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

[Dan.Strassberg]

I wondered if it was THAT John Bassett. His program on WBZ was on in 
the early evening. I'm pretty sure it had a name (that is, it wasn't 
just "The John Bassett Show"), but I don't remember the name, nor do I 
remember the hours when it aired (best guess: 7:00PM to midnight). As 
I remember the original "Live Five, they were: Carl DeSuze in AM drive 
(probably 5:30 to 10:00), Leo Egan (late morning--probably 10:00 to 
1:00), Bill Marlowe (early afternoon (1:00 to 3:00), Norm Prescott (PM 
drive 3:00 to 7:00), and Bassett. Dave Maynard was not one of the 
original five; he was working at WBZ-TV but not full time. His "day 
job" was at WORL 950, but he joined 'BZ within its first year as an 
indepedent station. When he joined BZ, my guess is that he initially 
replaced either Egan or Marlowe but moved into PM drive after a short 
while.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: <TVNETDUDE@aol.com>; 
<boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: It's Official: John Bassett Retires As GM Of WCCM


> 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.