Bill Abbate

[Lucylu]

Does anyone know where Bill Abbate ended up? One minute I hear him in the mornings at WZLX and now he's gone. Is he on some other station?

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Does anyone know where Bill Abbate ended up? One minute I hear him in the mornings at WZLX and now he's gone. Is he on some other station?

I think he's still at WZLX but he never had a regular full-time shift there. He does some weekends and fill-ins. The mornings were a temporary fill-in thing in between when they canned Steve Sweeney and got Karlson & McKenzie last summer.

 

[redbaron]

Bill can be heard intermitently on weekends there. Hear Perry Persoff from The River there. Anngelle Wood from WFNX too.

 

[Vaka]

Perry has a pretty regular slot..saturday evenings i belive.

 

[TravisWMLN]

ZLX has a pretty stacked weekend schedule...from bill abbate to angelle and to sauce...everyone on there is very solid

 

[Nik2.0]

He's doing something in administration at the Art institute in their radio program. I think it's the art institute or the audio instituute one of the two.

 

[Smoke]

You mean the Art Institute where only half of the students graduate?

 

[Lucylu]

You mean the Art Institute where only half of the students graduate?

I would be suspect of an 'Art Institute' to begin with, but one that graduated all of it's students would make me think very few of their students are indepent thinkers. That can't be good for art.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

You mean the Art Institute where only half of the students graduate?

The Art Institute is a national chain of schools. The one here, which is located in Brookline Village, absorbed (or bought out) the local broadcasting school formerly known as Mass. Communications College of Boston along with it's faculty and staff. A number of former heritage Boston radio personalities are teaching in their radio curriculum including Jerry "Duke Of Madness" Goodwin (WCOZ - WBCN - WCGY), and Larry Miller, who pioneered FM "underground" AOR on KMPX San Francisco in 1967 and wended his way through FM AOR gigs in L.A., Detroit, and NYC before landing in Boston at WCOZ in '77, and stayed here with stints at the old WCAS (folk), WDLW (country) and WCRB, WBOQ and WBUR (classical, before their format changes).Larry has can currently be heard doing the Tuesday edition of what was my old program, the "Lost & Found" 60's/70's show on MIT's volunteer college station WMBR 88.1 FM Tuesdays 12 noon - 2 PM. I retired from the show in 2004 because I can no longer afford to do weekly volunteer radio any more in today's economy and I needed free time for work and other pursuits, but I fill in for Larry whenever he occasionally needs a Tuesday off.

 

[Lucylu]

You mean the Art Institute where only half of the students graduate?

The Art Institute is a national chain of schools. The one here, which is located in Brookline Village, absorbed (or bought out) the local broadcasting school formerly known as Mass. Communications College of Boston along with it's faculty and staff. A number of former heritage Boston radio personalities are teaching in their radio curriculum including Jerry "Duke Of Madness" Goodwin (WCOZ - WBCN - WCGY), and Larry Miller, who pioneered FM "underground" AOR on KMPX San Francisco in 1967 and wended his way through FM AOR gigs in L.A., Detroit, and NYC before landing in Boston at WCOZ in '77, and stayed here with stints at the old WCAS (folk), WDLW (country) and WCRB, WBOQ and WBUR (classical, before their format changes).Larry has can currently be heard doing the Tuesday edition of what was my old program, the "Lost & Found" 60's/70's show on MIT's volunteer college station WMBR 88.1 FM Tuesdays 12 noon - 2 PM. I retired from the show in 2004 because I can no longer afford to do weekly volunteer radio any more in today's economy and I needed free time for work and other pursuits, but I fill in for Larry whenever he occasionally needs a Tuesday off.

Thanks for staying on topic. Next time save it for your friggin 'It's X-mas and This Is What Me and My Family Are Up To' letter. If anyone knows, for sure, where Bill Abate is now, please let me know.

 

[TravisWMLN]

[/quote]Thanks for staying on topic. Next time save it for your friggin 'It's X-mas and This Is What Me and My Family Are Up To' letter. If anyone knows, for sure, where Bill Abate is now, please let me know. [/quote]As stated before....ZLX weekender for the time being

 

[redbaron]

Bill Abbate is at WZLX part-time.

 

[Lucylu]

I just checked their web site: no mention of him. I guess I'll just have to keep checking in with them over the weekend and hope to catch him. Anyone have any idea when WZLX does cross-overs on the weekend?

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I just checked their web site: no mention of him.

Bill Abbate is on the WZLX website. Here is his WZLX DJ page.He's not on their schedule page because he doesn't have a regular time slot, just fill-ins. His DJ page still says "mornings" from when he was filling in last summer.

 

[Lucylu]

Thanks for the link.