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Remembering old radio

Dusty Dale Brooks said:
'HDH did have a tough directional pattern. They had to protect other 850s in MOntreal, Johnstown (PA) and Raliegh. I think when you consider that signal was the least of 'BZ's problems WHDH's success is all the more impressive.
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I think some of the folks at WHDH used to have a bit of unneeded paranoia about the signal. Was it a former clear channel like WBZ? Certainly not. But as I stated, there is almost nowhere in the Boston Metro (where the diaries matter) where you could not pick up WHDH both day and night.

After WBZ and WRKO....it's probably the next best AM signal in Boston.
 
Somewhere in the back of my feeble mind lies the calls

WMRQ

WAS I DREAMING THIS ONE??

MAYBE LATE 80'S??
 
CAPECRUSADER said:
Somewhere in the back of my feeble mind lies the calls

WMRQ

WAS I DREAMING THIS ONE??

MAYBE LATE 80'S??
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That was the station that was on 103.3 after it was WHTT and before it became Oldies 103.

It was billed as Boston's Quality Rock.

What did the letters stand for? Murky? ;-)

Music Rock(q)?
 
I remember in the mid-1970s when Dale Dorman played the Beach Boys' "Be True To Your School" as an attempt to quell the anger and fury brought about by the busing problem in South Boston & Charlestown! It was so unusual to hear "Push 'em back! Push 'em back! Way Back!" every morning during Uncle Dale's show.
And how I long for the days of the 'HDH Pay Phone(later known as the Cash Call), the 2nd. chance prize awarded on Jess Cain's show, or the "I Blew The WHDH Cash Call" T-shirt!
 
I want to go back further than recent discussions about WHTT and WZOU and head for the 70's instead. I am thinking of the following:

WVBF "F-105", a good FM Top 40 station at the time.

I much preferred the original WVBF...circa 1971/1972 ("Electronic Mama") and WKOX-FM...
1969-1971....also on 105.7...

and 92.9 WBOS "The Rock Boss!" Even before their most recent format flip, I've heard my mother still refer to them as BOSS even though they haven't called themselves that since 1983.

Maxanne had a great short lived format on WBOS IN 1983....

And while we're at it WCOZ "kick ass rock & roll!"

Again...I preferred the "Boston's Best Rock" incarnation of WCOZ...from 1975-1980...

WEEI Soft Rock

The "Young Sound" format from 1969-1972 was pretty cool on WEEI-FM...and WBZ-FM 106.7
was really good in 1972 when they first started up...







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Oh the memories!
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Make that GrunDig. (typo) This would have been
approximately 1970-71. At the time, they were doing
a Top 30 (40?) countdown in the afternoons - something
to tune in, after coming home from school. I also have fond
memories of WNTN, when they were playing an AOR-type format.
(1974-75) In the car, at the time, we did not have an FM radio
available. Before that, it was WRKO, transistor radio pressed
to my ear. If my radio had more transistors than your's,
mine must be way better! ;D
 
WLYNgm said:
Make that GrunDig. (typo) This would have been
approximately 1970-71. At the time, they were doing
a Top 30 (40?) countdown in the afternoons - something
to tune in, after coming home from school. I also have fond
memories of WNTN, when they were playing an AOR-type format.
(1974-75) In the car, at the time, we did not have an FM radio
available. Before that, it was WRKO, transistor radio pressed
to my ear. If my radio had more transistors than your's,
mine must be way better! ;D
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Well dude...I had a 17 transistor radio that I picked up after WRKO-FM flipped to Top 40. Top that if you can...(lol)...I still have it to this day...WNTN was an out standing progressive rock station... To my ears...their programming at the time was superior to WBCN...They were around for some time too...From early 1970 to early 1976....
 
One of my earliest childhood memories was the Arthur Godfrey Show. In the early 50s my mother had it on every morning. It was a national show and I don't know what station we heard it on. We lived in Clinton at the time, so I would guess WTAG. How's that Time Traveler? :)

I remember Julius LaRosa, Hally Lokee(sp), the Mariners, Carmel Quinn and of course Arthur, telling his stories and playing his ukelelee. Howaya, howaya, howaya.
 
Growing up in Vermont WBZ was the only Boston station that would always come in--even during the daytime. They were a good alternative to the VT or Montreal stations. WMEX, one notch down from WKBW, was pretty consistent at night and I loved Arnie's shtick and dreamed that one night I might be able to go to The Surf Nantasket or be served by a Venture car hop.

Someone mentioned The CBS "Young Sound" on WEEI-FM. A great format. I remember hearing it for the first time on the sand at Hampton Beach. (At the same time I noticed just how good WRKO was!) The Young Sound was a soft rock format that played a lot of "happy pop" you just never hear anymore. They were an aural smile button!

When WRKO (at that time WNAC's sister) switched were they live or automated? I remember in the earliest days the AM and FM would do the very common nighttime simulcast. What happened during the day? Then I remember Drake put "Solid Gold Rock & Roll" on the FM and they soon changed the calls to WROR.

I could go on and on. The Boston FM band in the late 1960s was such a wonderland, wasn't it.
 
Dusty Dale Brooks said:
When WRKO (at that time WNAC's sister) switched were they live or automated? I remember in the earliest days the AM and FM would do the very common nighttime simulcast. What happened during the day? Then I remember Drake put "Solid Gold Rock & Roll" on the FM and they soon changed the calls to WROR.
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When WRKO (FM) went Top 40 in 1966 (while 680 was in its last year as WNAC) it was automated; "Arko, The Shy But Friendly Robot".
 
Oh yes, Eli I remember now.

Their original studios were down in the basement just off Kenmore Square before you crossed over the bridge to Fenway Park, weren't they. I remember Graham School of Broadcasting was in that same building--or next door.
 
I remember a long time ago, didn't there used to be a radio station that was on street level and you could see the studio from the outside? I think this was in the late 70's around Park Plaza. Was it WROL? Just wondering.
 
As a kid, I thought that it was really cool, to stand there on
the sidewalk, and watch everything going on in the studio.
They had a couple of PA speakers outside, so you could hear it also...
 
I worked there briefly and I remember some pretty strange people walked by that window. Thankfully you could close the curtains.

Back in the '70s Park Square was pretty weird. The bus stations were there and it was only about three blocks from The Combat Zone.

Any of you who worked at WMEX probably saw the same people.
 
davect said:
I remember listening to WVBF during the summer of 1979. Were they automated?
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I just came accross an F-105 FM RADIO STREET SHEET from July 6 1980.
The on-air lineup was:

6am to 10am:Jeff Baker & Tom Lewis
10am to 2pm:pete Falconi
2pm to 6pm: Jo Jo Kincaid
6pm to10pm: Mighty Mike Osborne
10pm to 2am:Bill Stephens
2am to 6am: Eric Chaney

There was a list of Boston's Top 30 albums.#1 was J Geils Love Stinks.

Also Boston's Hottest Music Top 35.#1 was Rocky Burnette Tired of Toein' the line.
F-105 "Makin it in Massachusettes".
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