Re: reminiscing about Boston radio

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 04:42 PM 5/4/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Dan wrote:
>
>True, but don't forget, when we changed the clocks, all the daytimers were
>on in the early evening and the listing I have shows that Norm Tulin did a
>short programme until sign-off.  Is that erroneous?  (I checked 4 newspaper
>listings, since we don't put much faith in the Boston Globe...<g>) 
>
Tulin probably did do a program from 6:00 PM till signoff from April 1 to
the end of daylight-saving time (which may have lasted only until the last
Sunday in September back then). By the way, WORL's fourth personality--the
one I couldn't remember--must have been Dave Maynard. I believe he was on
from 2:00 until 6:00 or signoff, whichever came first. My recollections of
WORL date back only to when I arrived here in '56. Maynard may still have
been working at WHIL in '54, the year of the schedule Donna posted, but in
'56, he was at WORL. Before I left the MIT Grad House, in February '59, I'm
pretty sure he had left WORL for WBZ.

>Anyway, the Rosary was very much listened to back in those days,
>and while the rest of the day's programming was mainly non-religious,
>hearing Cardinal Cushing was a highpoint for many of my neighbours... 
>
>
And the people at Pilgrim Broadcasting were well aware of the popularity of
the Rosary. That's why it was on. I'm sure that the Rosary at 6:15 really
did wonders for Gregg Finn's ratings. I'm sure that being a Finn didn't hurt
him with a large segment of that audience either.

Oh, and the news during AM drive was done by Len Libman, then a student at
BU SPRC. I guess he tumbled out of his dorm, into the station, and off to
class, all without leaving Kenmore Sq. Later, he was Len Lawrence for many
years at the old WEEI. In between, he was Michael J Rhodes Jr at WMEX. He
also worked either at WTAO or WCAS, where Donna might have known him. I
don't know whether he was still using his real name at 740 or was using
Lawrence. WORL had a second news person (actually, I guess he was the
_first_ news person and Libman was the second)--a guy with _great_ pipes. He
used the name Hank Eliott. I always assumed it was really Henry Eliot
_something_ and he wasn't using the something part on the air.

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