Schmidt came in with a 'sappier-than-BZ-FM' album rock sound
> referring to the station as "1260-1260" (a Mary Hartman spoof?), and
> "1260-EZ Street." He had names like Ron Dwyer and Bill Smith doing air
> shifts. It, too, was a decent sounding station with an interesting
> promotional campaign: "Joni without the Baloni," "The Eagles without the
> Turkeys," etc. That was the last thing they did before going to religious
> programming.
>
If memory serves, (unless Clark started the the concept at WEZE) "joni
without the baloni", "Eagles without the turkeys" were key positioning
staetments for soft album rock WEEI-FM at 103.3, circa 1977-1978.
Hopper
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