The protest got local media coverage and the attention of several well-known Boston-based music acts, including The Cars, Aerosmith, and Boston, who got behind the protest. And he screwed up all the time! Is it a talk station? In the early days, each shift was a DJ with a mike and three turntables and some cartridges, interacting with the audience on the phone. The "WBCN Free Form Rock" biodiesel-burning bus will hit Boston's streets May 1, Mr. Kopper said. You go to a station for a specific reason and its just the way things have gone. It returned to sports programming in 2013 as a full-time satellite of CBS Sports Radio. In May 1958, 104.1 FM officially signed on as WBCN, airing classical music. 3. WBCN began supporting non-mainstream investigative reporting and alternative news coverage, including reports from demonstrations and highly produced montage news reports. I was there at the end of the heyday in some ways. "More than a million people listen to Nancy every week," the station once boasted. And with that cheerful tone, the corporate machine is axing 104.1 WBCN: The Rock of Boston, leaving most of New England without a dedicated modern rock and roll radio station. Radio Ink. If you grew up in the Boston metro, BCN was part of your life in some way, shape, or form. We were fortunate that we were part of not only a Boston institution, but also a cultural mecca. WBCN aired the tape on September 22, 1969. Except for Wolfs up-tempo shtick rockin the wee hours, a laid-back, stoner style prevailed with a free-form attitude toward the music no restrictions and no playlist. On July 14, 2009, CBS Radio announced that WBCN would sign off the 104.1MHz frequency the following month.[9][10][11]. [8] During the following months, industry insiders, local media, and even WBCN's on air staff speculated that, in a matter of time, WBCN could see a format change, especially after the Boston Herald ran an article in the March 30, 2009, issue about WBCN's future, and the station airing a Top 40 format for a few hours the following day (April Fool's Day). Howard Stern went to BU listening to Charles. He would do all kinds of stuff. [17][18][19] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. Like the biggest rock bands, it began as an underground revolution, thenin a haze of sex- and drug-fueled mayhem transformed radio, went mainstream, enjoyed unimaginable financial prosperity, and was ultimately undone by that success, as its corporate masters foisted upon the Rock of Boston a series of edicts so stringent that it ended up as boring and pre-programmed as the AM-radio dinosaurs it had so creatively displaced. I was competing against him. How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. NAME Years of Service Current Status, Bill Abbate 1988-Present Air Talent,midnight - 6AMKaty Abel 1982-88 Education Reporter WHDH-TV7(CBS) Producer for The Learning ChannelCarter Alan 1979-Present Music DirectorLorraine Ballard 1978-80 Living in PhiladelphiaAndy Beaubien 1969-77 PD at DC-101,WashingtonTony Berardini 1978-Present General ManagerJohn Brodey 1969-1979 GM for Giant Records in LAJudy "Scooter" Carlough 1982-87 Senior Acct. I remember when I first played Roxanne on the air, people thought it was the end of the world. B96 - WBBM 96.3 FM. Once you reach number one, once you reach that magical economic success, once you reach X number of millions of dollars in billing, where do you go? WBCN also launched The Toucher and Rich Show, a new locally produced comedy-based afternoon drive time show starring Fred Toettcher and Rich Shertenlieb. We would all play a consistent amount of new music, and then there were times every hour when you could go to the outer library, which was 30,000 albums. WBCN was a cultural phenomenon through its music, events, and personalitiesit united Boston. Their reputation was extraordinary across the county. Tommy Charles. I was just a kid who went to high school to be a baker. He took me under his wing. You have to be exceeding your success. However, on January 29, 2016, "WBCN Free Form Rock" was dropped from WZLX-HD3 and flipped to adult standards as "The Lounge." There was a time when you could hear BCN without a radio. That means I've been on the radio for 25 years. The site features new music nearly every day, as well as information and insight on the music industry. WBCN was more than simply an entertainment vehicle. Part-time personalities in 1980 included Mike Dimambro, Vinny "Jim" Raposa. Peter Wolf aka The Woofa Goofa - WBCN Radio DJ. This was recorded over a 3 hour period late afternoon to early evening on 2 sides of 2 cassette tapes. WBCN's last four days on analog radio were celebration and retrospective shows highlighting WBCN's history. Steve Lushbaugh 1978-79 Production Director at WMMR,Phila. High Profile Show & Ratings (was Re: Changes at WBCN-Boston), 5. So was its sound: Now-famous megagroups, from Aerosmith and the Clash to the Ramones and U2, all found early support on 104.1. One of the on-air personalities at that time was Ron Della Chiesa, who also served as the music host and program director. #WBCN #wbcnfreeform. You could call the "BCN listener line anytime with a question, and they would help you out. The FCC approved the transfer in the spring of 2009. He gained notoriety as the pink-haired DJ who created the first Punk rock radio show in America, introducing Punk and New Wave to Boston and to the country. We all wish we could have been around in the 70s and 80s. Jerry Garcia Calderone Concert Hall 1980 NY WLIR by WLIR 2,593 20 2 Hot Tuna Papa John 1971 Fillmore West KSAN SF by KSAN 4,348 28 0 Allman Brothers NYE 1973 Cow Palace KSAN by KSAN 8,635 62 2 Fleetwood Mac 1970 The Warehouse NOLA WJMR by WJMR 5,198 31 0 Alicia Keys NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert 2020 by NPR 66 1 0 They are not radio, because there is not a human being there. Search the history of over 797 billion His father was a Catholic and a psychiatrist and his mother was Jewish and a psychologist. As a VJ, Jackson hosted the long-awaited and much anticipated "unmasking" of KISS. tation history Before the middle 1960s, the station played classical music exclusively. WWBX (104.1 FM, Mix 104.1) is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts.The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. By 1975, WBCN had gradually evolved from the underground/progressive format of the 1960s to the more mainstream album oriented rock format popular in the 1970s. BONUS: After posting this aircheck I found an additional 90 minute cassette from earlier this same day (2:35pm-4:05pm) featuring Mark. [25] WBMX, WODS, and WAAF were retained by Entercom, while sister stations WBZ and WZLX, as well as WKAF and WRKO, were spun off to iHeartMedia (WBZ-FM would be traded to Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for WMJX, making WBMX and WMJX sister stations. classic rock. But I remember my parents changing the station. The Rob Carson Show Every Weekday Noon - 3PM on WCBM! HD Radio substations on the FM frequencies changed as well: This was done to make room for an all-sports talk format at the 98.5 FM frequency, known as "98.5 The Sports Hub" WBZ-FM. With Andy Beaubien, David Bowie, Ron Della Chiesa, Noam Chomsky. The company let me take chances. Are you playing with a full deck? Along the way, WBCN both pioneered and defined progressive rock radio, the dominant format for a generation of listeners. By the 1990s, WBCN was at a crossroads. Jukebox stations are not radio; they are jukeboxes. Even college radio stations were not quite like WBCN. He died on July 26, 2006 at his home in Saugus, Massachusetts.[4]. But we like you because youre intelligent and youre not afraid to take chances. Who says that today? . There was a period in the mid- to late 80s when BCN was regularly the number one station in Boston. Especially here in Boston, people loved that. We start off with Mark Parenteau and end with Lisa Carlin as radio personalities. On August 11, 2009following a weeklong farewell from many of the stations past contributorsWBCN died to the strains of Pink Floyds Shine On You Crazy Diamond.. Jackson 1968-71 Radio Consultant,LABradley Jay 1984-Present Air TalentMadge Kaplan 1986-1988 News,WGBH-FM BostonLisa Carlin 1980-82 TV commentator in NYCCharlie Kendall 1978-79 Radio Station Owner in MississippiSam Kooper 1968-73 National Media Relations 1987-90 Spokeperson in Boston, Bob Kranes 1982-86 A&R,Polygram in NYCCharles Laquidara 1969-76 1977-Present Air Talent,6-10amKathryn Lauren 1985-87 Air Talent,WHFS,Annapolis,MDMaurice Lewis 1989-91 Boston Food BankLarry "Cha-Chi" Loprete 1982-Present Air Talent,Host of WBCN's "Get Back to The Beatles" heard on Sundays. WWBX-HD1 simulcasts the analog signal of WWBX as Mix 104.1. This is awful! It was programmed by. On September 14, 2009, WBCN split from WFNZ and became "America's Talk", a conservative-leaning talk station. In 1965, Nathaniel Johnson was appointed Music Director of WBCN by station program director Don Otto. At Kiss, for an entire decade in the 80s, I was up against Charles. Wed go out and hang out with the bands. WBCN Free Form Rock was formatted essentially the same as WBCN's 104.1 FM's 1968-88 incarnation (a great deal of rock, rock's related genres, and new music), different from the modern rock format that was carried on 98.5-HD2. A classical music station in its first ten years on the air, beginning in 1968, WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years. Profile: WBCN was an over-the-air radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Chicago Radio Personalities - Where are they now, 8. Darrell Blair-Edward Martinie[1] a.k.a. Please help : need gm300 personality file, 11. And you kept me! Anyway, he ended up firing Duane, but in less than three weeks he ended up bringing him back. He then moved to the legendary WBCN-FM/Boston where he won three Boston Achievement in Radio Awards and was the Executive Producer of New England Patriots Radio Network. Please say a prayer for Mark.. Oedipus was one of the first to play the Clash. Charles Laquidara played Superman by The Kinks back to back for an entire show in celebration. In the new century, with older listeners leaving in droves and loyalty among younger ones harder to retain with competition from alternate media such as iPods, the internet and free music sites like Napster, ratings began to nosedive. Carolla, on Loveline after earlier attempts at traditional stand-up comedy, eschewed traditional stand-up methods, such as scripted comedic bits. When these new people came in from New York, they just didnt get it. The station lost some of its longtime listeners (who migrated to the now co-owned WZLX, where former WBCN DJs Laquidara and Carter Alan had gone), but quickly gained credibility among many younger people. Ive heard that story six times, and its told differently each time. Mark Parenteau was up in the car, doing a live broadcast. Im not a real fan of what he did or what he does. I remember the owners telling me, Youre gonna make mistakes, and youre gonna learn from your mistakes. I was turquoise. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 14:42. In his appearances on MTV, Jackson often went by and introduced himself as "Triple J". On February 2, 2017, CBS announced that they would be selling their radio division to Entercom, whose existing properties in the Boston area included WBCN's long-time rival, WAAF. Segal's West Coast radical radio consciousness infused the early 'BCN. Regular and special guests chat with me . Danny Schechter replaced Bo Burlingham and immediately billed himself as "the News Dissector". BCN did that. And when I say multiple, I mean hundreds, if not a thousand, stations. A bunch of us were sitting around, possibly experimenting with drugs. Once Oedipus left, the station was kind of in a free fall. The Patriots on the weekend: Is it a football station? However, there was always tension between the artistic expression of the DJs, and management's need to run a business, resulting in the unionization of the station with the United Electrical Workers in 1971. The Sounds of The American Revolution features material from the early days of WBCN-FM, when the underground station, politics and rock and roll changed radio - and the world. While the existence of the promotional album is apocryphal, the truth behind the broadcast, though less dramatic, is equally as fascinating. on the Internet. Uploaded by Last fall, former music director Carter Alan published a history of the station, Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN (Northeastern University Press), and a documentary film is in the works. His reports were syndicated to stations nationwide. A Connecticut native, Harrison began his career as an air personality at Rock WHCN-FM/Hartford. None of the Alligators. It was a Sunday night, Oedipus was hosting Nocturnal Emissions, and he played Never Say Never by Romeo Void. The station went on strike in 1979 because the new owners, Hemisphere Broadcasting, came in. When I took over as program director, we were getting our ass kicked by WCOZ, Kickass Rock n Roll. We needed to turn it around, and we were able to turn it around. I didnt talk fast, and I wasnt sharp at all. As the 90s beckoned, WBCNs taste for fresh sounds placed it in the Alternative Music format, but rapid changes began to sap its vital energy. MATT SIEGELAt WBCN:DJ, 197779.Since then:Host ofMatty in the Morning on Kiss 108. . Duane got 13. [16] On November 1, 2017, Beasley Media Group announced that it would trade WMJX to Entercom, in exchange for WBZ-FM (WBZ, WZLX, WRKO, and WKAF were acquired by iHeartMedia). [1] [2] He then spent four years doing The Charles Laquidara Radio Hour on WZLX. Ut velit metus, lacinia ac nibh a, lacinia scelerisque diam. Former WBCN disc jockey Mark Parenteau, who was a force on the Boston airwaves for more than 20 years but saw his career and life go off the rails after he was arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old boy, died early this morning after a long illness. [1], In 1969 his first marriage ended in divorce. This article is about the media personality. A formerly bulletproof radio property became riddled and CBS stemmed the bleeding by shuttering WBCN on August 12, 2009. Between late 1968 and early 1971, as program director, Kopper sought out and hired Norm Winer, recently graduated from Brandeis; Andy Beaubien, recently graduated from URI; and Maxanne Sartori, who came in from her DJ position at KOL-FM in Seattle. It was a blast for me. I remember one night, Paul Ahern, a record promoter, and I were sitting in his car, maybe smoking a fatty, and he said, Charles, I want you to hear something. In 1977, Oedipus convinced WBCN to hire him as an announcer to bring his cutting edge sounds to the airwaves. The entire musical landscape of America, and maybe the entire world, would have been different. 0. in BostonAlbert O 1983-Present Air Talent,midnight-6amOedipus 1976-Present Program DirectorMark Parentau 1978-Present Air Talent,3-7pmJim Parry 1968-79 Anthroplogy student at Harvard U. same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, "Darrell Martinie; with astrology, he was the 'Cosmic Muffin'; at 63", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darrell_Martinie&oldid=1131675986, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 5 January 2023, at 07:02. This is what happened: WBCN started on Newbury Street, 171 Newbury Street. "King of All Media" The original "shock jock", Though controversial, he is one of the highest-paid radio personalities in the United States and the most fined personality in radio broadcast history. That song was in heavy rotation on WBCN during the months leading up to CBS Radio's announcement of the station's demise, and continued until the four-day farewell began. He said, Charles Laquidara is a professional. Exec at RAB in NYC Tom Couch 1976-82 Production Manager at WXRT,Chicago Peter Choyce 1978-88 Air Talent,Las Vegas Carolyn Fox 1991-93 Air Talent,Providence RI Jerry "The Duke of Madness" Goodwin 1977-81 Air Talent,WCGY,Lawrence MA Eddie Gordetsky 1978-82 Comedy Writer in NYC and LA Kenny Greenblatt 1968-1979 deceased Tommy Hadges 1968-78 President of Pollack Media Group in LA Tami Heidi 1977-79 1984-91 Air Talent,KROQ in LA John "Hoch" Hoccheimer 1972 Professor at Ithaca College in Itaca,NY Kate Ingram 1979-81 Harmonic Converge,San Francisco Eric Jackson 1973-75 Air Talent,WGBH-FM Boston J.J. Jackson 1968-71 Radio Consultant,LA Bradley Jay 1984-Present Air Talent Madge Kaplan 1986-1988 News,WGBH-FM Boston Lisa Carlin 1980-82 TV commentator in NYC Charlie Kendall 1978-79 Radio Station Owner in Mississippi Sam Kooper 1968-73 National Media Relations 1987-90 Spokeperson in Boston, Bob Kranes 1982-86 A&R,Polygram in NYC Charles Laquidara 1969-76 1977-Present Air Talent,6-10am Kathryn Lauren 1985-87 Air Talent,WHFS,Annapolis,MD Maurice Lewis 1989-91 Boston Food Bank Larry "Cha-Chi" Loprete 1982-Present Air Talent,Host of WBCN's "Get Back to The Beatles" heard on Sundays. CBS Radio will launch 98.5 The Sports Hub in the other slot. It was just a matter of time before it became centrally controlled and they could put all of these cost-cutting measures into effect. Everybody, send a bag of shit to Arbitron. Duane gave out the exact address, every break, for four hours. [22] The final song "Mix" played on 98.5 was "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects,[23] while the first song "Mix" played on 104.1 was "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon. NAME Years of Service Current Status, Bill Abbate 1988-Present Air Talent,midnight - 6AM Katy Abel 1982-88 Education Reporter WHDH-TV7(CBS) Producer for The Learning Channel Carter Alan 1979-Present Music Director Lorraine Ballard 1978-80 Living in Philadelphia Andy Beaubien 1969-77 PD at DC-101,Washington Tony Berardini 1978-Present General Manager John Brodey 1969-1979 GM for Giant Records in LA Judy "Scooter" Carlough 1982-87 Senior Acct. On December 4, 2017, the call letters changed to WWBX, after the call letters were transferred to a sister station in Chicago.[2]. During his 19-year reign, Parenteau was instrumental in breaking musical acts like Bob Seger and the J. Geils Band. 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