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The thread on Doug White was wandering 'way off topic and I felt we were diluting the respect so many feel for him....so I took the liberty of copying a post from that thread. If anyone wants to continue....or maybe just read and learn some Rhode Island Radio History.....
Jack Comely was among the first major talkers in Rhode Island. When 'JAR was headed for a rock format they dumped him. It was also around that time he was diagnosed with cancer. There was a messy scene involving an "apology for what Jack Comely said....." when, as a court case later estabished, he had said nothing untoward at all. It was just a sleazy promoition. Jack moved over to WICE (1290) and continued talking there but didn't live a whole lot longer.
As to Mowry....
Yeah, there WAS a period where 1590 (originally WYNG) was sold by The Attleboro Radio Association to an outfit from Delaware, under whose ownership the call was changed to WARV but I don't think that outfit was able to do anything much with it and it remained a 1-kW daytimer. Wasn't all that long before it was sold and went Christian. Odd that Mowry would do any "real" air work there; in all his years at WLKW he did a relatively small number of spots and promos in his voice but never touched a board himself. I'd bet that at WARV he sat at a microphone and let somebody else operate. It was Mowry's management style at WLKW that legitimized unionization of upstart radio stations in R.I. Old-line stations, notably WJAR, WPRO, WICE, WEAN were unionized to a degree, mostly in the engineering areas, though the limited unionization of "talent", where it did occur, was split between IBEW and AFTRA. At 'LKW the engineers were IBEW but on-air people never did get around to it.
In the earlier thread there were some people nobody recognized. The one person listed who was NOT part of Rhode Island radio was Arnie Ginsberg who was entirely a Boston phenomenon but who was so well known in R.I. that many thought of him as a local talent. "Colonel" Greene....OK, a bit of a reach....but has anybody alive today (other than me) recall anything about his broadcast pioneering?
DG02816 said:
Jack Comely was among the first major talkers in Rhode Island. When 'JAR was headed for a rock format they dumped him. It was also around that time he was diagnosed with cancer. There was a messy scene involving an "apology for what Jack Comely said....." when, as a court case later estabished, he had said nothing untoward at all. It was just a sleazy promoition. Jack moved over to WICE (1290) and continued talking there but didn't live a whole lot longer.
As to Mowry....
Yeah, there WAS a period where 1590 (originally WYNG) was sold by The Attleboro Radio Association to an outfit from Delaware, under whose ownership the call was changed to WARV but I don't think that outfit was able to do anything much with it and it remained a 1-kW daytimer. Wasn't all that long before it was sold and went Christian. Odd that Mowry would do any "real" air work there; in all his years at WLKW he did a relatively small number of spots and promos in his voice but never touched a board himself. I'd bet that at WARV he sat at a microphone and let somebody else operate. It was Mowry's management style at WLKW that legitimized unionization of upstart radio stations in R.I. Old-line stations, notably WJAR, WPRO, WICE, WEAN were unionized to a degree, mostly in the engineering areas, though the limited unionization of "talent", where it did occur, was split between IBEW and AFTRA. At 'LKW the engineers were IBEW but on-air people never did get around to it.
In the earlier thread there were some people nobody recognized. The one person listed who was NOT part of Rhode Island radio was Arnie Ginsberg who was entirely a Boston phenomenon but who was so well known in R.I. that many thought of him as a local talent. "Colonel" Greene....OK, a bit of a reach....but has anybody alive today (other than me) recall anything about his broadcast pioneering?