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105.7 WVBF Framingham / Boston (F-105) Fantasy Parade | 1977
Here’s a very interesting aircheck of Fairbanks Communications’ then recently-retooled WVBF as Top 40 “F-105”. The ‘check starts out with some strainge sounding robot promos (for lack of a better word), then moves into Frank Kingston Smith opening the F-105 Fantasy Parade in Framingham… conducted from the station rooftop. Sure sounds like they had a…
The Jerry Williams Show. 1510 WMEX | April 11, 1961
The man known as “The Dean of Talk Radio” was captured on this rare recording made all the way back in 1961. The late Jerry Williams, probably the earliest controvercial talk show host in American radio, spent several years at what would be Top 40 pioneer station 1510 WMEX Boston. Williams’ career actually began way…
Webmaster’s Corner: A Baseball Fan’s Dream – Attending Media Day at Fenway
This falls under the category of geeky sports fan. In 1988, I was a board op for P&S Broadcasting’s 700 WPNS. The call letters – I’ll get to that story in a moment… Because we were a member of Campbell Sports Network so that we had broadcasting rights to air the Boston Red Sox, the…
Call Letter Change: WEEI-FM Becomes “HitRadio 103” WHTT Boston | March 9, 1983
New Contributor Stuart Gitlow comments: The original recording suffered from several issues: my reception of 103 wasn’t great, the gain was turned up a bit too much (I was just getting used to using dbx), and the tape is 22 years old. All in all though, it’s not too bad. Since posting, we’ve had numerous…
Chuck Nowlin, 100.7 WZLX Boston | January 13, 1998
Here’s a station that has managed to stay the course for a couple of decades as “Boston’s Classic Rock”. The station outlived Boston’s heritage Rock station WBCN, and other stations which have come and gone since WZLX first came along out of the ashes of a one-time Beautiful Music station (WHUE) and CHR (WKKT). The…
JoJo Kincaid, 105.7 WVBF “F-105” Framingham/Boston | March 15, 1979
“…Thank you for making us Boston’s Number One Music Station!” The “New” F-105 wasn’t new, but the branding was for one of Boston’s first FM Top 40 stations. WVBF (which stood for the owner’s wife’s name, Virginia Brown Fairbanks) had been rocking since the early ’70s, but when the Disco craze took hold in late…
“Matty in the Morning”, WXKS-FM “Kiss-108” Medford/Boston | March 1993
Is there one city left in America where Ryan Seacrest isn’t heard on some Top 40 station? Perhaps not today. But back in 1993, Kiss-108 had emerged as the station to turn to for hit music, and some of the best jocks to be heard anywhere in the Northeast. Ryan Seacrest wasn’t even known in…
‘JW’ in the Morning, Country 99.5 WKLB Lowell/Boston | January 9, 1998
From Webmaster Steve West – funny, the most obscure recordings I’ve posted of stations that might or might not even be interesting are right out of my own collection. I recorded this while working as a Temp at some place in Princeton, MA… some little factory that makes something I can’t even remember anymore. I…
