Rock radio pioneer will continue online-only
It’s been years since I have listened regularly to Boston’s WBCN — 104.1-FM on your radio dial — but that doesn’t make any less shocking the news today that this radio institution is soon to go silent.
From the Boston Globe:
For decades, WBCN carried a reputation as perhaps the most progressive commercial rock station in the country, featuring such well-known air personalities as Charles Laquidara, with his “The Big Mattress” morning show, Danny Schechter the News Dissector, and J. Geils Band lead singer Peter Wolf, who worked as a DJ there. Musically adventurous and politically active, the station informed popular tastes both regionally and nationally, in its glory days helping to break such artists as U2, Elvis Costello, and The Cars.
Having been a college student in Boston in the late ’70s, I can tell you that Laquidara and his cohorts made a more lasting impression than any professor.
As with the carcasses of so much of “old media,” WBCN will continue to exist online-only … but it won’t be the same.
