WBCN's Final Hours

Larry Weil kc1ih@mac.com
Fri Aug 14 17:19:50 EDT 2009


I seem to remember a station in NY doing this for a while in the  
70's.  I think it was on 104.3, while WNCN was on hiatus.

Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, Ontario

Sent from my iPod Touch
Big freekin deal!

On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Eli Polonsky <elipolo@earthlink.net>  
wrote:

> From: "John" <jscavo@maine.rr.com>:
>
>> And didn't WBCN bring Quadraphonic Stereo to Boston
>> Rock Radio back in the mid 70's?
>
> Yes, but since there weren't many albums recorded in
> discrete true quadrophonic, they used a system which
> "synthesized" quadrophonic by sending a different EQ
> between the front and rear speakers, the rears being
> fed by material out-of-phase to the front, causing
> some phase cancellation when listening on a mono
> radio.
>
> WAAF may have also briefly done this.
>
> EP
>
>
>


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