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Where are they now ?????

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paul leonard

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Ok......let's see how far back you guys go......any ideas on where these guys wound up ?????

> WBBF....Jim Rivers, Burt Michaels, Larry White, Matt Rinaldi,
> Don Michael Girard
>
> WNYR....Paul Albert, Mick St. John, Earl Morgan, Dean Murdock,
> Joe Gallagher, Jack Dempsy, Paul Leonard
>
> WHFM.....Bob Oliver
>
> WGVA.....Tom Gallagher
>
> WHAM....David A. Senate, Harry Abraham
>
 
Joe Gallagher is doing weekends at WGY. I worked with him in the early 70's at WWOL, where he used the name Michael Scott. A great, great air personality with a wonderful sense of humor.

Nick Seneca
 
Lots of Rochester folks here, let me see if I can help...

Jim Rivers, last I heard, was a college professor.
Burt Michaels is/was a dispatcher of some sort for the city of Rochester.
Matt Rinaldi still lives in the Rochester area and does some advertising and public relations work.

Mick St. John has been involved in Media Research for various companies for many years.
Earl Morgan has been involved in Buffalo radio for years now.
Bob Oliver, David A. Sennett and Don Girard have all passed away.

Larry White, that's me -- I left the day to day radio business in 1991 after managing WBUF in Buffalo for 7 years.  I'm living in the Charlotte, NC area and do commercial voiceover work from my home studio.

Thanks, Paul. It's nice to be remembered.
 
Tom Gallagher works for UPS in Geneva, or he did for many years. He might have retired by now.

Hey Larry, how's life in NC? Wife and I are thinking of moving there when we retire.
 
Where's George Hamberger of WGR, WKBW, WBEN and WHTT? He's one of the most entertaining radio personalities in Buffalo who should get more attention on this board.
 
George is selling business real estate in Buffalo and bringing down wayyyy more cash than he did at WYSL, that's for sure.
 
How about a couple of my favorite late nite ladies Beverly Buke and Trish Matimore of WKBW fame. I always thought they were good on the air.
 
Beverly Burke (who I had the pleasure of working with at KB back in 1977) left radio early in 1978 to go into TV news, a field in which she had both prior training and considerable talent, and in which she would spend the next 25+ years. She went down to WTVD, Channel 11 in Raleigh/Durham (another CapCities/ABC station) to do anchoring and reporting, and later went out to Los Angeles as a reporter for, I believe, KCBS/Channel 2 in Los Angeles, and wound up as an anchor at WRC-TV, the NBC O&O in Washington. I believe she's left the broadcasting industry to go into business recently, but she's had a very long and successful run in TV and picked up a number of awards along the way.
 
This thread is bringing back Memories...I am originally from Wayland and moved to Clarksburg,West Virginia in 1968 and worked local radio here right up until two years ago...I worked at a local station WBOY in the early 70's and had both Larry White and Bob Savage record ID's and Liners for me..I was really happy to have "Big City Guys" make these for my little station..Whenever I would go home to visit,I would go up to BBF at 850 Midtown Tower and bug Larry....I always got a big kick out of WAXC with Larry Black in the Morning and Larry White in the afternoon...The one Rochester guy I heard not too long ago was Dave Mason..Voice Tracked on Pittsburgh's 3WS From San Diego...I also about nine years ago got to meet Clark Ingram formerly 98PXY and Scott Fybush at a Locally hosted National Radio Club Convention.
 
Thanks for asking! I spent 6 months at WBBF in 1982. A year which will live in infamy. 2 weeks after I got there, the PD got fired. 4 months after I got there, I became Production Director. After I got the heave-ho, I couldn't buy a job in Rochester. Thank you, Rand Gottlieb. Are you still in the business, or crunching numbers at some accounting firm, along with 20 other accountants in cubicles. But I'm not bitter. Thanks also to Frank DiGioia for contributing. But I'm not bitter. Word to the wise, don't join a station in the midst of a format change, unless you're part of the new format!
 
I heard, at some point, that Rand Gottlieb took his...(ahem!)...people handling skills to WCCO in Minneapolis for a spell. Don't know for sure, but I believe he's out of the business and sitting on a pile of cash.
 
Sadly, Don Michael Girard, who I had the pleasure of following daily when I did middays at 95BBF, passed away a few months ago.
 
Oh yeah, Dave Sennett (correct spelling) also went to the studio in the sky awhile back.

Harry Abraham, I remember, was arrested on the Thruway after attempting to return to Rochester after robbing a Syracuse bank.
 
JIBGUY said:
And what about Bill Ardis ("Ardis Against The Night") on WHAM who preceded Harry Abraham? Where's Bill?
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After he left WHAM he did afternoons on WCMF for a time. I replaced him there in December of 1970 (yikes!) In the years after that I would occasionally run into him on the street but haven't heard his name in years.
And yes, Harry Abraham did get caught after robbing a bank.
 
I've heard a tale often repeated about Harry Abraham that he once got his giant pouffy Afro 'do caught in the jackscrews of a Gates 55 automation cart deck. OWWW!!!!!

Don't know if the story is apocryphal. Can anyone confirm or dismiss this as hogwash??

If true, how the hell did he manage to do this??
 
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