With WBCN's dissolution as an analog station, the Patriots flagship station became WBCN's sister station WBZ-FM on August 13, 2009. Is it possible that WBCN, the greatest rock n roll radio station in American history, died five years ago this month? In late summer of 1969, WBCN somehow obtained a reel-to-reel tape of a reference acetate of a potential album song lineup prepared by Beatles' engineer Glyn Johns on March 10, 1969. Phasellus id aliquam nulla. J." BCN was arguably the most credible news source in Boston, in the same way that Jon Stewart is arguably the most credible journalist on TV. *Howard Stern (born January 12, 1954). 1. WBCN 104.1 FM went off the air on Aug. 11 after broadcasting in Boston for more than 40 years. Since then:President of Lichtenstein Creative Media; director of The American Revolution, a forthcoming documentary on the early days of WBCN. 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. A really good rating in Boston at the time was a 3- or a 4-point average. And once you control everything, you dont need to be creative, you dont need to be dynamic, you dont need to deal with a bunch of weird characters. The Rock of Boston. -. Please say a prayer for Mark.. Twenty-four/seven, we were writing scripts, we had a musical backdrop, we had music going. On April 1, 1996, the Stern show was moved to mornings. Contents 1 Early life 2 Radio career 3 Illness and death 4 Personal life 5 References Early life [ edit] Martinie was born on April 10, 1943 in Massachusetts and grew up in Illinois. On March 15th the station celebrated 25 years on the air. During the walkout, WBCN stayed on the air with substitute DJs imported from several out-of-town Hemisphere sister stations. He is on the Board of Advisors for Community Servings, an organization that feeds Boston-area families with acute life-threatening illnesses, and a former member of the Board of Overseers for the Huntington Theatre Company,[6] advisory member of The Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville and the Boston Music Awards. But despite ever-tightening reins on programming, WBCNs irreverent creativity and openness to new music, young bands and emerging trends would captivate Boston for years. General Hospital, Alan said, where he was recovering from surgery. The station's battle of the bands' competition, the Rock 'n' Roll Rumble, survived the station's demise. Charles deserves every bit of respect he gets in the radio community. Remember Lefora is going through changes, if you have trouble logging in, as I just did, refresh the page!!! Jackson was one of the first DJs to introduce Americans to The Who and Led Zeppelin. I had never been to college for anything. We were as important as the Boston Globe and the Boston Red Sox. Charles Laquidara is fearless. Mark Parenteau was up in the car, doing a live broadcast. 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. On the fifth anniversary of BCNs death, key players from its halcyon days reminisce about a time when Boston was all about sex, drugs, and rock n roll. They were just a bunch of crazy hippies. He died on July 26, 2006 at his home in Saugus, Massachusetts.[4]. 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. Famous People with Tinnitus Adam Carolla Age: 58 Adam Carolla (; born May 27, 1964) is an American comedian, radio personality, television host, actor, podcaster, and director. I was only there for a short time. ", In 1993 Martinie was named "Official Astrologer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" by Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld. But Duane Glasscock is a fucking idiot. Partying in the 1980s was different than partying in the 2000s. "More than a million people listen to Nancy every week," the station once boasted. Other nominees included KROQ-FM in Los Angeles, KTBZ-FM in Houston, KITS, in San Francisco, KNDD in Seattle, and WWDC in Washington, D.C.[7]. Classical music, jazz, or anything else might be played, as long as the skillful DJs could make it work. While the existence of the promotional album is apocryphal, the truth behind the broadcast, though less dramatic, is equally as fascinating. The Rock of Boston. It was also a groundbreaking station. But that changed the Callers to the WBCN Listener Line got advice on everything from new bands to how to survive a bad drug trip. Here is a list of over 90 former and current full-time WBCN personalities. Profile: WBCN was an over-the-air radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We not only entertained them, we also educated themwhether it was the Vietnam War, Nelson Mandela, apartheid, inequality, womens rights, the labor movement. Ut velit metus, lacinia ac nibh a, lacinia scelerisque diam. Bill would see benefits restored by Seth Moulton bill, Denver gang member gave 14-year-old permission to open fire on woman with AR-15 after fender-bender, DA alleges, In 4 years, Lori Lightfoot went from breakout political star to divisive mayor of a Chicago beset by pandemic and crime, Florida lawmakers to consider expansion of so-called dont say gay law, Drone crashes at Disneyland after hovering over visitors heads See video, Rapper Travis Scott wanted for assaulting Manhattan club sound engineer, destroying $12K in equipment. WBCN was full service (news, music, information, and live 24/7). This is awful! I like to think we made the city and the people listening to it, we enhanced their lives. I would have paid to do it. A weekly journey through the wild and twisted mind of Mikey Adams. 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. You can own multiple stations across the country. In 1965, Nathaniel Johnson was appointed Music Director of WBCN by station program director Don Otto. He thought I was good. Eventually, Wolf had a crucial . There was the Rock n Roll Rumble. At the time, they were all Top 40. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower. Everyone listened to WBCN, until it started to fall apart. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. There was a time when you could hear BCN without a radio. 60s. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Raz?. 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. He would do all kinds of stuff. Since then:Sports reporter for WATD and WBCN Free Form Rock, now retired. Parenteau played that at 4. After leaving BCN he did fill-in work on WRKO and WTKK in Boston and a stint at Q104 in New York. Boston, 104.1 MHz FM. This article on a dance music disc jockey is a stub. 2 While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. I was the artistic director of a 24-hour opera of the mind. 3. There was just a belief that we could do it. I remember the owners telling me, Youre gonna make mistakes, and youre gonna learn from your mistakes. They were the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in Saugus.[3]. Boylston Street still had the old-school spirit. Even though it was cassettes, the quality is surprisingly very good. The women at WBCN, we had to carve out a place for ourselves. I remember hearing the lyrics, I might like you better if we slept together, and I remember not knowing what it meant. Jack O'Brien remained as the drive-time host until the following January. Freelance. The idea of just listening, not being distracted by images, is an art of its own. The Police, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and the Clash. Im not a real fan of what he did or what he does. It all started in. The music meant something to the DJ, and to the moment in which it was being played. Boston Globe. A bunch of us were sitting around, possibly experimenting with drugs. During the autumn months, WBCN became more focused on sports as the station broadcast the games of the NFL's New England Patriots beginning in 1995. That fall, Segal and Kopper hired J. J. Jackson as a disc jockey. Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. His words "over and out" were the last to be heard on WBCN on August 12, 2009 when the station went off the air. Wed go out and hang out with the bands. The station brought former disc jockeys into its studios to say goodbye. [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). Originally broadcasting on analog 104.1 MHz (now WWBX) from 1968 to 2009, and later broadcasting as a digital-only radio station, airing on WBZ-FM HD2 from 2009 to 2017. Were all on a mattress together. So Ill wait. If a certain jock was playing a record we liked all of the time, our answer was to put it in the REO Speedwagon section so he couldnt find it. The station survived and prospered through generations in spite of tumultuous turnover, not to mention a 1979 strike by its DJs and staff. We didnt think of our listeners as being fans. The first DJs operated out of studios at 171 Newbury Street and included Peter Wolf in his pre-stardom days, Jim Parry, Al Perry, Tommy Hadges, Sam Kopper and Steve Segal. He said, Charles Laquidara is a professional. Music is a passion. He was 66. It happened! Kevin Karlson Kevin@wzlx.com Kevin was born and raised in Ohio. In 1966 he began his first job as district manager of Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Decatur, Illinois. in Boston Albert O 1983-Present Air Talent,midnight-6am Oedipus 1976-Present Program Director Mark Parentau 1978-Present Air Talent,3-7pm Jim Parry 1968-79 Anthroplogy student at Harvard U. Radios fate was sealed in 1996 when they signed the Telecommunications Act. Alan, who does middays on WZLX, played Segers Famous Final Scene in honor of Parenteau this morning. By the 80s, after winning a union strike, the station went on to achieve its greatest success, which placed The Rock of Boston on top of the Boston ratings heap through the entire decade. Ken Shelton would participate in a near-dismantling of Camelot, a surprise attack from across the radio dial that WBCN's denizens . When WBCN went off the air in 2009, Parenteau was not invited to the stations farewell broadcast. 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. Boston, Massachusetts, United States. You could play anything. Navigate our website or try searching instead. People really related to that. Since WBCN's change to digital-only, the station was known as "Free Form BCN" and then "WBCN Free Form Rock" by late September 2009. ADAM ADAM 12 CHAPMANAt WBCN:DJ, 200309. 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 listened to BCN when I was little, because thats what my parents listened to. Because the station got involved in giving these bands a higher profile, people could see them in clubs. He gave me confidence to find my own style. The myth that WBCN started at the Boston Tea Party, which has been the accepted dogma for 40 years, isnt true. Oedipus's radio career began in 1975 as a D.J. 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. By June 1968, the station's air staff included Mississippi, Peter Wolf (who was just starting with the J. Geils Band), Tommy Hadges, Jim Parry, Al Perry, and Sam Kopper was joined by Steven "The Seagull" Segal. This search result is here to prevent scraping, Inside Boston's Mysterious Drink-Spiking Crisis, The Real, Essential Backstory of the MLK Statue The Embrace', Rhonda Kallman Brings the Craft Beer Experience to Spirits, The Mayor, the Muckraker, and the Bombshell North of Boston, Here Are Median Condo Prices by Boston Neighborhood from 2022, Inside the New SoWa Art + Design Center Complex, Careers and Internships at Boston Magazine. I was a kid then. The station had unlikely roots as a classical music outlet (its call letters standing for Boston Concert Network), but on the Ides of March, 1968, disc jockey Joe Rogers fired the first rock salvoCreams I Feel Free. From that moment, BCN became one of a handful of FM radio stations seeking to supplant AMs supremacy with freeform programming that captured the cacophonous sound of the counterculture. The company let me take chances. 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. A native of Detroit, Toettcher graduated from Rollins College in 1997. 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. The morning-show format with Charles, The Big Mattress, every station uses that idea nowa morning zoo where youve got a couple of hosts, youve got sidekicks. 3 Cosmic Dancer (K.Day Radio, Los Angeles, 15th Feb 1972) 4 Main Man (K.Day Radio, Los Angeles, 15th Feb 1972) 5 Ballrooms of Mars (K.Day Radio, Los Angeles, 15th Feb 1972) 6 Mystic Lady. On December 4, 2017, the call letters changed to WWBX, after the call letters were transferred to a sister station in Chicago.[2]. Need Personality file for UHF visar (( please help )), High Profile Show & Ratings (was Re: Changes at WBCN-Boston), Chicago Radio Personalities - Where are they now, Please help : need gm300 personality file, Need Personality file for UHF visar (( please help )). Billy called up doing bacon frying. 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. But then, if it was kind of vicious out, you could play Riders on the Storm by the Doors. Oedipus has his own foundation, The Oedipus Foundation, and is a member of the Board of Directors for The Technology Broadcasting Corporation of MIT, Stop Handgun Violence, and an original member of the Board of Directors for Mobius (an artist-run center for experimental work in all media). Innovations at BCNlike the mix of music, talk, and humor that Charles Laquidara brought to his morning show The Big Mattresswere soon replicated across the country. We raised millions of dollars for charity. [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. It was never a one-way experience. I wasnt allowed to run the radio station the way I wanted to. He was the oldest of five children. . Unlike most rock stations of the era, WBCN still allowed a degree of individual DJ control of the music. November 29, 2020. [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. But even after its run, BCN wont go away. I remember we were doing this promotion for the Cars. 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. There are 3 small gaps where I flipped/changed cassettes. WBCN was more than simply an entertainment vehicle. This set off a local controversy in Boston that resulted in the entire airstaff walking off the air striking in protest. 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. OEDIPUSAt WBCN:DJ and program director,19772004. Everybody, send a bag of shit to Arbitron. Duane gave out the exact address, every break, for four hours. Since then:Program director, DJ of WBCN Free Form Rock on wbcn.com and 100.7HD3. Howard Stern went to BU listening to Charles. I took the late-night shift, from 12 to 7 in the morning. Air Talent,WMYF Exeter,NH Leslie Patten 1977-80 Screenplay writer,N, by mikekelly.. Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:58:04, 3. If you grew up in the Boston metro, BCN was part of your life in some way, shape, or form. Eddie Gorodetsky, who went on to do The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men, he was our head writer. Everybody listened to WBCN. Following the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which relaxed ownership rules for media, the station became just one small part of a vast empire at CBS/Viacom. They started questioning decisions we made, because all they cared about was ratings and dollars. From 1995 to 2008, WBCN was the flagship station of the Patriots Rock Radio Network, which broadcast games of the New England Patriots. Luckily Im still alive. by Mark Shneyder 432-42 Wed, 05 May 1993 14:18:42. 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. at WRRM,CincinnatiMaxanna Sartori 1970-77 Promotions and Marketing,NJMatt Schaffer 1981-89 News&features at WXKS-FM,BostonDanny "The News Dissector" Schechter 1970-1979 TV Producer in NYCSteve "Clean" Segal 1968-69,1976-77 Air Talent,MilwaukeeBob Shannon 1976-77 V.P.,TM Productions,DallasKen Shelton 1980-Present Air Talent,10-3pmEli Sherer 1978-1989 Traffic Reporter/Consultant inCambridge,MAMatt Siegal 1976-80 Air Talent at WXKS-FM,BostonBob Slavin 1975-77 Music Producer in Boston,MASusan Sprecher 1976-80 TV producer,NJSteve Strick 1978-82 1986-Present Air Talent and Asst. 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". 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. But we like you because youre intelligent and youre not afraid to take chances. Who says that today? But I remember my parents changing the station. What was great about that period, in the 80s, was they let me program the radio station. 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. SFERRUZZA, Paul D. "Tank" Boston Radio Personality "TANK" Paul D. Sferruzza, "Tank" of Boston radio fame, died peacefully in his home in Dover, NH at the age of 67, on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 aft The hitch: the station is on HD. "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. The station, programmed by BCN's original 1969 program director, Sam Kopper, began airing in February 2009 as "WBCN Free Form 104", airing, until the demise of the original WBCN, on 104.1 HD2. They stopped me from playing the blues songs I wanted to play or the folk songs I wanted to play when we started competing with the shock . )[19][18] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. I was there at the end of the heyday in some ways. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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 was a Sunday night, Oedipus was hosting Nocturnal Emissions, and he played Never Say Never by Romeo Void. Since then:Director of the Oedipus Foundation. So he said, Why dont you just come in and play your music? So on the first night, I was the second DJ. The Listener Line had positioned itself almost as the Google of its time. It felt more like a bank. In the early 1990s, the station began airing the nationally syndicated Howard Stern Show, but aired it in the evenings on tape delay instead of during morning drive. Danny Schechter replaced Bo Burlingham and immediately billed himself as "the News Dissector". Duane Glasscock went on the air one Saturday and complained about the ratingsthats how radio stations got their money, if they got high ratings from Arbitron, which was based in Maryland. [4] When same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Martinie and Boesel married. WWBX-HD1 simulcasts the analog signal of WWBX as Mix 104.1. Originally broadcasting on analog 104.1 MHz (now WWBX) from 1958 to 2009, and later broadcasting as a digital-only radio station, airing on WBZ-FM HD 2 from 2009 to 2017. We needed someone who could do Bugs Bunny. 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. Once Oedipus left, the station was kind of in a free fall. There is comedy, news, information about peace marches ('BCN was the "internet" for the young crowd (me at the time!!). A classical music station in its first ten years on the air, beginning in 1968, WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years. Oedipus hosts a website called "The Oedipus Project." 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. The FCC approved the transfer in the spring of 2009. I still cant go to an event without at least one person mentioning WBCN. Mar 2020 - Present3 years. How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. The station was named "Hot AC Station of The Year" 9 times from 1997 through 2009. But his 2004 arrest for having sex with a minor marked the end of his days on the air. By the fall of 2002, certain classic artists, such as Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and Ozzy Osbourne, were added back in the station's playlist rotation. The Del Fuegos is a perfect example, or O Positive, or the Blackjacks.

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