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Gus Saunders

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Len Zola of the Media Gang reported today that Boston radio and television legend Gus Saunders has passed away at age 85. He was one of the early voices of Channel 7 WNAC in 1948. He became the first voice to officially signed the station on. At WNAC radio and TV, he was a familiar voice on Yankee Network News and Special Events, covering many breaking-news events. “Yankee Kitchen Show,” a popular food show he started in 1965,on WROL/WORL and continued for 34 years until his retirement in 1999.

Saunders was also a restaurant critic for the Boston Herald for 17 years.

He was also a Harvard Graduate, a class act and a very nice man. He will be missed. RIP Gus.
 
Back around 1999, during my travels in northern New England, I always, for some reason, tuned into Gus and the Yankee Kitchen Network 2 or 3 times per week. Dont recall the station call letters.

It was kind of hokey listening to the people call in with their recipes, Gus patiently writing down every bit of every recipe, all while the listeners talked about themselves, their families, their vacations, and their health.

"Mabel from Topeka is with us. Mabel, how'd your husband's colonoscopy go last week?" :D

And most of the callers were much older than me. Gus, too, for that matter.

But I listened because, somehow, it was entertaining in that non-music, non-political-talk, hokey-ish, farmland kind of way. Perfect programming, actually, for northern New England.

And sometimes just as entertaining as listening to Dr Laura at the time. Both shows might have been on the same station actually.

All of a sudden, I need a recipe for Vanilla Strudel Brownies. Anyone? Anyone?? ;D
 
Gus was heard on 2 stations in RI for awhile. He was first on WARV 1590, then shifted to the former WRIB 1220 after Carter bought the place. I board op'ed the show during my time there. Hokey, yes, but fun to listen to and not an in-your-face type of show like a lot of others.


Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
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