Kid's Show Hosts (was: WMUR)

[Kevin Vahey]

Bozo one year had Ringmaster Curt (Curt Gowdy)

Nozo was Bruins announcer Bill Harrington who later went to news.

Bill's wife was Miss Jean on Romper Room

On 3/24/08, Maureen Carney <m_carney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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