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Congrats to Toucher & Rich

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Today is their 2nd year anniversary in Boston....love them or hate them, they have made a pretty good name for themselves in the 2 year period.

Listen today on 104.1 WBCN from 3-7 to hear their Anniversary party with a number of frequent guests from the past 2 years.
 
2 years Whoppie, they are on there way to pass "Matty in the morning".
 
i congratulate T&R for being the only successful change that wellington has made for the station. nearly deadlocked with AAF 12+...but without T&R, wbcn would be tied with FNX.

So again...congrats T&R. single-handedly saving the station.
 
I congratulate them for having a tireless street team that has been spamming this board since before they even got on air here.
 
freqlost said:
I congratulate them for having a tireless street team that has been spamming this board since before they even got on air here.
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I'm not an employee of WBCN, I sell nuts and bolts for an industrial supply company. Toucher and Rich have fans like myself who enjoy them enough to make positive comments about them on radio message boards. Congrats to T/R and Crash for being here two years.

Mule
 
Nah, I don't question that...Govt. They aren't making street teamers write how good the show is on Radio-Info. No one in radio CARES what the people on radio-info think. Just what the people who have their diary think.

T&R are slowly growing on me, and I didn't like the initially. But still, I stand by my first comment: They are the ONLY THING saving 'BCN from Wellington's AWFUL programming decisions.
 
iknowpeople said:
T&R are slowly growing on me, and I didn't like the initially. But still, I stand by my first comment: They are the ONLY THING saving 'BCN from Wellington's AWFUL programming decisions.
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What is AWFUL at WBCN in your opinion?

T&R are the best thing on in the afternoons since Nik Carter.

Anyway, what happened to Deek?
 
Smoke said:
iknowpeople said:
T&R are slowly growing on me, and I didn't like the initially. But still, I stand by my first comment: They are the ONLY THING saving 'BCN from Wellington's AWFUL programming decisions.
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What is AWFUL at WBCN in your opinion?

T&R are the best thing on in the afternoons since Nik Carter.

Anyway, what happened to Deek?
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Let me save everyone a lot of trouble:

WBCN has been awful since getting rid of Nik Carter!

There you go, "Smoke." Now you don't have to go back and forth with everyone trying to get someone to say it.
 
Bam. I completely agree with Reading.

Why WBCN Is Slumping:
Wellington, instead of TRYING to let the station exist in its regular form post-Stern, changed everything. Bye Nik. Bye Deek and Melissa. Hello HARDY. Hello beat-matched generic rock imaging.

The station lost its soul with Wellington taking the wheel. It'd be tough for anyone to take over WBCN...but he didn't even try it the WBCN way...the way they were successful. He took every trick from his playbook (including his old afternoon guy) and copied and pasted it. Completely took everything that made WBCN a great Boston rock station, and made it generic.

Toucher & Rich are the only thing keeping the station afloat. I never thought I'd live to see the day that WBCN was TIED with WAAF. Never thought I'd see it.
 
iknowpeople said:
Bam. I completely agree with Reading.

Why WBCN Is Slumping:
Wellington, instead of TRYING to let the station exist in its regular form post-Stern, changed everything. Bye Nik. Bye Deek and Melissa. Hello HARDY. Hello beat-matched generic rock imaging.

The station lost its soul with Wellington taking the wheel. It'd be tough for anyone to take over WBCN...but he didn't even try it the WBCN way...the way they were successful. He took every trick from his playbook (including his old afternoon guy) and copied and pasted it. Completely took everything that made WBCN a great Boston rock station, and made it generic.

Toucher & Rich are the only thing keeping the station afloat. I never thought I'd live to see the day that WBCN was TIED with WAAF. Never thought I'd see it.
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Ummm..I was JOKING. But since I see that most of your posts are on the Las Vegas board, I'm betting you had some personal issue with Wellington. What's the matter? Are people out west born without a sarcasm gene?
 
iknowpeople said:
i congratulate T&R for being the only successful change that wellington has made for the station. nearly deadlocked with AAF 12+...but without T&R, wbcn would be tied with FNX.

So again...congrats T&R. single-handedly saving the station.
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Furthermore, that's complete B.S. Toucher and Rich are doing well, but mornings, mid-days, nights and weekends are all doing better than what you would have others believe. Tied with FNX? Hardly.
 
I have been very vocal about my support for Toucher and Rich on this board and also am not an employee, or intern for WBCN, or CBS Radio. I am actually involved with another station a non-comm in this market but still support and champion Toucher and Rich. You know some shows actually build loyalty with thier fans and do not need to pay people to promote them, people talk about, and promote them because they feel a connection to the show and the talent.
 
Reading, I've never worked with Wellington and have no personal beef with him. Never even worked for the company. But you can't tell me all of the dayparts are doing fantastic when you're tied with 'AAF. 'BCN was absolutely dominating 'AAF until Wellington's arrival. Now...'AAF is right there with them (again, with the exception of T&R). Just think ALOT of changes were made on a station that needed very little change, and thats why BCN is in the crapper comparitively to where they were.
 
iknowpeople said:
Reading, I've never worked with Wellington and have no personal beef with him. Never even worked for the company. But you can't tell me all of the dayparts are doing fantastic when you're tied with 'AAF. 'BCN was absolutely dominating 'AAF until Wellington's arrival. Now...'AAF is right there with them (again, with the exception of T&R). Just think ALOT of changes were made on a station that needed very little change, and thats why BCN is in the crapper comparitively to where they were.
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Fair enough, but I never said the other dayparts were fantastic. From what I've seen, they're holding their own while T & R slightly outperform the rest of the station. I think you mentioned Stern earlier, and it probably goes back to that. Stern outperformed EVERYONE (regardless of the station he was on). If changes were made around the time of Howard's departure, they were most likely inconsequential in the station's overall performance.

In short, when Howard left, WBCN took a big hit they have yet to recover from.
 
Well obviously Stern's leaving will cause a major rift. That goes without saying...they lost the captain of their proverbial ship.

Much was the case during Joel Hollander's time as president of CBS Radio, instead of playing it cool, they decided to go on a station-flipping, shuffling rampage. KRock NY became Free FM. BCN changed it's entire lineup. Etc...

IMHO, if CBS left KRock NY alone, and the same with WBCN, they probably would have been better off than they are now.

Stern leaving was a bombshell, but they didn't even TRY to continue on as normal with the rest of their staff without Stern. That's what bothers me about the situation. If they tried to move on without doing anything but fill the morning gap with a new talent, and the station sunk to where it has (i.e. next to AAF, which they'd never really been before), then sure...make the moves. But they decided to basically flip the station...changing everything from afternoons, to nights, to imaging, to the logo...why? Why make all those changes to a station that was successful? When Kiss loses Matty, will they dump their entire lineup? It's the exact same thing.

No bone to pick with BCN. Loved listening to it when I was younger and living in Boston...just doesn't sound the same to me.
 
From what ive seen, Toucher and Rich are really helping to carry the station but so are O&A. While O&A aren't lighting the world on fire they still have decent numbers. If BCN was playing tons of music in these dayparts I can pretty much guarantee that they would be getting killed by WAAF.

Toucher and Rich was the best move that Wellington has made but you wonder if it was his call or not? Wasn't Hardy "his" guy from Vegas? Wouldn't he be against the move of Hardy to nights?
 
What I was told by people in the know over at 'BCN when the announcement was first made that T and R were coming to BCN is that they were hired to take over mornings from David Lee Roth on 'BCN since the Opie and Anthony negotiations were kept secret from everyone including the GM's of the stations. They were not originally supposed to replace Hardy. When they finally announced that O and A would be replacing Roth Wellington had already signed contracts with the T and R people. The decision was made to move T and R to afternoons rather than replay O and A in another daypart. I think it was a good decision as IMO T and R are better suited for afternoons because I think a large portion of thier audience does not like to get up at six in the morning. So, I think Wellington never intended to replace Hardy in PM Drive but was stuck in a situtation created by CBS corporate. Inall honesty I am glad it happened like that because 'BCN may have never hired them if they knew O and A were going to take over for Roth. I also think Hardy was very gracious, selfless, and a true professional by understanding that moving to evenings was better for the station as a whole in the long run. The only thing that REALLY dissapointed me was losing Mark Hamilton on the 7pm-12am shift. IMO Mark Hamilton is one of the best Rock DJ's in Boston along with Adam 12. I really miss Mark on the air full time.
 
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