Re: Concert Network in the 50's & 60's

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Bill Piacentini wrote:

> I remember WBCN(boston), WHCN(hartford) & i think WNCN(new york).
> Were there any others around the country with the W_CN (or K_CN) calls? Were
> they independents or one entity?
> Does anyone have some history of the Concert Network?
> I recall a great deal of live broadcasts.
> When and why did it finally die?

There was also WXCN in Providence.  WMTW-FM on Mount Washington was also
carrying Concert Network programs for awhile.  It died sometime in 1968 or
so, gradually at first, with a change to what we now call "beautiful
music" in the daytime and classical continuing in the evening.  Then it
changed to progressive rock, sometime in 1969 I think.

The newspaper report that I read at the time indicated that WBCN had never
shown a profit as a classical station and was now changing for that
reason.

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