my interview with Donna Halper today

[Kevin Vahey]

Tracy Roach on WBCN was the first fulltime female jock on a major Boston
outlet.

Robin Young at WBZ-AM was doing weekends around 1975.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNM5_cVsuk

But it was not a radio thing, the first full-time female news anchor in
Boston was Natalie Jacobson in 1976.

Donna you should track down Barbara Borin as she broke ground as a weekend
sports anchor back in 1972. She is Barbara Franzoso today and lives in NH.




On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

>  On 1/7/2013 2:18 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
> WMUA may have been the exception to the rule back then.
>
>
> I think it depended on the college.  I certainly heard female voices on
> WBUR and WERS in those days.  On the other hand WAMF at Amherst College
> (now WAMH and shared with Hampshire) had no female voices, probably because
> Amherst was an all-male school at the time.
>
>
>  MIT's WTBS which in 1967 was open to anybody who wandered in had no
> females at all. I don't think there was a policy against women but there
> was no recruitment either. Honestly if you look back at mid 1960's Boston
> radio women had almost no presence at all. WNAC had Louise Morgan but who
> else?
>
>
> Janet Baker-Carr on WXHR, Nermal Daniere (sp?) on WBCN, Robin on WHDH on
> Sunday morning.  And in the early 1950s, I remember Kate Smith with a daily
> show on one of the networks.
>
> I suspect Donna can rattle off every one of the women on the radio in
> those days.  In fact, since I'm posting after midnight, she probably
> already has done so.
>
>
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