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

["Ira Apple" <iapple@erols.com>]

I seem to recall that we still carried a few soaps at KYW (Cleveland) in
early 1956, the last of which may have been "One Man's Family" which we
dropped that year as the station turned to all DJ all the time. That would
have also been the case for KDKA and WBZ.

Ira Apple

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Joseph Ross
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Subject: Re: changes in 50s radio-- some possible answers


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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