RE: (...and Jerry Williams...)

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

I think even in his last year or so with this weekday afternoon show, that
some on old firebrand Jerry Williams was missing.

Then again, I really wonder if there's a place in radio nowadays for someone
like Jerry Williams. Unfortunately, listeners have seemed to voted with
their ears, that they want Rush Dr. Laura and UFO/Monster talk [I have
pointed this out on here recently].

It is recorded in the recent history of Boston radio that when Mr. Langer
tried to bring back a better brand of talk radio in the form of Jerry
Williams and Gene Burns, the format failed. Granted that may have been due
to the signal coverage problems on the 1060 frequency around here, but at
any rate.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Bill
O'Neill
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 3:26 PM
To: Hakim Madjid; bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: (...and Jerry Williams...)


> I am puzzled why someone of Jerry Williams' stature would fall into
that
> pattern of progamming.
>
> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)

I'd chalk it up to dogged determination to get something accomplished
while the plates were still kicked in on his long career in the biz.
As for the daily grind of a single issue, not much of a difference, on
the music-side of the house, when the same tight song rotation keeps
on going, year after year.  Did Williams' numbers slip? Certainly, but
I doubt it was due to _how_ he was getting it done but more to the
fact that the format was just itching to bring on the pukers and skew
young.

Bill O'Neill