Word: wbz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first game of the World Series will be televised by WBZ-TV, Channel 4, at 3 p.m. today. WEZE radio, 1250 kc, will broadcast the game...
...August Bostonians not only listened to the song, they loved it. "This song is so popular," WBZ disc jockey Bruce Bradley told his listeners during one show, we're gonna play it three times tonight." But one week later the station stopped playing it altogether, WBZ made no public statement on the ban, and it remained on the station's hit list as number one. One Sunday morning, when Dave Maynard played through the top thirty songs in order, he simply stopped at number two and went on to the newseast...
...WBZ's program manager Dan Griffin denied yesterday that the song had been taken off the air by the station. He said that it had simply lost popularity. But Warren Mower, the station's promotion director, said that the song had been withdrawn from the air during the stations weekly record review because "its lyrics and mood were questionable...
Other sources at WBZ, who asked not to be identified, said the song was banned by executives of the Westinghouse Corporation, which owns the station...
...looks as if WBZ's Dick Summer did not get his message across. One of his last crusades before he switched from nighttime to daytime broadcasting was NAG (Nightlighters Against Gutlessness), a campaign against public apathy. But Wednesday evening, as scores of citizens watched, a Cambridge policeman was attacked near Central Square by a gang of teenagers...