Off The Air Discussion Board and WJIB

[Rabanvi]

I am very glad to know Radio Info has a Off The AIr Discussion Board.I will certainly keep any subject other than raido stations on THAT board.Does anyone remember when WJIB was a popular Radio Station?They used to always have a Buoy bell sound when they announced the radio station and they also used to say "WJIB,All Music,All The Time."

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I am very glad to know Radio Info has a Off The AIr Discussion Board.I will certainly keep any subject other than raido stations on THAT board.Does anyone remember when WJIB was a popular Radio Station?They used to always have a Buoy bell sound when they announced the radio station and they also used to say "WJIB,All Music,All The Time."

Thank you for getting back on topic. Yes, I remember the original WJIB 96.9 FM. If you're in the area, check out the new WJIB at 740 AM. It has a much wider variety of music than the old one, and though its audience may be smaller than the original WJIB on FM, its following is very devoted. Unfortunately it does not stream online, so you must be in the Boston area to hear it on the radio.

 

[Jimmy128]

WJIB played soft instrumental easy listening music until 1990 when they then became WCDJ smooth jazz.

WJIB had a new age show at night featuring Anne Williams called "Nightscapes."

 

[Time Traveler]

So....does anyone remember the formats of WXHR-FM 96.9 or WXHR-AM 740?????

 

[Jimmy128]

WXHR FM was a classical station. I don't know about AM.

 

[raccoonradio]

They may have both been beautiful music. I don't have it anymore but I used to have a North Shore
newspaper from 67 which had an ad in it for the stations. There was a cartoon of a smiling bee above a
flower and the caption read--"Beautiful--the X/R All Time Hit Parade,. FM 97, AM 740"

 

[weeinewsradio59]

WSSH-FM in the Lowell/Lawrence area (good signal into Boston, IIRC), was another Beautiful Music station. I actually preferred it to WJIB-FM. Nice listening.

 

[weeinewsradio59]

My family alternated vacations on the Cape with the mountains. While on the Cape, WQRC 99.?? (ID'd as "Stereo 100") was another Beautiful Music outlet. Perfect to snooze on the beach to.

 

[Jimmy128]

I remember WJIB 96.9, WHAV 92.5, WCOZ 94.5, WSSH 99.5, WWEL 107.9, WSRS 96.1, WZID 95.7 playing Beautiful Music.

 

[DG02816]

WQRC is at 99.9-one of many B/EZL music stations on the Cape then.

 

[raccoonradio]

There was the AM/FM combo of WHUE 1150/100.7 owned by General Cinema Corp. Beautiful Music for YOU ('HUE) said the ads. Looking up info on bostonradio.org

>>(WZLX) On January 1, 1979, the station flipped yet again, this time to beautiful music, and changed calls to WHUE-FM. (The AM side also ran beautiful music, but did not simulcast.)
http://bostonradio.org/stations/13806
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That was till 84; they briefly became WCOZ (calls used before on 94.5) and later "the cat" WKKT and eventually it became classic hits
WZLX. The AM 1150 (now WWDJ)eventually went to all news,etc. The AM 1150 had an amusing incident later when they were simulcasting WAAF. A cleaning crew went in and decided the hard rock wasn't their
style so they changed the radio to what I think was Jamn 94.5. They didn't realize the radio they'd
switched was the one tuned to WAAF which was fed into the board, thus everybody tuned to 1150 was now getting Jam'n!

The WSSH calls have turned up in other places, like Southern VT. Some well known Boston call letters have switched frequencies over the years or turned up elsewhere in New England. We remember
WMEX 1510 but it was later used on 1150 (just scramble the numbers) and in Farmington NH and
also the Champlain Valley. Then there has been....

WEEI ---590 to 850
WKLB--(same owners pretty much) 105.7 to 96.9 to 99.5 to 102.5
WROR-- 98.5 to 105.7
WEEI-FM -- 103.3 to 103.7 down in R.I. to 93.7. At one point CBS owned the WEEI calls. Now they have
their sports talker at 98.5 and their competition is _Entercom's_ WEEI!
WBZ-FM--46.7 (not a typo) to 100.7 to 92.9 to 106.7 to 98.5
WJIB--96.9 to 740
WBCN 104.1 has turned up on AM 1640 down in Charlotte NC, I believe; a conservative talk station.
and there are prob. more (as mentioned on WBZ radio the other night, they have changed
frequency such as 800 to 990 to 1030, same calls)

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

I remember WJIB 96.9, WHAV 92.5, WCOZ 94.5, WSSH 99.5, WWEL 107.9, WSRS 96.1, WZID 95.7 playing Beautiful Music.

As I remember the EZ-Listening landscape up here on the North Shore, back in the late 70s-early 80s:

1.150-WHUE, 1.260-WEZE;
92.5-WHAV, 94.9-WHOM, 95.7-WZID, 96.1-WSRS, 96.9-WJIB,
99.5-WSSH, 99.9-WQRC, 100.7-WHUE, 101.5-WLKW, 107.9-WWEL.

 

[Jimmy128]

WBZ-FM--46.7 (not a typo) to 100.7 to 92.9 to 106.7 to 98.5

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Too bad that they didn't have the insight to keep the FM dial to start at 46.7 or wherever it started and to go to 108.0.


That would have solved a lot of problems of not enough stations.

 

[LowellRadio]

I remember 740 am WTAO, Top 40. Sunday's w/Ed Penney who wrote "Queen of the Senior Prom." 250 watts daytime station.

 

[DavidZ]

Am I the only one that misses the beautiful music stations or am I just showing my age?

 

[weeinewsradio59]

DavidZ, you are not alone. I grew up on Boston radio all thru the 60's and 70's, when it was super-uncool to listen to "elevator music". I listened to all formats, and really could care less about "cool"!

Thank goodness Bob Bittner has kept the format alive at WJIB and WJTO. Younger listeners who missed the glory days can still experience Beautiful Music.