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Steve Bousquet Projo Story

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This could go either way in terms of being a radio or TV story, but since there's a nice photo of Steve in the WKFD studio in 1974 in today's Projo & he posted here a few months ago I'll go with the radio angle. You can check it out online at:
http://www.projo.com/tv/content/sc_steve_bousquet_column_08-26-08_3UB89P0_v105.404b0f0.html
I swear everyone who ever worked at WARV always cites playing a long song & running out the side door to the Steak & Shake. More photos in the newspaper than there are online.
 
definitely radio. Somewhere, i have the exact same photo of wkfd except it's from "79"(maybe "80") and me sitting there and playing a linda ronstadt record. ahhh, memories. i would have given anything so my mom could get six diaries back then. even though it would have only been 1 person listening, radio-info would have thought 6. man, there's was nobody listening to that station back then. Changing it to WMYD didn't help either. Still, good ol Wilsons of wickford and ryans market spent a little scarole on AD's. also, ocean state job was just starting up w/ their 1st store in NK. He use to call me every morining with the days special. Now to think, i just passed one of the many OSJL up near Conway NH. I feel i helped to play a part
 
Hey, gang, it's me (Steve Bousquet) from Florida. Recalling those lazy days at WARV, the only spots we carried were a barter deal with WTEV Channel 6, which made the Sconnix-owned station sound bigger than it was and probably explains why it switched to a religion format. Now I'm recalling other down-dial stations at the time: WADK-1540 in Newport; WSAR-1480, a great "Knight Quality Group" rock station in Fall River; WSVP in West Warwick with a "fake Drake" format, with Gene DeGraide doing mornings; and of course, WKFD-1370, "the radio lighthouse," whose signal was so weak my family called it "the radio light bulb." (I did live remotes from the Washington County Fair in Richmond and could barely hear the signal). For Southern R.I.'ers like me, the most polished sound was coming from Norwich, on WICH-1310, with Johnny London and Stu Brier. Oh, almost forgot: WERI AM-FM in Westerly, 1230 and 103.7 FM, with Carl Grande hosting "Open Mike" and "Swaps" and his brother George (later of ESPN and Cincinnati Reds play-by-play) anchoring the news. Those were the days.
 
Does it seem that people who got into radio in the 70s, got paid poorly, and probably worked with bad equipment actually have better memories than those getting in today. Even for newbies everything is better today but I bet there's more pi**ing and moaning than there ever was before. Of course back then at least radio people had a future to look forward to. Now only a select few are really going to be in it for the long haul. I wonder what these radio boards would have been like in 1980?
 
No, jocks have bitched since Marconi was in diapers. There was no Internet in the 70s and 80s to do it on so it was more up close and personal.
 
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