Bob Bittner's operation(s)

[Paul B. Currier]

Ah yes, the immortal Dick Brown.  He was interesting to listen to.  I recall
one afternoon when he said that WXHR was thinking of hiring Bill Marlowe but
there just wasn't enough room in the studio for another huge ego!

Paul of Sandwich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Adams" <hybucket@yahoo.com>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Bob Bittner's operation(s)


> I wasn't aware that WJIB was a "Rowley, MA" station -
> It's license, I believe, is Cambridge-Boston, where,
> as WTAO, it was a moderately successful top-40 station
> in the late 50's, then became the AM station for WXHR,
> a clasical-music FM-er, but playing pop music with the
> legendary Dick Brown, who, I seem to remember, was
> fired for playing traffic reports by Kevin O'Keefe
> that he taped off the old WHDH radio.  But I digress -
> Bittner has been around a long time, and is doing the
> unheard-of in a market the size of Boston - playing
> "good music" with no commercial interruptions, on a
> station with a half-decent signal, even at night.
> Hats off to him!!
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