Music Till Dawn on WEEI

[Doug Drown]

Interesting story --- and I would guess Westinghouse Electric's pockets were 
deeper than CBS's.  Just goes to show ya: When it comes to spending money, 
them that has the most complain the loudest.   -Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kvahey@comcast.net>
To: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>; 
"Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Music Till Dawn on WEEI


> One byproduct of WEEI being owned by CBS was increased labor costs at
> every major Boston station.
>
> IBEW local 1228 mandated that all technicians had to be paid the same
> rate and working conditions that WEEI received and that was the rate
> paid at WCBS.
>
> Well this didn't sit well with Westinghouse and they devised a system
> to eliminate union jobs. The WEEI contract stated that a technician
> must operate anything with a VU meter. So WBZ whipped up combo boards
> with no VU meters and made the jocks run them.
>
> I believe Jerry Williams was the only talent that had a board op as he
> demanded it. Glick ran his own board. BZ still had a union tech in
> master control who babysat the delay system.