The importance of local talk radio

[Alan Tolz]

Actually, the pipeline between Hartford and Philadelphia was quite strong in 
the 1960's as Jim Nettleton, John Wade, Bill Corsair (on the talk radio 
side) and others went from WPOP and WDRC to WFIL with regularity.

Alan
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> We have talked about this before but before satellite programming took
> hold New England had a baseball like farm system for radio.
>
> Bangor, Burlington, Pittsfield were class A
> Manchester, Portland, Worcester, Springfield were AA
>
> Providence and Hartford AAA  and then Boston
>
> Of course Boston became a feeder not so much for New York but Chicago.
>
> I remember Springfield having 2 great Top 40 stations WHYN and WTXL.
> Worcester WORC and WAAB, Providence WPRO and WICE and Hartford WPOP
> and WDRC.
>
> Quite a number of smaller stations also had talk shows and actual
> newsrooms. I remember in the late 60's visiting a friend at WNBP and
> the lead story was how the fire department rescued a cat from a tree.
>