Talk shows through the ages

[Kevin Vahey]

Donna may have more on her but I *think* the first woman show in
Boston was done by Louise Morgan on WNAC.

She was on Channel 7 as well I *think* at the same time as Big Brother on Ch 4

On 8/27/07, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:
> As I grew up in New York in the '40s, I remember Mary-Margaret McBride
> under her own name on WEAF and before that as the first (I believe)
> Martha Dean on WOR. (Mary-Margaret may even have gone on to WABC (770,
> not 880) after she left WEAF/WNBC.) Her programs certainly had more
> emphasis on cooking than shows not directed at a female audience, and,
> IIRC, her sponsors included a lot of foodstuffs and household products
> that didn't advertise much on other programs. But aside from the chef
> guests, I remember her talking with many authors of books not
> strictly, or even primarily, aimed at a female audience. Probably the
> NPR talk shows On Point (Tom Ashbrook) and Fresh Air (Terri Gross) are
> the closest in content today to what Mary-Margaret covered back then.
> Although it was almost two decades before two-way telephone talk
> became technically feasible, there was A LOT of pretty decent talk
> programming in those days (at least in New York City). Tex McCrary and
> Jinx Falkenburg's AM drive show was one such program. Ed and Pegeen
> Fitzgerald's was another. Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband (whose
> name I can't recall) had a third. The last two shows I mentioned were
> on WOR. Also on WOR was the precursor of many of today's infomercials
> that tout miracle cures for everything under the sun--Carleton
> Fredericks. My impression was that Fredericks bought the time from the
> station and sold the ads himself--just as in today's brokered-time
> shows. There doesn't seem to be much new under the sun--at least in
> radio.
>
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> From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> To: "Bill O'Neill" <me@billoneill.us>; "Keating Willcox"
> <kwillcox@wnsh.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:40 PM
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> > Actually, these days there are a lot of things that both guys and
> > ladies like to listen to-- it used to be that only guys liked
> > sports,
>
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