Re: Fwd: Re: Ken Mayer

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

When did Ken Mayer die? My recollection is that he was on WBOS (AM) or WUNR 
(not sure of the calls then) until very shortly before he died. His date of 
death should be someting that one could look up. My guess is that his program 
continued on 1600 AM until at least 1965.

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> On 14 Sep 2003 at 14:31, Laurence Glavin wrote:
> 
> > 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#.
>  
> No.  WBOS-FM only carried "Music Theater."  I'm not sure Ken Mayer was still on 
> WBOS 
> by the time WBOS-FM came on the air.
> 
> Music Theater consisted of beautiful music, with a very eclectic selection, much 
> like what 
> Bob has been doing on WJIB.  It was on originally for a few hours in the 
> afternoon on WBOS 
> AM.  When WBOS-FM came on sometime in February 1960, Music THeater was expanded 
> to cover most of the day, from 6 AM to 7 PM and again after 10 PM, leaving only 
> the 7-10 
> block for the leased-time ethnic stuff.  The leased-time stuff also ran all day 
> on Sunday until 
> 10 PM.  At first, WBOS-FM was on only simulcasting the AM and only during the 
> hours that 
> Music THeater was on, apparently under program test authority.  They had an 
> elaborate ID 
> that ran something like "These are the Music THeater stations, WBOS-AM, 1600 
> kilocycles 
> at the top of your AM dial and WBOS-FM, now conducting periodic program tests at 
> 92.9 
> megacycles on the FM band."  I think they forgot to mention the COL, since I was 
> unaware 
> for a long time that it was Brookline.
> 
> This program test phase lasted for a couple of months, as I recall.  Finally, 
> when it was over, 
> they began running Music Theater on FM separately during the hours when AM was 
> doing 
> the leased-time programs.  I don't think Ken Mayer was still there by then, but 
> he was never 
> on FM.  Only Music Theater was ever on FM.
> 
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