Roy Leonard

[Doug Drown]

Roy was at CJAD after leaving WNAC and before going to WGN.  Several years 
ago I had a polite dispute with someone on the Board about this; my 
fellow-radio aficionado couldn't remember Roy being in Montreal.  I know he 
was there around 1970, as my parents and I used to summer at Lake Champlain 
and I was surprised to hear his voice on the radio one day.   -Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: <Cdsull502@aol.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Roy Leonard


> He was at WHDH prior to WNAC. I don't remember whether he went to CJAD
> between WHDH and WNAC or whether Montreal was a detour on his way from
> WNAC to WGN. I think it was the latter. At WHDH, he hosted the Two and
> Eight Date, which ran from 2:00 to 4:00PM and 8:00 to 10:00PM daily.
> The idea of having air personalities on a split schedule seemed to
> originate at WNEW (AM), where first Martin Bloch and then Jerry
> Marshall and Willam B Williams and others were on with the Make
> Believe Ballroom from 10:00AM to noon and then 5:35 to 7:00 or 7:30PM.
> I think WNEW GM Bernice Judis gets credit for that idea, which was
> widely copied, though perhaps first copied at WHDH.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Cdsull502@aol.com>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 9:33 PM
> Subject: Roy Leonard
>
>
>>I noticed that WGN legend Roy Leonard introduced Jess Cain's widow
>>at the
>> Radio Hall of Fame ceremonies last night.  He spoke of working  at
>> WHDH with
>> Jess and others.   My Boston memories of him only  remember him at
>> WNAC.   When
>> was he at WHDH and what did he do there?  I assume it was prior to
>> his work at
>> WNAC.
>>
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