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Trying to remember a name

Still love to know where Kelly Reed is....


Last I heard her was on WFAN. I was in New York this week and tuned in but no Kelly. I emailed her longtime friend Bob Lenio ( they always stayed in touch) and will let you know what I find out.

I did hear Brian Carey on 1010 WINS .....he sounds GREAT!
 
What even happned to Don Bruce?

Don Bruce last worked in radio at WEJL/WBAX for Shamrock. He sold the AM combo but left in early 1997 when the Loftus/Durkin regime took over. He is retired and can be seen hanging with his home boys Lee Vincent, Scooter Ceretta, John Koury, Bob "The Pope" Popeck and a few others trying to solve the world's problems at Michael's restaraunt in Plains every once in a while.
My first memory of Don Bruce was when he hosted THE BULLPEN SHOW, a program that preceeded the Phillies broadcasts of 1964. Ten at the time, I was gluied to the radio to hear every pitch of that crazy season which ended in bitter disappointment.

Yonkstur
 
Don Bruce last worked in radio at WEJL/WBAX for Shamrock
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Brucie is a really nice guy, not an ounce of pretense in him. One of the more distinctive voices I ever heard, and a great voice at that. My first encounter with him was as student-teacher; he was teacher, I was student, at The American Academy of Broadcasting during its brief life in W-B. Bruce said one thing during my time at AAB that never left my mind, it was the one thing I remember him for most. And it was this, Don Bruce said, "If you're going to make radio your career, expect to be fired at least once for no good reason at all." I never forget that, and he was very right.


...when the Loftus/Durkin regime took over.
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Even though radio has always been transient, with many coming and going, some go and come back; here today, gone tomorrow, maybe back the next day. Loftus started here, left here, came back here, then left again. Durkin started here, left, came back, and very sadly, died way too young here.
 
yonkstur said:
What even happned to Don Bruce?

Don Bruce last worked in radio at WEJL/WBAX for Shamrock. He sold the AM combo but left in early 1997 when the Loftus/Durkin regime took over. He is retired and can be seen hanging with his home boys Lee Vincent, Scooter Ceretta, John Koury, Bob "The Pope" Popeck and a few others trying to solve the world's problems at Michael's restaraunt in Plains every once in a while.
My first memory of Don Bruce was when he hosted THE BULLPEN SHOW, a program that preceeded the Phillies broadcasts of 1964. Ten at the time, I was gluied to the radio to hear every pitch of that crazy season which ended in bitter disappointment.

Yonkstur
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Thanks Yonkster
 
Just a clarification...Don Bruce was not at Shamrock in the beginning of 1997.He had left prior to the arrival of the many former Susquehanna employees that joined Times-Shamrock as both management and staff members after the sale of WARM/WMGS/WBHT to Tele-Media. One would imagine that a broadcaster of his calibre would have been welcomed by that "regime".
Also,the AAB branch in Wilkes-Barre is intriguing to me. When was it operational? Any graduates that impacted the local radio scene? Was that the one owned by Long John Wade?
 
Re: Trying to remember a name Gene Free

I shot back and forth a couple of Emails to Gene late last year; he was working on the oldies channel on Sirius Sat radio. He did say he lost some hours because some of the CBS-FM joks had moved over there; I'm not sure if he's still there. His brother Jim is the Ops Manager for CC Bing. and morning guy at my old station; 92.5 KGB-FM in Bing (which comes in well in elevated parts of Lack County).
 
Brian Carey has one of the best voices around...very well respected too. I have two more names, two more great guys...Bob Leidig (Spelling?) and Paul Ciotta....I believe they too worked at WILK back when.
 
ericakane said:
Brian Carey has one of the best voices around...very well respected too. I have two more names, two more great guys...Bob Leidig (Spelling?) and Paul Ciotta....I believe they too worked at WILK back when.
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Googling Gene Free shows nothing. Paul Ciotta, I seem to remember, ended up at WBRE briefly as a weekend assignment editor. Bob Leidig left radio and went to law school, but from there, I have no idea.
 
Just a clarification...Don Bruce was not at Shamrock in the beginning of 1997.

Durkin took over as GSM in November 1996, the Monday after Thanksgiving. Bruce was there along with long time Times employee Ed Vaneski. Early 1997 I define as January. Bruce might have left before Christmas, 1996 but he was there when Durkin took over. The WEJL/WBAX staff at that time consisted of Lee Vincent, Don Bruce, Ed Vaneski, and a young lady who was hired on the same day I was hired there but who's name I forget.
The first week Durkin was there, you saw a migration of Susquehanna sales reps come to Shamrock. Carl Krupa, Jerry Papperelli as managers, Jim Morris, and a few others. THose not coming were Joey Shaver, Florence Gratz, Jim Fitzgerald and John Koury.
Bill Brennan a Susquehanna employee started on the same day as Durkin but was hired by the then GM Tom Harpster.
During that hectic December, many people came and went but I remember Brucie attending a general sales staff meeting and it was after Christmas. I was there, I saw him.

Yonkstur
 
Durkin went from WARM, to WKSB-FM in Williamsport, to a station on the Florida panhandle, then back to Shamrock, then left there, only to came back again. Am I close on that? And wasn't he actually WEJL/WEZX's GM during his first stop with them? Speaking of which, did I hear correctly, that QFM's Summer book was disastrous?
 
QFM, I heard it was more or less flat.
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Let's see, down as much as three share points in a short two years or so isn't flat, it's more like flat-line. That kind of a drop is dramatic, and I don't mean that in a good way. Whatever the hell that format is, it ain't working. QFM's clock is ticking...
 
Masterg,
You were close...Tim went from Williamsport to Shamrock as GM, a NY Agency gig as a Media Director ( few knew this one),then the Florida stop , where he was a group GM type, then he came home to Susquehanna because of aging parents and Aunts which he and his wife cared for. He was at Susquehanna for 5 years as DOS until it's sale.He went to Shamrock where he was Corporate DOS of Radio and a sales trainer for the whole company until his sad and untimely death in late 2004.
 
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QFM, I heard it was more or less flat.
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Let's see, down as much as three share points in a short two years or so...
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Did you actually see numbers because "as much as three share points" and "two years or so" sounds kind of vague and anecdotal? Are you going by the Christmas bump they had last year? Do you think they should go to an all-Christmas format?
 
Did you actually see numbers because "as much as three share points" and "two years or so" sounds kind of vague and anecdotal? Are you going by the Christmas bump they had last year? Do you think they should go to an all-Christmas format?
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The burden of proof is always upon the accuser. If my take on this is wrong, I will readily stand corrected. All that is needed is for you, or anyone else, to disprove my claim.
 
"The burden of proof is always upon the accuser. If my take on this is wrong, I will readily stand corrected. All that is needed is for you, or anyone else, to disprove my claim."

I didn't accuse anyone of anything. I asked you some questions but feel free to get all defensive. Also feel free to blow it out your...

Tell you what...I have a vacation home on Mars. Disprove it.
 
radio and records has the owner of WARM listed as Cumulus Broadcasting... I'm assuming that is a typo or someone at Cumulus won it in a crooked card game.
 
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