Nightcap

[Kevin Vahey]

I know by the time King took over only 28 stations cleared overnight
including WITS-1510.

When exactly did Mutual become distributed by satellite alone?

I remember they bought WCFL in Chicago around 1980 to be the flagship
and they called it lifestyle radio and in just a few months they had
done the impossible getting a 0.1 for the entire day.

Even though I seldom listened to him on WBAL
I was impressed by the loyalty of his audience. While much different
than Glick they shared the same audience of shutins, lonely people,
truckers and the like.

I guess what bothers me the most about Steve leaving BZ is the way it
was handled. That audience deserved a chance to say goodbye to him and
for him to do the same. Doesn't anybody at CBS remember that
ultimately this is a one on one business, the host (station) and
listener.



On 1/3/09, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
> At 06:01 PM 1/3/2009, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>>I stumbled across Nightcap one night around 1974. At that time it was
>>heard on 3 stations WBAL Baltimore, WHAS Louisville and KSL Salt Lake
>>City and those 3 stations covered the lower 48.
>
> I wrote about Herb Jepko and the Nitecaps show in my new book.  There
> is also a tribute website to him here.  www.nitecaps.net   He was the
> first nationally, satellite syndicated talker.
>
>