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Re: WBZ-FM "Rockin' Stereo 106.7"



At 06:55 AM 1/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>      WBZ-FM was the VERY, VERY POOR stepchild of WBZ
>Radio and Television.  They figured that by having
>WBZ-FM on the air (barely), it would keep at least one
>FM frequency to be non-competitive with WBZ-AM.  They
>were the last major FM in town to embrace Stereo on
>12/31/71 at 4:00 pm.  The automation they used was
>affectionately named "BoZo".  Look at the letters and
>you'll see why.

I always liked the silly station-- listened to it a lot in 1979.  Yep, it 
played a lot of the same songs-- but they were often songs other stations 
didn't play. I also recall Kiss 108's Ed McMahon was PD, except he used the 
name JIM McMahon back then...