R.I.P Steve Fredericks

[Karen McTrotsky]

The notion that RKO wanted Fredericks in '81 is fascinating. The original
RKO lineup included dreary lifestyle/shrink talk in midday but lifestyle
talk in midday at the time was considered cutting edge in those days.  I
would conjecture they could have used him instead of the Tony Pepper-Janet
Jeghelian chat program (Steve and Janet would have lasted until the first
stop set), or was the choice before  Mainella for the 6-8 sports show.

On 27 April 2012 18:16, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:

> Steve was back at WMEX in October of 1975 as one of his former producers
> flew down from Ottawa for Game 7 and Steve was doing afternoon talk. WMEX
> had just gotten the radio contract from the Red Sox starting with the
> post-season that year which to this day is one of the head scratchers in
> Boston radio history.
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> Dick Richmond figured correctly that the Red Sox would drive up the
> selling price and enter Joe Scallon and friends.
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> Steve told me that he had mixed feelings about going back to Philly but a
> WCAU exec told him CBS planned to sell WEEI if another 50,000 watt property
> opened up which indeed happened a few years later in Dallas.
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> He told me WRKO made him an offer to do talk in 1981 but he was happy in
> Philly. WEEI also made him an offer when they went all sports which he
> almost took as he was doing part time at WFAN after WCAU ceased to exist in
> 1990 with no warning.
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Karen McTrotsky <karenmctrotsky@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Sorry to be so late to respond, but thank you, Kevin, for reminding me
>> that
>> Fredericks went back to WEEI when they started Sports Final. I do remember
>> Fredericks being at WMEX/WITS in the 77-78 time period, simultaneous with
>> Ordway, and the flip to WITS came in April or May of 78, so if he was back
>> in Philly by 1978 I surmise it was a brief tenure, but then they were both
>> CBS O & Os. But you know better than I.
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>> I thought Fredricks did AM drive or middays at WMEX/WITS for a spell
>> ("Welcome to our house"), either right before or right  after the
>> brilliant
>> Joe Scallon move to install Bob Hudson in the morning. The Emperor, by the
>> way, is said to have insisted that the station hire Jim "Red" Hannon,
>> track
>> announcer at Suffolk Downs, to do morning drive sports so he'd have the
>> inside line on the day's races at the East Boston Oval.
>>
>> Sports Final, a sort of SportsCenter before cable networks, was Andelman's
>> idea.  He was a big fan of the Win Elliot Sports Central USA and Sports
>> World Roundup shows on the CBS net and openly talked about creating such a
>> nightly show on WEEI during Sports Huddle broadcasts.  He thought it would
>> be great for gamblers. I think Ted Sarandis was a host for a while.
>>
>> Still hoping someone has a tape of the former Steven Oxman doing the
>> Havlicek Stole the Ball game from the Sixers perspective over One-to-One
>> Radio in Philadelphia, WCAU, Radio 121.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
>> To: Karen McTrotsky <karenmctrotsky@gmail.com>
>> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:27:06 -0400
>> Subject: Re: R.I.P Steve Fredericks
>> Steve left WMEX/WITS and went back to WEEI when they started 'Sports
>> Final'
>> at 10 PM but he was back in Philly for good by 1978.
>> He was replaced at WITS by Glenn Ordway.
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>> He did Harvard football in 1975 on WMEX.
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