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I was introduced to this site about a week ago. I can't help but notice that racoonradio and Casablanca seem to be the most active members and both seem to have insider information. Are either or both of you in the industry? Do either or both of you own this site?
 
Welcome to this site . Dont take it personal , if someone attack you, The Owners move your thread to "Take it outside, or cancel your Thread altogether . Crazy Thing happen on The Boston Board . Feel free to post whats on your mind,about The Boston Radio Market . Welcome to Boston .
 
One of us used to be a producer at WRKO. One has been on radio (college radio) for over 26 years but has never been paid....I am the latter. And i have kept up on radio either from my own experience or
papers/Net.
We don't own this site. And there are many others who are freq. heard from.
 
Mr. Raccoon is too modest he is quite the movie historian Eye believe.
 
ArtSpooner said:
I was introduced to this site about a week ago. I can't help but notice that racoonradio and Casablanca seem to be the most active members and both seem to have insider information. Are either or both of you in the industry? Do either or both of you own this site?
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No, actually they spend a lot of time at Holiday Inn Express.
 
there are active radio people on this board, and a bunch like myself that decided we wanted stable employment, a retirement plan, health insurance, vacations.. or in other words a normal life.
 
Varulven had some kind of WBCN connection until its former longtime boss Oedipus stabbed him in the back IIRC (I may not). I can definitely recall correctly my own radio connection: 5 years as an on-air voice at WBRS from 1991 to 1996 (using a movie soundtrack show to shoehorn what people liked from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, i.e. an excuse to play "Stayin' Alive," "Disco Inferno," "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" - the latter used at a special point in the "Wayne's World" movie), and spending the last 28 years researching the ratings in the Boston area (and frequently out of market as well). Bob Bittner, aka JIBGUY, owns WJIB Cambridge, MA and WJTO Bath, ME, two small standards stations at similar positions on the dial (740 and 730 respectively). WLYN_GM is - well, that's self explanatory.

Hope that helps! :)
 
Valruven was a producer at WCGY.

I was a CE for a non commercial FM, and have done some work for Multicultural Radio's Boston area stations on a very very small level.
 
I am a radio enthusiast and have worked at a media relations firm in the past. I have lived in Boston all my life and been following radio closely since the 1980's.
 
Wow--That's quite a response. Thanks to all. I do think though, that someone should check on Steve N. to make sure he's not off his meds?
 
I am local guy who tries to make a living in the 'biz, Actually, I made my media debut
as an audience member on the Big Brother Bob Emery Show on WBZ-TV!

As with any block, we have some questionable neighbors here. You will soon
see a pattern, and you will decide for yourself who knows what's what -
and who is just blowing smoke...

73,

de WA1RFF
 
I'll add my .02 as well: been in this racket for almost 30 yrs, starting as a DJ and now doing mostly engineering/production. Spent some time in Boston at the old WEZE 1260 when John Rodman was PD and Barney Lyons and John Hunter were the engineers. Also worked very briefly in '81 at WLYN as a contract engineer;this was when the FM still had an LPB Signature series board, and the equipment had AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY Dymo labels on it. I was chief engineer also at WCAS-740 during its Ch.11 days; left there due to assets being frozen for nonpayment of payroll taxes. While there, I built a production studio for them using some of the old stuff from Harvard Sq. Also got em back to licensed power; they weren't when I came on board.

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
Not nice nor true about Steve N. Worked with him and he has a wealth of knowledge about this business. I think you owe him an apology. :mad:

ArtSpooner said:
Wow--That's quite a response. Thanks to all. I do think though, that someone should check on Steve N. to make sure he's not off his meds?
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I am just a fan who still loves the radio.


And who remembers when it was great aroound here.


These days it`s just okay-----But it could be much better.
 
Neggy said:
Valruven was a producer at WCGY.
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I can always stand to be corrected every once in a while, Neggy. Thanks! It's just that all of Varulven's posts about Oedipus on this board had me believing that he also worked at WBCN back in the day.

And no, I'm not on meds! More or less, I do know the Boston radio history since 1979, including WCOZ's meteoric rise and fall, Kiss, 'BCN since the strike, 'RKO 'HDH and 'BZ all dropping music, Stern sneaking on 'BCN at night (including the tearful breaking news of Reggie Lewis' death followed by Elton's "Funeral/Bleeding" megasong), Brud's deathbed farewell interview with LaPierre, and so on.

I'll be back tomorrow night! :D
 
Steve N., I never worked at WBCN.

Oedipus did force the late Gene Sylvester to stop co-producing Charles Laquidara's show when he found out that Gene & I shared an office in a Wakefield office park (above the Public Access station in the 1980s, though we had nothing to do with that access station - other than Bob Haigh's excellent and legendary
folk music show was produced out of it --- i ran a camera once at it - first time I ever got behind a studio
camera (as I was hosting since 1979, but not running cameras...). Harvey Wharfield, Gene Sylvester & I shared the office space.

Oedi & I were cordial to each other in the early days; he authorized me to write a letter to WRKO P.D. Harry Nelson for employment at RKO; Harry turned Oedi down - I have a the Nelson correspondence and a letter here from Oedipus thanking me for believing in him. HA! That Thanks went under appreciated, "Eye'd Say", to quote Norma Nathan. I also have a couple of letters from Mel Karmazin addressing my complaints about Oedipus. Fun stuff...they'll all end up in my autobiography

Neggy is correct - I was in advertising at WCGY, I produced up there, and was a consultant to Mr. Becker, the program director (you can thank me for adding multiple Black Crowes songs to the playlist at 93.7) as well as a number of other creative ideas for promoting the station.

We were the first radio station in the world to go on Aimee Mann's "I Should've Known" (we got it off a BMG retail sampler CD sent to stores!)

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric....s-Aimee-Mann/EC1E66ACABA9BE3D482568C1001CF5EC

But production/advertising and consulting were not as important to me as following in the footsteps of my idol,
Oedipus, so I went on to become Program Director of WNSH AM 1570 in 1992 and in 2000 Program Director
of AM 1670 Allston Brighton Free Radio ... Our slogan at WNSH was "You can get better ratings by yelling out the window". Since ABFR was an even smaller signal, I dragged the slogan with me to the station across the street from the eventual home of Entercom! Suburban Al was our star d.j.!
 
Welcome to the site.
I'm a relative newcomer to the Boston ( Eastern Massachusetts) radio scene.
I host a Blues show on WICN, Worcester Public radio called Saturday Night Fish Fry, formerly Blue Monday and
I changed the name for obvious reasons:)
I've been on the air at various stations in New England, and my first radio gig was altermative, WXVX in Pittsburgh in 1989.
 
The New England Dossier:

Started at Framingham Stage College's WDJM.
Interned for WZLX, where I was hired to produce/dub monkey, and eventually produce the morning show.
Left to produce at WHDH, where at one time, I was Howie's screener.
Worked for WHEB-Portsmouth, then WAAF the first time, left Boston, returned to work for WAAF, then WBCN, left Boston once again.
 
Neanderpaul said:
The New England Dossier:

Started at Framingham Stage College's WDJM.
Interned for WZLX, where I was hired to produce/dub monkey, and eventually produce the morning show.
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Who did you intern for at WZLX? I've always wanted to know what the real Kenny Young was like :eek:
 
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