Word: wbcn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of video, and cable's MTV, spurred some angry words. WBCN's program director, Oedipus, argued that video "defines a song in a visual context," and Wendy Heide, WMBR, added "it creates a passive audience. Viewers don't have to use their imagination," WZBC's program Jim McKay bluntly accused MTV of "playing music over and over--beating it into your brain." Obviously video is not a loved media among the audio jacks...
Talk of video led-into abused aimed at MTV. While Oedipus claims that it has not affected sales in this area, it has affected the requests WBCN gets from its younger audience of a station's program director to choose music and still remain commercially viable. The limited repertoire of MTV will influence what audiences want to hear on FM radio. Long an outpost of innovative rock, WZBC's McKay summarized the D. J. panel's attitude: "I don't think MTV is doing anything for innovative music. It's not taking a lot of chances...
...long, though before be regrets his decision. The radio begins to lade and Freeman fiddles with the broken knobs on the dashboard. I always forget that 30 has the bum radio, he says. The radio is an important part of the job. The steady beat of WBOS or WBCN relieves the tedium and makes driving almost automatic. When I'm driving in heavy traffic I listen to classical music because it get's really tense behind the wheel." Freeman says I'm from California where the people are a lot more laid back. When you drive around here at rush...
...Part III" will hit the newsstands when a ruling is handed down on the defense argument that confusion over technicalities in the initial trial interfered with the delivery of justice. Just this past Sunday, the garrulous doctor got a jump on the action with an appearance on a WBCN call-in show, casually trading quips with listeners about life under the celebrity spot-light...
...Miller wrong; he doesn't pass harsh judgments on audiences. Contrary to reports in the rock and roll journals (including a favorable write-up in Rolling Stone). Burma isn't really on the cutting edge of anything. The music is aimed at WBCN's top-40 list--new electronic twists on old motifs; pretty raunchy live, but so is every other competent bar band...