Larry Glick

[Maureen Carney]

I thought ABC got a waiver from the FCC to keep Breakfast Club on the air for affiliates that still wanted to carry, even though it was on borrowed time at that point. That's what I remember reading in Sterling Quinlan's "Inside ABC" at least.


----- Original Message ----
From: Sid Schweiger <sid@wrko.com>
To: (newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 8:23:51 AM
Subject: RE: Larry Glick


>>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).

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