The clout of Bruce Bradley

Jon Maguire w1mnk@tampabay.rr.com
Wed Mar 12 18:56:45 EDT 2008


At my house we call him "Sy Yapoff" :-)

Jon W1MNK Brandon FL USA

Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> Didn't Yanoff read station editorials on the air? I think so, and Jess
> Cain's takeoff on him was Sy Yanaroff--a guy with a weak, high voice,
> who delivered absolutely incoherent "editorials" in a monotone.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> To: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
> Cc: "Don A" <donald_astelle@yahoo.com>;
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:31 PM
> 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
>>>
>


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