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From: brenner@aruba.DEC
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Boston radio stations
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 21:51:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 21:51:55 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 08:21:34 EDT
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[bleap!]
There *is* one reason to listen to commercial AM radio in Boston--at least on 
weekdays between local sunrise and sunset. WNTN (Newton, 1550 I think) 
broadcasts really good, well-mixed dance music, chosen from new disco, new wave 
danceable stuff, and vintage disco (if you can call stuff from late 70s--early 
80s vintage already). They slogan themselves as "your daytime nightclub", and 
they saved my head the week I was stuck with a rental car with an AM-only 
radio. 

BTW, while you're mentioning good non-commercial FM stations in Boston, you 
really ought to mention WHRB, 95.4, Cambridge, Harvard Radio. Their 
twice-yearly "Orgies" of non-stop music are famous or notorious. Imagine 
several days, 24 hours a day, of playing the entire discography of Charles 
Mingus or of every Shubert song ever recorded. WHRB has pulled this off. Orgies 
have also featured multi-hour shows on just about any rock, RnB, folk, new/no 
wave, funk, jazz, classical, etc artist you could imagine in your wildest
dreams. Inbetween these periods of excess, WHRB plays stuff from all these
areas in more moderate doses. Because they're low-power and have their antenna
atop Holyoke Center in Harvard Square, they're a little hard to pull in from
many locales, but worth it. 

					Ellen Brenner
	
					...decvax!decwrl!rhea!aruba!brenner

P.S. WHRB is in mid-Orgy right now. They're timed to coincide with midterms and 
finals at ol' Ivy.