RIP Al Perry - former GM of WBCN

[Bob Nelson]

>>the woman who ran the station, whose name I've
momentarily forgotten, wanted to do a news-talk format.

The name Jane Christo comes to mind but who knows,
>From MA Broadcasters Hall of Fame
Visionary General Manager of WBUR from 1979–2004. One of the country’s
first female managers of a top 10 radio station in a major market; Jane
transformed a special-interest radio station with a polyglot format in the
1970s into a competitive mainstream radio station by the mid-1980s, and
into one of Boston’s top 10 radio stations by the mid-1990s. She
demonstrated to her colleagues around the country that the future of public
radio was in news and information. She pioneered new techniques in public
radio fund-raising, and saw the potential of the Internet far earlier than
most. She took local productions “Car Talk,” “Only A Game,” “Here and Now,”
“The Connection,” and “On Point” to a national audience.

https://www.massbroadcastershof.org/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-2012/jane-christo/

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 1:31 PM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, A Joseph Ross wrote:
>
> > People seem to have forgotten that WBUR was a classical station for
> awhile
> > in the 1970s and 1980s, for most of the day until 4:00 PM, when they
> carried
> > all Things Considered.
>
> What I heard was that then-B.U. President John Silber wanted itto play
> classical music, but the woman who ran the station, whose name I've
> momentarily forgotten, wanted to do a news-talk format.
>
>
> Rob
>