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Wendy Furiga

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#1VO

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Sadly, I just read about the passing of Wendy Furiga last Friday.

Although she was out of radio for quite a while, Wendy was a knowledgeable and passionate Music Director at WMEX, WGTR and the Knight Quality Stations during the 1970's.

Wendy always had some wild stories to share and was center stage in many of them, but she was a terrific friend to many.
Sorry to see her leave us at 58
 
#1VO said:
Sadly, I just read about the passing of Wendy Furiga last Friday.

Although she was out of radio for quite a while, Wendy was a knowledgeable and passionate Music Director at WMEX, WGTR and the Knight Quality Stations during the 1970's.

Wendy always had some wild stories to share and was center stage in many of them, but she was a terrific friend to many.
Sorry to see her leave us at 58
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58!?!?!? Yikes!

Can you point us to where you read about it?
 
CTListener said:
Was this the "Wendy, the Champagne Lady" that John H. Garabedian would mention on WGTR back in the mid-'70s?
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I was about to post the same question. Many WGTR alumni have died. Jim McAlaster ND and Bob Lund CE are two, but, I believe, not the only ones. Some are still around: Garabedian, Don Kelley, Malcolm Alter. to name some.
 
DanStrassberg said:
CTListener said:
Was this the "Wendy, the Champagne Lady" that John H. Garabedian would mention on WGTR back in the mid-'70s?
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I was about to post the same question. Many WGTR alumni have died. Jim McAlaster ND and Bob Lund CE are two, but, I believe, not the only ones. Some are still around: Garabedian, Don Kelley, Malcolm Alter. to name some.
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Didn't Mark Parenteau work there for a while?

I loved listening to that little station, even though picking it up on the North Shore was a challenge. A great variety of music and two excellent pros in Garabedian and Kelley doing the DJ work. The primitive voicetracking was a little erratic, especially on weekends, but when it was in sync it was pretty much indistiguishable from live.
 
#1VO said:
Sadly, I just read about the passing of Wendy Furiga last Friday.
Although she was out of radio for quite a while, Wendy was a knowledgeable and passionate Music Director at WMEX, WGTR and the Knight Quality Stations during the 1970's.
Wendy always had some wild stories to share and was center stage in many of them, but she was a terrific friend to many.
Sorry to see her leave us at 58
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Reviving a long resting thread, I just found out from a former co-worker at WBZ. Wendy worked for me in the early 80's, after leaving WHDH (where she handled the music). She was our music director at BZ, ran the Music Scheduler computer, did a hundred and nineteen other things - but most important, singlehandedly ran WBZ-FM during a time when Westinghouse couldn't be persuaded to do anything but run the transmitter to keep the license intact. She did it without complaint (OK, that's not entirely true; we all complained about it, to no avail) and did it pretty well, considered that she had no resources, no staff, and that the automation equipment dated from an era just after the invention of magnetic tape.

Yes, she was the champagne lady at WGTR, but she was an all around hitter/batter/fielder for us, and I was saddened to get the news, especially so late that I couldn't even send flowers to the family. I think I will pen a letter and send it anyway, though. (I'm adding this post to the thread only so that her curriculum vitae will have more of the correct info than what was already listed.)
 
Oh dear gawd - I never heard about it at the time.

Wendy and I became very close in 1971 and sadly we drifted apart. Steve Fredericks actually got us together.

She was my companion at Fenway for the Bucky Dent game in 1978. But when I took a job in Chicago a year later we just never reconnected.






RickStarr said:
#1VO said:
Sadly, I just read about the passing of Wendy Furiga last Friday.
Although she was out of radio for quite a while, Wendy was a knowledgeable and passionate Music Director at WMEX, WGTR and the Knight Quality Stations during the 1970's.
Wendy always had some wild stories to share and was center stage in many of them, but she was a terrific friend to many.
Sorry to see her leave us at 58
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Reviving a long resting thread, I just found out from a former co-worker at WBZ. Wendy worked for me in the early 80's, after leaving WHDH (where she handled the music). She was our music director at BZ, ran the Music Scheduler computer, did a hundred and nineteen other things - but most important, singlehandedly ran WBZ-FM during a time when Westinghouse couldn't be persuaded to do anything but run the transmitter to keep the license intact. She did it without complaint (OK, that's not entirely true; we all complained about it, to no avail) and did it pretty well, considered that she had no resources, no staff, and that the automation equipment dated from an era just after the invention of magnetic tape.

Yes, she was the champagne lady at WGTR, but she was an all around hitter/batter/fielder for us, and I was saddened to get the news, especially so late that I couldn't even send flowers to the family. I think I will pen a letter and send it anyway, though. (I'm adding this post to the thread only so that her curriculum vitae will have more of the correct info than what was already listed.)
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