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shake up at WBZ?

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capehead1

Wow - changes happening everywhere. I heard that Dan Rea is out at Nightside on WBZ and an outsider Sherman Baldwin from Albany, NY will be offered his spot. I heard him on Dan's show last summer. I liked it but I don't know anything else about him.

Anybody know him?
 
capehead1 said:
I heard that Dan Rea is out at Nightside on WBZ and an outsider Sherman Baldwin from Albany, NY will be offered his spot.
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Since CBS has been laying off anyone and everyone who makes more than a pittance, this is believable, though it remains unconfirmed. If true, it sounds like a move WBZ will regret. They took quite a while to choose Rea and he was a well-known and proven quantity to them (though not in exactly this role) before they selected him. I vaguely remember when WBZ axed David Brudnoy, only to about face a short time later.

Since CBS has no properties that I know of in New York's Capital District, this is a guy who comes from outside the company. Does the rumor say whether he will move to Boston or continue to live in Albany and do the show from there? Will he be a CBS employee or a part-timer who is paid only to do the show. In that case, he might be a LOT cheaper than Rea--no fringes!
 
I would hope it isn't true!

Dan Rea has been a soldier for WBZ TV and radio forever! I would hope (but not expect) that kind of loyalty would still count for something at the (badly tarnished) Tiffany network!
 
The OP is going to have to do a bit better than an "I heard," for his post(his first) to be credible. I don't buy it. 'BZ wouldn't change hosts during the winter and Bruins programing. You can save money going to syndi' but changing personnel?
 
[EDIT-inflammatory content] If you knew anything about the night time talk lineup at a heritage station like WBZ you would know going back 40 years or so when BZ played music to the current mostly news format, The talk show hosts had one thing in common ,Boston or Massachusetts roots,Jerry Williams,Larry Glick,Paul Benzaquin,David Finnegan,Lou Marcel,Peter Meade,David Brudnoy,Bob Raleigh,Paul Sullivan,Norm Nathan etc.
 
jk111 said:
[EDIT-inflammatory content]If you knew anything about the night time talk lineup at a heritage station like WBZ you would know going back 40 years or so when BZ played music to the current mostly news format, The talk show hosts had one thing in common ,Boston or Massachusetts roots,Jerry Williams,Larry Glick,Paul Benzaquin,David Finnegan,Lou Marcel,Peter Meade,David Brudnoy,Bob Raleigh,Paul Sullivan,Norm Nathan etc.
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Bruds was a dear friend, and a fine talk host, but his roots were not at all in Boston or Massachusetts - he came to town to get a graduate degree at Brandeis, after growing up in Minnesota. And "Tiger Bob" Raleigh came to town from DC, which I believe was his hometown, while Jerry Williams was a New Yorker through and through.

On the other hand, Paul Sullivan, another dear friend, could only have come from Lowell, as he proved every time he cracked the mike...
 
"Tiger Bob" Raleigh came to town from DC, which I believe was his hometown,

I was told once he was a local boy from Cambridge. Born Raleigh Farrara. I'm sure I have the spelling wrong though.
 
Yes, Bob's local. Didn't know about his name, though I'd always assumed it was changed. When you think of it, what an unbelievable pace his show had, for an overnight program.
 
What I should have stated all the aforementioned names either had Boston or Mass roots or had worked at other stations in Boston before joining WBZ. Bob Raleigh was a jock at WPGC in D.C. before coming to BZ as midday jock before his long running overnight talk show,Jerry of course made his mark on WMEX and came back to Boston from WBBM Chicago,and of course Brudnoy worked at WRKO and WHDH before WBZ.
 
"Tiger Bob" Raleigh came to town from DC, which I believe was his hometown,

I was told once he was a local boy from Cambridge. Born Raleigh Farrara. I'm sure I have the spelling wrong though.


I believe his name was Rolle Ferrar and was at WPGC Morningside MD (DC) from 1963-64. "Tiger Bob Raleigh" was a "house" name at WPGC and about six others used it at one time or another, but I think Rolle was the first. When Rolle Ferar left WPGC in 1965 he went to WWDC where he used "Bob Raleigh" and for a time, there were two Bob Raleighs in the DC market.
While on the subject of nightime hosts on WBZ, let's not forget perhaps the original "Program PM" host Phil Christie who came from WAAB in Worcester to be followed by (The Other) Bob Kennedy.
 
jk111 said:
What I should have stated all the aforementioned names either had Boston or Mass roots or had worked at other stations in Boston before joining WBZ. Bob Raleigh was a jock at WPGC in D.C. before coming to BZ as midday jock before his long running overnight talk show,Jerry of course made his mark on WMEX and came back to Boston from WBBM Chicago,and of course Brudnoy worked at WRKO and WHDH before WBZ.
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Didn't Raleigh work at WHDH before he moved to 'BZ? I don't think that any job at 'BZ was his first job in Boston. Since the Richmond Brothers owned both WPGC and WMEX, you might think that he would have come to Boston to work at WMEX, but I guess he had a falling out with the Richmonds while he was still in DC.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate that Raleigh has never done fill-ins on 'BZ overnight since his retirement. I could not stand his show and frankly, I couldn't stand him. WAY too full of himself and no hint of humility. For someone who, to me, seemed to be pretty much devoid of intelligence, the lack of humility was especially galling.
 
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I can't tell you how much I appreciate that Raleigh has never done fill-ins on 'BZ overnight since his retirement. I could not stand his show and frankly, I couldn't stand him. WAY too full of himself and no hint of humility. For someone who, to me, seemed to be pretty much devoid of intelligence, the lack of humility was especially galling.
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Strange you should mention that Dan. I don't remember why I was listening to Bob's show on this particular night, but I heard him go ballistic on a caller who called him "Bobby". Talk about something making you stand up and take notice. I might have expected this form of unprofessional behavior from someone at a small market station, but not on WBZ. It just sort of went against the grain.
 
WEGOTTAPHONEOUTHERE said:
and now..the rest of the story :)

http://www.amandfmmorningside.com/wpgc_mystery_of_bob_raleighs_explained.html
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All of the segments on that history site, except for one, appear to have scrambled the resume of the WBZ Bob Raleigh. As I reported in a previous posting, Raleigh (Ferrar) did NOT go directly from WWDC to WBZ; he went first to WHDH. One of the many little writeups at the history site confirms this:

From: http://www.amandfmmorningside.com/wpgc_mystery_of_bob_raleighs_explained.html

When Rolle Ferrar went to Boston he spent the first few years doing middays (10- 2) at WHDH under PD and later GM, Al Brady Law. Bob worked the same shift when he joined WBZ in July of 1975. Bob later worked overnights, middays again, and back to overnights in 1986 until he retired from WBZ on his 65th birthday a few years ago.
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For confirmation, search the above page for WHDH and you will find the material I have quoted immediately above.
 
Bob Raleigh got off one of the great bloopers in radio history on his first day at BZ.

The show (which originally began at 9 when DeSuze ended) went into a service element, I'm not sure who but I think it was Santos (although I don't know why there would have been a midday live sports report) Batting or Steve Smith who pitched it to Raleigh who went into that hyper self-loving delivery of his to say "18 past Nine (or whatever it was) at WHDH." Sudden silence from Raleigh, howls of laughter from the newsman) then: "Which is where I used to work"
 
The other great Raleigh story is when he got the offer from across town, he went in to the Blair GM, Croninger I believe, and announced that "I've got an offer from WBZ." To which the GM replied "Better take it."

That's when WHDH was moving from its MOR roots (and Raleigh was probably the last of their traditional MOR style jocks) to a more adult contemporary sound, bringing in a new generation of talent, such as Tom Kennedy, Sean Casey and Dave Supple (Supple will be remembered forever for one of the greatest lines ever -- first day back after getting out of a legal mess "HDH Cash Call, Write It Down, Made a call to Walpole -- Nobody Home!!" Of course he got the calls in and said "write it down" right on the quarter hour which was the point of that diary-driven contest, among the most successful promotions in local radio history.
 
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