No Foolin' (an early start)

[raccoonradio]

--WRKO Hires Keith Olbermann in attempt to appeal to the Left

--WCRB Adds Electric Light Orchestra to playlist to attract fans of classical-rock

--Severin "Frustrated" That He Hasn't Said Anything Scandalous Yet At Talk 1200

--Opie and Anthony Return To Terrestrial Radio Doing Catholic Talk (Having experienced a
revelation, the now-religious Opie and Anthony will do clean, respectful discussions of catechism)

--Jealous of WKLB's high ratings, WJMN switches to Country 94.5. To drive away listeners of the old
format, WJMN does 24 hours straight of "Red Solo Cup", Toby Keith's beer salute

--Raccoonradio does radio-info post that does not mention Howie Carr

--Occupy Boston starts their own pirate station and dares the FCC to shut them down. Slogan: We Are The 99.3 FM

--The number of people in the area with HD Radios doubles--now 0.02 per cent of listeners own one

 

[KingOfAllHalibuts]

WCGY-FM, the former 93.7, FINALLY rewards all the employees who pumped up
the voice of "The City Of Sirens" and allowed Old Man G to sell it for millions !

 

[JIBGUY]

"Hip-Hop-740"

or

"All-Woodstock-All-Day 740" (Including the not-quite-Fish Cheer)

 

[Jimmy128]

WRKO flips to a very tight format of rock between 1966-1971

WCRB just plays the Classical without talking so much.

Severin is actually discovered to be black.

Opie & Anthony, are they still alive?

WJMN becomes a for real Black Community station.

Racoonradio becomes a Chris Matthews fan.

Occupy Boston cleans up after themselves.

HD becomes the new FM. (That's where all the good stations have gone anyway).

 

[raccoonradio]

WRKO...the station that helped make Light My Fire a hit by editing it? Bring back that
shotgun '68-RKO! jingle....WCRB could use slogans much like what the old EEI-FM used
to do ("Sgt Pepper. Without general chaos") if they did that!

Ha! re: "Tingles" Matthews. (For that is his nickname on some conservative sites)
Occupy actually is doing a rally of sorts tomorrow.

Jibguy: Ha True story: Tommy James was invited to play Woodstock but thought
why would I want to go to some festival at a pig farm upstate? From his site:
>>In 1969, Tommy and the group regrettably turned down the offer to perform at the original Woodstock Festival when his booking agent described the event as "...a stupid gig on a pig farm in upstate New York."
https://www.tommyjames.com/factoids.php

As for WCGY, who would have thought (being serious here of course) that a little FM
up in Lawrence (still the COL) would some day be a powerful competitor for the sports talk audience,
flagship station of Sox and C's, etc.?

 

[ArtSpooner]

Keith Olbermann to reunite with former Cornell classmate, Craig Mustard. Along with Larry Johnson, the new show will be called The Teacher, The Preacher, and The Screecher. The new show will feature rotating in-studio guests, Frank from Gloucester, Danny from Quincy, Mike from Canton, Steve from Fall River, Angelo from Everett, Jack from Lynn, and Joey from the North End.

The show will not be broadcast from the WEEI studios. Instead, a secure, secret location will be used.

 

[BoredModerator]

Kiss 108 syndicates Z100 Elvis in the Morning.

 

[Jimmy128]

WKLB plays Johnny Cash.

 

[dhoule]

Howie Carr leaves WRKO to become a state employees but really has no concept of what it means to be a public servant.

 

[raccoonradio]

Hmm you'd think Cash might get played on KLB's Sun. country oldies but who knows.
Howie's joke: why don't public servants look out the window in the morning?...They need something to do in the afternoon!

Ha re Olby...old clips of him are on youtube along with O'Reilly on ch 5...where has Ray from Lynn gone since Sarandis left? I remember Adams doing an early show and trying to explain why Teddy was no longer with the station

 

[radiorama1]

Keith Olberman co-anchors Fox Morning News

Kiss 108 and Jamn 94.5 go live and local in the midday and evening

WEEI puts a sports show on during morning drive

Steve Leveille will get thru an entire 5-hour shift without mentioning Mel Simons, and/or plugging his next appearance on the show

Jay Severin shows up for his shift

The pirates get a legal FCC license for the day because "Boston Need Urban AC !! "

 

[raccoonradio]

Jay shows up for his shift? Now THAT is far fetched! Ha, re: Steve etc.

btw what if RKO _did_ hire Olbermann? They could say the call letters stand for
Radio-Keith-Olbermann

(Wikipedia on RKO Pictures: "RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.")

 

[Rick]

Occupy Boston starts their own pirate station and dares the FCC to shut them down. Slogan: We Are The 99.3 FM

That's pretty clever! Did you think of that one on your own? I could actually see something like that really happening.

 

[Rick]

Occupy Boston starts their own pirate station and dares the FCC to shut them down. Slogan: We Are The 99.3 FM

That's pretty clever! Did you think of that one on your own? I could actually see something like that really happening.

 

[raccoonradio]

thanks--yup thought of that and surprised that hasn't happened yet. I could picture
Allston-Brighton Free Radio (IF they still existed etc) hosting a show with them or something.
(flea powered).
Years ago my cartoon convention, when it was HQ-ed in Albany, had a low power FM (not
nec. a pirate, I think they were within limits and only went a few blocks) at 88.7 FM during
the convention.

 

[DToTheJ]

Kiss 108 syndicates Z100 Elvis in the Morning.

A better way of phrasing this April Fool's gag would be: "Matty is retiring."

 

[raccoonradio]

Since stunts could fall under foolin', I have to laugh at what's going on in Philly right now...you know of WKDN's
move to conserv, talk from Harold Camping's Family Radio? A few hours back they started a stunt...in addition to
telling people to tune in at noon for what I suspect will temporarily be all-Hannity radio, they play a snippet of an
REM song.

Now, remember Rev. Camping's prediction:

"It's The End of the World As We Know It"
The snippet...involves how Camping's prediction of the end of world would begin:
"That's great it starts with an earthquake..."

Now that's funny! Well, Armageddon outta here.

 

[blackgold]

Here's a late entry into this thread(I know it's too late for this year, but let's get started on next year):

All clear channel stations must reduce power at sunset, so erstwhile daytimers can operate 24/7.

WBZ takes over 103.3 for all news and puts their 50s-60s top 40 format online!

Opie and Anthony become Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word, while Kennedy joins the Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery.

Talk 96.9 becomes all Irish on FM and HD1 with novelty songs all the time on HD2(and Christmas music year 'round on HD3).

Matty in the Morning is canned with voicetracking by yours truly in morning drive(out of my home, of course).

We get an FM Latino radio station.

Bob Bittner gets a 50,000 watt class A clear channel station to play his great music.

WNTN starts broadcasting 24/7 with Greek, Italian and Haitian programming Sunday through Friday, with Irish music all day Saturday.

Henry Varian comes out of retirement to revive the Sound Of Erin, with McDonald's as sponsor.

Clear Channel divests itself of all its radio stations and spins them off to local groups.

Jam'n 94.5 becomes an all anime music station, with music in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

China Radio International leaves WILD-AM.

Hey, it could happen.

 

[raccoonradio]

Ah! (speaking of daytimers remember the little funny tapes WCAS would play at signoff?)

FM Latino? There is one in Lawrence at 102.9, // WNNW

Bwa ha ha, CC spinning off its stations to local owners...right!
50 kW for Bob at WJIB? Would need a bit more fundraising... or a "second collection" as those who
grew up Catholic could say (passing the basket a second time for donations)

How about... WEEI re-hires Eddie Andleman