"Young Sound" never got my attention the way Bill Drake's WRKO did back in those days.
One of CBS WEEI-FM's worst formats was that maudlin "Soft Rock" of the mid-70s.
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defunct boston stations that need another chance???
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One of CBS WEEI-FM's worst formats was that maudlin "Soft Rock" of the mid-70s.
Much agreed!
Yeah, Music Videos could work too! Although, I am sure broadcaster, John Garabedian knows that such a station is not profitable.WVJV?
I have to disagree with you on this one. In my opinion, it was one of Boston radio’s best formats! 😀
It seemed to work for them for quite awhile!
Well, since we are at this, how about Bill Bitner's very short lived 740 WWEA, "The Radio Of The Earth!" Now while you might think of this as the forerunner to "Adult" or "Variety" hits. When they said they played anything, they really meant it! I mean where else on the radio could you hear both Peter Brown's "Dance With Me", and Second Chapter of Acts too? (and I am quite sure people here are saying second chapter of who?)
It was my fall-back station at my summer job when my favorite station for listening otherwise was WCAS, the Cambridge folk-rock AM, which was impossible to receive inside the State Street office building. There was some overlap of the two in Linda Ronstadt, Eagles, James Taylor, etc., so I didn't mind extended listening even if I did have to suffer pretentious Billy Joel laments like "James" every so often.
1260AM - WEZE "The Wonderful World of Music".
WOW, thanks! I had no idea that their studios were in Boston. This of course before they moved to that back alley, Victory Road in Quincy. Many years later moving into nice and posh studios at Marina Bay instead.
Yeah, but its rather humorous acronym WCGY "We change formats every year!" surely didn't help at all. With special thanks of that long time ago quote from Dean Johnson!
Yeah, but its rather humorous acronym WCGY "We change formats every year!" surely didn't help at all. With special thanks of that long time ago quote from Dean Johnson!
That's not an acronym for WCGY. It's an acronym for WCFEY. You may be misremembering.
WBOS - Better eclectic Radio Than The River
Are you sure about that? WBOS had a very set playlist, which could almost be predictable.
WXRV (The River) maintained what AAA was supposed to be: free form adult alternative with a free to play what the DJ's wanted playlist.
When WBOS was still AAA, I ran a few scenarios in my mind on what I would have done in the past if those programming and station formatting was up to me.
One of those thoughts was dumping WBOS's format, and moving The River to 92.9 instead.
In any case, I am open to any rebuttal, just as long as people are nice about it.
WXRV (The River) maintained what AAA was supposed to be: free form adult alternative with a free to play what the DJ's wanted playlist.
When WBOS was still AAA, I ran a few scenarios in my mind on what I would have done in the past if those programming and station formatting was up to me.
One of those thoughts was dumping WBOS's format, and moving The River to 92.9 instead.
In any case, I am open to any rebuttal, just as long as people are nice about it.
Nice thoughts for rebuttal:
You would have to control BOTH of those stations.
You will eliminate 2 billing streams and reduce them to one.
Would it be worth it?
Yes, introduce a new format on 92.5. I was thinking some kind of Rhythmic Station at the time. Probably something that was not entirely unlike Star 93.7 around that time. But the exact format could vary widely, that is in which the new station would actually be. My other thought was after the frequency move, just selling off 92.5 instead.
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