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Bygone Stations/Formats/DJs/Etc

Ed Nielson said:
I was just listening to that Heller jingle package. Whoever wrote and produced those was obviously on some serious mind-altering chemicals. "James August Martin is a man of letters ... and he owes me one... WVBF." Must be some kind of inside joke!
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100% correct, but it worked. I always wondered what the joke was in the "man of letters" jingle, but never found out.
 
philsirkin said:
100% correct, but it worked. I always wondered what the joke was in the "man of letters" jingle, but never found out.
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Anyone remember the 2 jocks at WVBF that were obviously kite-high one weekend.....and, among other "things"...ran every jingle --- back-to-back!!
I had a telescoped version of their "show"....but I knew someone who worked in the area at the time as a PD, who had the full ~ 3 hour
"episode".....The "boss" entering the studio at the end ("Groovy, groovy, groovy....Right now at WVBF....(music starts)...it's......COME IN!") signaled that "playtime is over" for
those 2 clowns!! (one of the jocks sees the boss at the door...and says to his partner: "Hike, Arizona ---- they're comin' for ya soon.....GO!)
Gene Kelly was doing news at the time...you can hear him chuckling a couple of times on the tape.....
"Let us recall those thrilling days of yesteryear".....!!
 
Don't forget Larry Glick's overnights on WBZ. I think he used to say something like "38 states and a Mexican fishing village" or something like that.
 
Don’t know if anyone mentioned the four gongs leading up to the TOH CBS News cast on the (real) WEEI 590, or the hourly time tone on the (once great) WBZ 1030.
 
Those things just don't work today with all the delays in transmission. Streaming, HD, processing who wants to point out that all is delayed. Hell you could also listen to the ballgame once in sync not anymore.
 
Fenway1912 said:
WHDH-AM contracted with the Howard Hughes Network in the late 1960s to deliver Red Sox games via a direct microwave network from Presque Isle to Fairfield County in CT.
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In the early 60s, my buddies and I would visit the studios and transmitters of our local stations in RI. At the time, the Providence Journal owned WEAN (790) was the Red Sox affiliate. The technician in their master control told us that the Sox feed came over the same telephone company line from which the station received its Yankee Network newscasts. WEAN was also our CBS affiliate, but that line was separate.
 
nowradioguy said:
In the early 60s, my buddies and I would visit the studios and transmitters of our local stations in RI. At the time, the Providence Journal owned WEAN (790) was the Red Sox affiliate. The technician in their master control told us that the Sox feed came over the same telephone company line from which the station received its Yankee Network newscasts. WEAN was also our CBS affiliate, but that line was separate.
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The Yankee Network went silent just before WNAC became WRKO in early 1967. That would explain why WHDH needed to construct a new delivery system.
 
Fenway1912 said:
WCOP became Top 40 WACQ in 1977 and lasted until the station became WHUE-AM in 1979
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I think WACQ might have been the first Boston station to use a nickname ("Boston's New Q") instead of the official call letters. It seems these days that every city has a B, a Q, an X, a Mix, a Kiss, an Eagle, a River...many of which stations may have no connection to each other...and I wonder what was wrong with call letters? WRKO and WBZ seem to be the only stations that use their call letters. I understand the concept of "branding", but why is Kiss108 better than WXKS-FM?
 
94.5-WHDH-FM-Progressive Rock/AOR
100.7-WTTK Progressive Country/AOR
103.3-WEEI-FM- "The Young Sound"
105.7-WKOX-FM-Top 40 (1969-1971)
1260-WEZE-Top 40/Oldies "Z-1260"
1550-WNTN-Progressive Rock/AOR
"Your AM Alternative "

Also:
1280-WEIM-Top 40 (Fitchburg/Leominster)
 
Time Traveler said:
94.5-WHDH-FM-𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔/AOR
100.7-WTTK Progressive Country/AOR
103.3-WEEI-FM- "The Young Sound"
105.7-WKOX-FM-Top 40 (1969-1971)
1260-WEZE-Top 40/Oldies "Z-1260"
1550-WNTN-𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔/AOR
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I've always thought it was interesting that the radio industry used a phrase for a format that was the same term used to describe a musical genre, and there wasn't a whole lot of overlap between the two.
 
That's an interesting point. FM Rock stations were usually classified as Progressive Rock from around 1967 until about 1977 when the term AOR (Album Oriented Rock) took hold. But during the early and mid '70s a lot of the music that was played on those stations was the musical genre "Progressive Rock". When WCOZ flipped to Rock back in 1975...They were classified as "Modified Progressive Rock" as the AOR designation hadn't really taken hold yet. Radio was interesting in later 1975 as you had WBCN, WCOZ, WAAF and WNTN all battling it out.
 


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