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David Allan Boucher leaving Bedtime Magic

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Via WMJX facebook
David Allan Boucher announced tonight that he will be leaving and soon winding down Bedtime Magic! 💜 💛

Boucher has hosted Bedtime Magic solo for 40 years and it has been the longest running and most successful night-time show in the history of Boston radio. He was the first voice on Magic when it signed on 40 years ago - and has been a mainstay on Magic 106.7 since. We will be celebrating his illustrious legacy with special programming, so continue to send in suggestions! 🎶

"40 years is a long time and I feel very fortunate to have been able to spend that time at one dial position, one time slot, on one great radio station. I’m very grateful to the generations of friends who spend so many years with us every night. Without them…there wouldn’t have been a show." - David Allan Boucher
 
raccoonradio said:
Via WMJX facebook
David Allan Boucher announced tonight that he will be leaving and soon winding down Bedtime Magic! 💜 💛

Boucher has hosted Bedtime Magic solo for 40 years and it has been the longest running and most successful night-time show in the history of Boston radio. He was the first voice on Magic when it signed on 40 years ago - and has been a mainstay on Magic 106.7 since. We will be celebrating his illustrious legacy with special programming, so continue to send in suggestions! 🎶

"40 years is a long time and I feel very fortunate to have been able to spend that time at one dial position, one time slot, on one great radio station. I’m very grateful to the generations of friends who spend so many years with us every night. Without them…there wouldn’t have been a show." - David Allan Boucher
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First Matty and now DAB. The legendary personalities are being sucked out of the FM dial. Thanks for putting Boston to bed for 40 years, Mr. Boucher.
 
40 years, 4 owners, he is at least my age ..... ya I can see why he is ready to hang it up.

And no way The Queen of Sap ends up in his place, they will bring someone in from another market, syndicate one of their own shows from another market, or voice track it first.

Although Audacity runs her on WRCH in CT.....
 
MRBIboredop said:
40 years, 4 owners, he is at least my age ..... ya I can see why he is ready to hang it up.

And no way The Queen of Sap ends up in his place, they will bring someone in from another market, syndicate one of their own shows from another market, or voice track it first.

Although Audacity runs her on WRCH in CT.....
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As much as I like her, and she was well loved with fans on WVBF. The internal management seems to hate her in Boston, just saying.
 
David's show was simulcast (or, to be more exact, co-voice-tracked) on "Magic 98.3" (WMGQ) in NJ for a few years. They replaced him with the Leeza Gibbons radio show (not sure if that's still around?), and now, they just have one of their in-house DJs voice-track the shift.
 
I would think Delilah is the most likely replacement.

She developed the format of her evening "love songs" show at the old WVBF-105.7, and I would think the distributors of her show (Premiere Networks) have long wanted to have it run in Boston.

Yes, I'd prefer that WMJX-106.7 develop a local replacement, but that probably won't happen.

It should be noted that at present, Delilah is heard on WSRS-96.1 in Worcester and WZID-95.7 in Manchester, New Hampshire, which penetrate portions of the Boston area. The show used to run on Plymouth's WPLM-99.1 but it has been discontinued there, which I think would give Premiere Networks more urgency to get it on a Boston station (yes, WPLM is a rimshot, but has a good signal in Boston and points south). I suspect that with David Allen Boucher retiring, Delilah's syndicator may have already contacted "Magic 106.7" about the station picking up the show (if they haven't, once they hear this news, I think they will quickly do so).

I haven't heard an exact retirement date for Boucher, but I suspect it will be around June 30th, as that's when the fiscal quarter ends for most companies.
 
I'm surprised it looks like they're retiring the Bedtime Magic brand along with David Alan Boucher. Everyone knows Bedtime Magic! Wasn't there a Bedtime Magic host-in-training on the weekends for quite a while? Looks like that's no longer the case and it's David every night.
 
With WMJX-106.7 apparently retiring the title "Bedtime Magic", it seems to me that the odds of the syndicated Delilah show replacing it have substantially gone up.

If David Allen Boucher were to be replaced by a local host(ess), I would think the title" Bedtime Magic" might have remained.
 
Loren & Wally and Matt Siegal are joining forces to create the new 'Magic At Night'. You heard it here first. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Now that DAB has announced his retirement, I am especially glad that I recorded airchecks of the full Bedtime Magic show (plus about 40 min of Matty) last time I was in Boston, in September 2021. 40 years on the same station, same timeslot is so rare in radio.

Kudos to Audacy for letting Boucher have a proper goodbye rather than quietly taking him off the air, like they did with Nancy Quill in 2020.
 
tapesfromtheradio said:
Kudos to Audacy for letting Boucher have a proper goodbye rather than quietly taking him off the air, like they did with Nancy Quill in 2020.
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When a legacy host chooses to retire, they often let them say goodbye with special programming. I don't think Nancy had chosen to retire yet when she was let go. They did, at least, let her say some goodbyes and mention some memories on her last scheduled show, which I listened to.
 
I doubt they will add Delilah. Wasn’t it discovered that her show wasn’t PPM friendly and it was dropped in a lot of those markets around 10 years ago? It’s come back on some iHeart stations but that’s about it.

B101 in Philadelphia runs music jockless after 7pm. My local Audacy AC runs John Tesh. There are plenty of other options out there.
 
If they're getting rid of the "Bedtime Magic" brand, maybe they'll just drop the "Magic" brand altogether. B101 in Philadelphia was called something else, I think More-FM for awhile.
 
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