It's Official: John Bassett Retires As GM Of WCCM

[Donna Halper]

At 04:53 PM 12/27/2008, TVNETDUDE@aol.com wrote:
>Apparently, he had a long and varied career in Boston radio
>before  he was tapped by Curt Gowdy to become the GM of WCCM (maybe WCGY-FM
>too?).

He goes all the way back to WBZ in the late 1950s.  When WBZ dropped 
the last of its NBC network programming, circa 1957, they went live 
and local.  They named their 5 air personalities "the Live 
Five."  John Bassett was one of them.