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defunct boston stations that need another chance???

Old WBCN for sure!
WHTT was a GREAT station as was WZOU
For some odd reason I miss 'Jib back when I was in the 8th grade ('83), listening to that in the school counselors office was always soothing LOL
I would want WCOZ back also oh and hey how about Kiss 108 back in the glory days when Pyramid owned them and Sunny Joe had the station as one of the tops in the country.
 
NHRadio said:
Holy Crap! I thought I was the last living human who remembered that show. That's where I was on the air for the first time in 80 or 81. Ended up hanging out at WUNR and WBOS for almost a year. Norm Ruby was terrific.

blackgold said:
How's about "The Ruach Hour?" I miss that and Joy Berger!
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I was there from 1980 to 1983. I still have a recording of the Italian version of "Whistle While You Work" that Gino and Gilda used as a sign-off theme.

And I have a recording of Norm Ruby announcing, "from a swamp in Newton, WUNR Brookline says hello to the world."

Have you seen WUNR's new studios? They are very impressive, and a far cry from the old North Washington Street digs.
 
I wouldn't mind hearing Howard Stern the way he used to be on WBCN... or, while I'm at it, WNTN.
 
Does anyone have any photos of the new WUNR studios?
I used to work for them at the N.Washington St. location,
and I would love to see photos of their new digs!
 
I remember Norm doing a lot of ID's, one I liked was "5 billion microwatts of POWER".
No, I haven't seen them, but I'd like to. 160 N Washington was...quaint. It used to bug me that I couldn't get WUNR or WMEX in Peabody at night.

4CX1000A said:
I was there from 1980 to 1983. I still have a recording of the Italian version of "Whistle While You Work" that Gino and Gilda used as a sign-off theme.

And I have a recording of Norm Ruby announcing, "from a swamp in Newton, WUNR Brookline says hello to the world."

Have you seen WUNR's new studios? They are very impressive, and a far cry from the old North Washington Street digs.
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I never met Norm Ruby, but when I was there (WUNR)
they were still using an ID with his voice. From beyond
the grave - W UUUUUUUUUUUUUU NR!
 
WRKO and Wimex were legendary. I also would bring back WBCN any era, WROR in the mid 80s, WHDH in the 70s, and WBZ in the early 60s.

Not one person mentioned WEZE when it was Z-1260 after being beautiful music almost from the beginning.

It was programmed then by Steve Hunter, who came from Drake-formatted CKLW in Detroit and actually lived in the hotel--some said he slept in his office! Alan Colmes did mornings, Neil Cannon did nights, Hunter did a shift, and Chip Hobart worked there. This was circa 1973 when an AM at 1260 with calls like WEZE (and their history) could never hope to get traction. Moreover they station had a short lifespan.

WEZE had that picture window there in Park Square. They always attracted gawkers--high quality gawkers. Being between the bus stations, a block off the Common, and not far from the Combat Zone I imagine there were always two shows going on--the one inside that window and one out there on the street.

Radio could use is a shot of magic these days. Who has street level studios anymore? It seemed like every town of any size had at least one station with a picture window. How many of us fed our dreams freezing our butts off outside some radio station's studios when we were kids?

Anyway...The fact is most of the stations mentioned in this thread wouldn't hold up today because they would skew 50+.
 
Dusty Dale Brooks said:
WRKO and Wimex were legendary. I also would bring back WBCN any era, WROR in the mid 80s, WHDH in the 70s, and WBZ in the early 60s.

Not one person mentioned WEZE when it was Z-1260 after being beautiful music almost from the beginning.

It was programmed then by Steve Hunter, who came from Drake-formatted CKLW in Detroit and actually lived in the hotel--some said he slept in his office! Alan Colmes did mornings, Neil Cannon did nights, Hunter did a shift, and Chip Hobart worked there. This was circa 1973 when an AM at 1260 with calls like WEZE (and their history) could never hope to get traction. Moreover they station had a short lifespan.

WEZE had that picture window there in Park Square. They always attracted gawkers--high quality gawkers. Being between the bus stations, a block off the Common, and not far from the Combat Zone I imagine there were always two shows going on--the one inside that window and one out there on the street.

Radio could use is a shot of magic these days. Who has street level studios anymore? It seemed like every town of any size had at least one station with a picture window. How many of us fed our dreams freezing our butts off outside some radio station's studios when we were kids?

Anyway...The fact is most of the stations mentioned in this thread wouldn't hold up today because they would skew 50+.


I remember my buddy had a film project to do in High School. We went into Boston and one of the things we filmed was Bill Smith doing his show at the WEZE studios. He stood on his head in the DJ chair for us!!
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I think I remember those street level WEZE studios. I also remember dropping in to
WNSH when Brian Less had his Sun night Briefcase Full of Blues show. when the studios
were in Pickering Wharf, Salem, around the corner from the Chase House, and people would go by and make faces at us
 
I used to walk by the WEZE studios and look for Alan Colmes (Big Al your Morning Pal) doing his morning show in the station's oldies days, but he would draw the draperies (never referred to as drapes, per order of George Frazier).
 
Bill1820 said:
Talk hosts like Paul Benzaquin and Gene Burns.
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Gene Burns worked at WEZE? During what time frame?

He has been a fixture at KGO in San Francisco for years and is rumored to be next in a long line of casualties there since Mickey Luckoff retired last year.
 
WHDH 85 with its talk format from the early 90s.

WILD 1090 with its R&B format also from the early-mid 90s.

These were among the interesting stations I remember from my early teenage visits to Boston.
 
I definitely do remember Z-1260 WEZE in 1973! I found myself listening to them more than WRKO and WMEX that year too! A great station that was around for too short a time!!!! Eventually they ended up going to kind of a personality AC/Oldies format in 1974 (yawn) before reverting to Oldies in early 1975 and than back to beautiful music at the end of the summer in 1975....


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WRKO and Wimex were legendary. I also would bring back WBCN any era, WROR in the mid 80s, WHDH in the 70s, and WBZ in the early 60s.

Not one person mentioned WEZE when it was Z-1260 after being beautiful music almost from the beginning.

It was programmed then by Steve Hunter, who came from Drake-formatted CKLW in Detroit and actually lived in the hotel--some said he slept in his office! Alan Colmes did mornings, Neil Cannon did nights, Hunter did a shift, and Chip Hobart worked there. This was circa 1973 when an AM at 1260 with calls like WEZE (and their history) could never hope to get traction. Moreover they station had a short lifespan.

WEZE had that picture window there in Park Square. They always attracted gawkers--high quality gawkers. Being between the bus stations, a block off the Common, and not far from the Combat Zone I imagine there were always two shows going on--the one inside that window and one out there on the street.

Radio could use is a shot of magic these days. Who has street level studios anymore? It seemed like every town of any size had at least one station with a picture window. How many of us fed our dreams freezing our butts off outside some radio station's studios when we were kids?

Anyway...The fact is most of the stations mentioned in this thread wouldn't hold up today because they would skew 50+.





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I vaguely remember it. It indeed was brief. I think it was around the time that WILD went to 97.7. But I think it must have been brokered and may have gone Spanish before ESPN. That's a thought for WXKS am to go soft R&B. There is a station in Philadelphia WDAS HD2 that plays this format.
 
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