Word: fm
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...music is almost always at least four months out of date. In a recent Globe article, industry expert Lionel Ridenour, senior vice president of black music for Arista Records, explained this lag as a consequence of the fact that Boston does not have a "major urban FM" to go along with Jam'n's "crossover format...
Which leads to an obvious question: Are Boston's demographics such that it can support a major FM-urban station? Many of the cities which have two competing urban stations, like Chicago, New York, Washington and Baltimore, are largely minority, while Boston, to say the least, is predominantly white...
...began with Ithaca's WVBR-FM announcer Barry Leonard, who was surprisingly quick to excuse his team's poor showing...
Although I was flattered and honored by the profile that you ran of me in last week's FM ("Jessica Tardy: Lady Sings the Blues"), it suggested that I have gigged at the Regattabar, Cantab Lounge and Ryles. I write to clarify that although I am indeed a fan of all three establishments, I have yet to perform my own gigs at any of them. While I have on occasion appeared as a guest vocalist with bands at the Regatta and the Cantab, I have never performed at Ryles. JESSICA TEMPLE TARDY
...Geoffrey C. Upton's column, "Seeing Kiss 108 in Black and White" (Dec.2), there is more to "black music" than what is played on 94.5. And you can catch it on any number of Boston stations, notably Harvard's own WHRB 95.3 FM. Although not a "major" station in terms of listenership, WHRB's signal booms over the whole Boston area, and carries a highly "integrated" schedule that includes jazz in the mornings, classical in the afternoons and evenings, rock at night and R&B/rap on weekend nights. This "integration" is not achieved by some crude calculus of race...