[BC] Irv Joel board

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:19 PM 2/3/2010, Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote: -------

>Not so with me. Irv was quite upset when I unmodified
>the 8100A at WRCH and ran about 4 dB slow AGC.
>The GM told him everyone was happy with the sound
>and that's the way it was going to stay. Not that I believe
>Beautiful should be heavily processed, but it did give a
>consistent, louder sound without fatigue.
>
>Irv did NOT agree with me that Beautiful was a background,
>not foreground listening format.

I was hired by WRCH when they were owned by Aldo and Enzo 
DeDomenicis. The station was licensed to New Britain, associated 
itself with Hartford except at the legal ID and physically located in 
"Radio Park" in Farmington. It was a very classy operation at the 
time. Music was on cart. I wanted the job very badly but my mother 
said no. She didn't want me riding my Lambretta scooter from Western 
MA to Farmington, especially on school nights. I was to do the evening shift.

This was before SRP existed. At that time Bob Richer and Jim Schulke 
were still running their FM rep firm. They split and Jim took the 
music division and Bob took the rep firm. It was certainly before CBS 
got their mitts on it. What once was a very distinctive radio station 
now sounds like every cookie cutter in the nation. with "Soft AC."

Rich