Like the old times at WBLM

[Dan Pierce]

My first radio job was at WCOU-AM/WAYU-FM in 1981.  Back then, the AM was a 
CHR format and the FM was an automated Country station.  In 1982 we switched 
the CHR to the FM as "94 Rock" and put the AM on the bird (I forget the 
format or provider).

I went to WBLM in 1983, so I may very well have played that particular cut 
from vinyl (the first CD player went into the studio...in those days located 
in Auburn...that year).

I never knew Steve, but I heard some stories about him and the very humble 
beginnings of what was, by 1983, and still is today a great heritage radio 
station.

Dan Pierce
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:54 PM
Subject: Like the old times at WBLM


> Yesterday afternoon I tuned in to WBLM and they were playing "Panama Red" 
> by the New Riders of the Purple Sage.  Near the end of the song, it 
> skipped. They were playing the song from vinyl.
>
> When the jock game on, he explained that he was playing an instant request 
> and that he had to dig out the album because they only had it on vinyl. 
> He then went on to mention that the album had a Braille sticker on the 
> front because the first dj at WBLM was Steve Hoad, who is blind.
>
> It was nice to here a reference to a station's history on the radio.  It 
> was also nice to hear the name of an old friend.  I work for Steve when he 
> was PD at WAYU in Lewiston in 1986.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
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