Re: Quack medicine hour on WBZ (AM)

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

Sunday night at 9:30 is one thing....WRKO runs them Saturday afternoons at
1PM!   ONE-PEE-EMM!

I think it was something to clear out your colon....

JP


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Waters" <martinjwaters@yahoo.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Quack medicine hour on WBZ (AM)


> <extreme rant mode on extreme high setting>
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>     I don't know why I had been complaining that every
> Sunday night at 9:30 p.m. for months now WBZ (AM) has
> been running a paid 30-minute infomercial from some
> quack-medicine-magnets-for-health charlatans. I have
> no idea why I had the idiotic idea that I'd rather get
> 30 more minutes of my favorite show "Looking at the
> Law" like I used to. I really have no idea why I was
> especially disgusted on Dec. 2 when they failed to
> play the "following is a paid program" announcement
> before it started. Which is especially handy to hear
> because it uses some program name and format that
> tries to sound like a legitimate 30-minute health
> magazine show.
>
>     (I believe that was the same Sunday when there was
> 60 full seconds of dead air after the end of the
> truncated law show, before the network news update
> came on at 31 past the hour and no local newsbreak was
> provided. But I digress . . . )
>
>      My complaining seems misplaced now that this fine
> program has informed me, last evening, that I should
> buy whatever crap they're selling because biblical
> evidence indicates that way long ago before humans
> became one of the few higher species that don't
> manufacture their own vitamin C, said humans used to
> live 800 to 900 years.
>
>      I still wonder, have they told the Looking at the
> Law phone screener to hang up on anyone who calls up
> trying to find out how to file a complaint against the
> quack medicine charlatans? Do you think WBZ will
> report the story if the state attorney general goes
> after said charlatans?
>
>      This is the same station that a few years ago,
> 1999 maybe, refused to sell any ad time to local
> political candidates. One of the excuses in the
> company flak's quote was something about the messages
> not being of interest to most of the audience, or some
> such. When, of course, it was all about money.
>
>      Actually, I'm surprised that WRKO hasn't yet
> grabbed the account. It fits the format there much
> better. They'd really be able to hit that target
> audience -- put it on right before the idiotic
> overnight flying-saucer show.
>
>      I heard that Mel's been taking that quack
> medicine that'll make you live to be 150. The good
> news is, it doesn't work.
>
>      Quack. Quack.
>
> <end extreme rant>
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