WTAO

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<<<Dan Strassberg sez:> Wow! Billy Dale. THERE's a name from the past! I
think that another WTAO DJ
> was Ed Penny (not to be confused with Ed Perry of WATD). Can anyone name
the
> whole lineup?>>>

Sure, "Dunkin Donuts with Dale" the Billy Dale morning show on daytimer,
WTAO 740AM.  There was Art Tacker and "Music With Art", Ed Penney's "Penney
Senerade" and Ken Wayne on weekends. Maybe there were others in 1950-51-52
when I was growing up in Boston and visiting radio studios (also chasing
their radio towers!!)

<<< ...visited the WTAO studios while Len Libman was DJing on
> a weekend morning. Len was better known for his work doing news in AM
drive
> at WORL 950 while he was a BU student.>>>

Wasn't it Len "Zola" who did the shift on weekends at WTAO?  And...don't
forget Boston's first UHF television station, Channel 56 WTAO-TV from high
atop Mt-Zion in Woburn (that 400-foot high mound) the b/w shows, the nightly
movie, some Dumont network shows and football games on kinescope, the UHF
adaptor, the bow-tie antenna for your tv set's reception.

Now, who remembers the deejay lineup at WORL 950AM broadcasting from their
new studios at 90 State Street downtown?  Bob Swan and "The Swan Boat Show"
in the morning,  Norm Prescott  ("Hello, You..."),  Alan Dary's
"Dary-Go-Round" and others. (I'm still looking for an aircheck of Norm's
show opening with his theme song "Come One Come All..." a big band chart by
Tommy Tucker and a vocal group singing lyrics.  Please contact me offlist if
you can direct me to a source. Thanks.)

Russ oldradio@earthlink.net