Guy Mainella

[Ron Bello]

In the mid 70's (75-76) "Calling All Sports" was a seven night a week program.
I remember Ken Beatrice doing weekends at this time.

It was Mainella who believed his talents were wasted doing a sports program
and "pushed" to go towards what Jerry Williams was doing.  His ratings were
too good to be casually replaced.  He was leaving if he didn't get what he 
wanted.

It was Larry Glick not Jerry Williams who would call him "Goy Vanilla".


At 11:27 PM 7/5/2004, Donna Halper wrote:
>Ed wrote--
>
> >It seems to me Guy spent several post-BZ years selling solar windows, or 
> something like that, in Nashua.
>
> >Does any body know exactly when he started at BZ and what his previous 
> radio background was?
>
>I believe he came to Boston from the mid-west:  I can find mentions of him 
>attending school in the Milwaukee area, and then on the air at WRIT in 
>Milwaukee in the mid-60s, first doing news and later sports.  I know he 
>began doing "Calling All Sports" at WBZ in July 1969, and I know it caused 
>quite a controversy when WBZ busted what had been a popular daily show 
>back to only weekends in March 1977.  Guy had been on the air 2-hours a 
>night every weekday evening since the show began, but I gather he saw the 
>writing on the wall and left WBZ in October of 1976 when rumours began to 
>swirl that the show was about to be replaced...  He did come back to do 
>some news/talk shows off and on till the early 80s, as I recall, including 
>one where he briefly teamed up with Glenn Ordway on WRKO (I think...)
>