Re: news on the weekend re-visited

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 11:20 PM 12/20/98 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>Then again, what did
>stations do at the time of the Kennedy assasination?  Stations affiliated
>with a network, of course, could take the network feed.  But what about the
>many stations that didn't?  I don't remember what most of them were doing,
>but I do remember WMEX playing classical music during that weekend.  I seem
>to remember hearing the funeral march movement from Beethoven's Third
>Symphony on WMEX, and I somehow have the impression that they may have
>played that one piece over and over.


I vaguely remember WBZ doing all-news or all-talk for 2-3 days after the
assassination, most smaller stations seemed to play nothing but somber
music. I know of one 12 year old kid who was bored to tears by this and
wanted to hear some music he liked on the radio.

I also recall in 1969 when Ike died, WRKO seemed to switch to a more
laid-back presentation and only play the softer songs on their playlist
(though there wasn't anything that they didn't ordinarily play...just kept
away from the more rockin' stuff).

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