Fwd: Re: Ken Mayer

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

>DATE: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:33:34
>From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
>To: "RBB" <oldradio@earthlink.net>, "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>,<boston-radio->interest@bostonradio.org>

>The phone number was 969-8989, which in those days >was WOodward 9 8989.
>Mayer did the show from the basement of his house, >which I understand was in
>the Oak Hill section of Newton, not far from the >WVOM/WBOS (AM)/WUNR
>transmitter on SawMill Brook Parkway. I don't know >whether the line actually
>rang in Mayer's house or whether it rang at the >transmitter and a leased
>line (in addition to the one that fed Mayer's >programs to the transmitter)
>was used to get the calls to Mayer.

>Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net

Wasn't the show simulcast on WBOS-FM, which although it was
broadcasting with just 15,000 watts horizontal only at
about 280 feet, STILL covered a much greater portion
of the metro area than WBOS-AM?  If true, that would
explain why so many remember the phone#.

Laurence Glavin


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