Re: John Garabedian

["supersport@eb101.com" <supersport@cybercom.net>]

For the most part, I do agree with John H.  Although, I believe MEX's
signal was better then.  RKO at the time was too "formatted" for me.  WMEX
had the better jocks as far as I was concerned and mastered at personality
radio in Boston!

supersport@eb101.com

At 08:41 AM 5/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-05-24 22:48:53 EDT, you write:
>
><<  He was also PD of WMEX in the early 70s.  >>
>
>As a young student of radio broadcasting, it seemed to me that Garabedian's
>tenure at WMEX was sort of legendary.  Whether it's true or not I don't know,
>but he spoke to my radio class at Grahm about how the station was beating
>'RKO at the time he was PD.  He talked a lot about the comparatively poor
>signal 'MEX had as compared to 'RKO, and stated that the signal "problem" was
>not a major consideration, that if you give people something they really want
>to hear, they'll turn their radio or whatever to hear it.  That simple theory
>may still stand today.
>
>Rick Kelly
>
>
>

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