Re: WBOQ and the "martini format" (BRW)

[Mark Stops <octa_router@yahoo.com>]

WVCA was a legally licensed operation.  Geller's FCC trouble was instead
perhaps related to lack of news, public affairs, etc, and/or some other
thing FCC did not like about his one-man operation.  Ironically, today's
FCC would seemingly WELCOME all that?

KLAC really plays up the "lounge" and "Rat Pack" angles, including ads
that look suspiciously like old billboards for Las Vegas.  An added touch,
the early-afternoon DJ is Gary "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" Owens.  WBOQ
is similar, but not exactly alike...they have more jazz and instrumentals,
for instance.  I like them both though, and thanks to a certain North
Shore resident I get WBOQ tapes fairly often.

-- MarkTime

--- Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This week's Boston Radio Watch talks about WBOQ
> (104.9 Gloucester), which was recently sold from one
> Tanger family member to another...
> 
>
http://commons.somewhere.com/bostonrw/2003/Boston.Radio.Watch.--.035.html
> 
> It refers to the station's "martini format", which
> appeals to more affluent listeners, aged 35-45. I
> guess this format is starting to get attention.
> Recently I heard some of KLAC (570) Los Angeles
> (taped by a friend in southern California), and I
> think that's the same kind of format/sound.
> 
> By the way, the BRW article refers to the Simon
> Geller incarnation of the station, WVCA, as being
> "unlicensed". Unlicensed in what way-- was it an
> outright pirate? Or a licensed station broadcasting
> at an unauthorized power, or from an unauthorized
> antenna?
> 
> 


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