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11 years ago today ( 7/28/12) CBS blew up WODS. RIP
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Christmas music nothing! I used to listen to them for the music! And many of the on-air personalities were very likable. Nice move, CBS.
It appears you are correct
I will say that at least the station went out when it was still sounding good. We didn't get to see it driven into the ground like so many of the former CBS now Audacy classic hits stations around the country.Christmas music nothing! I used to listen to them for the music! And many of the on-air personalities were very likable. Nice move, CBS.
You are correct. On 06/28/2012, my wife and I were sitting in a car dealer's showroom waiting for her new car to be prepped. A TV was on an a headline scrolled across the bottom of the screen about the end of oldies on WODS. I think I might've sworn when I read that.
WODS died because the local CBS Boston sales staff who all worked on commission didn't have a clue on how to sell to an older demo.
Are you sure about that? Or was it more like there was very little advertiser interest in the “older demo” you reference?
Music-wise, perhaps, but the audio quality is horrible. It's low-bandwidth and highly-compressed, not unlike Entercom's old Mike FM, of which it is a redux.
Paula is living the life down in the Tampa area, "on the beach" after Beasley sent her packing with the payout from the rest of her contract. She is active on FB if you are on that social media site.
It would be nice if you addressed this to the person or persons holding said "grudge". I'm probably one of them.
WROR essentially sounds like what WODS would today under Audacy, although they play more music from the 70s and have a bit wider variety than the typical Audacy fare. It does have the rock lean that most Audacy classic hits stations are infamous for and WODS would likely have under them in 2023.
Once ODS went away, ‘ROR made a lot of changes over time and really seemed to up their game. When WODS was around, I don’t think ROR would have played artists like Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Wham, Belinda Carlisle etc.
Once ODS went away, ‘ROR made a lot of changes over time and really seemed to up their game. When WODS was around, I don’t think ROR would have played artists like Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Wham, Belinda Carlisle etc.
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I haven't listened to FM for about a year, since subscribing to satellite. When I did, I didn't realize that Big had poor audio quality. Then again, anything isn't as bad as WGIR-FM out of Manchester.
In all honesty, I was glad when Mike went on and stopped the plan to flip a CBS station to Jack, as I feared it would have been WODS or WBCN. I know that Mix was also rumored to flip, but I didn't predict that to happen. I prefer Big to Amp, yet appreciated Amp's differing approach than Kiss. Kiss was too much of a legacy station with strong ratings to ever be knocked out by any competitor. At least CBS tried a different take, even though I subjectively don't like care for the format.
What has me perplexed is that WGIR-FM and WHEB out of Portsmouth are sister stations, both broadcast the same morning show, and both have a rock format. WHEB sounds much better than WGIR-FM. That's why when I read that Big sounds bad, my comparison is WGIR-FM. Big sounds so much better, therefore I don't perceive it as having bad audio.
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