Gary Lapierre's Replacement

[Gary's Ice Cream]

I believe that I read somewhere that they were father and son. 

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From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Doug Drown
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:25 PM
To: Roger Kirk; bri@bostonradio.org; David Tomm; Laurence Glavin
Subject: Re: Gary Lapierre's Replacement

I've sometimes wondered if Greg Jensen is related to the late Jim Jensen,
who used to be an anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and was in Boston for a
short time before that (at WBZ-TV, if memory serves --- but that was a
looooonnng time ago --- early '60s, I think).

-Doug




----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>; "David Tomm" <nostaticatall@charter.net>;
"Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: Gary Lapierre's Replacement


> My personal choice would have been Greg Jensen (sp?)  He's got pipes,
> style and smarts.  Delivers a hell of a newscast, too.  His on-the-fly
> parsing overcomes badly written copy and he's been handed a bunch over
> the past few months.
>
>
> David Tomm wrote:
>  > > I don't think so.  My guess is that WBZ wanted a major market
> announcer
>  > > type personality in that slot.  Rod Fritz is not that guy.  He just
>  > > doesn't have the pipes for that slot.  Fritz is a good reporter and
>  > > would be a positive addition to WBZ, but not anchoring morning drive.
>
>

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