Getting your First Class ticket (was: Music Till Dawn on WEEI)

[Dan.Strassberg]

When they bought WMEX out of bankruptcy for, IIRC, $211,000, in 1957,
they already owned WPGC Morningside MD (Washington DC), then, I
believe, a 10-kW daytimer, and sister FM, WRNC (now WPGC-FM) licensed
to Oakland MD.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
To: <kvahey@comcast.net>; "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio Interest"
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Getting your First Class ticket (was: Music Till Dawn on
WEEI)


>I don't remember whether this question has been asked before: What
>was the background of the Richmond brothers?  Were they originally
>professional broadcasters, or were they entrepreneurs?  I don't know
>anything about em.   -Doug
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
> Cc: "Boston Radio Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Getting your First Class ticket (was: Music Till Dawn
> on WEEI)
>
>
>> Arnie is a very modest man.
>>
>> One night I was in the Boston Press Club next to Channel 7. This
>> would
>> be 1970 or so. Arnie never returned to the air after Mac beat him
>> in
>> court and he was doing sales at RKO.
>>
>> I mentioned to him it would be great to hear him again and his
>> reply
>> was why...nobody would remember me.
>>
>> Later that year WBZ had a weekend event where many old Boston jocks
>> from all stations returned. Arnie found out that people did
>> remember
>> him.
>>
>> He built KISS from nothing and then hit megabucks with channel 66.
>> He
>> learned well from Mac Richmond and unlike Mac had a heart. I have
>> never heard a bad word spoken of him.
>