wbz past talk show host question

[Blackroc]

I left Ken Beatrice --who I think was at the DMV at the time-- out but I don't think he had a full shift. It might have been 11-1 am or something similar (just before Larry).

 

[DESERT]

Tom Snyder? when was his shift and years working?.

 

[Blackroc]

For about half 1990: Snyder was syndicated I don't remember if the whole show was live 10-1am. I think Meade was on 8-10 with the evening in two shifts?

 

[DESERT]

I remember my man saying in the mid 90's and I quote " Noone has been unfairly convicted in any legitimae trial in the last 20 years"....that sound like LeVeille ?

 

[Blackroc]

Noone has been unfairly convicted

No way. That's either Bruds or Raleigh.
Bob, David and Gary all proponents of the Death Penalty (bigtime).
Gary used to joke --or was he serious-- in his commentaries about "old sparky."

 

[DESERT]

ok I am certain you can scratch off the following names. : Bruds, Meade, Leville, sullivan ( if I read correctly on line sullivan didnt come on board until late 90's correct?.) You can scratch Glick, Finnagan, Nathan, Tom Bergeron, Gary LaPierre. So who the heck does that leave????


Bob Raleigh ????

 

[DESERT]

At first I thought this wouldn't help but on the other hand maybe it will. I cannot confirm exactly when Bob Raleigh worked at WBZ or what shift he worked.

But, the one I am thinking of typically started out his show with a 15-20 minute monologue. By the time commercials and everything else we are talking 40-45 minutes into his show before he would take any calls.

 

[thirdendorsed]

Marcel got in big trouble for saying bad stuff about the Cardinal, much in the same way that Jim Delay did at the Herald-American.

Fast forward a couple of decades and bashing the Cardinal became mandatory for talk show hosts.

 

[CrankyYankee]

Didn't Jack Williams from the TV side do some fill-in for Brudnoy too? Could he be whom you seek?

 

[DanStrassberg]

Didn't Jack Williams from the TV side do some fill-in for Brudnoy too? Could he be whom you seek?

And JERRY Williams did evenings at WBZ also. As far as I can tell, nobody has mentioned him in this thread. I can't tell you where he belongs in the chronology, however. It was during the Vietnam War, though. Jerry turned the program into a one-issue affair during the War.

 

[raccoonradio]

JerryWilliams.org says "In 1968, the outspoken Williams returned to Boston and began an eight-year stint with powerhouse WBZ, which spread Williams' views to 38 states and much of Canada." He started at WRKO in 81.

 

[cs1366]

Did Paul Benzaquin appear for a short time?

 

[Cap-n Spackle]

There was nobody else during that time who held down that post except for Brudnoy. He had several people fill in for him during periods of illness, but the only one that I can think of who wasn't already mentioned was the pre-felon Tom Finneran, and no way did he make some pro-death penalty pronouncement. You may remember that many people think Finneran pulled a back-room deal to get Rep. Slattery (D-Peabody) to switch his vote at the last minute and killed the DP bill. In any event, he was a Brudnoy fill-in from time to time, which probably gave Jason Wolf the bright idea to bring in the Felon to replace the outgoing John "fat lesbian" DePetro.

 

[scranton]

dezert can you fill us in on the purpose of your research

 

[vmorrison]

I loved Paul Benzaquin on BZ, EEI and Ch 7. At the end of his career he was doing overnights on HDH it was kind of sad because as night turned into morning he didn't have many callers and took to reading complete stories from the Globe.

 

[raccoonradio]

He may have been on WMRE 1510 "stay on top" at the end of their days as a talk station.
WMRE had Bob Katzen, Marcia Masters, Doug Stephan (I think), and Morgan White Jr.
They finished up around Jan of 87 IIRC and Morgan did a farewell version of Talking Trivia.
Caller: "So is Paul Benzaquin gone too?" Morgan replied yes, they were all gone. While I haven't read it I guess he wrote a book about the Cocoanut Grove fire. (Somehere here on CD-R transferred from cass. I have about 90 min of Morgan's last WMRE show)