Adios, WBCN

re: Adios, WBCN

Flash Gordon OHara — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:42:47 GMT

And in the end... if they had stuck with the beginning idea-- dispensed with the corporate middle and kept the last 4 days.. the plug would still be plugged in, the audience would have stayed, the station would have been relevant for another 20 years... and the main idea of being part of the fabric of the community would have been maintained.

R.I.P.

7:00 PM August 11.. the last day.

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RyanPlegics — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:10:09 GMT

This radio station made me itchy anyway.

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The Brow — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:45:58 GMT

Doubting Thomas...

Theres a link to the press release at the top of the page...

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monica — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:05:02 GMT

sad. i do love BCN. but as many have already said and done, i switched to satellite long ago.

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Joe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:47:57 GMT

WBCN was a bastion of rock and roll for a good, long time. It taught me more than any radio station ever has about what a radio station should be. It was all done in the mid-90's, though.

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Paul — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:40:21 GMT

This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard

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christine — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:09:02 GMT

R.I.P. WBCN, The great station that it once was has been gone for many many years !

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Andy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:27:14 GMT

I grew up with Charles and the Big Mattress and Tommy Hadges and Oedipus and everyone else back in the day...WBCN was a force to be reckoned with and you could always count on something decent being played there, When Charles got moved down the dial to 'ZLX to make way for Stern, they lost me. I think this is one of the dumbest moves by a big broadcasting company ever. Boston without

'BCN? Sad but not surprising the way some of these corporations have messed with what worked well to begin with...some great stations I have in my tape archives will now only exist there.

Shame on CBS, ClearChannel and all of them for ruining what the audience loved...

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Rachel — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:24:05 GMT

I'm so sad to see BCN go. Not for what it is now, but for what it was. I've been listening since I was about 12. I had a Coffee with Ken on BCN t-shirt that I now wish I still had.

I think I'll cry on Thanksgiving- missing their "food" songs and Alice's Restaurant. Those are the types of things that made it great.

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dave k — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:09:07 GMT

jim rome 12 - 3

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re: Adios, WBCN

Dan Zee — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:53:49 GMT

Let's face it, WBCN's time was in the 1970s and 1980s when the DJs could do free form radio and actually teach their audiences about music. Oedipus did a good job trying to balance his corporate masters' wishes with some music sense, and Howard Stern was responsible raising ratings when the station became more corporate and programmed -- and less interesting. But this move has been predicted for several years.

The only real question is why is Mix changing broadcasting frequencies? The Herald seems to suggest WBCN's signal penetrates office buildings better where Mix's audience listens. I guess sports fans listen at home and in their cars so they don't need a stronger signal?

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