The clout of Bruce Bradley

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That is a rather broad statement about the three people mentioned.

Of the three, everyone I knew - at least in management - liked Jim
Lightfoot. Jim had a great sense of humor and was somewhat of a joker.

I only had contact with Si now and then, but rarely heard anything negative
about him.

When it comes to Donald McGannon for most of us that would be like talking
about the President or the Pope or a King. He was in the big office on Park
Avenue and I don't think he could be accused of
management-by-walking-around. Orders came down the line from on high. He was
always pleasant in person in a very executive kind of way.

Whatever else, Group W as a total organization was a class act in my opinion
whether by design or fear of the FCC. It was rather conservative while at
the same time being one of the most creative organizations.

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-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Kevin Vahey
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:32 PM
To: Scott Fybush
Cc: Don A; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: The clout of Bruce Bradley

One thing is obvious. People who worked at BZ in those days do not
remember Donald McGannon, Si Yanoff or Jim Lightfoot fondly but
McGannon is the name they mention most.

I worked with Win Baker at WNEV and he was no fan of Westinghouse either.

On 3/12/08, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
> Kevin Vahey wrote:
> > I received an email overnight that Bruce is alive and living in
> > Arizona and is aware of this thread. He was doing talk in the Phoenix
> > area until 2 years ago.
> >
> > He also does not want to talk to anybody about Boston ever.
> >
> > Sad.
>
>
> Yup - that's what I was told when I tried to track him down for the 1993
> radio history special I did with Brudnoy. I believe he was in St. Louis
> at that point, but the answer was the same...not interested.
>
> (However, that was also the response I got at the time from Larry Glick,
> and happily, he's reconsidered since then.)
>
> s
>