Re: WHIL/WWEL

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

At 02:11 PM 11/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Dan wrote--
>>I thought that the change from WHIL to WWEL occurred while the stations were
>>still owned by Judge Tarlow. (I believe that the AM and FM have shared the
>>base calls--WHIL, WWEL, WXKS--ever since the FM signed on.) I thought the
>>change to WWEL accompanied a format change--to beautiful music.
>
>Yes, WHIL was indeed owned by Sherwood Tarlow, who put it on the air in
>January of 1952.  The call letters were changed to WWEL (all is well) in
>1976, and he did still own the station.  (Btw, in 1974 when it was still
>WHIL, Arnie Ginsberg was listed as the Station Manager...  And I recall the
>station's Top 40 days in the late 50s-- I used to listen to Jack
>McDermott-- remember him???)

I remember McDermott. I think he got into quite bit of hot water during the
payola scandals. When I arrived in Boston in the summer of 1956, WHIL had
some dynamite air talent. The morning guy, Bob Walsh, did a million voices
and was very clever. When Jess Cain took over mornings on WHDH, Walsh was a
worthy competitor, although very few people knew about WHIL. Later in the
day came Jim Aylward, later of WEEI and Channel 5. I thought he was very
good too. 

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