Re: Bruce Bradley

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

>Dan Billings wrote:
>I don't know anything about Bruce Bradley as a person and if the earlier post
>was correct, he does not sound like a happy guy, but to knock someone for not
>liking remotes is a little harsh.
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        At the exalted heights of WBZ in the '60s, they didn't have to do
the type of remotes that most people get stuck with -- interviewing car
dealers. I remember at Christmas for several years they broadcast from a
storefront near Boston Common to raise money for charity. And in the summer
there was Paragon Park (and for one year, at least, before that, Revere
Beach). There was no direct promotion (like having to interview the
amusement park manager on the air) that I remember.
        I agree with your point and with a post on the ne radio list that
said, if Bruce hated remotes, he never showed it on the air or in person if
you were hanging around outside the sundeck studio. To me, that's actually
the mark of the true professional. Jumping on a very talented guy because
he would remark to co-workers that he didn't like the remotes is unfair,
IMO. Remember, it was not an occasional remote for three hours on a
Saturday. He had to sit in a fishbowl atmosphere with people gawking at him
all day, six days a week, from May until September. That's not the usual
way radio broadcasting is done for extended periods (unless you worked back
then at WEZE!). On the other issue of whether he was difficult to work
with, or whatever, I have no idea. But the remote thing is off the mark.

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