Talk shows through the ages

[Kevin Vahey]

As far as phone talk is concerned many have credited Maxwell E
Richmond with inventing the idea when he brought Jerry Williams in
around 1957.

I don't know if Mac was first ( certainly was in Boston ) but you got
to admit the man was a mad genius when it came to radio. With that
night signal they never should have been a major factor in Boston..but

My mother listened to WHDH around the clock but when Jerry came on she
would tune to 1510.

On 8/28/07, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> I remember Louise Morgan very well.  She had a show on Channel 7 every
> weekday afternoon.  I don't think it was at the same time as Big Brother,
> though, as 7 would have been running CBS' soap "Search for Tomorrow" around
> that time (12:30).  I think Louise was on at 1.  Gus Saunders was on the
> show with her.
>
> -Doug
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>; "Keating Willcox"
> <kwillcox@wnsh.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Talk shows through the ages
>
>
> > 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.
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> > > eFax 1-707-215-6367
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 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
> > > Subject: Re:
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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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