Bradley Jay (Was Re: Gary LaPierre Undergoes Triple BypassSurgery)

[Doug Drown]

I'm amazed.  What would be the chances nowadays of a 21- or 22-year-old
getting an anchor job (or ANY job, for that matter) at a major 50,000-watt
AM radio station?

Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Bradley Jay (Was Re: Gary LaPierre Undergoes Triple
BypassSurgery)


> At 02:51 AM 9/30/2005 -0400, Rob wrote:
>
> > > > How old is Gary, anyway?  I was 13 in 1964 when I first listened to
> > > > him, so he's gotta be pushing 70.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure the logic of this.  I was 19 in 1964.  Does that make him
> >younger?
> >
> >
> >Well...at what age might a young reporter get hired at WBZ in 1964?
20-25?
>
> Gary was on the young side of that range - 21 or 22, if memory serves. I
do
> know that he told me once that for the first few years he was at WBZ, the
> station deliberately didn't release any publicity photos of him because he
> looked so young.
>
> That would make him about 62-63 now, I think.
>
> s
>
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