RIP Leif Jensen WNAC Radio/TV

[Larry Weil]

This was all before my time at WNEV/WHDH.  I started there in Dec 1982 but spent the first three years working at the transmitter before moving to the studio to do Master Control.

Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH

Sent from my iPhone, so please excuse the brevity.

On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow we missed this.
> 
> Leif was 'the voice' on Channel 7 for decades ( also on WNAC 680 )
> 
> I first met him circa 1969 when I took a summer relief gig at Channel
> 7 which had just moved to Bullfinch Place.
> 
> Perhaps Larry Weil can fill in some blanks but back then the announce
> booth sat inside master control and it was almost something out of
> Star Trek the way it was designed. Leif was a heavy smoker but he was
> very gracious to young people like myself getting into the biz.
> 
> WNAC-TV was well designed except that they bought a switcher from
> Northern Electric in Canada that had major problems with audio follow
> video. Leif had the challenge of not only saying 'WNAC-TV Boston' but
> had to add 'Your RKO General Station'.
> 
> Leif pleaded with station bosses to rebrand Channel 7 WRKO-TV to cash
> in with the younger crowd but it went nowhere.
> 
> He was a good man.
> 
> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=158458333#fbLoggedOut
> 
> He the main booth voice of WNAC and later WNEV
> 
> Final WNAC-TV sign off
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ257Sdl8XA
> 
> Minutes later he signed WNEV-TV on
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-rHMo4tTw
> 
> He son was killed in a car crash a few weeks ago and I never put 2 and
> 2 together until now.
> http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120817/OBITS02/208170350