Re: "This Is A Rewind of the Jay Severin Show" Ted Baxter Call Your Office

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 12:29 PM 8/24/2002, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>I think it was about a year-and-a-half ago that after Chris
>Lydon (he of the TIAA-CREF commercials and Opera Aperta Board
>of Directors) was ****canned by WBUR that he sat in as
>the vacation substitute for for Jay Severin on WTKK-FM.

I keep in touch with Chris's crew as often as I can, but what I'm 
postulating here should NOT be interpreted as "the real reason" - but I 
think while Chris had fun being back on the air at WTKK, the commercial 
radio environment was not to his taste.  With nearly 20 minutes of 
commercials every hour, I can't say I blame him.   Plus I'm told he's 
enjoying the current project through Transom.org/WCAI/WNAN/WGBH/Harvard 
University that's got his zipping all over the world doing radio reports 
from Ghana and whatnot.

One of Chris's producers, Ben Walker, does a regular show called "Your 
Radio Night-Light" (www.yourlight.org) on WZBC Sunday nights at 10pm.  It's 
a great show if you dig the "format-free" approach to radio...think Ira 
Glass's "This American Life" but somewhat more "underground".   Anyways, 
Ben is, shall we say, not fond of Jay Severin and occasionally takes some 
really amusing swipes at Jay via the YRNL alter-ego "Ray Leverin".  This 
Sunday's show is one example, it'll probably be in archive on the above URL 
in a week or two.  Plus there's an old show listed at 
http://www.transom.org/shows/2002/200201.shows.walker.nightlight.html

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