Subject: Re: demise of WHDH (AM)

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 5 Jan 2009 Mark Laurence wrote:

> The Herald Traveler and Record American; and Record American and 
> Herald Traveler continued that publication schedule but not for  long.
>  The switching of the masthead names ended along with the  evening
> edition, then it became the Herald American as the paper got  a badly
> needed facelift.  Whoever had thought it was a good idea to  replace
> the region's largest daily circulation paper with the design  of the
> city's smallest paper, was not thinking too clearly.

I never heard anything a the time about a Record American Herald 
Traveler.  The names were always the other way around.  Some people 
abbreviated it by calling it the Herald Record.  The joke was calling 
it the Herald Traveler Record American Times Examiner Item.  

As I recall, it became the Herald American some time before it 
returned to the tabloid format.  I also think the Sunday paper may 
have gone to the tabloid format before the daily paper (although for 
many years the Sunday Advertiser was a broadsheet).

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