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WBCN's Farewell
- Thread starter Jacko
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The station in Charlotte that was temporarily WBMX is now WBCN.
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=87037&Callsign=WBMX
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=87037&Callsign=WBMX
There's also this from CBS Radio.
http://www.cbsradio.com/stations/index.html
http://www.cbsradio.com/stations/index.html
Richard J. Cabral said:That "fake static" you were hearing is most likely an STL (studio transmitter link) receiver tuned to the frequency that was being transmitted from the WBCN studios. They probably shut off the STL, which caused the static to be re-broadcast on 104.1. I am assuming an engineer will go to the Pru to flip it over to the STL frequency coming from the Mix studio by around 2am.
This is just my guess by the way
There's probably not too many major market stations using analog STLs after the WBAB incident a few years ago. The static was a recorded loop. It was clear to see with the waveform on cool edit.
Here is a video someone took of the last two minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rAB2SpnCws
And another one, this guy is driving around Boston with it on the car radio: (Kind of loud at first, so turn it down...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxegyvCtoo
And another one, this guy is driving around Boston with it on the car radio: (Kind of loud at first, so turn it down...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxegyvCtoo
jlehmann said:
No thanks! I have the last hour and a half of WBCN from last night. I recorded it on my 90 minute cassette right up until the last moments of WBCN until the first 5 minutes of static played at the end. This was when I was still in bed with my iPod Touch running when I was trying to record the relaunch of "Mix 104.1" at 2 AM on another tape, the stream on my AOL Radio app was dead due to some issues. Sadly, I don't have an aircheck of the relaunch of WBMX's "Mix 104.1". Sorry! I only recorded the first day of "Mix 104.1" today when I got home from work. I will get it post it later this week including the final 90 minutes of WBCN in 2 parts, each are 45 minutes long. Stay tuned.
Blackroc said:
Thanks for mentioning about WBCN's death. Remember when WNEW-FM in New York City played the last song by the Beatles called "The End" from "Abbey Road" until it flipped from rock to hot talk, that was from 1999. And now, 10 years later, WBCN did it again.
disney fanatic said:
Actually, to be fair, if I remember correctly, the WNEW-FM DJ at that time, Ralph Tortora, actually said a few words and then played what appeared to be a one-minute musical montage, including the Kinks as well as the Beatles, and then at 3 PM, it was handed over to Opie & Anthony and "FM Talk @ 102.7". There's got to be a clip of it somewhere, but from what I remember, the way WNEW went out was pretty weak.
Signpost said:
WXRT began playing rock in 1972, four years after WBCN. Program Director Norm Winer, who has been with them over 25 years, came from WBCN with a stop along the way at KSAN San Francisco. I remember hearing him as a college student DJ on then 40-watt WBRS Brandeis University in 1967.
KFOG didn't go rock (AAA) until 1982. It was preceded in the Bay Area by KSAN, and the pioneer KMPX. There were also a number of other rock formats on the air in the Bay by 1982, but KFOG has outlasted them all since then.
CFNY slowly morphed from pop and simulcasts of a sister AM to eclectic rock during the mid '70s. It's still rock, modern alternative.
KBCO debuted with rock in 1977, still a successful AAA.
Our own WAAF beats out all of those, it went progressive rock around 1970. I can't offhand think of any others anywhere still currently playing rock that go back farther than that.
jlehmann said:
That looks right to me! I forgot about them. I remember one night back in the early '70s when some "troppo" brought them (and other Philly FM's) up to Boston!
KQRS Minneapolis goes back to 1968 with progressive rock. Today, they are playing much of the same music they did back then as a "classic rock" station. They stopped playing new rock in 1994, when the parent company bought crosstown rival KRXX 93.7 and flipped them from Active Rock\AOR to Modern Rock "The Edge".
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