The jocks now are continually selling you something. This set off a local controversy in Boston that resulted in the entire airstaff walking off the air striking in protest. We needed someone who could do Bugs Bunny. Nunc in elit dapibus mauris ultricies facilisis et vitae nisi. penny modesto. No one could say he wasnt one of the best DJs in the country, said Parenteaus former BCN colleague Charles Laquidara. 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. Now bands dont have a second jobthey can actually survive on playing in the band. The J Show, Weekdays 5:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. 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? Everyone listened to WBCN, until it started to fall apart. At 12:05a.m. on August 12, 2009, the station went into a static-like sound, and after a few moments, a voice read the new station identification: "WBMX, WBMX-HD1, Boston" over the "static". Parenteau, who claimed he did not know the boy he was charged with molesting was under age, agreed to plead guilty to one count of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to three years in prison. This is what happened: WBCN started on Newbury Street, 171 Newbury Street. 3. [1], Martinie was in a relationship with Edward Boesel from January 7, 1973 until Martinie's death. In the period around 1975, John Garabedian, now recognized for the nationally syndicated "Open House Party" (which was once heard locally on WXKS-FM), was an afternoon DJ on WBCN. What was great about that period, in the 80s, was they let me program the radio station. Oh, the stories you heard. I do not own the copyright on this material but present this historic audio exhibit as an auditory museum piece. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. Partying in the 1980s was different than partying in the 2000s. 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. 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. [1] [2] He then spent four years doing The Charles Laquidara Radio Hour on WZLX. It happened! Van Morrison would come by a lot. I was the rare DJ from somewhere else. (#921058) WIVY Jacksonville, "Y103" AC Early 1991 35 min. The aim was music discovery, which often meant strange and surprising band pairings. 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. 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. 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. On this, the five-year anniversary of BCNs demise, we tracked down key players from those halcyon daysdisc jockeys, news reporters, producers, and programmersto get a behind-the-scenes look at our fair city, back when Boston sat at the epicenter of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. "Free Form BCN" began airing live freeform shows in September 2009 on WZLX-HD3 and at wbcn.com. During the walkout, WBCN stayed on the air with substitute DJs imported from several out-of-town Hemisphere sister stations. Without that cornerstone, you would not have the direction that music took. This an aircheck of WBCN Boston, one of the best radio stations ever to exist at the time. WBCN wasnt just the jocks and engineers and sales and support staff. After arriving in the city he began performing horoscope readings to employees of the state welfare department in exchange for them keeping him on the welfare rolls. In time, WBCNs free-spirited beginnings would retrench as the station moved to the top of the Prudential Tower with its higher overhead (pun intended), and new owners with higher financial expectations arrived along with radio competition. You could call the "BCN listener line anytime with a question, and they would help you out. Steve Lushbaugh 1978-79 Production Director at WMMR,Phila. BCN was part of the fabric of Boston. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. 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 ). WBCN DJ Maxanne Sartori and Charles "Master. He then moved to the legendary WBCN-FM/Boston where he won three Boston Achievement in Radio Awards and was the Executive Producer of New England Patriots Radio Network. "WBCN's Free Form 104", moved from 104.1 HD-2 to 100.7 (WZLX) HD-3 and was renamed "Free Form BCN". Boston radio station WBCN revolutionized rock radio in the late 1960s and 1970s. [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. Navigate our website or try searching instead. 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. Once Oedipus left, the station was kind of in a free fall. So he said, Why dont you just come in and play your music? So on the first night, I was the second DJ. 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]. He was 10 to 12 years older than I. I was like his kid brother. This article on a dance music disc jockey is a stub. They started questioning decisions we made, because all they cared about was ratings and dollars. Thats how we found Billy West, from The Ren & Stimpy Show and Futurama. I think it was $10,000. In 2007, the station was nominated for the Top 25 Markets Alternative Station of the Year Award by Radio & Records magazine. 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. In 1976, he was featured in a voice-only performance as a DJ of the fictional KGYS radio in the movie Car Wash. Music DirectorTom "T" Semper 1981-83 Air Talent,WSHE in MiamiPaul "Tank" Sferruzza 1981-85 1986-Present Sports DirectorLisa Traxler 1983-89 Air Talent,WZLX-FM in BostonDebbie Ulman 1971 Air Talent,Olreans,MADina Vaprin 1971-73 1979-82 Asst. So that effectively destroyed radio. There were so many of them, and there was always at least one in rotation, if not more. He's been working morning radio all over the country with his partner Pete McKenzie for over 30 years now. Rating: 4.8 Reviews: 6. In early 1994, WBCN made its first major format adjustment since 1968. It was harder to do, but also a tremendous amount of fun to be the rose among the thorns. Even though it was cassettes, the quality is surprisingly very good. Whenever I thought of Mark, I thought of Bob Seger, Alan said. There were other conspiring factors, too: The alt-rock format was souring. Following the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which relaxed ownership rules for media, the station became just one small part of a vast empire at CBS/Viacom. How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. People are losing interest in radio, Im talking twentysomethings, because theres nothing compelling there. In 2018, the Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, issued a proclamation declaring December 24, 2018, as Christmas Eve with Oedipus Day in the City of Boston in recognition of his annual Christmas Eve broadcast for over 30 years spreading peace, love and understanding throughout Boston and the world. 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[2] In 1981 he was named Program Director, a position he held until he left in 2004. The protest got local media coverage and the attention of several well-known Boston-based music acts, including The Cars, Aerosmith, and Boston, who got behind the protest. Throughout its years the station featured larger-than-life radio personalities such as Charles Laquidara, Mark Parenteau, Ken Shelton, and Oedipus. Worcester personality and deejay LB Worm paid tribute on his . Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Also,acting Promotions Director at WBCN. Real human personalities owned the music as much as the bands that wrote it; they frequented clubs, knew personally the pulse of local talent, and knew the goings-on of a community or city. When he started doing it, nobody was doing that. Air Talent,WMYF Exeter,NH Leslie Patten 1977-80 Screenplay writer,N, by mikekelly.. Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:58:04, 3. This article is about the media personality. You were BCN. Emerging acts like Led Zeppelin and the Who segued into jazz, classical, and trippy sound montages. 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. Since WBCN's change to digital-only, the station was known as "Free Form BCN" and then "WBCN Free Form Rock" by late September 2009. WBCN Free Form Rock And he screwed up all the time! Just dont lose us the license. Suddenly for a week, it was amazing radio. [3][4] Under his tutelage, the station was recognized as an industry leader in breaking new music and received countless awards for its successes. We all wish we could have been around in the 70s and 80s. Music is a passion. We were thinking how great it would be to have a radio station. An abundance of materialisms concerning the dialectic paradigm, Predominant concepts and meaningful equations. Theres a direct lineage to Jon Stewart. June 18, 1996. WBCN's celebrated local music specialty show, Boston Emissionsalong with The Rumblemoved to former sister station WZLX, now owned by iHeartMedia, in 2009. Bob Machsond 1977-79 Lawyer in NYC. Bradley Jay (later, he became host of the weekday overnight talk show, "Jay Talking", on AM sister station WBZ[12]) was the last DJ. In December 2008, the station ceased airing Opie & Anthony in morning drive and moved Toucher and Rich from afternoons. The Hopeless Romantics Guide to Dating in Boston. Elektra Records said, Hey, why dont we give away a car? Okay: Thats easy, thats ordinary. He worked at WLLH in Lowell and WKNR and WABX in Detroit before returning home to Massachusetts, first landing at WCOZ before finally getting his dream job at WBCN. It was programmed by. I had horrible taste in music. When that happened, loyal staffers set up a faction of people to try to get hold of advertisers, to get hold of musicians, to ask them to pull their support. I remember we were doing this promotion for the Cars. I dont want to say it was nonstop partying. A native of Detroit, Toettcher graduated from Rollins College in 1997. Reel Talk Radio - February 25, 2023 - 9am hour. So he persuaded station owner T. Mitchell Hastings to give DJs free rein to play album cuts on an overnight graveyard shift to determine if there was an audience and ad dollars to float the new format. You heard the stories of the camaraderie that they had back then. I was a kid then. Because the station got involved in giving these bands a higher profile, people could see them in clubs. Jimmy Mack 1977-81 deceased Kevin Malvey 1992 Air Talent,WBOS-FM Boston Phil Marlowe 1989 Air Talent,WCCC-FM Hartford Daryl "Cosmic Muffin" Martini 1977-82 1985-present Astrological Reporter Danny McCloskey 1977-82,1987 Student in S.F. She also hosted pre-recorded broadcasts for the Armed Forces Radio Network in the 1970s and 1980s. On February 2, 2017, CBS announced that they would be selling their radio division to Entercom, whose existing properties in the Boston area included WBCN's long-time rival, WAAF. Let's Listen to a Clip From Adam 12's First Radio Show, 25 Years Ago. For the singer, see, Jim Ladd's "Radio Waves: Life & Revolution on the FM Dial", "J.J. Jackson, One Of MTV's First VJs, Dies At Age 62", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._J._Jackson_(media_personality)&oldid=1130870763, This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 11:24. This is awful! The station served as a kind of conduit between the station and its listeners. 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. It felt more like a bank. There was the time he got dosed on mescaline from eating laced matzo ball soup and went on-air. We were as important as the Boston Globe and the Boston Red Sox. That was part of its charm. It returned to sports programming in 2013 as a full-time satellite of CBS Sports Radio. So was its sound: Now-famous megagroups, from Aerosmith and the Clash to the Ramones and U2, all found early support on 104.1. The final words were from the late Darrell Martinie, the Cosmic Muffin, saying his tag line, "Over and Out." This allowed them to retain their "Big Mattress" morning show along with its large and loyal audience. When I came back in 78, I didnt want to come back, because I still wanted to continue being able to do cocaine. [1], In 1969 his first marriage ended in divorce. Declining ratings and belt-tightening at the former Rock of Boston led to Parenteau being let go in 1997. The women at WBCN, we had to carve out a place for ourselves. It didnt have that cool radio vibe. Are you kidding me? I was the last full-time DJ that Oedipus hired. It was a friendly rivalry, but it was definitely a rivalry. Over the years he interviewed major rock and comedy legends including John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Little Richard and comedian/Blues Brother John Belushi and Jerry Seinfeld. OEDIPUSAt WBCN:DJ and program director,19772004. Their reputation was extraordinary across the county. In 2016 Oedipus was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame (Massachusetts Broadcasters Association). Their playlist in general was more varied than many of their competitors, there was some focus on local music (also see the WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble), and the station was known nationwide for breaking acts (The Cars, 'Til Tuesday, U2) and setting trends. A Worcester native, Parenteau began his career at 15 on WORC-AM in his hometown. 2 While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 14:42. nhbob If you want good ratings, then you gotta have bad radio. That means I've been on the radio for 25 years. A really good rating in Boston at the time was a 3- or a 4-point average. Nam interdum orci ut nulla scelerisque euismod. Parenteau is survived by a brother, Barry. But Duane Glasscock is a fucking idiot. 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." One of the on-air personalities at that time was Ron Della Chiesa, who also served as the music host and program director. Wed go out and hang out with the bands. "J. Yes, in the years that followed, we had competition. ", In 1993 Martinie was named "Official Astrologer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" by Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld. As a young person, that mix of political comedy and rock n roll was very powerful to me. With Andy Beaubien, David Bowie, Ron Della Chiesa, Noam Chomsky. It was like I was one of them. 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. Literally. For a long time, WBCN successfully balanced new and old music (featuring the slogan "Classic to Cutting Edge"). They played taped interviews with Springsteen, the Clash, an interview with Tim Leary. He was a music reporter for KABC-TV when he was tapped as one of MTV's original "fab five." Adam Carolla is an American radio personality and television host, comedian and actor. In between, WBCN became the musical, cultural, and political voice of the young people of Boston and New England, sustaining a vibrant local music scene that launched such artists as the J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, James Taylor, Boston, the Cars, and the Dropkick Murphys, as well as paving the way for Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, U2, and many During his time on Loveline, Carolla gradually drew an increasing fan base to the program. WIVY Jacksonville "Y103 Top 40 1979 13 min. Rich Curtis. Airchecks and Radio Broadcasts, WBCN, The Rock of Boston, Lisa Carlin, Mark Parenteau, FM 104, Mat Schaffer Language English This an aircheck of WBCN Boston, one of the best radio stations ever to exist at the time. Mark Parenteau, former WBCN DJ, dies at 66, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Malin Akerman is on a mommy mission in The Donor Party, Great masks to give your hair, face & skin a glow-up, Michael B. Jordan delivers knockout with Creed III, Dear Abby: SIL miffed when shes left out of wedding, 'Substantial snowfall' likely for parts of Massachusetts, as meteorologists track wintry mix. The 104.1MHz facility went on the air in 1958 as WBCN. Multiple Billboard, FMQB, and Gavin Report award recipient for best Program Director of the Year, Oedipus hosted the acclaimed Nocturnal Emissions program for over 25 years, playing new tracks every Sunday night. On August 13, Mix 98.5, one of those "80s, 90s and today" top 40 stations will move to the 104.1 frequency. They were the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in Saugus.[3]. Oedipus also hosts an annual Christmas Eve show featuring rarely heard Christmas songs. [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. Now its just the luck of the draw. Here is a list of over 90 former and current full-time WBCN personalities. I remember the owners telling me, Youre gonna make mistakes, and youre gonna learn from your mistakes. Acts including Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison and The Kinks all played The Boston Tea Party. Exec at RAB in NYC Tom Couch 1976-82 Production Manager at WXRT,Chicago Peter Choyce 1978-88 Air Talent,Las Vegas Carolyn Fox 1991-93 Air Talent,Providence RI Jerry "The Duke of Madness" Goodwin 1977-81 Air Talent,WCGY,Lawrence MA Eddie Gordetsky 1978-82 Comedy Writer in NYC and LA Kenny Greenblatt 1968-1979 deceased Tommy Hadges 1968-78 President of Pollack Media Group in LA Tami Heidi 1977-79 1984-91 Air Talent,KROQ in LA John "Hoch" Hoccheimer 1972 Professor at Ithaca College in Itaca,NY Kate Ingram 1979-81 Harmonic Converge,San Francisco Eric Jackson 1973-75 Air Talent,WGBH-FM Boston J.J. Jackson 1968-71 Radio Consultant,LA Bradley Jay 1984-Present Air Talent Madge Kaplan 1986-1988 News,WGBH-FM Boston Lisa Carlin 1980-82 TV commentator in NYC Charlie Kendall 1978-79 Radio Station Owner in Mississippi Sam Kooper 1968-73 National Media Relations 1987-90 Spokeperson in Boston, Bob Kranes 1982-86 A&R,Polygram in NYC Charles Laquidara 1969-76 1977-Present Air Talent,6-10am Kathryn Lauren 1985-87 Air Talent,WHFS,Annapolis,MD Maurice Lewis 1989-91 Boston Food Bank Larry "Cha-Chi" Loprete 1982-Present Air Talent,Host of WBCN's "Get Back to The Beatles" heard on Sundays. It was probably not OSHA-sanctioned. WBCN 104.1 FM went off the air on Aug. 11 after broadcasting in Boston for more than 40 years. They are the Hall of Famers, those broadcasters who are the top of their profession and who carry the spirit of the great older generation of radio professionals who put Boston on the map as a great radio town -- Jess Cain, Dave Maynard, Larry Justice, Norm Nathan and of course, the great late David Brudnoy, to name a few. One of the things that it pioneered is a style of production, those highly edited montages: Nixon with music and comedy. But that changed the WBCN and the American Revolution - Bill Lichtenstein 2021-11-30 How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. At BCNs peak, its top DJ raked in more than a million bucks a year. 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. [4] Martinie would end each broadcast with the phrase "It is a wise person who rules the stars, a fool who is ruled by them - Over and out. I can trace my success to BCN. Im thinking about retiring, and just managing this group and trying to get them going on tour. He puts this cassette in. They would play the same songs over and over. The Rock of Boston. Search the history of over 797 billion Quick story about that first show: I prepped the hell out of it. Greater New York City Area. Howard Stern went to BU listening to Charles. But the call-letters of WBCN, through its 40+ years of rich history, will remain a legendary part of Americas radio story forever. 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. Ive become the de facto spokesperson for the final era. BILL LICHTENSTEINAt WBCN:Newscaster and announcer,197078. [4], On April 10, 2003, Martinie was diagnosed with cancer. . WWBX-HD3 airs "Tomorrow's Hits Today," a CHR format that focuses on the very latest hits prior to their ascension to the top of the charts. 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. 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. 1. While still digital and largely automated, the online stream was live Monday through Friday during the day. 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. He pioneered live remote broadcasting techniques and became The Honorary Dean of Boston Comedy, spotlighting dozens of up-and-coming comedians on his show. 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. Charles Laquidara is fearless. 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.. [2][3], In 1965, Martinie graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in political science. That played the clubs. Everybody listened to WBCN. fostered since 1968. PETER WOLFAt WBCN:DJ, 196869 Since then:Lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band; solo artist; rock n roll legend. Oedipus was orange. [20][21] Entercom applied to move the WBMX callsign to their sister-owned station in Chicago;[26] 104.1 picked up the new callsign WWBX on December 4, 2017.[2]. Is it possible that WBCN, the greatest rock n roll radio station in American history, died five years ago this month? Is it a talk station? We're Back!!!! If anyone had anything to say, it went on the intercom. But his 2004 arrest for having sex with a minor marked the end of his days on the air. 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. When we moved out, they were taking all the old records out of the cabinets in the studios. If you were taking some bad acid and needed somebody to talk you down, call us. 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. The additional aircheck is right. 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. All the rest of us have got 4s and 5s. And he looks up at me. That does not exist anymore. In 2010, morning team Karson & Kennedy were named "Hot AC Morning Show of The Year" of 2009 by FMQB magazine. The site features new music nearly every day, as well as information and insight on the music industry. 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