WMEX (was AM stereo WLYN)

[Brian Vita]

Dan Strassberg wrote:

>WROW's (then) owner, Harry L Goldman, decided that the name
>Arnold Friedman just sounded too Jewish for his station. I guess advertisers
>could buy time without ever finding out that the station was owned by a guy
>named Goldman but they had to know that one of the announcers was named
>Friedman. I wonder whether there were any conversations between sales staff
>and advertisers that went something like : "A Jew? at OUR station? Oh, you
>must mean that guy Friedman. No, things just didn't work out with him. He's
>gone."
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Strange but there are still people concerned about the stereotype.  
While slightly off topic but still on the same subject, I had a similar 
situation happen to me during a consulting gig a few years ago.  I was 
down in Queens consulting for two Orthodox Jewish gentlemen who had just 
closed their sweater mill and were considering turning it into an 
entertainment complex which would have included a movie theatre.  Late 
into the afternoon they kind of pigeon holed me into a corner and asked 
me, quite seriously, if I thought it would be a problem for them getting 
into the entertainment business because they were Jews.  I had to 
explain to them it was more difficult for me being a non-Jew.  
Apparently these guys hadn't heard of Speilberg, Louis B Meyer, and the 
other 80% of Hollywood.

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