JoJo Kincaid on WVBF F-105 Framingham/Boston | 1978 Scoped
Much has been said over the years of Fairbanks Communications’ WVBF… The “Electronic Mama”, as it were back in the early 70s. The station certainly was unique in the respect that it was the first FM station in Boston to pull decent ratings, as early as 1972.
But… This aircheck isn’t from 1972.
In 1978, the radio landscape was much changed from 6 years prior. AM stations were still trying hard to compete playing music, and much of the FM band was packed with stations carrying some sort of contemporary music. ‘78 was the year Ritchie Balsbaugh launched WXKS-FM “Kiss 108″ with it’s now infamous all-Disco format out of the ashes of what was once Beautiful music (and before that, Country) WWEL-FM… a station which shot straight to number 1 in the market in it’s first book. It was the era of ‘Night Fever’… of Star Wars and disco balls. And in 1978, Fairbanks had morphed what was once a hybrid AOR/Top 40 station into a straight-ahead CHR machine, playing the hits as “F-105″.
This aircheck features none other than JoJo Kincaid, at a station which would make “Mama Kincaid’s favorite son” hugely popular– so much so that he, along with one “Mighty” Mike Osborne, would eventually make the rounds on just about all the big FM CHR’s in Boston in the 1980s… before heading out west.
This is really one of my favorite airchecks on the site… and for good reason. You just gotta listen!
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I have the extreme priviledge of working as an intern @ KISS 108 when Jojo worked the 6-9pm shift. I was Dale Dorman’s producer at the 3-6pm shift. Both Dale and Jojo were the funniest guys I ever met.
My DJ days were short, but what I learned from them will last with me forever !