Kid's Show Hosts (was: WMUR)

[Doug Drown]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maureen Carney" <m_carney@yahoo.com>
To: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:25 PM
Subject: Kid's Show Hosts (was: WMUR)


> Most of the TV kid's hosts didn't set out to do that. It's what they had 
> to do to stay employed. Some were clowns or children's entertainers but 
> many were station announcers assigned to that particular show in the 
> course of their duties. The fact that so many are so fondly remembered 
> 40-50 years later is testiment to the fact they were professionals. The 
> good ones leared to live with it and like it to some degree, or to create 
> charaters that didn't rely on a studio audience.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Peter Q. George <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>
> To: Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net>; Bud Yacomb 
> <outofthebusiness@gmail.com>; boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:56:39 PM
> Subject: Re: WMUR
>
>
> --- Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> >I have often wondered whether Uncle Gus actually
>> hated kids or if parents
>> >who brought kids to be in the audience of a
>> low-budget TV show generally
>> raised brats.
>
>>From what I saw from watching Channel 9 over the
> years, Gus Bernier seemed to be a very down-to-earth
> person, at least it seemed that way on the air.  He
> was an ICON in New Hampshire television.  Even down
> here in the Boston area, people knew about Channel 9
> and Uncle Gus.
>
> As for Bob "Big Brother" Emery, this was not the first
> time I've heard about him not really "big" on kids.
> I'm sure everybody has had a bad day with a bunch of
> kids (especially when they're really bratty).
>
> Who knows....  since both Bob Emery and Gus Bernier
> are now deceased, we'll never know.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> I don't know about Uncle Gus Bernier, but there is a
>> long-standing urban
>> legend (that has been going around Massachusetts for
>> at least 35 years) to
>> the effect that "Big Brother" Bob Emery on WBZ-TV
>> couldn't stand children
>> and was once heard to make an exceedingly nasty
>> remark about them one day
>> before his mike had been turned off.
>> I've never quite believed it; I was on the show once
>> I when I was a little
>> kid and he seemed like a heck of a nice guy.  A
>> friend of mine from my
>> college days, who was raised in Needham, swears it's
>> true and that he heard
>> Emery say it.
>>
>> . . . And then there's the story about Channel 5's
>> Bozo (Frank Avruch) and
>> the squirrel joke.  We won't get into that.
>>
>> (Donna, can you confirm or deny any of this ---?)
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>>
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