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Instead I found Jam'n. Jam'n is the only powerful local station that is even tangentially devoted to R&B and hip hop. But Jam'n is listed as "Top 40", and it takes this classification literally. Each day, without fail, the station plays about 42 songs--Billboard's top 40 and two Bob Marley songs to add a little variety...
This makes the station almost unlistenable to anyone who is any more than a casual music fan. If you don't believe me, take it from Baltazar, the station's bad boy morning deejay. "I can't listen to Jam'n," he told The Boston Globe in a 1995 profile. "We play the same songs over and over...
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...
...this reason, a major urban radio station is Boston is desperately needed as a cultural institution, as a place where Boston's highly insulated white majority could meet the city's largely ignored black minority...
...However, the most popular way to deposit money is over the phone," he says, "and now that we've put VTS on the Web, we think that the online station will become the most popular...