Howie Carr remembers the heyday of WBCN

[Dan.Strassberg]

Nope! The affiliation with the New York station was with WNCN (New
York Concert Network). I may be mistaken but I think that what was
then WNCN is now Clear Channel's WAXQ. There was also at least one
more affiliate in the Concert Network, WHCN (IIRC) in Hartford. I have
no clue about what WHCN has since become, but someone will surely tell
us. Moreover, I'm pretty sure that the Concert Network had yet one
more station--in Providence. You might think that the calls would have
been WPCN, but I think they were WXCN. Two of the four Concert Network
station locations (Hartford, Boston) were the same as those of two of
Maj Armstrong's original five-station over-the-air relay network which
began on the old pre-war 44-52-MHz FM band and, after the war, moved
up to the current band. Its stations were W2XMN Alpine NJ, a station
whose calls I don't know on Meriden Mtn near Hartford, a station on
Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton that at one point had the calls WGTR (FM),
and a station atop Mt Washington that was once WMTW (FM). In those
days, I doubt whether the 104.1, licensed to Waterbury but serving the
Hartford market had yet signed on, so it's possible that Concert
Network, even without a Worcester affiliate, was able to relay
programs over the air from New York to Boston with only two hops (New
York to Hartford and Hartford to Boston).

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>I can remember 'BCN before it's "heyday," when it was all
>classical....The Boston Concert Network as I remember. Believe it had
>an affiliation with WQXR in NYC. It was on Newbury Street then.
>
> I was a student at BU's college of Basic Studies on Boylston St.
> behind the BPL before its expansion and always had lunch at
> Shariff's Cafeteria, 'BCN was upstairs. Being as "radio nut' even
> then my friends and I often visited & probably drove Ron Della
> Chiesa crazy.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBCN
>
>
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> From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@mail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:01 AM
> Subject: Howie Carr remembers the heyday of WBCN
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> http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20090719rip_big_mattress_wbcn/srvc=home&position=2
>
> Howie Carr column remembering the heyday of WBCN. The Herald site
> also has a photo gallery of WBCN at that
> time. I remember the press kit bit about Duane Glascock; I was in
> high school and wrote away to them as part
> of a project.
>
>>> "It was the first time I realized the power of radio - the power
>>> then, you understand, as opposed to now, which is not nearly as
>>> much."
>
>