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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Boston's Hit Radio station (Is Springsteen losing it?)
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Date: Sun, 27-May-84 15:23:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 27 15:23:29 1984
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The only stations worth listening to in Boston are the non-commercial
ones.  Conveniently they are all located below 91.5 on the FM dial.
After listening to nothing but these stations:

WMBR (MIT)
WERS (Emerson College)
WBUR (Boston U.)
WGBH (Public Radio)
WMFO (Tufts)
WZBC (Boston College)

I really can't understand why anyone listens to anything else.  You get
the absolutely broadest variety of music (new and old) as well as no
stupid assinine commercials (be all you can be, join the pepsi
generation), or obnoxious DJ's.

WMBR is about 25% MIT students and the rest community people (called
"Community Radio at MIT").  Broadcasts at only 200 Watts and is the
least funded of the college stations.  Plays (primaryily) new music
during the morning, Early Rock and Jazz in the afternoon, "black" music
in the evening, and "weird" late at night (after midnight).  Oedipus and
Albert O.  (famous boston DJ's) both got their starts their.  We (I work
there) were the first station in New England to play AOR, the first to
play Punk, and the first to play disco.  Shows tend to be somewhat less
slick than other stations, but much more "fun".

WERS is all Emerson College students (communications majors), and runs a
very professional outfit.  They have a great folk music show in the
morning, and a nothing but new music show at 11pm.  They feature live
simulcasts from Passim's (a folk club) and the Willow (a jazz club).

WGBH and WBUR are both "professional" public radio.  No BU students work
at 'BUR.  These stations are the radio equivalent of public television.
Morning Pro Musica, on 'GBH every morning, 
offers a very good classical show whose announcer, Robert J. Leurtsma,
has become something of a Boston tradition.  Both stations carry
National Public Radio's All Things Considered (leaves commercial news
radio in the dust), and one of them also carries Prarie Home Companion.
They both broadcast at 50Kw, so reception is excellent.

WZBC sets the standard for Weird Radio in Boston.  Most of their shows
cater to the Eclectic Music crowd, with lots of experimental and
electronic stuff (Birdsongs of the Mezozoic, Tangerine Dream, etc.).

WMFO a cross between 'MBR and 'ZBC.  Hard to recieve in Boston due to
their directional transmitter in Medford.

Would somebody please tell me WHY they listen to commercial radio.  Most
non-top-40 music that you hear on the commerical stations you'll hear on
these statins first.  If you want to keep hearing the same song over and
over again, you can buy the record.

...nuf said.

-- 
Larry Kolodney
(The Devil's Advocate)

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