Word: fm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston radio station WJMN-FM, 94.5, had promoted Ali's performance for more than a month before last night's show. Tickets were distributed to radio station callers during the weeks before the event...
...have been listening to a wide variety of Boston radio stations for nearly four years now--and working at one, Harvard's own WHRB 95.3 FM--and I have to say that if the only stations that your writers listen to are Jam'n 94.5 and Kiss 108, then they probably don't have a clue about the Boston radio scene. Upton is mad that Kiss 108 doesn't play enough "black" music; Mehta cries that Jam'n isn't serving as the "sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners" that it would be, while WILD (which...
...mixed city like Boston, an urban radio has less potential to become a home for black community but more potential to serve as a sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners. A successful FM urban radio station in Boston could become a significant community institution, a meeting place for the two sides of the racial divide...
...large urban FM could expand this market to suburban kids like me, who nationally are the number one buyer of rap records. When Chuck D of Public Enemy said that rap is "the black CNN," he meant that it was a way for blacks to get information from other black communities; by bringing this information to white suburban teens (most of whom don't watch white CNN), black artists, with the help of urban radio stations, have the potential to make the country's most serious social problems meaningful to the nation's next generation of leaders...
...Boston, an urban FM might break the city's unending complacency on racial issues. To take just one example, school busing has been almost entirely phased out, nothing has been put in its place, and nary a whimper of protest has been heard in the past decade. While Jam'n may insist that "the party never stops," the party never started for the Hub's minority children. It is this cycle of complacency that I want to escape; wherever I live next year I hope that it has the type of black musical presence that is both engaging...