Re: changes in 50s radio-- some possible answers

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 13 Jun 99,  Donna Halper wrote:

> In March of 1956, Variety announced rumours of WBZ dropping the NBC
> network and going to a more pop music intensive approach.  It had just
> hired Alan Dary and Norm Prescott, and was in the midst of creating what
> would be known as the "Live Five" (no network stuff-- all live d.j.'s) by
> 1957.  By April of 1956, Bob and Ray's 5-6 pm show was replaced, and while
> I can't find the clipping that announced the official date, the clippings
> I have indicate that NBC was dropped in the late fall of 1956 -- after the
> last of the "Live Five" was hired. 

Sounds about right.  I was still in Albany at the time, but I remember 
listening to Monitor and hearing a mention of WNAC as the NBC affiliate in 
Boston, which surprised me.  I didn't really believe it until we moved to 
Bedford, in May 1957, and I heard for myself that WNAC was both NBC and 
Mutual.


 

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