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WBOS Dead Carrier
- Thread starter dhoule
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Dead air as a stunt seems unlikely.
On now, played "Paradise City"
Dead Air would be preferable over that rubbish...
At least they didn't turn the clock back 30-some years and flip back to country, right?
Boston Rock magazine called that the day The Boss became the Hoss
Agreed...though it's popular.
WKRP first episode. Les and Andy:
"But there are already a lot of rock and roll
stations in Cincinnati!"
"Well, why do you think that is, Les?"
"Well, I think it's a plot of some sort."
"No, Les, rock and roll is where the money is."
As I recall, they were only Country for about 6 years. They went AAA around 1989. They were a good Rock station for many years. The current playlist is an abomination and should be flushed...
I agree that AAA 'BOS sounded good, but the timing of the flip wasn't.They bailed out on country just before the Garth Brooks-led '90s boom made the format more viable in nontraditional markets like Boston than ever before. Two stations, WCLB (later WKLB) and WBCS rushed in, with WKLB the survivor, and today an important part of Beasley's Boston cluster. Country hasn't been the roaring success in Boston that it has in Hartford, but it's come a long way since the days of WCOP and WDLW on AM.
Latinx Estereo 92-9, anyone?
(But I doubt that WBOS would be changing formats in the near future).
Just remove "Estereo" and you've got a lazy branding for an AM/FM translator in the middle of nowhere.
But if WBOS were to actually flip, it would use the "Playa" branding.
Surely not "Latinx" anything. That's only used by non-Hispanic Ivy League academicians trying to force gender neutrality on Spanish, which, like all Romance languages, assigns gender to every noun.
They had the same dead carrier situation about an hour ago and it was fixed...playing Aerosmith "Sweet Emotion" etc
There's a word for a gender neutral person in Spanish, it's "Latine." When I say "Latinx" to anyone, and I mean ANYONE who's Spanish dominant, 99% of the time they ask "¿Qué es un latinx?"
Spanish dominant Hispanics are much more familiar with Latine. No need to make a brand new word for it.
Don’t forget 1490/103.7 WCCM and 1570/105.3 WUBG calls itself Latinx.
www.latinx103.com
LATINX103.7 | WCCM Hispanic Radio Station | Boston
LatinX 103.7 radio station launched by the new Hispanic owned broadcasting company Costa Media Boston LLC - Entertaining mix of Latin Pop, Latin Urban Music plus news & live sports. WCCM is the home for the Boston Red Sox, with 50 years experience in radio programming, marketing & sales...
Wow! That ownership probably thinks "Beantown 103.7" would be a good name for a Boston station, or "Frisco 103,7" for one in San Francisco. Not equivalent blunders, but very tone deaf, and likely to irritate more potential listeners than they'd attract.Don’t forget 1490/103.7 WCCM and 1570/105.3 WUBG calls itself Latinx.
LATINX103.7 | WCCM Hispanic Radio Station | Boston
LatinX 103.7 radio station launched by the new Hispanic owned broadcasting company Costa Media Boston LLC - Entertaining mix of Latin Pop, Latin Urban Music plus news & live sports. WCCM is the home for the Boston Red Sox, with 50 years experience in radio programming, marketing & sales...
Keep in mind the morning show normally emanates from Detroit. With Monday being a holiday, the routing may have been different, and the automation wasn't reprogrammed. Pretty common problem.
One of the worst format flips in history....back in 1983....
That's correct....Country from 1983-1989...than AAA before anyone actually used the term AAA....
And 100.7 WCOP-FM did Country for a couple of years starting in 1974...until flipping to Progressive Country/Rock in 1976 as WTTK and than AOR in 1977...
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