The importance of local talk radio

Dan.Strassberg dan.strassberg@att.net
Mon Nov 24 13:46:05 EST 2008


Bradley came from upstate New York. ISTR hearing that he grew up in
the Utica/Rome area. I remember him at WROW Albany when I was in
college there before he came to Boston. He may have worked in Buffalo
between Albany and Boston. What station did he move to in New York
City? WABC?

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> Boston sent its share of people to New York---namely Bruce Bradley,
> Dick Summer, and Jay Dunn.?? On the news side, Jack Welby and Morton
> Dean.?? I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting.??
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> Boston for some reason was not a great feeder for NY radio. Frank
> Kingston Smith did land at WABC and I am pretty sure Palmer Payne
> worked in NYC as well. Chicago got from Boston JJ Jeffrey, Chuck
> Knapp, Jerry Williams, Paul Benzaquin, Larry Lujack and Roy Leonard
> to
> name a few.
>
> Buffalo sent many to Boston including Stan Roberts, Jackson
> Armstrong
> and Bud Bullou.
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> On 11/24/08, Alan Tolz <atolz@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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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>> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
>> Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Boston Radio Group"
>> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
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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.
>>>
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