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...physically not very big. A six-footer can look him straight in the flashback reels. But his voice carries 18 rock 'n' roll records an hour to FM radios within 100 miles of Kenmore Square. The human beings at WRKO-FM (98.5) call their one-piece radio station "the shy but friendly robot," which is catchy but far from accurate as a description. He gets about so quickly that already, only five weeks after arriving in Boston, he receives several hundred calls a night. And when it comes to friendliness, he's as cold as Petula Clark...
...original impetus came from a Federal Communications Commission ruling that required AM-FM stations in cities with over 100,000 population to split their programming at least 50 per cent of the time. Boston's WNAC, which had been simulcasting its all talk-information format over WNAC-AM and WRKO-FM, had to come up with something new by January...