RIP Al Perry - former GM of WBCN

[Kevin Vahey]

WBCN was struggling in 1968. Not having any affiliation with the BSO
crippled them and they had overhead paying rent for studio and
transmitter in the Back Bay while WCRB and WGBH had less overhead.

WBCN as a rock station was spawned by the success a year earlier of
WTBS-FM ( now WMBR)

FM was entering the mainstream as WJIB became a rating powerhouse
almost overnight, WKOX-FM flipped from easy listening to Top 40 and
would become WVBF and WRKO-FM became WROR.

WBCN did upgrade to stereo in 1967 but most classical recordings were
in mono but flipping to rock opened the door to college students who
had bought FM tuners for their dorm rooms.

FM was still facing an uphill climb as most car radios only had AM and
that continued into the late '70s.






On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 12:16 AM A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if anyone is left who ran the original WBCN and the Concert
> Network.  I wonder how many people are left, besides me,  who were
> listeners in those days.
>
> On 11/23/2021 12:01 PM, Scott Fybush wrote:
> > I had a fairly lengthy obit in my column this week.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 11:52 AM Donna Halper<dlh@donnahalper.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/23/2021 11:01 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> >>> Al Perry passed away on November 5th
> >>>
> >>> https://devitofuneralhomes.com/obituaries/alfred-r-perry/
> >> I read this in the Boston Globe this morning, and I was surprised-- I
> >> don't recall anyone mentioning it before.  As a music director, and
> >> later as a radio consultant, I spent many years working with him and the
> >> late great Jerry Brenner.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Donna L. Halper, PhD
> >> Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
> >> Lesley University, Cambridge MA
> >>
> >>
>
> --
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