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Something funny just came to memory, and I figured, heck - we all could use a good laugh now and then...(message to Mark Ambrose: turning back the Waybac Machine to 1981, the place: WARA/Attleboro Mass...)
Here I am, Bill, doing my afternoon drive show with crack ace newswoman Anne Gabbianelli (we laughed more than we talked, I swear!) and it's newstime. Anne begged and pleaded with me to take over stock information; she never had a head for Wall Street and this one day she proved to every listener that it was time to surrender that part of the newscast to yours truly.
Set up of the scene: WARA's broadcast jock booth was about 3 ft. off the ground from everybody else, and at the time folks like PD Tom Cuddy (yep, the guy in NY that used to be with WBZ/Boston), John Colletto (yep again, 'Coach' Colletto of WPRO fame) and yours truly used to kid that we were that much closer to God from this vantage point; meaning, we would literally (but not in a colleague sense) 'look down' on everyone else there. News was almost like a pit there: spacious, with carpeted walls (probably designed for bouncing off of when needed) - but nice to look at anyway.
Well this one afternoon Anne is beginning to wrap up the newscast with stock information and proceeds to tell us all:
IN GOLD, LONDON FELL TO 698 DOLLARS AN OUNCE"....silence. My hands were waiving from the window acting like a white flag, busting a gut, barely able to breathe and in pain from the laughter. Anne catches wind of it and now can't finish the weather, she's cracking up and not knowing why. Somehow I manage to throw a song on, head down to the newsroom falling down the stairs, unable to speak from laughing - the two of us now clutching our stomachs from the pain. It took a few minutes to tell her that she sank London to 698 dollars an ounce (and that's when the dollar had more value, those lucky Brits!)....that's when she handed over the stock reports to me to read until her departure from the station.
OK, whose next? My next one will be run from both the RI and CT posts as it happened one glorious early spring morning on WINY with crack newsman and part time weather/full time sports guy at ESPN, the great Josh Walsh.
-Bill Alley
Here I am, Bill, doing my afternoon drive show with crack ace newswoman Anne Gabbianelli (we laughed more than we talked, I swear!) and it's newstime. Anne begged and pleaded with me to take over stock information; she never had a head for Wall Street and this one day she proved to every listener that it was time to surrender that part of the newscast to yours truly.
Set up of the scene: WARA's broadcast jock booth was about 3 ft. off the ground from everybody else, and at the time folks like PD Tom Cuddy (yep, the guy in NY that used to be with WBZ/Boston), John Colletto (yep again, 'Coach' Colletto of WPRO fame) and yours truly used to kid that we were that much closer to God from this vantage point; meaning, we would literally (but not in a colleague sense) 'look down' on everyone else there. News was almost like a pit there: spacious, with carpeted walls (probably designed for bouncing off of when needed) - but nice to look at anyway.
Well this one afternoon Anne is beginning to wrap up the newscast with stock information and proceeds to tell us all:
IN GOLD, LONDON FELL TO 698 DOLLARS AN OUNCE"....silence. My hands were waiving from the window acting like a white flag, busting a gut, barely able to breathe and in pain from the laughter. Anne catches wind of it and now can't finish the weather, she's cracking up and not knowing why. Somehow I manage to throw a song on, head down to the newsroom falling down the stairs, unable to speak from laughing - the two of us now clutching our stomachs from the pain. It took a few minutes to tell her that she sank London to 698 dollars an ounce (and that's when the dollar had more value, those lucky Brits!)....that's when she handed over the stock reports to me to read until her departure from the station.
OK, whose next? My next one will be run from both the RI and CT posts as it happened one glorious early spring morning on WINY with crack newsman and part time weather/full time sports guy at ESPN, the great Josh Walsh.
-Bill Alley