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

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@channel1.com>]

I suspect Ira Apple can help me out here. Rex was doing a Boomtown type show
in Philadelphia when Westinghouse sold the station....and Trailer was still
under contract and they sent him here. The rest is history.
( I believe he was with the old WPTZ)

Here my memory gets confused.....did Westinghouse sell WPTZ to what became
WCAU-TV?( CBS was late getting O&O's thinking NTSC stations had no
value).........I know in the 60's NBC and Westinghouse swapped Cleveland and
Philadelphia (KYW AM and TV)....but I am 99% certain Trailer came to Boston
because Westinghouse owned his contract, and they sold what they had in
Philadelphia to somebody ( I think CBS)...this was around the time DuMont
gave up the ghost and sold Channel 2 in Pittsburgh to Westinghouse to what
became KDKA-TV.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: David W. Harris <dwh@totalnetnh.net>
To: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: changes in 50s radio-- some possible answers


> Donna Halper noted:
>
> > A note of TV trivia-- 1956 was when Rex Trailer's popular kids' TV show,
> > Boomtown, debuted (27 April 1956, to be exact) on Channel 4.
> >
> Hmm.  That means he had a recording career before the TV show.  A recent
> addition to my collection of 78s is ABC-Paramount 9662:  "Cowboys Don't
> Cry" b/w "Hoofbeats" by Rex Trailer with orchestra conducted by Sid
> Feller (any relation to Sherm?).

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