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Fybush, Halper on with Leveille

Reminder that Scott Fybush will be on WBZ with Steve Leveille Sun night the 18th-into-Mon-morning the 19th starting at midnight, talking radio & BZ's 90th birthday. And Scott posted on b-r-i that Donna Halper will be on
the following night, Mon night 19th-into-Tue-the 20th! AM 1030 (and on WBZ-FM HD 3 for the dozens
of you with HD radios)
 
On Monday night, Emily Rooney's TV show, "Greater Boston" on channel 19 will either devote most or all of the half-hour to WBZ radio's 90th birthday. At the end of Friday night's "Beat, Smack Down, Masticate & Spit Out the Press", she mentioned some of the guests, but I don't recall hearing either Donna's name or Scott's.
 
Not sure who Emily's guests are tonight, but I can confirm that I'm not on the list - and since I'll be dining with Donna at that hour, I don't believe she's on the TV guest list, either!
 
Scott Fybush said:
Not sure who Emily's guests are tonight, but I can confirm that I'm not on the list - and since I'll be dining with Donna at that hour, I don't believe she's on the TV guest list, either!

Donna (and you) COULD have been on "Greater Boston" since I believe it's usually taped beforehand by an hour or two. I can't recall ever seeing Emily or any guest discussing breaking news, but it could happen. Oh, for those of you who didn't hear Scott's guest stint, and therefore missed my "Talk Like A Pirate Day" joke: What radio station that began broadcasting EVEN BEFORE WBZ did will also celebrate September 19th, "Talk Like A Pirate Day"? WRR in Dallas.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Not sure who Emily's guests are tonight, but I can confirm that I'm not on the list - and since I'll be dining with Donna at that hour, I don't believe she's on the TV guest list, either!


Greater Boston tapes around 3:30.
 
Can anybody confirm LeVeille's chronology of the end of Larry Glick's career in Boston (heard Tuesday 9/20 ~3:30AM)? Steve said that 'BZ moved Glick first from overnights to daytimes, where his schtick did not work very well, so he bolted to WHDH (AM) and had to spend a year off the air because of a non-compete. According to Steve, when Glick finally got back on the air, 'HDH put him in a late-night (10:00PM to 2:00AM) slot. I sure remember Glick being off the air because of the non-compete, but I don't recall 'BZ moving him to days and I also don't remember him on late nights on WHDH. I remember Glick going from overnights on 'BZ to off the air because of the non-compete, to PM drive on WHDH, which didn't work. I think part of the reason Larry's schtick didn't work on 'HDH was that Westinghouse claimed that Glick's recorded library of comedy bits was Group W property and would not allow him to take them with him to a competing station. He had not kept backups and he didn't feel like fighting over the library with Group W, so he let the material go--and 'BZ deep-sixed it!!! Talk about dumb moves!
 
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/03/larry_glick_rad.html

>>Then came WBZ, which Mr. Glick joined in 1968. In a run that lasted until 1987, he developed a national following until a salary disagreement led him to switch to WHDH, after staying off the air for a year to honor a non-compete clause in his WBZ contract. He remained on WHDH until 1992, when he left Boston's airwaves for good.

I think I remember hearing Glick on WHDH in the early 90s, around midnight, when he had trivia
guy and frequent (now) WBZ fill in host Morgan White Jr on. I had recorded that but don't know what
became of the tape; anyway, I had thought his HDH hours (of the night show) started at midnight but who knows.
So acc to this Globe piece:
At WBZ 1968-87
Off yr for a year
WHDH prob late 88 or early 89 up till 92

I thought WHDH had tried him in days then moved him to overnights. But maybe it was WBZ that put
him on days (I think Donna may have mentioned that)

A Boston Radio Watch piece that I had reproduced for Free Republic says his WHDH hours were
indeed 10p-2a
>>In 1987, Glick parted ways with WBZ when he accepted a very lucrative 5-year offer from a rival WHDH AM 850(now WEEI) to host 10pm to 2am show. However, due to a non-compete clause in his WBZ contract, Glick had to sit out a full year. While waiting on the sidlines between radio jobs, and being paid by WHDH, Glick launched a popular cable access "The Larry Glick Show" carried by most local cable systems.
 
This Fybush piece I found from 3/30/09 mentioned it was WHDH who tried to put him on days

http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2009/090330/nerw.html

Fybush:>>Glick's long run at WBZ came to a close in 1987, evidently with some acrimony, judging by his reaction when your editor reached him a few years later in hopes that he might appear on a reunion show.
[Though he would appear on Leveille's show from time to time]

>>From 1988 until 1992, Glick's Boston career wrapped up at WHDH, but his show didn't fit as well with that station's issue-oriented talk, and the station's attempt to move him into a daytime slot was simply the wrong spot. Glick retired from radio, turning his attention to a new career as a hypnotist and eventually moving south to Florida.

(WHDH of course was flushed away, at least with that famed sound effect, in 1994 when WEEI
moved to 850)
 
During Donna's appearance Monday night, I heard one of those urgent lawyer commercials that I don't recall hearing on WBZ at other times. It was for a loudmouth lawyer named Irving Pollock, I believe. Pollock was so loud, he gave me a haddock.
 
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