Memories of John Garabedian and V-66...

[Dan Strassberg]

I've heard that Jim McAllister died quite a few years ago at a VERY early
age. He had left radio and had gone into his family's landscaping business.
He was WGTR's one-person news department and the news on WGTR sounded
absolutely professional--top flight. WGTR had a stringer at the State House:
Kevin McNicholas, who I guess produced reports for several other
stations--and I believe that he is doing it to this day--35 years later.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Glazer" <hmglaz@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Re: Memories of John Garabedian and V-66...


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>; Bob Nelson
> <raccoonradio@mail.com>; Boston Radio Interest
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Memories of John Garabedian and V-66...
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>
> > <<I'm quite sure that Home Service Broadcasting, the original licensee
of
> > WGTR, was founded several years before 1969 (maybe 1966) and that WGTR
did
> > not sign on until several years
> > after 1969 (I'm almost positive it was 1972;>>
> >
> > It was certainly in the early '70s, because I was out of college and
back
> > living in the Gardner-Fitchburg area.
> >
>
> 1972 sounds right. I discovered it as a senior in high school, which would
> have been 1972-73, and being the obsessed BCB (broadcast band) monitor I
was
> back then, it's unlikely GTR's presence would have escaped me for long.
>
> Garabedian used to split airtime with Don Kelley on GTR. There was one
> newscaster, Jim McAllister ... not sure whatever happened to him. I
believe
> Mark Parenteau worked at GTR for a while, too.
>
> Howard
>
>