FW: Overnights at WZLX?

["Smyth, Sean@Beacon Mail Server (MACMAIL)" <ssmyth@cnc.com>]

On 6 January 1999 at 8:03 pm., ASchinella@aol.com wrote:
>Does anyone know the overnight DJ from WZLX? 
>I overheard a couple talking at a restaurant 
>today that he was filing a racial harrassment 
>suit against the station with the Massachusetts 
>Commission Against Discrimination over his 
>firing. Does anyone know about this or the guy 
>who is doing it. Just wondering.

Ed Neal, who I believe is the director of the South End 
Community Health Center, or another similar organization,
was their overnight guy. (Ed is African-American.) I saw 
an unusual tactic taken a few weeks ago; WZLX took out a
half-page (maybe a quarter-page) ad in The South End News 
advertising open positions, and also giving the standard 
speech about being an equal opportunity emoployer. When was 
the last time you saw a station in a top 10 market advertise 
for on-air personnel in a neighborhood publication? Me thinks
they knew/know this was coming.

I know Ed through his managing of a baseball team in Boston's 
Park League, and I must say he is a nice guy, from my few
dealings with him.

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Sean Smyth
Sports editor, Community Newspaper Co.
9 Meriam Street
Lexington, Mass.     02420
Phone: (781) 674-7721
Fax: (781) 674-7735
sean.smyth@cnc.com

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