Re: Disco History

[EBRadio <ebradio@flash.net>]

And let's not forget Vinnie on WEZE with his first Disco show while Clark
was running the show over at 1260 AM!  Wasn't he the MD also on Kiss-108 at
one time?


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At 09:12 AM 4/6/99 EDT, Jibguy@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/5/99 10:03:42 AM EST, dmerrill@exchange.com writes:
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>Here's the order of things in the Disco World of Boston:
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>1978:
>WBOS, while lame with its easy-listening format, let Ron Robin do disco
music 
>at night on all weeknights.   By late in the year, or very early 1979, the 
>station switched to all disco.
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>Feb/Mar 1979:
>KISS-108 was born at midnight going from WWEL to WXKS and within 6 months, 
>took most of WBOS' listeners.
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>Summer 1981:
>(2 years LATER), Vinnie, while still having association at KISS, took over 
>the format
>at WNTN, calling it the "Daytime Nightclub".  It stayed pure disco while
Kiss 
>started mixing in non-disco contemporary music.   Meanwhile, WBOS went to a 
>soft-rock format, much like Magic was at the beginning.
>
>1984:
>WNTN wandered off the disco beat and increased more local public affairs 
>programming and ethnic programming, after only showing a tiny speck of 
>ratings with the disco.
>
><< e switch to Star.  His
> tradition with dance music in this city is long standing.  I believe he was
> the PD or MD with WNTN in Newton when they were the first "disco" station in
> town.  They beat the switch of WWEL to WXKS (Kiss 108) by a year or so.  I
> am unsure of whether WBOS was "Disco 93" before WNTN though  >>
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