You may be right; I may not have been tuned in (or it may have happened when I was at work and 850 doesn’t come in too well). I thought I read about it being on WBUR via a paper but could be mistaken. Indeed, I remember Howie on WHDH and Howie has an audio clip of his interview with the Chappaquiddick diver (which I put up on YouTube) and it starts with Jim Cutler saying it was on “NewsTalk850 WHDH”
IIRC. (Cutler’s voice is well known even if his name isn’t;
“ESPN...sportsflash!...And now The Big Show With the Big O”.
Cutler is heard on WEEI and many other stations across the country as well as ESPN Radio.)
Of course Howie started on WRKO w/ Jerry Williams around 1988 or so and for a time there was some kind of deal where
Howie did a three hour show and the last hour was together with a lib from England, Victoria Jones. Howie got fired and came back on WHDH 850, against Howie. WHDH of course
we rememember for many years of Red Sox baseball, Bob and
Ray, Jess Cain, etc. And I remember the deal where
WEEI 590 moved to 850 (there were promos on 590 about the new freq.). When WHDH signed off for the last time under those calls, a disgruntled engineer played a toilet flush sound effect. WHDH had Rush 12-3 and then Howie, and they
were brought over to WRKO.
http://bostonradio.org/stations/1902 WRKO
>>As Atlantic Ventures merged its way into American Radio Systems, WRKO and sister station WBMX moved again in early 1994, into custom-built facilities on the top floor of 116 Huntington Ave., behind the Prudential Tower. In 1994, WRKO added several programs from its now-defunct sister station WHDH 850, including Howie Carr and Rush Limbaugh.
http://bostonradio.org/stations/1912 WEEI (was WHDH)
>>Air talent included Pat Whitley and Marjorie Clapprood in the morning and Eddie Andelman in the afternoon, until his departure for WEEI (590) in 1991, when WHDH began airing the Rush Limbaugh show. Channel 7 meanwhile changed its call letters to WHDH-TV. 1992 saw yet another sale, as WHDH became part of Boston’s first AM duopoly, with American Radio Systems (WRKO and WBMX) buying the station for $3 million. ARS made a few changes, moving Clapprood and Whitley to WRKO, and launching a new all-news block in morning drive on WHDH. It proved to be the last format change for WHDH. In mid-1994, ARS announced its purchase of the programming and call letters of Back Bay Broadcasting’s WEEI 590. The change came in late August; Friday, August 26 was the last weekday for WHDH, and on the last live program, talk host Howie Carr took to the sidewalk outside 7 Bulfinch Place to auction off the contents of the WHDH studios for charity. At midnight, August 28, the last WHDH programming came to an end, and an anonymous board operator sent the station to the history books with a recorded toilet flush. The next morning, WEEI’s sports programming made its debut on 850
Memory is a funny thing. I know for a fact that I’ve never listened to WBUR during weekday drive time. I know I heard the Jackie Robinson crash and I recall it was in real time, since I wasn’t prepared for it, it came as something of a jolt. It could, conceivably have been on Jerry Williams show.