The importance of local talk radio

[Doug Drown]

Jonathan Schwartz worked at WNAC in the early '60s; in fact, he may have 
been there right up until the switch to Top 40.  I'm not sure.

He was at WQEW during its brief and memorable life as WNEW's "successor."  I 
don't know what he's doing now.

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>; 
"Alan Tolz" <atolz@comcast.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: The importance of local talk radio


> As I mentioned in an earlier posting, Norm Tulin went from WORL to WHN
> in New York. His air name in the Big Apple was Norm Stevens. Bill
> Marlowe worked at the same New York station as Tulin did, though not
> at the same time. When Marlowe worked there, I think the calls were
> WMGM. The station definitely had those calls at some point but I could
> be wrong about the calls being WMGM when Marlowe worked there. Didn't
> Palmer Payne move from WNAC or WRKO to WOR while both stations were
> still owned by RKO General? One would think that more WNAC/WRKO
> personalities would have found their way to WOR when the stations were
> co-owned. In fact, Marlowe might have been one of them. Didn't he do
> Music from Studio X on both WOR and WNAC (not as a simulcast but in
> different years)?
>
> And don't forget the road from Boston to New York will also get you
> from New York to Boston. Ed Walsh, who now anchors AM drive at WBZ
> (AM) grew up in the Boston area and, I guess, worked in radio here
> (though I don't know where) before making his way to New York, where
> he worked at WOR and WCBS before he returned to Boston.
>
> Oh, and I'm sure that nobody else remembers when Jonathan Schwartz
> (now of Sirius/XM, but also of the late WNEW (AM), WNYC, and maybe
> WQEW in its pre-Disney days) worked at WNAC. So he too went from
> Boston to New York. But he also went from New York to Boston. His
> first radio gig was at Pacifica's WBAI (FM).
>
> And going back even further, did Morgan Baker of the Housewives'
> Protective League program on the old WEEI 590 go to the Housewives'
> Protective League program on WCBS, where he assumed the air name of
> Galen Drake? The hosts in the various cities were selected because
> they sounded the same. All had great radio voices. If Baker did, in
> fact, make such a move, I doubt whether any listeners even noticed.
>
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>; "Alan Tolz" <atolz@comcast.net>
> Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Boston Radio Group"
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:00 PM
> Subject: Re: The importance of local talk radio
>
>
>> Kevin: You are correct; Palmer Payne did news at WOR after leaving
>> WRKO. There was another fellow whom I believe also worked at both
>> stations (though I may be wrong); his first name was Roger and he
>> had a last name that I could never quite catch --- something like
>> "Skivenas."  Ring any bells with anyone?
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
>> To: "Alan Tolz" <atolz@comcast.net>
>> Cc: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Dan.Strassberg"
>> <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Boston Radio Group"
>> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: The importance of local talk radio
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
>>>> Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Boston Radio
>>>> Group"
>>>> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:21 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: The importance of local talk radio
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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