Word: wbz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pundits who missed WBZ's annual top 100 hit parade will find selected results below...
Breaking in against WBZ and WMEX, Boston's rock stations, WRKO had to offer something radically different -- and that something is 18 uninterrupted songs an hour. This is where the friendly robot comes...
Sunday's water ski show had all the ingredients for a pus estival festival: there was soda (no beer), sun shades provided by WBZ), shorts, a skier on a kite, clasping lovers and hugging mothers...
...predict his listenership. WHRB, he says, he reaches the "academic underground of Boston," Largely on its FM frequency. It goes to college students, professors, and "other academic professional people with well-educated backgrounds." The station doesn't even try, or want to try, to infringe on the listenership of WBZ, or WMEX. Its FM advertising, for example, is almost entirely for publications such as The National Observer, or the Boston theaters. The beer and coke ads go only over the closed AM circuit to Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Boston's WBZ, after Pittsburgh's KDKA, is the second oldest licensed station in America. Though its officials prefer the adult image of "contemporary popular music," WBZ's sound is largely rock 'n' roll. But with the cats and the caterwauling goes an aggressive news operation that recently won two United Press International awards, one for editorials criticizing the Massachusetts birth-control laws, the second for coverage of the power blackout in New England. For the privilege of broadcasting a one-minute commercial on Boston's most successful station in prime time, advertisers...