WEZE, WCOP and NBC

[Jon Maguire]

Doug, Gus was doing his show on WCOP for part, if not all of my years 
there (1970-75). I used to occasionaly
check his remote equipment, and patch 'em him in at air time.

Jon Maguire (retiring from 30 years of IT with IBM, looking to get back 
into my first love, broadcast engineering :-)

Doug Drown wrote:
> <<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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Cc: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>;
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:55 PM
> Subject: Re: WEZE, WCOP and NBC
>
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
>