Re: WWZN adds programming

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

From: "Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>

> >Guess I missed that time.  I have an old bumper sticker with the Bruins
> >logo and the WITS calls.  That had to be mid-late 70s.  Wasn't 1510 the
> >Bruins' flagship then?
>
> In the late 70s WITS was the Red Sox flagship, also.'ITS was supposed to
> stand for "Information Talk and Sports" according to 1510s PR types at the
> time.
>
> They were a talker at the time.
>
> Their talk line up consisted of Pat Whitley (doing issue oriented talk),
Avi
> Nelson,
> & Jerry Williams. On weekends Whitley orignated his resturant show on the
> station.

I think I recall driving to a job I had in 1978-9 and they had dropped their
music format altogether...cuz I was listening to Empror Hudson in the
morning.

Can anyone pin end of their Top 40/AC format any better than 78-79?
(In 1974-ish...I remember 'Tom Allen' playing the hits on WMEX.)

Also, I don't think Jerry Williams was there when Pat Whitley was there.
Jerry did talk during the music formatted days....following the likes of Woo
Woo Ginsberg.  By the time Pat Whitley came along...Jerry had already gone
on to better things.  WBBM, WBZ, etc.  He was at WRKO when they flipped to
talk in Sept 1981.


JP