WEZE, WCOP and NBC

[Doug Drown]

<<I remember hearing the news intro and Palmer Payne doing the news on a
Portland station in the summer of 65. I am pretty certain that the Gus
Saunders cooking show was fed on the Yankee until WNAC died.>>

You're right --- Gus Saunders' Yankee Kitchen show was also on the Yankee
Network until the day of its demise.  I'd forgotten that.  I'm not sure all
the stations carried it, though.  And Palmer Payne was one of the last
anchors.  He remained with WRKO for some time after the format switch.

-Doug

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> Dan The Yankee Network was still on WNAC as late as the mid 60's as
> they were still using Yankee Doodle as a news intro. It may well have
> survived until the change to WRKO. I remember hearing the news intro
> and Palmer Payne doing the news on a Portland station in the summer of
> 65. I am pretty certain that the Gus Saunders cooking show was fed on
> the Yankee until WNAC died.