boston radio from outsider

[radiofriend1]

gees i thought the san francisco radio community was brutal

Hang around a little longer and experience the way people drive around here (compared to San Francisco). The way we post on the internet is nothing compared.

The couple of times I visited San Francisco, being a lifelong Boston driver, I thought I was driving among aliens. The drivers were actually stopping and starting when and where they were supposed to! (Same for the pedestrians, which is a chaotic free-for-all here).

actually your drivers aren't bad compared to s.f. maybe it's cuz of the hills out there

 

[chitchatjf]

>> with about as much musical variety as you'd find in Des Moines. <<

What? There's no comparison: Des Moines has KAZR - blows away WAAF !

Actually - in the 80's - when WBCN and Kiss108 were at their creative peaks - i thought Boston radio was the best in the country. At that point, LA's parallel stations sounded amatuerish, and everything else i'd heard in my travels was just boring. The music on 'BCN, Kiss108, 'FNX, and even 'BOS back then was interesting and adventurous. WEEI was the best news station I've ever heard to date, WHDH had masterful personalities like Jess Cain and Dave Supple, Sunny Joe White on Kiss108 was redefining "Top 40" radio, and WBCN back then inspired John Frost to help forge KROQ into the powerhouse it is now - so that today LA radio is arguably the best sounding market, while Boston radio is just a homogenized shadow of what it once was.

so true about 1980s WBCN and WXKS. Do not forget WVJV,the video music channel,whose list seemed to be blend of Kiss and BCN. I still believe Kiss was still urban. Today with the exception of maybe Matt and the call letters XKS FM has forgotten its roots.

 

[fwdmo]

>> with about as much musical variety as you'd find in Des Moines. <<

What? There's no comparison: Des Moines has KAZR - blows away WAAF !

Actually - in the 80's - when WBCN and Kiss108 were at their creative peaks - i thought Boston radio was the best in the country. At that point, LA's parallel stations sounded amatuerish, and everything else i'd heard in my travels was just boring. The music on 'BCN, Kiss108, 'FNX, and even 'BOS back then was interesting and adventurous. WEEI was the best news station I've ever heard to date, WHDH had masterful personalities like Jess Cain and Dave Supple, Sunny Joe White on Kiss108 was redefining "Top 40" radio, and WBCN back then inspired John Frost to help forge KROQ into the powerhouse it is now - so that today LA radio is arguably the best sounding market, while Boston radio is just a homogenized shadow of what it once was.

so true about 1980s WBCN and WXKS. Do not forget WVJV,the video music channel,whose list seemed to be blend of Kiss and BCN. I still believe Kiss was still urban. Today with the exception of maybe Matt and the call letters XKS FM has forgotten its roots.

It's roots are DISCO...I am GLAD they have forgotten their roots