Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. on the Internet. Do you understand me? I said, Klee, you cant fire Duane. buss. I had horrible taste in music. Nam eleifend mollis interdum. WWBX-HD3 airs "Tomorrow's Hits Today," a CHR format that focuses on the very latest hits prior to their ascension to the top of the charts. Gil Santos, former WBZ sports reporter, did play-by-play, while Gino Cappelletti, former Patriots star, provided color commentary. KEAR San Francisco, "Family Radio" Christian 9/12/78 45 min. WBCN was more than simply an entertainment vehicle. But there was a responsibility and a mission to get the job done. However, on January 29, 2016, "WBCN Free Form Rock" was dropped from WZLX-HD3 and flipped to adult standards as "The Lounge." I said, Paul, the guy singing with the high falsetto voice sounds like hes Mark Farner, a Grand Funk Railroad wannabe. The song was More Than a Feeling from the band Boston. WBCN came along in Boston at a time when virtually every aspect of cultural, social, and political life was changing dramatically in this countrythe intersection of the womens movement, the gay and lesbian rights movement, basic rights, what it meant to be an American. It was not just your talentyou had to be able to hang with the boys and you had to take a certain number of lumps that the boys didnt have to. I still cant go to an event without at least one person mentioning WBCN. Segal's arrival was critical to the station's early development since he came in from Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he had been mentored by the legendary West Coast DJ Tom Donahue, who was credited with starting the very first underground rock FM station at KMPX the year before. WIVY Jacksonville "Y103 Top 40 1979 13 min. The station by this time was playing some hard rock and Nu metal acts such as Godsmack, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park. Jim Halfyard took over the graveyard shift. NAME Years of Service Current Status Bill Abbate 1988-Present. Play anything you want, say what you want. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower. I quit radio in 76 because it was getting in the way of my cocaine habit. The WBCN staff, circa 1978. Maxanne Sartori - WBCN DJ. In 2018, the Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, issued a proclamation declaring December 24, 2018, as Christmas Eve with Oedipus Day in the City of Boston in recognition of his annual Christmas Eve broadcast for over 30 years spreading peace, love and understanding throughout Boston and the world. On March 15th the station celebrated 25 years on the air. I was the artistic director of a 24-hour opera of the mind. [4] When same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Martinie and Boesel married. We were next door to an Acura dealership. Youve seen the movie Almost Famous. 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. Sirius XM Radio Inc. Sep 2016 - Aug 20226 years. 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. But we were also out in public. Before switching to 98.5 HD-2 on August 12, 2009, WBCN featured its rock format for 41 years as an analog radio station on 104.1 MHz (now WBMX ). But in 1996, the new Telecommunications Act spawned a sudden nationwide consolidation of the radio industry, and thats when things for BCN went south. The Rock of Boston. His father was a Catholic and a psychiatrist and his mother was Jewish and a psychologist. People were going, This sucks! He was having good days and bad days, but I didnt think hed go this quickly.. Della Chiesa is still active in classical music broadcasting on WCRB. He said, Charles Laquidara is a professional. In the summer of 1999, WBCN moved its format away from strictly alternative music and more towards an active rock-leaning modern rock format. Memorable radio personalities from Cleveland's past. There isnt a museum yet, but Boston archivist David Bieberwho, as a grad student, profiled the nascent WBCN for this magazine in 1970, and later worked at the stationhas leased key artifacts to the Verb Hotel, a boutique hotel opening this month next door to WBCNs former studios. Real human personalities owned the music as much as the bands that wrote it; they frequented clubs, knew personally the pulse of local talent, and knew the goings-on of a community or city. By the 1990s, WBCN was at a crossroads. BCN's first rock announcer, "Mississippi Harold Wilson" (Joe Rogers), used the station's first slogan, "The American Revolution" and played the very first song "I Feel Free" by the rock group Cream. The company let me take chances. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. In the period around 1975, John Garabedian, now recognized for the nationally syndicated "Open House Party" (which was once heard locally on WXKS-FM), was an afternoon DJ on WBCN. They were just business guys who only looked at numbers. Be the first one to, 1982-05-17 WBCN FM 104.1 Boston MA Mark Parenteau & Lisa Carlin unscoped, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Mark_Parenteau_Lisa_Carlin, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 1.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 2.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 3.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 4.mp3, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 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. WBCN Free Form Rock Legendary Boston stripper Princess Cheyenne hosted a Sunday night sex advice show that eventually led to one of her appearances in Playboy Magazine in April 1986. This set off a local controversy in Boston that resulted in the entire airstaff walking off the air striking in protest. 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. With Andy Beaubien, David Bowie, Ron Della Chiesa, Noam Chomsky. So he persuaded station owner T. Mitchell Hastings to give DJs free rein to play album cuts on an overnight graveyard shift to determine if there was an audience and ad dollars to float the new format. Profil: WBCN was an over-the-air radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In 1971 he graduated from University of Illinois with a degree in psychology. Boston Globe. 0. Bo resigned shortly thereafter when his name appeared on a UPI news wire as one of several people being indicted by then-Attorney General John Mitchella charge which was later dropped. Since then:Assistant program director and midday DJ, WZLX. Since then:Program director, DJ of WBCN Free Form Rock on wbcn.com and 100.7HD3. Along with Andrew Kopkind, John Scagliotti, Bill Lichtenstein, and Marsha Steinberg, the news department evolved radically, introducing such novel concepts as a show oriented toward prison inmates, health warnings about the hazards of street drugs, a lost pet-finding service called the Cat and Dog Report, a travelers' aid service called the Travelers' Friend, live updates on the traffic problems at Woodstock, and by 1970, live-to-air concert broadcasts. He held his final radio gig at the former XM satellite radio station in Washington, D.C. until his arrest. Now the clubs are making some more money, so they keep booking the bands. Boston radio station WBCN revolutionized rock radio in the late 1960s and 1970s. It can be found at Oedipus1, "Oedipus at BIF1 Business Innovation Factory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oedipus_(DJ)&oldid=1082277386, Milano, Brett (2007), The Sound of Our Town (a History of Boston Rock & Roll), Oedipus, College Radio, and WBCN: We Want the Airwaves, This page was last edited on 12 April 2022, at 08:21. 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. HD digital radio technology, introduced commercially in . CHARLES LAQUIDARAAt WBCN:DJ, 196896, host of The BigMattress. 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. Funeral arrangements are not yet complete. That does not exist anymore. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast .more #46 of 164 The Best Talk Show Hosts Of Daytime, Late Night, and All Time #37 of 61 Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. If there was a skirmish with police, people could call and say, I was there and this is what happened. There was an immediacy to it. In 1966 he began his first job as district manager of Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Decatur, Illinois. [1] He did the first radio interviews with the Ramones, Talking Heads and The Damned (band), and legendary on-air conversations with The Clash, Public Image Ltd, Suicide (band) and so many others. Mark Parenteau was up in the car, doing a live broadcast. I was the last full-time DJ that Oedipus hired. WBCN was full service (news, music, information, and live 24/7). Is it possible that WBCN, the greatest rock n roll radio station in American history, died five years ago this month? Active rock accounts for all regular programming on the HD2 digital subchannel. Everybody listened to WBCN. Jackson had a daughter and three grandchildren.[2]. If you needed a ride, well connect you. WBCN came along in Boston at a time when virtually every aspect of cultural, social, and political life was changing dramatically in this countrythe intersection of the women's movement, the gay. Oedipus (who had the first punk rock show in the country while at MIT's college station, WTBS) was hired first as a DJ in 1977, and then installed as program director in 1981, and helped to break The Ramones, The Clash, The Police, and countless punk and new wave bands out of Boston. Luckily Im still alive. There were other conspiring factors, too: The alt-rock format was souring. There is comedy, news, information about peace marches ('BCN was the "internet" for the young crowd (me at the time!!). 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. 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. The Oedipus Project (oedipus1.com) champions new, alternative, and experimental music. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. tried to bring back freeform rock radio spirit for 21st Century. [22] WBCN's rock format moved to 98.5's HD2 subcarrier. People are losing interest in radio, Im talking twentysomethings, because theres nothing compelling there. Here is a list of over 90 former and current full-time WBCN personalities. Billy called up doing bacon frying. It was just a matter of time before it became centrally controlled and they could put all of these cost-cutting measures into effect. WBCN and the American Revolution Documentary Collection. Laquidara would then give Martinie his start in radio as well as his nickname "The Cosmic Muffin", which was taken from a National Lampoon Radio Dinner parody "Deteriorata". Adam Carolla is an American radio personality and television host, comedian and actor. People forget that there was a time when the Police were brand-new and they played the Rat, in Kenmore Square. Along the way, WBCN both pioneered and defined progressive rock radio, the dominant format for a generation of listeners. Alan, who does middays on WZLX, played Segers Famous Final Scene in honor of Parenteau this morning. Suddenly, you have two talk shows on in the morning and afternoon drive, so what is BCN? 104.1 WBCN - WBCN 104.1 FM ("104.1 WBCN") is a radio station licensed to Boston, MA. Air Talent,WMYF Exeter,NHLeslie Patten 1977-80 Screenplay writer,Nova ScotiaAl Perry 1968-75 GM at WERZ and WMYS in Exter,NHCarla "Raz" Razwyck 1982-85 Air Talent,WEQX Manchester,VTTracy Roach 1976-80 Lawyer in MichiganTom Sandman 1982-90 Production Dir. That, for me, was the best thing about working at WBCN: He took a liking to me. The static was broadcast on 104.1 until 2:00a.m. At that time, "Mix 98.5" officially moved to 104.1, playing "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon as their first song after the move. Boston, 104.1 MHz FM. 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. I was just a kid who went to high school to be a baker. Even though it was cassettes, the quality is surprisingly very good. [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. In 2010, morning team Karson & Kennedy were named "Hot AC Morning Show of The Year" of 2009 by FMQB magazine. The union produced one son. 70s. 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. PETER WOLFAt WBCN:DJ, 196869 Since then:Lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band; solo artist; rock n roll legend. How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. There was a very strong sense of history being made at the time. Danny Schechter and others would create a similarly inspired liberal attitude in the news department, connecting WBCNs community with what they needed to know in a national and local environment that remained openly hostile to the American counterculture. Ken Shelton would participate in a near-dismantling of Camelot, a surprise attack from across the radio dial that WBCN's denizens . Thats how we found Billy West, from The Ren & Stimpy Show and Futurama. He was a music reporter for KABC-TV when he was tapped as one of MTV's original "fab five." We could talk about all aspects of life along with the music. He was the oldest of five children. But that changed the following year, when a Radio is in her blood: she is the daughter of the late Doris and Joe Quill, owner and general manager of WRLM in Taunton, Massachusetts. The old DJs, station IDs, and classic rock were gutted, replaced by an alternative music format featuring new, younger jocks. Between the cars playing BCN, with their open windows in the summertime, and all the dormitories, apartments, and houses, you could hear BCN from one end of the city to the other. That was part of its charm. It was a blast for me. Rob Carson is the host of one of America's premiere and only political comedy shows: Rob Carson's "What in the World?" on Newsmax. The 5-8 p.m. block on WRBB at the time was for alternative and indie rock . The Police, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and the Clash. On Saturday, October 5, 2013 RadioBDC (now Indie617) posted on their Facebook page that Oedipus would be hosting "The Oedipus Project" on Saturday mornings from 10AM local to noon featuring all new alternative/indie sounds. fostered since 1968. Back in the day, Charles was really my mentor. Now they can actually afford to put out a halfway decent independent record which gets noticed by the major label, and now they get signed by the major label and become stars. It was probably not OSHA-sanctioned. Because the station got involved in giving these bands a higher profile, people could see them in clubs. Get The Big To-Do Your guide to staying entertained, from live shows and outdoor fun to the newest in museums, movies, TV, books, dining, and more. WWBX-HD1 simulcasts the analog signal of WWBX as Mix 104.1. It was programmed by. For a brief period during that transition, Charles Laquidara, who was acting program director hired Robert "Bo" Burlingham as news director. WBCN's first rock program director, Sam Kopper, was Program Director of WBCN Free Form Rock until the channel was discontinued on January 29, 2016. The station was named "Hot AC Station of The Year" 9 times from 1997 through 2009. 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. You could start in downtown Boston and walk to Cambridge, to Harvard Square. [15] On October 10, 2017, CBS disclosed that as part of the process of obtaining regulatory approval of the merger, WBZ-FM would be one of sixteen stations that would be divested by Entercom, along with sister stations WBZ and WZLX, and Entercom stations WRKO and WKAF, with Entercom retaining WEEI AM and FM, WBMX, WODS and WAAF. I took the late-night shift, from 12 to 7 in the morning. There was a time when we first played them, it was like, Oh my God! LISA TRAXLERAt WBCN:DJ, 198490. In early 2006, with the Howard Stern morning drive time show gone due to Stern moving to Sirius Satellite Radio, WBCN experienced a plummet in Arbitron ratings that the station had not observed since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it fell behind then rock format competitor WCOZ. Unlike most rock stations of the era, WBCN still allowed a degree of individual DJ control of the music. The Cosmic Muffin (April 10, 1943 - July 26, 2006) was a Boston -based professional astrologer and radio personality . They had a studio upstairs, thats where the classical music station was, and thats where it started. WBCN 104.1 FM went off the air on Aug. 11 after broadcasting in Boston for more than 40 years. Added Parenteaus longtime attorney Frank Cimler: Mark was a terrific radio personality who, at the height of his career, was must listen-to radio.. It began at WBCN in the late '70s, moved to WFNX (20092012), then onto RadioBDC, The Boston Globe's internet radio station (2013-2014) before moving to WGBH in 2015. WBCN's programming on 104.1 ended after midnight on August 12, 2009, WBMX then moved to 104.1 two hours later (the WBCN call letters were then transferred to the Charlotte station), with WBZ-FM launching the next day. The jocks now are continually selling you something. The aim was music discovery, which often meant strange and surprising band pairings. A classical music station in its first ten years on the air, beginning in 1968, WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years. The whole idea of it being a parody of a Top 40 thing with humor, but poignant humor that made you think. Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. [3] If you want good ratings, then you gotta have bad radio. Director of Public Affairs at New England Med.Center BostonBilly West 1983-90 Voices of Ren&Stimpy Nickolodeon Production,WXRK(K-Rock) in NYCSherman Whitman 1985-87 1989-Present Public Affairs DirectorNorm Winer 1969-70 1971-77 PD at WXRT,ChicagoAndrew Wolf 1988-90 Air Talent,WZBC-FM,BostonPeter Wolf 1968 Recording Artist,BostonDavid Wolman 1980-84 Promotions Dir,KOME-FM San Jose, Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, You do not have permission to delete messages in this group. 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.. 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