His father was a Catholic and a psychiatrist and his mother was Jewish and a psychologist. WBCN was full service (news, music, information, and live 24/7). 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. And when I say multiple, I mean hundreds, if not a thousand, stations. The myth that WBCN started at the Boston Tea Party, which has been the accepted dogma for 40 years, isnt true. same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, "Darrell Martinie; with astrology, he was the 'Cosmic Muffin'; at 63", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darrell_Martinie&oldid=1131675986, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 5 January 2023, at 07:02. At this point, please allow compassion to trump judgement in your hearts. He thought I was good. I remember hearing the lyrics, I might like you better if we slept together, and I remember not knowing what it meant. The station had unlikely roots as a classical music outlet (its call letters standing for Boston Concert Network), but on the Ides of March, 1968, disc jockey Joe Rogers fired the first rock salvoCreams I Feel Free. From that moment, BCN became one of a handful of FM radio stations seeking to supplant AMs supremacy with freeform programming that captured the cacophonous sound of the counterculture. Just dont lose us the license. Suddenly for a week, it was amazing radio. I quit radio in 76 because it was getting in the way of my cocaine habit. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) 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. In the summer of 1999, WBCN moved its format away from strictly alternative music and more towards an active rock-leaning modern rock format. B96 - WBBM 96.3 FM. My first radio show: 5-8 p.m. on Northeastern University's 104.9 WRBB. Oedipus was one of the first to play the Clash. [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. Wolf called himself "Woofuh Goofuh" on the air; he left the station in 1969 to tour with the band. Howard Stern went to BU listening to Charles. I had never been to college for anything. Radio Ink. It was like I was one of them. Danny Schechter and others would create a similarly inspired liberal attitude in the news department, connecting WBCNs community with what they needed to know in a national and local environment that remained openly hostile to the American counterculture. I didnt talk fast, and I wasnt sharp at all. When The Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, they thanked him personally for their initial support in America. Wolf had a stint as a radio DJ in Boston when WBCN launched in the late 60s. One of the things that it pioneered is a style of production, those highly edited montages: Nixon with music and comedy. All the rest of us have got 4s and 5s. And he looks up at me. This was recorded over a 3 hour period late afternoon to early evening on 2 sides of 2 cassette tapes. ADAM ADAM 12 CHAPMANAt WBCN:DJ, 200309. Profile: WBCN was an over-the-air radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Syndicated shock jock Howard Stern turned mornings into all-talk radio. Everybody, send a bag of shit to Arbitron. Duane gave out the exact address, every break, for four hours. HD digital radio technology, introduced commercially in . I didnt have $10. That played the clubs. We got musicians to ask the station to stop playing the music, and the advertisers just walked away. That killed radio. 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. He's been working morning radio all over the country with his partner Pete McKenzie for over 30 years now. So these bands, because we thought they were good, could be heard next to the Clash, or could be heard next to Fleetwood Mac. Mark Parenteau was up in the car, doing a live broadcast. The call letters stood for the " Boston Concert Network ". The WBCN staff, circa 1978. Throughout its years the station featured larger-than-life radio personalities such as Charles Laquidara, Mark Parenteau, Ken Shelton, and Oedipus. His guidance counselor said he should pursue an exciting career in retail, but he took a chance on radio instead. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. LISA TRAXLERAt WBCN:DJ, 198490. (#921058) WIVY Jacksonville, "Y103" AC Early 1991 35 min. 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 then:DJ at WFNX and Boston.coms RadioBDC. Massachusetts could get another snowstorm Friday: What areas were the jackpot zones in this past storm? We dont care. Jerry Garcia Calderone Concert Hall 1980 NY WLIR by WLIR 2,593 20 2 Hot Tuna Papa John 1971 Fillmore West KSAN SF by KSAN 4,348 28 0 Allman Brothers NYE 1973 Cow Palace KSAN by KSAN 8,635 62 2 Fleetwood Mac 1970 The Warehouse NOLA WJMR by WJMR 5,198 31 0 Alicia Keys NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert 2020 by NPR 66 1 0 Parenteau played that at 4. But that changed the following year, when a Sirius XM Radio Inc. Sep 2016 - Aug 20226 years. The Rock of Boston. John J. LEGENDARY WENR WBCN BOSTON VOICE OF SERVICE.VTG RARE 10" x 8" PHOTO Condition: Used Sale ends in: 4d 5h Price: US $80.99 Was US $112.49 Save US $31.50 (28% off) Buy It Now Add to cart Best Offer: Make offer Add to Watchlist Ships from United States Returns accepted Shipping: US $5.60Standard Shipping. The next jock on would be like, Hey, Im going to playoh, man. Here is a list of over 90 former and current full-time WBCN personalities. So many of the best stories would get me or somebody else in trouble, which is probably why theyre great stories. I was a kid then. From 1995-2004 he served as Executive Producer of the live Radio broadcast for the New England Patriots. Declining ratings and belt-tightening at the former Rock of Boston led to Parenteau being let go in 1997. [1] But still, it was always WBCN. Its legacy was in the artists it helped break. Literally. At the time, they were all Top 40. The station's battle of the bands' competition, the Rock 'n' Roll Rumble, survived the station's demise. Funeral arrangements are not yet complete. WBCN began supporting non-mainstream investigative reporting and alternative news coverage, including reports from demonstrations and highly produced montage news reports. 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 )). If you go to the BCN storage lockers, everything is in there. By June 1968, the station's air staff included Mississippi, Peter Wolf (who was just starting with the J. Geils Band), Tommy Hadges, Jim Parry, Al Perry, and Sam Kopper was joined by Steven "The Seagull" Segal. CBS Radio will launch 98.5 The Sports Hub in the other slot. 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. . We didnt think of our listeners as being fans. 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. There are no reviews yet. We start off with Mark Parenteau and end with Lisa Carlin as radio personalities. I was put in charge of getting that up and running. Fred (Toucher) Toettcher (born 1975) is a Marconi-winning sports radio talk show host on WBZ-FM in Boston, co-hosting "Toucher and Rich" with Rich Shertenlieb.. This is what happened: WBCN started on Newbury Street, 171 Newbury Street. Martinie was born on April 10, 1943 in Massachusetts and grew up in Illinois. Wed go out and hang out with the bands. How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. WBCN came along in Boston at a time when virtually every aspect of cultural, social, and political life was changing dramatically in this countrythe intersection of the women's movement, the gay. BCN was arguably the most credible news source in Boston, in the same way that Jon Stewart is arguably the most credible journalist on TV. WWBX (104.1 FM, Mix 104.1) is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 66. Boston, Massachusetts, United States. I know many of you might have been offended or even angered at things Mark did in his life; but he also was a legendary talent; the best DJ I ever heard behind a mic and one from whom I learned so much of what I do on the radio, Alan, who visited with Parenteau regularly in his final days, wrote in a Facebook post on May 30. High Profile Show & Ratings (was Re: Changes at WBCN-Boston), 5. WBCN DJ Maxanne Sartori and Charles "Master. He would do all kinds of stuff. He had been ailing in recent years, suffering from a number of conditions including spinal stenosis that made it difficult for him to walk. So he said, Why dont you just come in and play your music? So on the first night, I was the second DJ. It felt more like a bank. We needed someone who could do Bugs Bunny. August 1948: The first antenna is erected a 595-foot tower. When I took over as program director, we were getting our ass kicked by WCOZ, Kickass Rock n Roll. We needed to turn it around, and we were able to turn it around. Jackson first gained prominence while working at WBCN in Boston in the late 1960s, then at KLOS in Los Angeles for ten years. Its characteristic blend of cultural chaos, including rock, folk, blues, and jazz, interspersed with news . Are you kidding me? The old Boylston Street studios were all beat up. 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. Boylston Street still had the old-school spirit. The static was broadcast on 104.1 until 2:00a.m. At that time, "Mix 98.5" officially moved to 104.1, playing "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon as their first song after the move. People are losing interest in radio, Im talking twentysomethings, because theres nothing compelling there. The fellow who put it together, WBCN founder Ray Riepen, who was sleeping on my couch, asked me to buy into the station. Eventually, Wolf had a crucial . Hes got a 13, the highest rating ever in the history of ratings. Worcester personality and deejay LB Worm paid tribute on his . 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. [3][4] Under his tutelage, the station was recognized as an industry leader in breaking new music and received countless awards for its successes. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Raz?. WBCN is credited with. Thats why I say its a fable. 1. He was one of MTV's five original VJs (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn). OEDIPUSAt WBCN:DJ and program director,19772004. It all started in. But now radio is more of a specialized thing. From February 26, 1991, to December 3, 2017, the "Mix" format in Boston used the callsign WBMX. However, on January 29, 2016, "WBCN Free Form Rock" was dropped from WZLX-HD3 and flipped to adult standards as "The Lounge." For a brief period during that transition, Charles Laquidara, who was acting program director hired Robert "Bo" Burlingham as news director. The news department was initially headed by Norm Winer, who later became program director. That same year he moved to Boston, as he believed it was the most astrologically perfect place for him. Twelve years later, JJ would become one of MTV's first VJs. 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. 3. Every night, these same jocks rode in vans plastered with the BCN logo, straight to the towns hottest gigs to greet packs of fans. [1] [2] He then spent four years doing The Charles Laquidara Radio Hour on WZLX. They are not radio, because there is not a human being there. WBCN switched to digital only on August 12, 2009, with two digital-only automated streams, one on the HD2 channel of WBZ-FM continuing the modern rock format, the other Free Form BCN, airing an eclectic mix of rock, related genres, and a lot of new music - essentially the WBCN of 1968 to 1988, brought into the 21st century. You didnt have someone playing Hank Williams then Muddy Waters then Van Morrison then Velvet Underground, in 15 minutes. You heard the stories of the camaraderie that they had back then. [15] On October 10, 2017, CBS disclosed that as part of the process of obtaining regulatory approval of the merger, WBZ-FM would be one of sixteen stations that would be divested by Entercom, along with sister stations WBZ and WZLX, and Entercom stations WRKO and WKAF, with Entercom retaining WEEI AM and FM, WBMX, WODS and WAAF. A formerly bulletproof radio property became riddled and CBS stemmed the bleeding by shuttering WBCN on August 12, 2009. 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. He had a great career but it was a tough end to his life, Parenteaus longtime friend and former co-worker, WZLXs Carter Alan told the Track. The Listener Line had positioned itself almost as the Google of its time. 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. With WBCN's dissolution as an analog station, the Patriots flagship station became WBCN's sister station WBZ-FM on August 13, 2009. Jackson was one of the first DJs to introduce Americans to The Who and Led Zeppelin. WBCN is a CBS Radio station. "Indie 104.1" on 104.1 HD-3 ceased operations. KEAR San Francisco, "Family Radio" Christian 9/12/78 45 min. I was like that kid. Maxanne Sartori - WBCN DJ. BBC Tyne, Broadcasting Centre, Barrack Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 1RN phone: 0191 232 4141 | e-mail: tyne@bbc.co.uk Segal's arrival was critical to the station's early development since he came in from Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he had been mentored by the legendary West Coast DJ Tom Donahue, who was credited with starting the very first underground rock FM station at KMPX the year before. I had been at a number of other radio stations before WBCN. Jack O'Brien remained as the drive-time host until the following January. Parenteau was red. I was competing against him. If you want good ratings, then you gotta have bad radio. Suddenly all of my decisions were vetted. Nancy was with the station from when WMJX signed on in 1982. They werent part of this culture, and they werent part of this kind of radio culture. In that way, WBCN was the Facebook of its era. He was 10 to 12 years older than I. I was like his kid brother. 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