Larry Glick

[kvahey@comcast.net]

I was told once that Mac Richmond and the owner of WMCA talked often
on how to compete with the big boys. The formats did mirror each other
and a friend who worked at WMCA said J Peter watched WMEX carefully.
MCA wasn't as signal challenged as WMEX as it covered the city and
Long Island well but not New Jersey having to protect WFIL
Philadelphia.

I remember when Glick first appeared unannounced on WBZ as he filled
in for some forgotten DJ in late 1968. One hour into the show it was
obvious the DJ would never be heard from again as the phones exploded.

BTW I have that stupid German marching song stuck in my head and I
haven't heard it in almost 30 years.

On 3/9/08, Sid Schweiger <sid@wrko.com> wrote:
>
> >>I always thought it odd that both WBZ & WMEX
> broke format by having a talk show kind of stuck in the middle of an
> otherwise Top 40 format.  Don't recall hearing that in other markets
> (though WABC did have to carry Don McNeil''s Breakfast Club until
> around 1970 or so).<<
>
> WMCA carried Barry Gray's talk show ("head of the Jewish mafia," as B.
> Mitchel Reed would call him) at 11 PM every night during the Good Guys era.
>
> Don McNeil's Breakfast Club disappeared on the last weekday of 1967.
> 1/1/1968 was the day that ABC Radio debuted the
> four-networks-on-one-network-circuit concept, so long-form shows like the
> Breakfast Club were impossible to do (in the days before satellite
> distribution).
>
> Sid Schweiger
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>