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

[Donna Halper]

At 05:28 PM 12/30/2008, Laurence Glavin wrote:

> >Never forget that he ran one of the great local stations the region has ever
> >seen, maybe even the last AM/FM in the country where a 1kw daytimer
> >clobbered its sister full-powered FM in influence and revenue (kindly spare
> >us scholarly tomes on the meaning of full-powered. Thank you.) Even after
> >the sale to Costa/Eagle and a couple of frequency shifts, they were still
> >fighting to hold the local commitment, even when finances dictated
> >ever-increasing ethnic and brokered time hours and left WCCM without a news
> >staff, ironic given the number of very talented people who passed through
> >that facility over the years.

The WCCM was a requested call letter when the station's original 
owner, George H. Jaspert (who was originally with Westinghouse and 
served as an exec for WBZ in its formative years) put it on the air 6 
August 1947.