Subject: Voice-over Flubs

[Kevin Vahey]

I know by 1964 WBOS was a Mutual affilate as I can remember a kindly
man by the name of Norm Ruby explaing the console to me and explaining
how they got their news from Mutual.



On 2/23/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> When did WNAC cease being a Mutual affiliate?  The Yankee Network and Mutual
> were organically connected for a long time under General Teleradio's
> ownership.  I gather WNAC left MBS when the network was sold(?)
>
> --And where does Norman Knight fit into this picture?  I think I'm correct
> that Knight was WNAC/Yankee's GM for some years before (or during?) the time
> began his own
> regional radio enterprise.  I think all the Knight Quality stations were
> Yankee affiliates when I was growing up in the '60s.  WHEB was also with NBC
> for years.
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>; "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> Cc: "Eli Polonsky" <elipolo@earthlink.net>; "Todd Glickman"
> <radio88@radio88.net>; <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Subject: Voice-over Flubs
>
>
> > WNAC might have carried Long John Nebel from Mutual, or his successor,
> > Larry King. I don't know how much Mutual WNAC ran in those days or
> > whether some other station had become the local Mutual affiliate by
> > then. But those are possibilities.
> >
> > -----
> > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> > eFax 1-707-215-6367
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <kvahey@comcast.net>
> > To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> > Cc: <kvahey@comcast.net>; "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>;
> > "Eli Polonsky" <elipolo@earthlink.net>; "Todd Glickman"
> > <radio88@radio88.net>; <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: Subject: Voice-over Flubs
> >
> >
> >>I remember CBS Radio making a big deal out of being the first to
> >>offer
> >> newscasts 24 hours a day and that was around 1974.
> >>
> >> I think WMEX went fulltime when Larry Glick arrived around 1964. My
> >> memories of all night radio go back to the early 60's. WEEI had
> >> Music
> >> Til Dawn that CBS ran on all their owned stations with local hosts.
> >> My
> >> brain says Jack Lazar was the Boston host. WHDH had  Norm Nathan and
> >> 'Sounds In The Night' He used the same opening with a train whisltle
> >> and a jazz piece that I can't recall the name of but if I heard it
> >> again I would know it. Before Dick Summer I believe BZ had Kevin
> >> O'Keefe overnight. I have no memory of what WNAC was doing overnight
> >> if anything.
> >
>
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