No more bedtime magic on the radio

By adamg on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:00am

WMJX reports that David Allan Boucher, who has hosted Bedtime Magic since the station first went on the air 40 years ago, is retiring.

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40 years at one job is impressive

By StillFromDorchester on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:44am.

Congrats, I hope he has a long healthy retirement.

That's amazing

By Gary C on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 10:53am.

For someone to have a radio show that basically kept the exact same format for 40 years is almost unheard of. I don't listen to that often, but when I do, it's a comforting presence.

Same here

By TiminSouthie on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 6:59pm.

I can’t remember him not being on the air in my life. “Bedtime Magic with David Allen Boucher and this next one goes out to Debra who is loving the one she’s with.”

Face a daily barrage of threats, druggies and drunks not to mention troublesome teens. They drove their buses during the worst days of the pandemic and never complained. Meanwhile MBTA managers many of whom still work at home got COVID bonuses

I couldn't agree more. While we're on topic,

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 06/11/2022 - 12:09am.

California recently planted 30,000 milkweeds to support the monarch butterfly population. So that's something.

(Actually on topic, I once aspired to the kind of career that David Allan Boucher achieved, but guessed that an incredibly fun college-radio stint as a punk-rock DJ back when the genre was new probably wouldn't lead to a job that would pay my rent. Well done, man!)