RE: WVBF

[ehenness@natick-amed02.army.mil]

Roger Kirk posted:

>As a long-time listener to radio (and most formats i.e. Top 40, Soul,   
>Jazz, Rock, Dance, Rap, Reggae, Disco, Big Band, Oldies, Alternative &   
>Country), I still find many people refer to Country Music (in Boston) as   
>painful.  Why?  Is this personal musical taste or commentary on a   
>station's bad approach to a legitimate format? 

I think a little of both.  Country has, in Boston, a small but rather loyal 
audience.  These folks are the ones who have suffered through poor 
executions of the format over the years (one example being WBOS's attempt 
to broaden their audience by proclaiming they play 'country without the 
twang').  The rest of the general audience seems to at best ignore country 
music, for any number of reasons (based, perhaps in tradition?).  

On the other hand, we saw that Boston cannot sustain two country stations.  
IMHO, both WKLB and WBCS were rather good executions of the format, but 
they were simply trying to share a very small pie, and neither could 
succeed doing that.

Ed Hennessy

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