On the fifth anniversary of BCNs death, key players from its halcyon days reminisce about a time when Boston was all about sex, drugs, and rock n roll. Ive heard that story six times, and its told differently each time. Marc Miller 1978-83 MUSE,Brooklyn NY Patrick Murray 1991-Present News Director,Air Talent Harold "Mississippi Fats" Wilson 1968-77 Restaurant equip. They were just business guys who only looked at numbers. There was a very strong sense of history being made at the time. Martinie was born on April 10, 1943 in Massachusetts and grew up in Illinois. It returned to sports programming in 2013 as a full-time satellite of CBS Sports Radio. In that way, WBCN was the Facebook of its era. [5] In May 2001 Boston Magazine named Oedipus the third most influential person in the arts in Boston. WBZ NewsRadio 1030 - News Audio The Jimmy Tingle Show Sports Decision Made On Leonard Fournette's Future With Buccaneers: Report Feb 28, 2023 Blackhawks Trade Patrick Kane: Report Feb 28, 2023 Update On Justin Jefferson's Future With Vikings Feb 28, 2023 Bears' GM Ryan Poles Addresses 'Plan' For Fields' Future, No. WBCN holds a special place in history." Jon Abbott, President and CEO, WGBH "A team of young heroes, women and men, black and white, straight and gay, passionate, fearless and revolutionary, broadcast the music and ideas that shaped how every college kid thought, felt, and acted for the rest of our lives." On September 14, 2009, WBCN split from WFNZ and became "America's Talk", a conservative-leaning talk station. Acts including Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison and The Kinks all played The Boston Tea Party. NAME Years of Service Current Status Bill Abbate 1988-Present. buss. In December 2008, the station ceased airing Opie & Anthony in morning drive and moved Toucher and Rich from afternoons. 1. On the night of March 15, 1968, Mississippi Harold Wilson (Joe Rogers) touched the needle to Creams I Feel Free, declaring FM independence and the beginning of Bostons underground radio experiment, dubbed The American Revolution. Boston Tea Party owner Ray Riepen saw that the stereo LPs being played in apartments and dorms werent getting radio airtime. Adam Carolla is an American radio personality and television host, comedian and actor. The station slowly began to change to an "underground" progressive rock format on the night of March 15, 1968. Known as "The Rock of Boston", WBCN became a legend in the rock music industry for breaking many bands, most notably U2. In his appearances on MTV, Jackson often went by and introduced himself as "Triple J". Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower. BONUS: After posting this aircheck I found an additional 90 minute cassette from earlier this same day (2:35pm-4:05pm) featuring Mark. J." For the first time, the owners of the station began to make a profit. When I came back in 78, I didnt want to come back, because I still wanted to continue being able to do cocaine. The WBCN Strike Alliance was set up in a house just down the street from Boston College. [25] WBMX, WODS, and WAAF were retained by Entercom, while sister stations WBZ and WZLX, as well as WKAF and WRKO, were spun off to iHeartMedia (WBZ-FM would be traded to Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for WMJX, making WBMX and WMJX sister stations. Im not a real fan of what he did or what he does. Morning Show Host: "Volume" Talk channel, centered on music. That does not exist anymore. People forget that there was a time when the Police were brand-new and they played the Rat, in Kenmore Square. It happened! An abundance of materialisms concerning the dialectic paradigm, Predominant concepts and meaningful equations. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 14:42. Air Talent,WMYF Exeter,NHLeslie Patten 1977-80 Screenplay writer,Nova ScotiaAl Perry 1968-75 GM at WERZ and WMYS in Exter,NHCarla "Raz" Razwyck 1982-85 Air Talent,WEQX Manchester,VTTracy Roach 1976-80 Lawyer in MichiganTom Sandman 1982-90 Production Dir. He is on the Board of Advisors for Community Servings, an organization that feeds Boston-area families with acute life-threatening illnesses, and a former member of the Board of Overseers for the Huntington Theatre Company,[6] advisory member of The Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville and the Boston Music Awards. Just dont lose us the license. Suddenly for a week, it was amazing radio. When we moved out, they were taking all the old records out of the cabinets in the studios. Boston Globe. WBCN air staff in the station's record library. Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. When he started doing it, nobody was doing that. I made this tape, because in the early 80s I moved to the West Coast and I wanted to take a bit of Boston Radio with me. My first radio show: 5-8 p.m. on Northeastern University's 104.9 WRBB. In 1977, Oedipus convinced WBCN to hire him as an announcer to bring his cutting edge sounds to the airwaves. Alan, who does middays on WZLX, played Segers Famous Final Scene in honor of Parenteau this morning. Died shortly after 10am today. Jackson had a daughter and three grandchildren.[2]. [1] He also hosted Westwood One Radio Network's nationally syndicated radio show The Beatle Years from 1995 until his death. His father was a Catholic and a psychiatrist and his mother was Jewish and a psychologist. SFERRUZZA, Paul D. "Tank" Boston Radio Personality "TANK" Paul D. Sferruzza, "Tank" of Boston radio fame, died peacefully in his home in Dover, NH at the age of 67, on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 aft After leaving BCN he did fill-in work on WRKO and WTKK in Boston and a stint at Q104 in New York. HD digital radio technology, introduced commercially in . on April 10, 2020. Be the first one to, 1982-05-17 WBCN FM 104.1 Boston MA Mark Parenteau & Lisa Carlin unscoped, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Mark_Parenteau_Lisa_Carlin, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 1.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 2.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 3.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 4.mp3, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 1 Draft Pick Feb 28, 2023 But that changed the following year, when a The station was named "Hot AC Station of The Year" 9 times from 1997 through 2009. This was recorded over a 3 hour period late afternoon to early evening on 2 sides of 2 cassette tapes. They put us in the basement in a building with ZLX and Oldies, and then Mix 98.5 moved in there. It was like I was one of them. Once upon a time, in order to create content that could reach a massive audience, you needed expensive equipment, like a printing press, a television studio, or a radio tower. Throughout its years the station featured larger-than-life radio personalities such as Charles Laquidara, Mark Parenteau, Ken Shelton, and Oedipus. CBS Radio will launch 98.5 The Sports Hub in the other slot. But that changed the So he said, Why dont you just come in and play your music? So on the first night, I was the second DJ. The station was more commercial and "programmed" by this point, but still retained some of its progressive energy and edge. So was its sound: Now-famous megagroups, from Aerosmith and the Clash to the Ramones and U2, all found early support on 104.1. Bo resigned shortly thereafter when his name appeared on a UPI news wire as one of several people being indicted by then-Attorney General John Mitchella charge which was later dropped. Boston, 104.1 MHz FM. [3][4], In the late 1990s, Martinie began easing into retirement. Paul Sferruzza, known as Tank of Boston, died peacefully in his home in Dover, NH at the age of 67, last week after a period of declining health. The "WBCN Free Form Rock" biodiesel-burning bus will hit Boston's streets May 1, Mr. Kopper said. [13][14] However, the combined company would have to shed some of its Boston stations in order to satisfy Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice requirements. Air Talent,WMYF Exeter,NH Leslie Patten 1977-80 Screenplay writer,N, by mikekelly.. Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:58:04, 3. Now they can actually afford to put out a halfway decent independent record which gets noticed by the major label, and now they get signed by the major label and become stars. Jim Halfyard took over the graveyard shift. Theres a direct lineage to Jon Stewart. We needed someone who could do Bugs Bunny. Worcester personality and deejay LB Worm paid tribute on his . All of the Amenities. / photograph courtesy of the david bieber archives. [22][1] As a result, the station added the "-FM" suffix on July 29, 2009, allowing CBS to temporarily place the WBMX call letters on the former WFNA (1660 AM) in Charlotte, North Carolina; additionally, during "Mix"'s final week on 98.5, it used the WBZ-FM call letters intended for the new station. Especially here in Boston, people loved that. Callers to the WBCN Listener Line got advice on everything from new bands to how to survive a bad drug trip. On Saturday, October 5, 2013 RadioBDC (now Indie617) posted on their Facebook page that Oedipus would be hosting "The Oedipus Project" on Saturday mornings from 10AM local to noon featuring all new alternative/indie sounds. When I say local, I dont mean Aerosmith, I dont mean the Cars, I mean local. Carolla, on Loveline after earlier attempts at traditional stand-up comedy, eschewed traditional stand-up methods, such as scripted comedic bits. It felt more like a bank. Wolf called himself "Woofuh Goofuh" on the air; he left the station in 1969 to tour with the band. Elektra Records said, Hey, why dont we give away a car? Okay: Thats easy, thats ordinary. They are not radio, because there is not a human being there. WBCN's 104.1 analog and HD-1 moved to 98.5 (WBZ-FM) HD-2. He called up wanting to be a contestant. Told through the actual sights, sounds, and stories of a compelling cast of characters who connected through the radio station, exploding music and countercultural scenes, militant anti-war. That same year he moved to Boston, as he believed it was the most astrologically perfect place for him. Need Personality file for UHF visar (( please help )), High Profile Show & Ratings (was Re: Changes at WBCN-Boston), Chicago Radio Personalities - Where are they now, Please help : need gm300 personality file, Need Personality file for UHF visar (( please help )). They started questioning decisions we made, because all they cared about was ratings and dollars. The Sounds of The American Revolution features material from the early days of WBCN-FM, when the underground station, politics and rock and roll changed radio - and the world. He gained notoriety as the pink-haired DJ who created the first Punk rock radio show in America, introducing Punk and New Wave to Boston and to the country. Do you understand me? I said, Klee, you cant fire Duane. The freedom that they had. You could play anything. Thats why I say its a fable. WBCN aired the tape on September 22, 1969. At Kiss, for an entire decade in the 80s, I was up against Charles. Boston DJ Anngelle Wood[4] remains the host and music director of both the radio show and The Rumblethese are the last remaining ties to the original 104.1 WBCN programming.[5]. WBCN and the American Revolution Documentary Collection. The idea of just listening, not being distracted by images, is an art of its own. by Mark Shneyder 432-42 Wed, 05 May 1993 14:18:42. The final words were from the late Darrell Martinie, the Cosmic Muffin, saying his tag line, "Over and Out." After the move to Brighton, the space was different. WBCN began supporting non-mainstream investigative reporting and alternative news coverage, including reports from demonstrations and highly produced montage news reports. (#921058) WIVY Jacksonville, "Y103" AC Early 1991 35 min. The duo formerly worked together at Atlanta alternative station WNNX. Wed go out and hang out with the bands. From 1995-2004 he served as Executive Producer of the live Radio broadcast for the New England Patriots. WBCN was full service (news, music, information, and live 24/7). [1] He did the first radio interviews with the Ramones, Talking Heads and The Damned (band), and legendary on-air conversations with The Clash, Public Image Ltd, Suicide (band) and so many others. There were other conspiring factors, too: The alt-rock format was souring. We start off with Mark Parenteau and end with Lisa Carlin as radio personalities. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's college station WTBS (today WMBR ). [8] During the following months, industry insiders, local media, and even WBCN's on air staff speculated that, in a matter of time, WBCN could see a format change, especially after the Boston Herald ran an article in the March 30, 2009, issue about WBCN's future, and the station airing a Top 40 format for a few hours the following day (April Fool's Day). Charles Laquidara was the biggest star of them all. Classical music, jazz, or anything else might be played, as long as the skillful DJs could make it work. Wolf had a stint as a radio DJ in Boston when WBCN launched in the late 60s. [2] In 1981 he was named Program Director, a position he held until he left in 2004. CHARLES LAQUIDARAAt WBCN:DJ, 196896, host of The BigMattress. BCN's first rock announcer, "Mississippi Harold Wilson" (Joe Rogers), used the station's first slogan, "The American Revolution" and played the very first song "I Feel Free" by the rock group Cream. Without that cornerstone, you would not have the direction that music took. The company let me take chances. During the autumn months, WBCN became more focused on sports as the station broadcast the games of the NFL's New England Patriots beginning in 1995. 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We always tried for an element of humor and drama. And the Internets savage evisceration of the music industry finished off what was left. Jack O'Brien remained as the drive-time host until the following January. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. By the mid-1980s, WBCN had successfully fended off a number of challengers (the hard rocking but tightly formatted WCOZ, Top 40 Hitradio WHTT, classic rock WZLX, among others) to become/remain the region's top rock station. You went in there, you got your tires checked, they washed your windshield, put the gas in, and you didnt even have to get out of your car. The Cosmic Muffin (April 10, 1943 July 26, 2006) was a Boston-based professional astrologer and radio personality. . Worcester personality and deejay LB Worm paid tribute on his . Except for Wolfs up-tempo shtick rockin the wee hours, a laid-back, stoner style prevailed with a free-form attitude toward the music no restrictions and no playlist. Early jocks included J. J. Jackson, who later became one of the first MTV VJs, and Peter Wolf, the future leader of the J. Geils Band. Once you reach number one, once you reach that magical economic success, once you reach X number of millions of dollars in billing, where do you go? For a brief period during that transition, Charles Laquidara, who was acting program director hired Robert "Bo" Burlingham as news director. We had to dress, we had to make appearances, we had to interview. On July 14, 2009, CBS Radio announced that WBCN would sign off the 104.1MHz frequency the following month.[9][10][11]. Suddenly all of my decisions were vetted. On December 19, 2017, the HD3 channel was removed. By the 1990s, WBCN was at a crossroads. WBCN was an over-the-air radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. at WRRM,CincinnatiMaxanna Sartori 1970-77 Promotions and Marketing,NJMatt Schaffer 1981-89 News&features at WXKS-FM,BostonDanny "The News Dissector" Schechter 1970-1979 TV Producer in NYCSteve "Clean" Segal 1968-69,1976-77 Air Talent,MilwaukeeBob Shannon 1976-77 V.P.,TM Productions,DallasKen Shelton 1980-Present Air Talent,10-3pmEli Sherer 1978-1989 Traffic Reporter/Consultant inCambridge,MAMatt Siegal 1976-80 Air Talent at WXKS-FM,BostonBob Slavin 1975-77 Music Producer in Boston,MASusan Sprecher 1976-80 TV producer,NJSteve Strick 1978-82 1986-Present Air Talent and Asst. That told the story of what the station was really like. What was great about that period, in the 80s, was they let me program the radio station. If you go to the BCN storage lockers, everything is in there. Everybody, send a bag of shit to Arbitron. Duane gave out the exact address, every break, for four hours. So we said, How about the car we give away, its suspended from a crane tied into the Strawberries Records on Memorial Drive and hanging over the Charles River? A Connecticut native, Harrison began his career as an air personality at Rock WHCN-FM/Hartford. Duane Glasscock is fired. The hitch: the station is on HD. I remember one night, Paul Ahern, a record promoter, and I were sitting in his car, maybe smoking a fatty, and he said, Charles, I want you to hear something. I didnt talk fast, and I wasnt sharp at all. If you want good ratings, then you gotta have bad radio. BBC Tyne, Broadcasting Centre, Barrack Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 1RN phone: 0191 232 4141 | e-mail: tyne@bbc.co.uk The call letters stood for the " Boston Concert Network ". Suddenly, you can own multiple stations in one market. A really good rating in Boston at the time was a 3- or a 4-point average. So that effectively destroyed radio. 3 Cosmic Dancer (K.Day Radio, Los Angeles, 15th Feb 1972) 4 Main Man (K.Day Radio, Los Angeles, 15th Feb 1972) 5 Ballrooms of Mars (K.Day Radio, Los Angeles, 15th Feb 1972) 6 Mystic Lady. It can be found at Oedipus1, "Oedipus at BIF1 Business Innovation Factory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oedipus_(DJ)&oldid=1082277386, Milano, Brett (2007), The Sound of Our Town (a History of Boston Rock & Roll), Oedipus, College Radio, and WBCN: We Want the Airwaves, This page was last edited on 12 April 2022, at 08:21. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. fostered since 1968. The idea of the radio, and crafting it, and being a person on the other end, that will never die. By the fall of 2002, certain classic artists, such as Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and Ozzy Osbourne, were added back in the station's playlist rotation. Charles Laquidara is fearless. "WBCN Free Form Rock" was formatted to play multiple music genres (including rock, jazz, the blues, and country). Arbitron got a lot of bags of shit. He was a music reporter for KABC-TV when he was tapped as one of MTV's original "fab five." ; Best QB's vs. the spread; Debating Derrick Henry. Since then:DJ at WZLX; inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2009; retired and living in Maui, currently working on an autobiography titled Daze in the Life. It was a blast for me. "The incredible story of how a radio station, politics, and rock and roll changed everything." The station started to air the syndicated Opie & Anthony during the morning drive. I can trace my success to BCN. So if todays October 15, youd put 10 slash 15, and then depending on what hour you played it, if it was the first hour, you put a little diagonal X up in the upper-left corner. You were BCN. But even after its run, BCN wont go away. Its just constant marketing, and not enough soul. LISA TRAXLERAt WBCN:DJ, 198490. Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. Navigate our website or try searching instead. Mark Parenteau was up in the car, doing a live broadcast. He took me under his wing. They were totally my peers. We could talk about all aspects of life along with the music. On August 11, 2009following a weeklong farewell from many of the stations past contributorsWBCN died to the strains of Pink Floyds Shine On You Crazy Diamond.. This is awful! Hes singing about a prostitute! The Ramones, they play them at football games now. Are you kidding me? We thought, Wouldnt it be great to have a radio station where they played Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing, from 1938, maybe mix that with the Carmina Burana, and then mix that with Jimi Hendrix and the Stones, and then come back with a folk song? We were as important as the Boston Globe and the Boston Red Sox. As a VJ, Jackson hosted the long-awaited and much anticipated "unmasking" of KISS. Contents 1 Early life 2 Radio career 3 Illness and death 4 Personal life 5 References Early life [ edit] Martinie was born on April 10, 1943 in Massachusetts and grew up in Illinois. I said, Paul, the guy singing with the high falsetto voice sounds like hes Mark Farner, a Grand Funk Railroad wannabe. The song was More Than a Feeling from the band Boston. [1] [2] He then spent four years doing The Charles Laquidara Radio Hour on WZLX. We were thinking how great it would be to have a radio station. The Rock of Boston. But youve got to admit hes creative and managed to make it successful. There are no reviews yet. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast .more #46 of 164 The Best Talk Show Hosts Of Daytime, Late Night, and All Time #37 of 61 The Del Fuegos is a perfect example, or O Positive, or the Blackjacks. Radios fate was sealed in 1996 when they signed the Telecommunications Act. "More than a million people listen to Nancy every week," the station once boasted. It's an . You go to a station for a specific reason and its just the way things have gone. OEDIPUSAt WBCN:DJ and program director,19772004. Declining ratings and belt-tightening at the former Rock of Boston led to Parenteau being let go in 1997. Not just because it played radically different music, which it did, or that it had a socially or politically aware newsroom, which it did. The fellow who put it together, WBCN founder Ray Riepen, who was sleeping on my couch, asked me to buy into the station. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The Charlotte station was a semi-satellite of WFNZ 610 AM, known then as "The Franchise", an all sports talk station. Branded as "WAAF", WWBX-HD2 also simulcasts over the HD2 digital subchannel of WEEI-FM and is available online via Audacy; both subchannels previously simulcast the analog signal of WAAF (107.3 FM) until that station was divested to the Educational Media Foundation on February 22, 2020.[29]. However, there was always tension between the artistic expression of the DJs, and management's need to run a business, resulting in the unionization of the station with the United Electrical Workers in 1971. Tommy Charles. WBCN's afternoon DJ Rob Poole, known on air as "Hardy," announced on his final WBCN show that he will co-host a sports-themed show on WBZ-FM on Saturday mornings. WBCN's Toucher and Rich morning show began broadcasting on WBZ-FM on August 14, 2009. I still cant go to an event without at least one person mentioning WBCN. But now radio is more of a specialized thing. This guy cant sing! CARTER ALANAt WBCN:DJ and music director, 197998. The station lost some of its longtime listeners (who migrated to the now co-owned WZLX, where former WBCN DJs Laquidara and Carter Alan had gone), but quickly gained credibility among many younger people. ", In 1993 Martinie was named "Official Astrologer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" by Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld. Some bands werent as big, like the Psychedelic Furs, but they were important. Bradley Jay (later, he became host of the weekday overnight talk show, "Jay Talking", on AM sister station WBZ[12]) was the last DJ. I was put in charge of getting that up and running. Popular legend holds that WBCN was sent a promotional copy of The Beatles' unreleased Get Back album and played it on the air before the release of the album was cancelled. 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