Marvin Burak (was Re: passing of Joe Kruger)

[Dan.Strassberg]

Do you also remember Marvin Burak (and his wife)? Marvin was the guy
from New Orleans who did Boston's first FM call-in talk show late
nights on WHIL-FM right after the station first went on the air. His
wife was the producer, IIRC. I don't think WHIL had a tape delay
system so I think Marvin had to repeat what the callers said, Sherm
Feller style. Marvin was not what I'd call a major-market talent;>)

BTW, for the person (I think it was Laurence) who called WHIL-FM a
low-power station, well, yes and no. Class B FMs were limited to 20 kW
@ 500' AAT in those days. WHIL-FM ran the full 20 kW. But the antenna
(I think it was a high gain job with maybe six bays) was side-mounted
on the WHIL (AM) tower, so the HAAT was only a tad more than
100'--definitely not competitive even in an era when I don't think any
Boston-area FM (except maybe WGBH-FM) had an HAAT much higher than
500'. IIRC, neither the Pru nor any of the Newton/Needham tall towers
had yet been built. FMs and TVs were scattered all around the area:
Old Hancock Building, Zion Hill, Medford Hillside, Lexington, Great
Blue Hill, Brighton.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris2526" <chris2526@comcast.net>
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: passing of Joe Kruger


> Hi Dan, you are 100% correct on this one, remember how it played out
> further....Simon Geller applied for 1540 in Gloucester keeping WMEX
> from going 50 KW day from Squantum and when the Richmonds
> discovered it was one of their own transmitter engineers causing
> their
> problem they fired him.
> Years later it moved and morphed into WKXR which I almost bought
> along with the FM for peanuts in the early 80's
> Judge Tarlow kept everything including every Western Union telegram
> from the FCC, original WIBL tower was on Revere Beach Parkway
> in the area where 93 crosses, when the Judge bought the Medford dump
> was when 1430 appeared with 500 watts at # 99
> Happy New Year
> Chris