Word: wcop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking part in a discussion of jazz, said Wilson, will be George Wein, proprietor of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, Boston jazz emporiums; Nat Hentoff, disk jockey on station WMEX, and writer for "Metronome" and "Downbeat," prominent jazz periodicals; and "Symphony Sid," disk jockey on station WCOP, and one of the formost proponents of modern jazz music...
...from the Ozarks and onto the airwaves has come the greatest flock of hillbilly and western stars ever assembled. Its the "Hayloft Jamboree of '53 on WCOP," as the announcer joyously introduces it. For a full hour, the characters chew over drawls, and flawlessly read down-to-earth humor from down-and-out scripts...
...Boston chapter of the WHRB alumni organization is headed by William H. Rahn, Jr. '45 of WNAC-TV and Martin Bookspan '47 of WCOP...
Moderator of the forum was Martin Bookspan '47 (center), classical musical director for radio station WCOP...
There are strong rumors that another commercial station, Boston's WOOP, plans to break with the ABC network and broadcast classical music in the evenings. Louis Goldberg, music manager of WCOP, explained that his station was already running three hours of concert music a week. "We do some fine things," said Mr. Goldberg, "Not only Beethoven's Ninth, but his Fifth and Fourth!" He expressed a lukewarm desire to play more, but spent most of his time relating the hardships of the radio world, "You can't push any ads on a classical show, and places like Wally...