All the rest of us have got 4s and 5s. And he looks up at me. I remember we were doing this promotion for the Cars. On March 15th the station celebrated 25 years on the air. And you kept me! Anyway, he ended up firing Duane, but in less than three weeks he ended up bringing him back. Parenteau is survived by a brother, Barry. Parenteau played that at 4. Is it a talk station? This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 14:42. It was just a matter of time before it became centrally controlled and they could put all of these cost-cutting measures into effect. Its most famous alumnus was Peter Wolf, a rhythm-and-blues and blues fanatic who not only knew the music but performed it as lead singer and songwriter for the J. Geils Band. All the records are still in there, a lot of the old reel-to-reel machines, a lot of the old tapes and commercials and their reel-to-reel boxes. But despite ever-tightening reins on programming, WBCNs irreverent creativity and openness to new music, young bands and emerging trends would captivate Boston for years. [2] In 1981 he was named Program Director, a position he held until he left in 2004. Last fall, former music director Carter Alan published a history of the station, Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN (Northeastern University Press), and a documentary film is in the works. Nunc in elit dapibus mauris ultricies facilisis et vitae nisi. Jackson 1968-71 Radio Consultant,LABradley Jay 1984-Present Air TalentMadge Kaplan 1986-1988 News,WGBH-FM BostonLisa Carlin 1980-82 TV commentator in NYCCharlie Kendall 1978-79 Radio Station Owner in MississippiSam Kooper 1968-73 National Media Relations 1987-90 Spokeperson in Boston, Bob Kranes 1982-86 A&R,Polygram in NYCCharles Laquidara 1969-76 1977-Present Air Talent,6-10amKathryn Lauren 1985-87 Air Talent,WHFS,Annapolis,MDMaurice Lewis 1989-91 Boston Food BankLarry "Cha-Chi" Loprete 1982-Present Air Talent,Host of WBCN's "Get Back to The Beatles" heard on Sundays. This audio stream includes the archives shared for The American Revolution documentary film, coming . Johnson remained with the station until 1967, just prior to the changeover from classical to easy-listening, and then to rock. BCN was creative and successful for a long time. The documentary "WBCN and The American Revolution" chronicles how Boston emerged as the "central crossroad of the counterculture and political activism" in the late-1960s and early-1970s. 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? See details Former WBCN disc jockey Mark Parenteau, who was a force on the Boston airwaves for more than 20 years but saw his career and life go off the rails after he was arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old boy, died early this morning after a long illness. Partying in the 1980s was different than partying in the 2000s. WBCN started as a classical music station in 1958, but a decade later reformatted as an "underground" or free-form, progressive rock station. 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. This is awful! Oedipus was orange. While earning this degree, Martinie was first introduced to astrology when he attended a meeting of the school's astrology club. Jukebox stations are not radio; they are jukeboxes. After five years at MTV, Jackson returned to Los Angeles radio, JJ's first gig after MTV was 106 KWST then at KROQ-FM in 1987, then as program director of modern rock/alternative station KEDG ("The Edge") until May 1989. I didnt get paid to do it, but it was that kind of important experience for me. [2] [3] Suddenly, you can own multiple stations in one market. Tommy Charles. There was the Rock n Roll Rumble. [3][4] Under his tutelage, the station was recognized as an industry leader in breaking new music and received countless awards for its successes. NAME Years of Service Current Status Bill Abbate 1988-Present. The Rock of Boston. Lets drop a pumpkin, lets drop some cash, lets drop some acid.I always thought it would have been good to put a recording device on the station intercom. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) CARTER ALANAt WBCN:DJ and music director, 197998. The Crypto Zoo August 14th In December 2008, the station ceased airing Opie & Anthony in morning drive and moved Toucher and Rich from afternoons. Emerging acts like Led Zeppelin and the Who segued into jazz, classical, and trippy sound montages. His radio . There isnt a museum yet, but Boston archivist David Bieberwho, as a grad student, profiled the nascent WBCN for this magazine in 1970, and later worked at the stationhas leased key artifacts to the Verb Hotel, a boutique hotel opening this month next door to WBCNs former studios. We were the big mouth for it. Charles deserves every bit of respect he gets in the radio community. , Sirius/XM channel 106. The Police, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and the Clash. By the 80s, after winning a union strike, the station went on to achieve its greatest success, which placed The Rock of Boston on top of the Boston ratings heap through the entire decade. Segal's West Coast radical radio consciousness infused the early 'BCN. -. Includes announcement that the format will shift from 97.3 to 106.9 FM. Arbitron got a lot of bags of shit. Parenteau was working at the former XM satellite radio in Washington, D.C. when prosecutors alleged that he enticed teenage boys to come to his D.C. apartment to drink, smoke marijuana and have sex. In 2007, the station was nominated for the Top 25 Markets Alternative Station of the Year Award by Radio & Records magazine. Navigate our website or try searching instead. At this point, please allow compassion to trump judgement in your hearts. We needed someone who could do Bugs Bunny. 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. He remained a practicing Catholic throughout his life. It was probably not OSHA-sanctioned. WBCN's 104.1 analog and HD-1 moved to 98.5 (WBZ-FM) HD-2. I do not own the copyright on this material but present this historic audio exhibit as an auditory museum piece. Worcester personality and deejay LB Worm paid tribute on his . Oh, the stories you heard. But we were also out in public. Are you kidding me? [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. WBCN was more than simply an entertainment vehicle. I can remember sitting in the back of my parents Plymouth Valiant. Radio is in her blood: she is the daughter of the late Doris and Joe Quill, owner and general manager of WRLM in Taunton, Massachusetts. 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. DJs like . That was part of its charm. During his time on Loveline, Carolla gradually drew an increasing fan base to the program. This is noise! As program director, I made sure we always had at least one local band in rotation. Massachusetts could get another snowstorm Friday: What areas were the jackpot zones in this past storm? It was a blast for me. by Mark Shneyder 432-42 Wed, 05 May 1993 14:18:42. On July 14, 2009, CBS Radio announced that WBCN would sign off the 104.1MHz frequency the following month.[9][10][11]. 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? Legendary Boston stripper Princess Cheyenne hosted a Sunday night sex advice show that eventually led to one of her appearances in Playboy Magazine in April 1986. 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. 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). 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. Luckily Im still alive. But even after its run, BCN wont go away. There was coke residue on the records, and marijuana stems in the back. WBCN air staff in the station's record library. The call letters stood for the " Boston Concert Network ". In that final week, CBS said to the staff, Do anything you want. From 1995-2004 he served as Executive Producer of the live Radio broadcast for the New England Patriots. That song was in heavy rotation on WBCN during the months leading up to CBS Radio's announcement of the station's demise, and continued until the four-day farewell began. 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. Originally broadcasting on analog 104.1 MHz (now WWBX) from 1958 to 2009, and later broadcasting as a digital-only radio station, airing on WBZ-FM HD 2 from 2009 to 2017. (Peter Simon) The station launched the careers of artists like Aerosmith and arguably played a role in ending the war in Vietnam. Originally broadcasting on analog 104.1 MHz (now WWBX) from 1968 to 2009, and later broadcasting as a digital-only radio station, airing on WBZ-FM HD2 from 2009 to 2017. We got musicians to ask the station to stop playing the music, and the advertisers just walked away. It led us to all of the other decisions. Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. When these new people came in from New York, they just didnt get it. Declining ratings and belt-tightening at the former Rock of Boston led to Parenteau being let go in 1997. It was never a one-way experience. Whenever I thought of Mark, I thought of Bob Seger, Alan said. If you want good ratings, then you gotta have bad radio. The duo formerly worked together at Atlanta alternative station WNNX. While the existence of the promotional album is apocryphal, the truth behind the broadcast, though less dramatic, is equally as fascinating. There was a time when you could hear BCN without a radio. WBCN DJ Maxanne Sartori and Charles "Master. In early 2006, with the Howard Stern morning drive time show gone due to Stern moving to Sirius Satellite Radio, WBCN experienced a plummet in Arbitron ratings that the station had not observed since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it fell behind then rock format competitor WCOZ. A formerly bulletproof radio property became riddled and CBS stemmed the bleeding by shuttering WBCN on August 12, 2009. In order to keep the intellectual property of WBCN intact, without another station in Boston making claim to it, CBS Radio parked the WBCN call letters on WFNA, a station located at 1660 AM in Charlotte, North Carolina. [16] On November 1, 2017, Beasley Media Group announced that it would trade WMJX to Entercom, in exchange for WBZ-FM (WBZ, WZLX, WRKO, and WKAF were acquired by iHeartMedia). ** = Audacy operates pursuant to a local marketing agreement with Martz Communications Group. At the time, it was hard to find what was going on. 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. Before switching to 98.5 HD-2 on August 12, 2009, WBCN featured its rock format for 41 years as an analog radio station on 104.1 MHz (now WBMX ). It was like I was one of them. Jackson Jr. (April 8, 1941 March 17, 2004) was an American radio and television personality. tation history Before the middle 1960s, the station played classical music exclusively. She also hosted pre-recorded broadcasts for the Armed Forces Radio Network in the 1970s and 1980s. In his appearances on MTV, Jackson often went by and introduced himself as "Triple J". But now radio is more of a specialized thing. 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. WWBX (104.1 FM, Mix 104.1) is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts. When several large advertisers pulled spots, and the union filed a challenge to Hemisphere's license (pointing out that by forcing the staff out on strike, Hemisphere had created a situation where it could not provide the public service it was required to), Hemisphere relented, the fired staffers were rehired and the DJs went back on the air. Active rock accounts for all regular programming on the HD2 digital subchannel. But that changed the Della Chiesa is still active in classical music broadcasting on WCRB. 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." You go to a station for a specific reason and its just the way things have gone. When we moved out, they were taking all the old records out of the cabinets in the studios. The FCC approved the transfer in the spring of 2009. But youve got to admit hes creative and managed to make it successful. Because the station got involved in giving these bands a higher profile, people could see them in clubs. If you've ever wondered what your favorite radio personalities look like, scroll down or check out the slideshow. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. BCN was already its own entity, its own country, its own reality. in Boston Albert O 1983-Present Air Talent,midnight-6am Oedipus 1976-Present Program Director Mark Parentau 1978-Present Air Talent,3-7pm Jim Parry 1968-79 Anthroplogy student at Harvard U. 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. His words "over and out" were the last to be heard on WBCN on August 12, 2009 when the station went off the air. After he left WBCN, Parenteau hosted shows on XM Radio and Q104, until the arrest in 2004, reports the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. So that effectively destroyed radio. [3] WBCN was a modern rock/active rock station that mixed music that has been popular in the modern rock, alternative rock and classic rock genres. The station was named "Hot AC Station of The Year" 9 times from 1997 through 2009. (It was also rumored that Hemisphere's FCC lawyers had vetoed the course of action advised by Hemisphere's labor lawyers). Director of Public Affairs at New England Med.Center BostonBilly West 1983-90 Voices of Ren&Stimpy Nickolodeon Production,WXRK(K-Rock) in NYCSherman Whitman 1985-87 1989-Present Public Affairs DirectorNorm Winer 1969-70 1971-77 PD at WXRT,ChicagoAndrew Wolf 1988-90 Air Talent,WZBC-FM,BostonPeter Wolf 1968 Recording Artist,BostonDavid Wolman 1980-84 Promotions Dir,KOME-FM San Jose, Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, You do not have permission to delete messages in this group. After leaving BCN he did fill-in work on WRKO and WTKK in Boston and a stint at Q104 in New York. They still gave us good ratings the next time. Duane Glasscock went on the air one Saturday and complained about the ratingsthats how radio stations got their money, if they got high ratings from Arbitron, which was based in Maryland. "J. 1. Youve seen the movie Almost Famous. Hes got a 13, the highest rating ever in the history of ratings. 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. They were just a bunch of crazy hippies. For the first time, the owners of the station began to make a profit. It didnt have that cool radio vibe. It gave people points of parity with one another. While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. As a VJ, Jackson hosted the long-awaited and much anticipated "unmasking" of KISS. When the strike was over, Charles needed someone to be his brain. 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