Jim Runyon

[Dave Doherty]

Hard to believe today with the rise of the sunbelt, but a top ten markets 
list circa 1967 would probably have beenn something like NY, Chicago, LA, 
Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco/San Jose, Houston, Pittsburgh, 
and Washington.




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From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 6:47 PM
To: "Rick Kelly" <rickkelly@gmail.com>; 
<boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org>; "Doug Drown" 
<revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Jim Runyon

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> Jim Runyon in mentioned in this TIME Magazine article about Chickenman 
> from 1967 saying he and his wife had moved to Boston.
>
> Boston in those days was still considered one of the top markets for radio 
> as the sunbelt cities hadn't exploded yet. I would guess in 1967 Boston 
> was the #6 market just a shade behind Detroit.
>
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843884,00.html
> Sent on from my BlackBerry® so typos are because of tiny keys
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:37:15
> To: Rick Kelly<rickkelly@gmail.com>; 
> <boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org>; Doug 
> Drown<revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>; 
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
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> Subject: Re: Jim Runyon
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> 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.
> Sent on from my BlackBerry® so typos are because of tiny keys
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Kelly <rickkelly@gmail.com>
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> 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
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