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Bygone Stations/Formats/DJs/Etc

nowradioguy said:
96.9 WTKK: Eagan and Braude, Michael Graham, Jay Severin;
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I will concur with this, maybe not the first part. I used to listen to TKK weekends when I was outside working on my house. It kept me company for many hours of labor, I built a garage, workshop, stables, a dormer on my house, and much more, all while listening.

The absolutely funniest piece of radio I ever heard was the phantom gourmet guys punking this "guest" they had on claiming their show was all about mushrooms. I guess he was some sort of mushroom expert. I was laughing so hard I almost fell off the roof I was shingling.

Now all we have is Krazy K000nah.
 
Cap-n Spackle said:
I used to really enjoy when Steve Sweeney would do a segment on Jerry's show every now and then.
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I remember when Jerry came back to Boston the second time. He used to open his show with "Kevin ... I'm baaa-aaack, Kevin."
 
LetsShakeOnIt said:
I remember a guy named Bob Melvin, who had a great radio voice, did the night time sports on EEI.
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A couple of great voices I recall are Listo Fisher, who did news on WBZ and played classical music on WCRB (the current noncommercial one on 99.5), and George Taylor Morris, the morning man on WCOZ (and later the host of the syndicated "Reeling in the Years").
 
Speaking of WCRB, they used to have a great variety/humor show simply called WCRB Saturday Night. Some of their material was shared with WCLV in Cleveland, which had a similar show.
 
Softrock 103 - "George without the Harrasin'" "The Bee Gees without the BeeEss".. "Hall & Oates without the Corn".. "Jackson Brown without Deep Purple" How's that?
1510 WITS - The "Wits end of the dial"
103.3 WMRQ - Quality Rock (Somewhere after WHTT 103.3 and before Oldies 103)
100.7 WKKT - "The Kat" before it became WZLX
The Smooth Jazzers, twice on 96.9 WCDJ and WSJZ, and 99.5 WOAZ
WVCA 104.9 in Gloucester, Massachusetts - Simon Gellar's station
850 WHDH (What a waste of an electric bill, now)
99.5 WSSH Boston's Wish
 
WMRQ was a short-lived format. If I remember it was a rather eclectic mix of rock, folk, with a lot of deep tracks. They even ran a new age music show on Sunday mornings.

WITS 1510 - Here is a bit of trivia that I bet you don't know: Click and Clack (who used to do a nationally syndicated car show out of WBUR) might very well have taken their names from two legendary Boston sportscasters, Cliff Keane and Larry Claflin. Better known as, you guessed it, Cliff and Claff.
 
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_Methuselah said:
I will concur with this, maybe not the first part. I used to listen to TKK weekends when I was outside working on my house. It kept me company for many hours of labor, I built a garage, workshop, stables, a dormer on my house, and much more, all while listening.

The absolutely funniest piece of radio I ever heard was the phantom gourmet guys punking this "guest" they had on claiming their show was all about mushrooms. I guess he was some sort of mushroom expert. I was laughing so hard I almost fell off the roof I was shingling.

Now all we have is Krazy K000nah.
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Thank you for reminding me of The Andelman Brothers on WTKK at 4:00 in the afternoon. They were a must listen, I don't know how I forgot them. One of their funniest bits was what to name a Jewish deli if one were to open in the North End. A caller suggested "Jerusalami".

Yep, we REALLY needed another hip hop station on 96.9, didn't we?
 
Does anybody remember Gene Burns on WRKO? There was also David Burdnoy who worked at WHDH, WRKO and WBZ.
 
If you don't mind including Worcester, how about the original 1310/WORC-AM. It was a Top 40s type station. The legendary Dave O'Gara (Dave-O on the radio) held down mornings along with his news guy, Phillip James Lagious, who sounded a little bit like Bullwinkle.

Dave is still around, in the business now for about 105 years. He does afternoons on NashIcon 98-9/WORC-FM. Dave O'Gara

There was another great Worcester Top 40s station called 14Q/WFTQ-AM. Here's a conversation about that station from the early days of these forums (the RadioInfo/Radio-Info days): https://radiodiscussions.com/threads/anyone-remember-wftq.499782/
 
I listened to "Clif & Claf" on 1510 WITS! Pat Whitley, Glen Ordway, Tom Shear.. Got into the 'spoken word' format in my youth.. No one has mentioned the "Sports Huddle" with Eddie, Mark, and Jim.. Found them on WHDH.. Great radio ! Clever humor!! Theater of the mind at it's best! "60 to 6" on WBZ, before they went all news during the day.. The WZLX quick sounder, they used to identify "Classic Hits" in their early years.
 
I loved WCRB Saturday Night. It's there I discovered I loved PDQ Bach. There was another Saturday night show...name escapes me...that was on WTBS at MIT. The had (among other things) the "Chicken Man" series, which I think came from WCFL Chicago. They also featured faux commercials for Banana Whackies breakfast cereal. This dates back to the late 60s, when WTBS was only 10 watts. I lived in Somerville at the time and could barely get the station, even with my antenna wrapped in aluminum foil (a la the Bundy family trying to watch the early Fox network).
 
I remember Sherm Feller, Fenway Park announcer, doing an afternoon show on WROL (WRYT?) AM 950 in the 70's that was pretty entertaining. He was a multi-talented guy and great to listen to. Malcolm Alter handled the hourly news updates.
 
Hit Radio 103-FM (from the last days of WEEI-FM to WHTT). It was my favorite radio station when I was a young kid. I was devastated when we returned from our family summer vacation in 1986 to find that the format had changed.
 
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LetsShakeOnIt said:
What stations or formats that have gone by the wayside do you miss ?
I know WBCN and WFNX are at the top of everyone's lists, but I guess there's no way stations like those would succeed or come back in this environment and if they did they would be ultra sanitized versions of their old selves.
I know there are other subtle things we all miss.
Turning on Kiss 108 at 12 Noon every Saturday
The Open House Party with John Garabedian on Kiss on Saturday nights
WBZ 1030 AM playing Christmas music on location from Downtown Crossing
Maynard in the Morning on BZ, WBZ 1030 AM was a powerhouse in the 80s
WCOZ?
The old WZOU
The ill fated MIKE FM which I enjoyed its first year or so.
96.9 WTKK, a station that I think was taking a real chance in this market
But the one I miss the most if Eagle 93.7, the all 70s station from like 1993-1999. I loved it. The playlist was great.

Just my 2 cents. I know "remember when " is the lowest form of conversation but, it's Friday and I'm lonely and bored.
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I miss a few. WEEI-FM in the late 70s with Dick Provost, Dick Gunton, and Hillary Stevens; WHDH in the days of Tom Kennedy and Dave “1-4” Supple; and WQSX Star 93.7 with Karen Blake and Fast Freddy; WXKS early on with Jeff Wyatt, Sonny Joe White, Vinnie Peruzzi, Joan Quinn Eastman, Ron Dwyer, Lisa Lipps.
 
WMC2006 said:
If you don't mind including Worcester, how about the original 1310/WORC-AM. It was a Top 40s type station. The legendary Dave O'Gara (Dave-O on the radio) held down mornings along with his news guy, Phillip James Lagious, who sounded a little bit like Bullwinkle.

Dave is still around, in the business now for about 105 years. He does afternoons on NashIcon 98-9/WORC-FM. Dave O'Gara

There was another great Worcester Top 40s station called 14Q/WFTQ-AM. Here's a conversation about that station from the early days of these forums (the RadioInfo/Radio-Info days): https://radiodiscussions.com/threads/anyone-remember-wftq.499782/
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Phillip James Laggias (my guess at spelling his last name....!) was at WTSV/WECM in Claremont, NH for a time in the 70s.
His weather forecasts ("....mostly cluddy skies....") were a real treat!!;)
 


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