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2017 WERS Hall of Fame
inductees are, clockwise,
from top left: Debra
Daigle, MA '83, Roger Lifeset '67,
Dave Thomson '69, and Linda
Coombs '77.
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Boston’s Emerson
College loves its graduates and recognizes their good work.
This weekend, as
part of the College’s Alumni Weekend, four pros will be inducted into the WERS
Hall of Fame.
The ceremony will take place Saturday, June 3, 3:00–4:30 pm, in
the Semel Theater.
Information is available here.
2017 inductees include
leaders in radio, news and music industries:
ROGER LIFESET (Emerson Class of 1967) is founder and president of Peer Pressure
Promotions. In the late 960s an early 970s Lifeset was involved in the Boston
music scene and influential progressive rock station WBCN.
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Lifeset (2nd
from left) backstage at a Captain Beefheart show in 1970
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Lifeset moved into
full-time artist and record promotions. He worked for Warner Brothers, ABC
Dunhill and Universal Records. Lifeset played important roles in the success of
the J. Geils’ Band, Modern Lovers, Bruce Springsteen, The Cars, Boston, Aerosmith and
Alice Cooper.
In the late 1970s,
Lifeset left the corporate world and founded Peer Pressure Promotions, a
thriving independent music promotion company based in Agoura Hills, California.
DAVE THOMPSON (Emerson Class of 1969) began his career in radio at WERS
forerunner WECB. Over the next for decades Thompson was an announcer for
stations in New York (WXLO 99X),
Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, Baltimore, and Sacramento. He
is also an Emerson College Trustee.
LINDA COOMBS (Emerson Class of 1977) is operations manager of CBS Radio News in
New York. In her radio news career she has produced breaking news, coordinated
special events, and work at the assignment desk. Before joining CBS in the mid
1980s, Coombs was a news reporter for RKO Radio Networks.
DEBRA DAIGLE (Emerson Class of 1983) is currently associate director of media
relations at Wellesley College. For many years, Daigle was a reporter, producer
and All Things Considered at WGBH. She
also was the Capitol Hill correspondent for Unistar Radio Network in the late
2980s.
Other members of
the WERS Hall of Fame you might know include WGBH Morning Edition host Joe
Mathieu; Dean Cappello, Executive VP and Chief Content Officer at WNYC/New York
Public Radio; Jacquie Gales Webb, radio project manager at the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting; and communications attorney Howard Liberman.
SALLY KANE FINDS A NEW RADIO HOME
Sally Kane, CEO of
the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB), moved me deeply with
her commentary distributed Thursday (6/1). Sally decided she need a “radio
home” where she lives in Denver. So, she
adopted a station. I wish I could do what Sally has down and perhaps you will
feel that way too. Here is what she wrote:
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| SALLY KANE |
In March I moved the NFCB
office from a room in my house to space inside Denver’s community Jazz station
jewel, KUVO.
After three years of service
on behalf of member stations around the country, I simply felt too alone to
carry the message anymore. I missed my beloved home station KVNF. I needed to
experience community media, not just talk about it. Within days I felt the pull
on my heart's strings return.
[I love] The sound of high
school Jazz band members laughing over pizza and excited to play music together
in the studio, the friendly conversation of staffers' grandchildren – all of
these interludes drove the message back home to me yet again….when you
volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.
Thank you, Sally. BTW
– NCFB’s annual Community Media Conference is being held July 17 – 19. More information is here.
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