Karen Blake at Mix 104.1

DavidZ · Mar 16, 2013

Surprised no one posted on this. Boston Radio Watch is reporting that Karen Blake is filling in for Erin O'Malley mid-days at Mix 104.1 while Erin is on maternity leave.

http://www.bostonradiowatch.com/

Eli Polonsky · Mar 16, 2013

Karen has been doing weekday fill-ins, as well as Saturday mornings regularly, on "Mix" for a few months now.

dhoule · Mar 16, 2013

I keep hoping she stays there with Erin moving to Amp middays when she comes back.

MR. JAROME_CALVIN · Mar 17, 2013

I've been listenning to Karen Blake since I was like ??? (I'm 37 years old now, next month I'll be 38) since I was ??? like 9 years old?
She sounds the same like she did back then

pariho2013 · Mar 18, 2013

LAUROJRM said:
I've been listenning to Karen Blake since I was like ??? (I'm 37 years old now, next month I'll be 38) since I was ??? like 9 years old?
She sounds the same like she did back then

What Boston station has Karen Blake NOT worked at? (by dial position....93.7, 94.5, 103.3, 104.1, 105.7 Now Karen doing Country...that was funny...and 107.9) She needs to hit up 'BOS, ZLX and Magic..and Hot 969.

Which leads to an interesting question. Since 1980, what DJ (not news sports or traffic) has worked at the MOST Boston/Boston Area signals? I would guess Dan Justin....

MR. JAROME_CALVIN · Mar 18, 2013

yup, him too

dhoule · Mar 18, 2013

Well, Ken Shelton was at 92.9, 94.5, 100.7, maybe 104.1, and 105.7. Years ago Norm Nathan was at 590, 680, 850, 1030, and 1510, at least.

freebirdradioman · Mar 18, 2013

DJ's like Ken Shelton, JJ Wright, Dale Dorman, Dan Justin Loren and Wally, lady D, Karen Blake etc...have worked at various stations...and the people they worked for must have thought they were very talented or they wouldn't have been hired in the first place.

cs1366 · Mar 18, 2013

dhoule said:
Well, Ken Shelton was at 92.9, 94.5, 100.7, maybe 104.1, and 105.7. Years ago Norm Nathan was at 590, 680, 850, 1030, and 1510, at least.

Captain Ken was on 106.7 WBZ/FM and WEEI/FM 103.3 with Clark. "Maybe 104.1?" he followed Charles for years.

TSBench · Mar 19, 2013

Years ago Norm Nathan was at 590, 680, 850, 1030, and 1510, at least.

One of the benefits of having Norm Nathan on staff was that it innoculated the station from being hammered in his wife's very popular newspaper column.

Regards,
TSB

pariho2013 · Mar 19, 2013

dhoule said:
Well, Ken Shelton was at 92.9, 94.5, 100.7, maybe 104.1, and 105.7. Years ago Norm Nathan was at 590, 680, 850, 1030, and 1510, at least.

Captian Ken at 106.7 in it's WBZ-FM days (I was a HUGE listner of that station in the late 70s)

mgpt6 · Mar 19, 2013

When did Norm work at 680? Recall his 2 stints at 850 his stint at 590/WEEI and last years at BZ.

frnkp2000 · Mar 19, 2013

mgpt6 said:
When did Norm work at 680? Recall his 2 stints at 850 his stint at 590/WEEI and last years at BZ.

Right around 1980, IIRC. He did a show called "Morning Magazine". Jordan Rich co-hosted, if I recall.

brightonboris · Mar 19, 2013

mgpt6 said:
When did Norm work at 680? Recall his 2 stints at 850 his stint at 590/WEEI and last years at BZ.

from 1980 to 1982. he was their weekday morning guy after coming over from whdh. he also hosted a sunday morning jazz show
which later segued to a talk show.

spt87 · Mar 19, 2013

So what was the deal with WBZ-FM 106.7 anyway? I've heard some airchecks of Dave Maynard doing WBZ-AM and FM station IDs so I assumed they simulcasted part of the time. Did they just simulcast morning drive and then separate the rest of the time?

Was AM doing A/C and FM Top 40?

Eli Polonsky · Mar 19, 2013

spt87 said:
So what was the deal with WBZ-FM 106.7 anyway? I've heard some airchecks of Dave Maynard doing WBZ-AM and FM station IDs so I assumed they simulcasted part of the time. Did they just simulcast morning drive and then separate the rest of the time?

Was AM doing A/C and FM Top 40?

The morning simulcasts were from before 1971 when WBZ-FM was broadcasting (mostly taped) classical and jazz the rest of the time. The AM was full-service A/C. The FM went full-time Top 40 in 1971, and dropped all simulcasting of the AM.

ned · Mar 20, 2013

Eli Polonsky said:
spt87 said:

So what was the deal with WBZ-FM 106.7 anyway? I've heard some airchecks of Dave Maynard doing WBZ-AM and FM station IDs so I assumed they simulcasted part of the time. Did they just simulcast morning drive and then separate the rest of the time?

Was AM doing A/C and FM Top 40?

Click to expand...

The morning simulcasts were from before 1971 when WBZ-FM was broadcasting (mostly taped) classical and jazz the rest of the time. The AM was full-service A/C. The FM went full-time Top 40 in 1971, and dropped all simulcasting of the AM.

They did, however, continue to simulcast the hourly newscasts (at least during the day) and occasionally the engineer would forget to throw the automation switch back on resulting in some AM simulcasts for an hour or so...

frnkp2000 · Mar 20, 2013

ned said:
Eli Polonsky said:

spt87 said:

So what was the deal with WBZ-FM 106.7 anyway? I've heard some airchecks of Dave Maynard doing WBZ-AM and FM station IDs so I assumed they simulcasted part of the time. Did they just simulcast morning drive and then separate the rest of the time?

Was AM doing A/C and FM Top 40?

Click to expand...

The morning simulcasts were from before 1971 when WBZ-FM was broadcasting (mostly taped) classical and jazz the rest of the time. The AM was full-service A/C. The FM went full-time Top 40 in 1971, and dropped all simulcasting of the AM.

Click to expand...

They did, however, continue to simulcast the hourly newscasts (at least during the day) and occasionally the engineer would forget to throw the automation switch back on resulting in some AM simulcasts for an hour or so...

"Carl De Suze, swingin' with yooze, FM style neigbahhs!"