BRADLEY JAY

[thirdendorsed]

BZ overnight has been fluff since Glick - followed by Dave Maynard, Bob Raleigh, Norm Nathan and Steve Leveille.

How would you characterize Dick Summer?

 

[Fenway1912]

BZ overnight has been fluff since Glick - followed by Dave Maynard, Bob Raleigh, Norm Nathan and Steve Leveille.

How would you characterize Dick Summer?

Dick was certainly not fluff.

He went basaltic when Kitty Genovese was murdered in Queens and came up with an idea that people should wear badges with a dime inserted to run to a payphone if they saw something.

Dick was pretty vocal about Vietnam as well.

Glick was about as unpolitical as you get - which can be traced backed to his WMEX days following Jerry Williams. He would poke fun at Boston's official censor 'Dapper O'Neill' and one night he said that he and comedian Pat Cooper were doing the show naked and O'Neill ordered the Boston Police to go to WMEX to close them down. But heavy politics was never a Glick thing.

Westinghouse as a rule did not pay talent well - in 1968 Bob Kennedy was making $28,000 doing both TV and radio (and billing close to $800,000) and he was cut loose because

A - He hired an agent

B - Jerry Williams has been laid off at WBBM and wanted to come home and would work for peanuts. ( He just wanted the 38 state platform )

I know this much about how much influence WBZ and Glick had back in 1969. In October of 1969 somebody called Glick and said WABC was reporting Paul McCartney was dead. That in turn made an untold number of people hear Roby Yonge commit career suicide.

Back then who knows how many millions listened to the clear channel stations overnight. There was no overnight TV back then in most markets and stations like WBZ, WABC, WLS, WCAU, WCFL, WHAS, WKBW and others just ruled the roost.