1150 and 1600 old days

[Jim Hall]

WCOP's big problem with top 40 was that you couldn't hear them at the beaches on the north shore. I listened to WCOP at home in the city, but when we got a summer cottage at Hampton Beach, you could get WMEX clearly, but WCOP was non-existent even in the daytime. 

I think Ken Mayer did well because those were the days when all the stations except WHDH signed off at midnight on Sunday/Monday. WHDH stayed on with Norm Nathan's jazz show. Ken had soooo many commercials, all of which he read himself. But he played a lot of comedy albums too, which made the show interesting.


 

--But even 1600 had Ken Mayer who had a substantial cult following between Midnight and 2 AM every Monday. WCOP had a slight run with Top 40 but their -night signal was worse than WMEX. Ken Carter hosted a very successful dance show on Saturday's in Cambridge but otherwise not much except national NBC sports events like the World Series.