Re: Fwd: Re: Ken Mayer

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

Most of the time it was on AM because I remember Norm Ruby doing 
Broadway music on FM while Kenny was playing comedy.

Got to remember 30+ years ago overnight Monday morning you had but 2 
signals on the air. WBOS AM til 2 AM and WHDH. Everybody else was off 
air on AM doing xmtr work.


On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 2:39PM -0500, Laurence Glavin wrote:
>> 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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