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My picks on the unoffical radio awards

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Retro

  • Best overall station in Boston: WEEI, they have a real good quality product and great air talent to boot! Runners up: WMJX and WBZ.

  • Most underrated station:WBOS, no one really thought this station was going anywhere, that was until the PPM ratings showed otherwise.

  • Most overrated station: WJMN, with it always doing well in the ratings, that with PPM showed that not nearly as many people were listening to the station as led to believe. Of course it could also be that their audience doesn't know the importance of carrying those meters around and maybe see it as uncool instead.

  • Station with most local support: WJIB, this venerable station has lots of loyalty. A small station that people appreciate and want around.

  • Most unique station: WBOQ, This station plays a lot of original oldies that are not heard elsewhere. Definitely worth listening to! Runner up, WMKK.

  • Most generic station: tie: WXKS-FM and WMBX. Both stations seem much rather generic these days. Not much memorable about them at all.

  • Station getting most stale WODS. Just sounds like they are playing too many familiar songs over and over. I am disappointed.

  • Station most likely to still be around in 10 years: WXKS-FM. Whether generic or not, this station has staying power and after being around for 30 years, will likely still be around 10 years from now also. Runner up: WBZ]

  • Biggest waste of a radio frequency: WRKO. Lets face it, this station should and could do better.

[/list]Station most likely to change formats within the next 12 months WBCN, there are too many rock stations in this town and this station seems to be off far worse than the others. With CBS flipping other stations to CHR, and their April Fool's stunt with Power 104. It is most likely that this is the station that will flip.[
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WRKO: Worth it for Red Sox, Howie, and I guess Laura and Rush. Yeah Jerry's no longer with us and Gene
is in Frisco with no intention of returning but for all intents and purposes they are the highest _all talk_
station in town. It could do better, yes; take note though that in the PPMs the morning show did
improve and Savage/Doyle at night were surprisingly strong. They may not want to let Mr Borders-Language-
Culture-Buy-My-Books into England but he's got support.

WEEI: A lot of people razz them on various boards but they're a ratings success and have cloned themselves
all over New England. Yes, if you're not fond of the humor and NON-sports discussion you do have ESPN 890
and what's left of 1510 after the progtalk, as an alternative, but they do have a following

WBZ: Rea does a good show; for all the people who criticize him, Leveille has a devoted following and they
helped bring him back (much like how Family Guy got resurrected by Fox after listeners wrote in and also
bought the box sets)

WJIB: Truly listener supported radio, with the fund drive. Saw a nice WJIB "The Memories Station"
bumper sticker on a car in N. Reading yesterday (Pic. Pub parking lot) WBOQ does go a bit deeper than ODS
but ODS does have specialty stuff like Lost 45s, too. As for being stale, the Tom Kent show does at least
add some songs that WODS normally wouldn't play (going deeper into 80s?)

And what about college radio? OK, I'll plug my own station here: WMWM which certainly isn't all the same
format but variety is the spice of life; you can hear alternative rock, Spanish language, blues, classic
country, jazz, and more. Many, many college and public stations in town have shows to offer that
provide a nice alternative.
 


I will give you that, but their morning show? What are they thinking? A friend of mine who is also a really big radio enthusiast thinks that they will try to get Eagan and Bruade once their contract is up with WTKK.

WBZ: Rea does a good show; for all the people who criticize him, Leveille has a devoted following and they
helped bring him back (much like how Family Guy got resurrected by Fox after listeners wrote in and also
bought the box sets)
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Yes WBZ is good as well, but just hasn't seemed very exciting lately at all.

And what about college radio? OK, I'll plug my own station here: WMWM which certainly isn't all the same
format but variety is the spice of life; you can hear alternative rock, Spanish language, blues, classic
country, jazz, and more. Many, many college and public stations in town have shows to offer that
provide a nice alternative.
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I didn't include college radio because I do not listen to them really enough to be a judge.

I do think that WERS is one of a kind though.

I've been listening to WUMB more also.

WBUR is probably my favorite public radio station, although technically a college station as well.
 
They did try to get Eagan and Braude but the pair re-upped with WTKK a couple months back; I forget for
how long. Again, the PPMs may prove the naysayers wrong about Finn & Fein and for all we know Jason and Julie
may get the last laugh.
OK about college radio...
WMBR has the long-running Backwoods & Lost and Found
 
•Most unique station: WBOQ, This station plays a lot of original oldies that are not heard elsewhere. Definitely worth listening to! Runner up, WMKK.

Improper use of the word "unique." Nothing can be most unique, least unique, more unique, or less unique. Unique is binary, something either is unique or it isn't. There are no degrees of uniqueness. What you mean is most unusual station.

And I know that correcting grammar and usage is considered bad netiquette, but your post was otherwise grammatical and I see unique misused that way so often that I felt I owed you the correction.
 
WBUR is not a "college" radio station. It's one of the most successful NPR
news stations in the United States and happens to be owned by Boston University.
 
the scribe said:
WBUR is not a "college" radio station. It's one of the most successful NPR
news stations in the United States and happens to be owned by Boston University.
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Colleges get preference in license allotments. It IS a college station.
 
Zeb Norris said:
the scribe said:
WBUR is not a "college" radio station. It's one of the most successful NPR
news stations in the United States and happens to be owned by Boston University.
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Colleges get preference in license allotments. It IS a college station.
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Since when do colleges get preferential treatment for non-comm license applications? What is your source for this incorrect information?

Also...If you notice he put "college" in quotes.

By literal definition it is...but for all practical purposes, it is not.
 
My unofficial definition of a "college" station is a station where a significant percentage of the on-air programming is produced and hosted by college students, not just that the station is owned by a college.

When a station owned by a college has a completely professional non-collegiate airstaff, I no longer consider it as being a "college" station. It's then a professional Public Radio station that happens to be owned by a college.

I know that any station owned by a college is technically a "college" station by literal definition, but when the station has a completely professional non-collegiate airstaff and presentation, I no longer consider it to be a "college" station aesthetically.
 
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