Jim Runyon

[Kevin Vahey]

He was at HDH circa 1968 or so.  If memory serves he replaced Fred B Cole when HDH was trying to get a younger voice.  
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Kelly <rickkelly@gmail.com>
Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:24:10 
To: Doug Drown<revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Jim Runyon

I believe you are right about him being at WHDH... When I was at Grahm
Junior College in the early seventies, someone had done an interview
with Runyon... I have it on a reel to reel... Somewhere...

-Rick Kelly


On 9/27/10, Doug Drown <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> Jim Runyon's famed 1960s "Chicken Man" radio series came to my mind a few
> minutes ago, for some reason, so I looked up Runyon in Wikipedia.  It
> mentions him serving in the Korean War, then joining KYW (now WTAM) in
> Cleveland in 1961, leaving there for WCFL in Chicago in 1965, then returning
> to Cleveland later in the '60s, where he remained until his death in 1973.
>
> Didn't Runyon work at WHDH at one point . . . or is my memory going?
>
> -Doug
>
>