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Former WBACH OM Scott Hooper now heard on WCRB

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Scott Hooper, former operations manager of WBOQ in Gloucester and current PD of Nassau's WBACH Maine Network, is now heard middays on WCRB 99.5. He will continue to do his "Breakfast with Bach" show in Maine, while voicetracking his show for WCRB.

I have known Scott for 16 years and congratulate him on his new gig. It's great that his voice is back on the air in the Boston market. He's a great guy who will do very well on the CRB midday shift. Best of luck, Scott!
 
gosox said:
Scott Hooper, former operations manager of WBOQ in Gloucester and current PD of Nassau's WBACH Maine Network, is now heard middays on WCRB 99.5. He will continue to do his "Breakfast with Bach" show in Maine, while voicetracking his show for WCRB.

I have known Scott for 16 years and congratulate him on his new gig. It's great that his voice is back on the air in the Boston market. He's a great guy who will do very well on the CRB midday shift. Best of luck, Scott!
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I don't know to what extent WCRB was voice-tracking before; possibly the overnights. Now it appears they're doing it middays. I guess those dire revenue figures were on-the-mark. By the way, if a person voice-tracks on the South Street snoozer, does that mean he or she doesn't have to LISTEN to all that dreck?
 
Having worked with Scott at WBACH...before it was sold by Louis Vitale to a major broadcast conglomerate, I'm sure Mr. Hooper will build up a great following?

The only thing WCRB needs to do is program a few more film scores in the middle of the day? A few of us enjoy listening to music from the 20th or 21st century.....as opposed to the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th! :p

argytunes
 
argytunes said:
Having worked with Scott at WBACH...before it was sold by Louis Vitale to a major broadcast conglomerate, I'm sure Mr. Hooper will build up a great following?

The only thing WCRB needs to do is program a few more film scores in the middle of the day? A few of us enjoy listening to music from the 20th or 21st century.....as opposed to the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th! :p

argytunes
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It's VERY unlikely that WCRB would play music from the 14th, 15th, 16th or early 17th centuries. Most "concert" music then wasn't mean't for general listening but rather for use in cathedrals, and a very large percentage was composed for voice...VERBOTEN on the South Street snoozer. A perusal of the repetitious WCRB playlist reveals that a small number of pieces composed in the first-half of the 20th century by the likes of Elgar, Debussy, Ravel, Copland, Barber and Rachmaninoff pop up from time to time, but nothing that sounds very modern. Copland's "Fanfare for the common man" is loud (and I don't understand why it's on the playlist) but it's not even close to avant-garde. The nearly total absence of pieces by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bartok and Hindemith among other 20th century leading figures is scandalous.
 
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