R.I.P Steve Fredericks

[Kevin Vahey]

To clear up something. Steve actually worked for N W Ayer which was an ad
agency that had the Philadelphia 76ers radio rights and leased the time
from WCAU.

The NBA of 1965 was still a low budget league and the Sixers were just
getting started having moved from Syracuse.

The WMEX of 1965 was at the top of the heap. When he got there his first
job was driving the WMEX Commuter Cruiser where he would pick a license
plate and if you heard the number you would win $10. Mac did this as he
wanted him to learn the area first.

Mac wanted Al Kennedy to do the show but Al did not want to ruffle feathers
with his State House contacts. Al broke quite a few stories about Beacon
Hill.

Fred Dryfus took over from Jerry briefly but Mac knew it would be short
term.







On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
wrote:
>
> Lemme see if I can get this right: Moving from Philly to Boston was
> (or should have been) a step down, but moving from New York to Boston
> was not and moving from San Francisco to Boston was not. And you have
> the nerve to say that you live on earth? If you don't in fact live on
> another planet, you certainly do have a weirdly distorted sense of
> reality.
>
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <Donald_Astelle@Yahoo.com>
> To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "B-R-I"
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:45 PM
>
> Subject: Re: R.I.P Steve Fredericks
>
>
>>
>>
>>> He left Philly to come
>>> to Boston and after several moves within the Boston market, he
>>> returned to Philly. AFAIK, once he returned to Philly, the only
>>> moves
>>> he made were among CBS O&O stations in Philly: WCAU (I don't think
>>> he
>>> was ever on that frequency after it became WPHT) and WIP (AM). So
>>> now
>>> we've established that Fredericks was not unique in returning to a
>>> larger market after detouring to a smaller one.
>>
>>
>> What was unique was that Philly was his home town. (and there was no
>> girl in brookline.), and he went back "home" where there was a
>> welcome mat.
>>
>>> I can name a few
>>> others who have gone similar routes: I believe that Jerry Williams
>>> might have been one. After he left Chicago and returned to Boston,
>>> didn't he go very briefly to New York (WMCA, maybe) before
>>> returning,
>>> yet again, to Boston?
>>
>>
>> Where was the smaller market?  His New York experience lasted all of
>> about 3 weeks....for (at the time) struggling little WMCA.)
>>
>>> Oh, and Gene Burns left Boston for New York
>>> (WOR), then moved to San Francisco (market #4 but New York is
>>> market
>>> #1).
>>
>>
>> We're talking apples and oranges  Boucing around the Major Markets
>> is all pretty much lateral moves.
>>
>> But again, moving from Clear Channel CBS O&O WCAU to Max Richmonds
>> WMEX (5KW at night) to do a late night talk show isn't quite a
>> lateral move.
>>
>> I'm sure career couselors would've advised against it.
>>
>> But then again, there was a girl in Brookline...and that changes
>> everything.
>
>