Re: WBZ's old Sunday night "Silent Period" (RE: WBZ & WRKO - No Audio)

[Kevin Vahey <kvahey@yahoo.com>]

yup and BZ would then kick the old 5000 watt xmtr in
the Allston parking lot for a few minutes


--- Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
> At 03:47 PM 6/25/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >     Right you are, Ron.  Until the late 1970's or
> >early 1980's, every Sunday night from midnight to
> 6:00
> >AM (Monday), WBZ/1030 would leave the air right
> after
> >the midnight news for a period of technical
> >maintenance.
> 
> And remember WMEX, back when they were top 40 in the
> 60s?  They too used to 
> leave the air on Sunday night at midnight for
> maintenance, and they would 
> have a breathy female voice saying goodnight and
> explaining that they were 
> going off the air for a while, with "I'll see you in
> my dreams" playing in 
> the background...
> 
> 


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