Re: The Future of WBCN-- Talk????

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 08:14 PM 5/13/99 -0400, Donna Halper wrote:
>Umm, anybody heard more about this?
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>"The next station, after New York, that will probably be switched to the
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>24-hour "Extreme Radio" format CBS/Infinity is launching, will be Boston's
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>WBCN-FM (another CBS/Infinity station). WBCN already has Stern and just
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>started running "Loveline". Just before Labor Day--just as college students
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>(who make up a large part of Boston's population between September and May)
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>are returning to the city from summer break--WBCN will drop it's 31-year
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>rock format for Extreme Radio."



Sounds fishy to me.  WBCN is consistently a ratings winner and one of, if
not the highest billing stations in town...why blow up a station that's
successful? OTOH, WNEW has been a ratings and revenue dog for years.

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