From the birth of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s through just about the end of the 20th Century, Cleveland was a great town for radio. I would have paid to do it. Jackson Jr. (April 8, 1941 March 17, 2004) was an American radio and television personality. Between the cars playing BCN, with their open windows in the summertime, and all the dormitories, apartments, and houses, you could hear BCN from one end of the city to the other. Also, back in 1981, people didnt have station vans driving around and going to events. It returned to sports programming in 2013 as a full-time satellite of CBS Sports Radio. Copyright 2023 Music Museum of New England, by Henry Santoro as told to Al Davis of WGBH and Tyler Alderson of WCRB. He pioneered live remote broadcasting techniques and became The Honorary Dean of Boston Comedy, spotlighting dozens of up-and-coming comedians on his show. Im not a real fan of what he did or what he does. Johnson remained with the station until 1967, just prior to the changeover from classical to easy-listening, and then to rock. WBCN air staff in the station's record library. The station's battle of the bands' competition, the Rock 'n' Roll Rumble, survived the station's demise. In spring of 05 we moved from Boylston Street to Brighton. I was the last full-time DJ that Oedipus hired. penny modesto. WBCN Free Form Rock We thought, Wouldnt it be great to have a radio station where they played Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing, from 1938, maybe mix that with the Carmina Burana, and then mix that with Jimi Hendrix and the Stones, and then come back with a folk song? Tommy Charles. You have to be exceeding your success. Radios fate was sealed in 1996 when they signed the Telecommunications Act. On August 13, Mix 98.5, one of those "80s, 90s and today" top 40 stations will move to the 104.1 frequency. Long time music director Mike Mullaney earned "Hot AC Music Director Of The Year" five times. CARTER ALANAt WBCN:DJ and music director, 197998. Reel Talk Radio - February 25, 2023 - 9am hour. They still gave us good ratings the next time. And when I say multiple, I mean hundreds, if not a thousand, stations. Lets drop a pumpkin, lets drop some cash, lets drop some acid.I always thought it would have been good to put a recording device on the station intercom. They would be heard next to the great bands of the time. Parenteau, who claimed he did not know the boy he was charged with molesting was under age, agreed to plead guilty to one count of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to three years in prison. BONUS: After posting this aircheck I found an additional 90 minute cassette from earlier this same day (2:35pm-4:05pm) featuring Mark. People really related to that. I didnt talk fast, and I wasnt sharp at all. Aliquam varius dui varius tincidunt pulvinar. There was a time when we first played them, it was like, Oh my God! When I say local, I dont mean Aerosmith, I dont mean the Cars, I mean local. . When these new people came in from New York, they just didnt get it. WBCN's afternoon DJ Rob Poole, known on air as "Hardy," announced on his final WBCN show that he will co-host a sports-themed show on WBZ-FM on Saturday mornings. Learn more about the people at WBCN: Carter Alan Andy Beaubien John Brodey T. Mitchell Hastings J.J. Jackson Sam Kopper Charles Laquidara ChaChi Loprete Maxanne Oedipus Mark Parenteau Jim Parry Al Perry Ray Riepen Joe Rogers Danny Schechter Steve Segal Ken Shelton Matt Siegel Debbie Ullman Norm Winer Peter Wolf During the stations heyday, its DJs, the music scene, and listeners were all intensely interconnected. Jocks werent shy about getting political, either, ranting about Vietnam and apartheid, and sometimes becoming news themselves. His words "over and out" were the last to be heard on WBCN on August 12, 2009 when the station went off the air. Literally. Take the Clash. My character, an alter ego called Duane Glasscock, had a heavy Boston accent. But now radio is more of a specialized thing. Parenteau had one of the most successful radio careers in Boston history, with a 20-year run, first on the former WCOZ then spending 19 years as the afternoon-drive talent on WBCN. We did incredible events. The Rock of Boston. WWBX-HD1 simulcasts the analog signal of WWBX as Mix 104.1. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) He had been ailing in recent years, suffering from a number of conditions including spinal stenosis that made it difficult for him to walk. . WBCN's first rock program director, Sam Kopper, was Program Director of WBCN Free Form Rock until the channel was discontinued on January 29, 2016. A Connecticut native, Harrison began his career as an air personality at Rock WHCN-FM/Hartford. In 1977, Oedipus convinced WBCN to hire him as an announcer to bring his cutting edge sounds to the airwaves. WBCN started as a classical music station in 1958, but a decade later reformatted as an "underground" or free-form, progressive rock station. Thats the station by extension. We dont care. [24], On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom (which locally owned WEEI, WEEI-FM, WRKO, WKAF, and WAAF). I was put in charge of getting that up and running. The kid comes into the station. You were BCN. But his 2004 arrest for having sex with a minor marked the end of his days on the air. Former WBCN disc jockey Mark Parenteau, who was a force on the Boston airwaves for more than 20 years but saw his career and life go off the rails after he was arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old boy, died early this morning after a long illness. Are you playing with a full deck? KEAR San Francisco, "Family Radio" Christian 9/12/78 45 min. Im thinking about retiring, and just managing this group and trying to get them going on tour. He puts this cassette in. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's college station WTBS (today WMBR ). I didnt have $10. I had horrible taste in music. Nam eleifend mollis interdum. [2] In 1981 he was named Program Director, a position he held until he left in 2004. "King of All Media" The original "shock jock", Though controversial, he is one of the highest-paid radio personalities in the United States and the most fined personality in radio broadcast history. We needed someone who could do Bugs Bunny. For those who lived in the listening area, which. It all started in. He is on the Board of Advisors for Community Servings, an organization that feeds Boston-area families with acute life-threatening illnesses, and a former member of the Board of Overseers for the Huntington Theatre Company,[6] advisory member of The Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville and the Boston Music Awards. If there was a skirmish with police, people could call and say, I was there and this is what happened. There was an immediacy to it. Rhapsody and Pandora and Spotify arent going to go away, but they are jukeboxes. ", In 1993 Martinie was named "Official Astrologer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" by Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld. WBCN's programming in 1971-72 bore little relationship to the Billboard Hot 100 or any other conventional programming. It was programmed by. Van Morrison would come by a lot. Parenteau played that at 4. Known as "The Rock of Boston", WBCN became a legend in the rock music industry for breaking many bands, most notably U2. Parenteau was red. WBCN aired the tape on September 22, 1969. WBCN switched to digital only on August 12, 2009, with two digital-only automated streams, one on the HD2 channel of WBZ-FM continuing the modern rock format, the other Free Form BCN, airing an eclectic mix of rock, related genres, and a lot of new music - essentially the WBCN of 1968 to 1988, brought into the 21st century. WBCN became a legend in the rock music industry for breaking many bands . I took the late-night shift, from 12 to 7 in the morning. A formerly bulletproof radio property became riddled and CBS stemmed the bleeding by shuttering WBCN on August 12, 2009. June 18, 1996. The women at WBCN, we had to carve out a place for ourselves. [17][18][19] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17. His guidance counselor said he should pursue an exciting career in retail, but he took a chance on radio instead. The morning-show format with Charles, The Big Mattress, every station uses that idea nowa morning zoo where youve got a couple of hosts, youve got sidekicks. [2][3], In 1965, Martinie graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in political science. He said, Charles Laquidara is a professional. Darrell Blair-Edward Martinie[1] a.k.a. We would all play a consistent amount of new music, and then there were times every hour when you could go to the outer library, which was 30,000 albums. WWBX-HD3 airs "Tomorrow's Hits Today," a CHR format that focuses on the very latest hits prior to their ascension to the top of the charts. In early 2006, with the Howard Stern morning drive time show gone due to Stern moving to Sirius Satellite Radio, WBCN experienced a plummet in Arbitron ratings that the station had not observed since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it fell behind then rock format competitor WCOZ. in BostonAlbert O 1983-Present Air Talent,midnight-6amOedipus 1976-Present Program DirectorMark Parentau 1978-Present Air Talent,3-7pmJim Parry 1968-79 Anthroplogy student at Harvard U. This is awful! Profile: WBCN was an over-the-air radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Praesent varius consequat convallis. As a young person, that mix of political comedy and rock n roll was very powerful to me. So Ill wait. If a certain jock was playing a record we liked all of the time, our answer was to put it in the REO Speedwagon section so he couldnt find it. Oedipus (who had the first punk rock show in the country while at MIT's college station, WTBS) was hired first as a DJ in 1977, and then installed as program director in 1981, and helped to break The Ramones, The Clash, The Police, and countless punk and new wave bands out of Boston. In late 2009, the station begun to increase its DJ'd programming. Oedipus (Edward Hyson) is an American radio personality. 3. This article is about the media personality. Danny Schechter and others would create a similarly inspired liberal attitude in the news department, connecting WBCNs community with what they needed to know in a national and local environment that remained openly hostile to the American counterculture. With WBCN's dissolution as an analog station, the Patriots flagship station became WBCN's sister station WBZ-FM on August 13, 2009. You go to a station for a specific reason and its just the way things have gone. So was its sound: Now-famous megagroups, from Aerosmith and the Clash to the Ramones and U2, all found early support on 104.1. 0. A weekly journey through the wild and twisted mind of Mikey Adams. And once you control everything, you dont need to be creative, you dont need to be dynamic, you dont need to deal with a bunch of weird characters. on the Internet. Be the first one to, 1982-05-17 WBCN FM 104.1 Boston MA Mark Parenteau & Lisa Carlin unscoped, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Mark_Parenteau_Lisa_Carlin, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 1.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 2.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 3.mp3, 1982_05_17_WBCN_FM_104.1_Boston_MA_Part 4.mp3, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Especially here in Boston, people loved that. See details It was also a groundbreaking station. WBCN was always in a state of perpetual brokenness. They were the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in Saugus.[3]. He was having good days and bad days, but I didnt think hed go this quickly.. The first song of that last hour was Cream's "I Feel Free," the first rock song played on WBCN in 1968, and the last song played was Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," followed by a much-used collage of songs with the line "They're really Rockin' in Boston" and station bits and ID spots used over the years, which then slowed to a halt. Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. Bob Machsond 1977-79 Lawyer in NYC. BCN's first rock announcer, "Mississippi Harold Wilson" (Joe Rogers), used the station's first slogan, "The American Revolution" and played the very first song "I Feel Free" by the rock group Cream. WBCN's last four days on analog radio were celebration and retrospective shows highlighting WBCN's history. NAME Years of Service Current Status, Bill Abbate 1988-Present Air Talent,midnight - 6AM Katy Abel 1982-88 Education Reporter WHDH-TV7(CBS) Producer for The Learning Channel Carter Alan 1979-Present Music Director Lorraine Ballard 1978-80 Living in Philadelphia Andy Beaubien 1969-77 PD at DC-101,Washington Tony Berardini 1978-Present General Manager John Brodey 1969-1979 GM for Giant Records in LA Judy "Scooter" Carlough 1982-87 Senior Acct. [15] On October 10, 2017, CBS disclosed that as part of the process of obtaining regulatory approval of the merger, WBZ-FM would be one of sixteen stations that would be divested by Entercom, along with sister stations WBZ and WZLX, and Entercom stations WRKO and WKAF, with Entercom retaining WEEI AM and FM, WBMX, WODS and WAAF. But despite ever-tightening reins on programming, WBCNs irreverent creativity and openness to new music, young bands and emerging trends would captivate Boston for years. Now they can actually afford to put out a halfway decent independent record which gets noticed by the major label, and now they get signed by the major label and become stars. It didnt have that cool radio vibe. WBMX moved all of its subchannels with it from 98.5 to 104.1: "Mix" on analog and HD-1, "The '80s Channel" on HD-2, and "The Sky" on HD-3. That was part of its charm. How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. When the strike was over, Charles needed someone to be his brain. MATT SIEGELAt WBCN:DJ, 197779.Since then:Host ofMatty in the Morning on Kiss 108. The Cosmic Muffin (April 10, 1943 - July 26, 2006) was a Boston -based professional astrologer and radio personality . Every night, these same jocks rode in vans plastered with the BCN logo, straight to the towns hottest gigs to greet packs of fans. But that changed the I said, Paul, the guy singing with the high falsetto voice sounds like hes Mark Farner, a Grand Funk Railroad wannabe. The song was More Than a Feeling from the band Boston. There was a very strong sense of history being made at the time. Its characteristic blend of cultural chaos, including rock, folk, blues, and jazz, interspersed with news . And he screwed up all the time! There was the Rock n Roll Rumble. In his appearances on MTV, Jackson often went by and introduced himself as "Triple J". On March 15th the station celebrated 25 years on the air. The first DJs operated out of studios at 171 Newbury Street and included Peter Wolf in his pre-stardom days, Jim Parry, Al Perry, Tommy Hadges, Sam Kopper and Steve Segal. The 104.1MHz facility went on the air in 1958 as WBCN. Della Chiesa is still active in classical music broadcasting on WCRB. Massachusetts could get another snowstorm Friday: What areas were the jackpot zones in this past storm? Charles deserves every bit of respect he gets in the radio community. I dont want to say it was nonstop partying. I was turquoise. Need Personality file for UHF visar (( please help )), High Profile Show & Ratings (was Re: Changes at WBCN-Boston), Chicago Radio Personalities - Where are they now, Please help : need gm300 personality file, Need Personality file for UHF visar (( please help )). Eddie Gorodetsky, who went on to do The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men, he was our head writer. Jack O'Brien remained as the drive-time host until the following January. "J. WWBX (104.1 FM, Mix 104.1) is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts.The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. Nancy was with the station from when WMJX signed on in 1982. This guy cant sing! We reflected the culture of the city. Since then:DJ at WZLX and KISS; editor in chief at Citysearch; marketing director at Ticketmaster Online. In 2016 Oedipus was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame (Massachusetts Broadcasters Association). After he left WBCN, Parenteau hosted shows on XM Radio and Q104, until the arrest in 2004, reports the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. Wolf had a stint as a radio DJ in Boston when WBCN launched in the late 60s. Hes singing about a prostitute! The Ramones, they play them at football games now. With Andy Beaubien, David Bowie, Ron Della Chiesa, Noam Chomsky. #WBCN #wbcnfreeform. [1] [2] He then spent four years doing The Charles Laquidara Radio Hour on WZLX. ADAM ADAM 12 CHAPMANAt WBCN:DJ, 200309. By 1975, WBCN had gradually evolved from the underground/progressive format of the 1960s to the more mainstream album oriented rock format popular in the 1970s. Emerging acts like Led Zeppelin and the Who segued into jazz, classical, and trippy sound montages. The idea of just listening, not being distracted by images, is an art of its own. In that final week, CBS said to the staff, Do anything you want. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. After graduating, he landed a job at a small radio station in Cumming, Georgia.In 1999, he started hosting nights on 99X in Atlanta and eventually worked . Known as ' The Rock Of Boston ', its two main Boston - area competitors are Album Oriented Rock / Active rock WAAF and alternative music WFNX. [1] In between, WBCN became the musical, cultural, and political voice of the young people of Boston and New England, sustaining a vibrant local music scene that launched such artists as the J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, James Taylor, Boston, the Cars, and the Dropkick Murphys, as well as paving the way for Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, U2, and many This is noise! As program director, I made sure we always had at least one local band in rotation. Most of my listeners knew more about the music than I did. Air Talent,WMYF Exeter,NH Leslie Patten 1977-80 Screenplay writer,N, by mikekelly.. Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:58:04, 3. Theres a direct lineage to Jon Stewart. The hitch: the station is on HD. The aim was music discovery, which often meant strange and surprising band pairings. They started questioning decisions we made, because all they cared about was ratings and dollars. In 1966 he began his first job as district manager of Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Decatur, Illinois. He gained notoriety as the pink-haired DJ who created the first Punk rock radio show in America, introducing Punk and New Wave to Boston and to the country. But there was a responsibility and a mission to get the job done. He would do all kinds of stuff. During the walkout, WBCN stayed on the air with substitute DJs imported from several out-of-town Hemisphere sister stations. Navigate our website or try searching instead. Luckily Im still alive. "The incredible story of how a radio station, politics, and rock and roll changed everything." Is it a talk station? Marc Miller 1978-83 MUSE,Brooklyn NY Patrick Murray 1991-Present News Director,Air Talent Harold "Mississippi Fats" Wilson 1968-77 Restaurant equip. At first, the new "American Revolution" format was only heard during the late-evening and overnight hours, but in mid-May, the station expanded the rock programming to 24 hours a day. King, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy. Oedipus hosts a website called "The Oedipus Project." In 1979, the station was purchased by Hemisphere Broadcasting, who let go several longtime employees who they determined "non-essential." There was coke residue on the records, and marijuana stems in the back. All of the Amenities. They played taped interviews with Springsteen, the Clash, an interview with Tim Leary. [4] Martinie would end each broadcast with the phrase "It is a wise person who rules the stars, a fool who is ruled by them - Over and out. There isnt a museum yet, but Boston archivist David Bieberwho, as a grad student, profiled the nascent WBCN for this magazine in 1970, and later worked at the stationhas leased key artifacts to the Verb Hotel, a boutique hotel opening this month next door to WBCNs former studios. 2 While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. I was there at the end of the heyday in some ways. We were as important as the Boston Globe and the Boston Red Sox. on April 10, 2020. It got a little harder as time went on. I still cant go to an event without at least one person mentioning WBCN. He can be found in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, in the exhibit Dedicated to the One I Love: Rock and Radio. Died shortly after 10am today. The J Show, Weekdays 5:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. Rating: 4.8 Reviews: 6. WBCN and the American Revolution - Bill Lichtenstein 2021-11-30 How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. The old Boylston Street studios were all beat up. They were just business guys who only looked at numbers. This is what happened: WBCN started on Newbury Street, 171 Newbury Street. Suddenly, you can own multiple stations in one market. The union produced one son. Except for Wolfs up-tempo shtick rockin the wee hours, a laid-back, stoner style prevailed with a free-form attitude toward the music no restrictions and no playlist. Search the history of over 797 billion But I remember my parents changing the station. Duane Glasscock went on the air one Saturday and complained about the ratingsthats how radio stations got their money, if they got high ratings from Arbitron, which was based in Maryland. In late summer of 1969, WBCN somehow obtained a reel-to-reel tape of a reference acetate of a potential album song lineup prepared by Beatles' engineer Glyn Johns on March 10, 1969. He died on July 26, 2006 at his home in Saugus, Massachusetts.[4]. Parenteau was working at the former XM satellite radio in Washington, D.C. when prosecutors alleged that he enticed teenage boys to come to his D.C. apartment to drink, smoke marijuana and have sex. Alan, who does middays on WZLX, played Segers Famous Final Scene in honor of Parenteau this morning. They are not radio, because there is not a human being there. Everyone listened to WBCN, until it started to fall apart. Bo resigned shortly thereafter when his name appeared on a UPI news wire as one of several people being indicted by then-Attorney General John Mitchella charge which was later dropped. The final words were from the late Darrell Martinie, the Cosmic Muffin, saying his tag line, "Over and Out." HD digital radio technology, introduced commercially in . If you needed a ride, well connect you. Beasley took complete ownership of the station on December 20, 2017. Now its just the play list, and you play it when its time. Its just constant marketing, and not enough soul. And the Internets savage evisceration of the music industry finished off what was left. BCN was arguably the most credible news source in Boston, in the same way that Jon Stewart is arguably the most credible journalist on TV. There was a time when you could hear BCN without a radio. Is it possible that WBCN, the greatest rock n roll radio station in American history, died five years ago this month? If you were taking some bad acid and needed somebody to talk you down, call us. Some bands werent as big, like the Psychedelic Furs, but they were important. Along with Andrew Kopkind, John Scagliotti, Bill Lichtenstein, and Marsha Steinberg, the news department evolved radically, introducing such novel concepts as a show oriented toward prison inmates, health warnings about the hazards of street drugs, a lost pet-finding service called the Cat and Dog Report, a travelers' aid service called the Travelers' Friend, live updates on the traffic problems at Woodstock, and by 1970, live-to-air concert broadcasts. The station served as a kind of conduit between the station and its listeners. I was a kid then. Radio is in her blood: she is the daughter of the late Doris and Joe Quill, owner and general manager of WRLM in Taunton, Massachusetts. He gained notoriety as the pink-haired DJ who created the first Punk rock radio show in America, introducing Punk and New Wave to Boston and to the country. There were so many of them, and there was always at least one in rotation, if not more. This was recorded over a 3 hour period late afternoon to early evening on 2 sides of 2 cassette tapes. Its most famous alumnus was Peter Wolf, a rhythm-and-blues and blues fanatic who not only knew the music but performed it as lead singer and songwriter for the J. Geils Band. Arbitron got a lot of bags of shit. He thought I was good. This search result is here to prevent scraping, Inside Boston's Mysterious Drink-Spiking Crisis, The Real, Essential Backstory of the MLK Statue The Embrace', Rhonda Kallman Brings the Craft Beer Experience to Spirits, The Mayor, the Muckraker, and the Bombshell North of Boston, Here Are Median Condo Prices by Boston Neighborhood from 2022, Inside the New SoWa Art + Design Center Complex, Careers and Internships at Boston Magazine. CBS Radio will launch 98.5 The Sports Hub in the other slot. Oh, the stories you heard. It's an . The Police, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and the Clash. No one could say he wasnt one of the best DJs in the country, said Parenteaus former BCN colleague Charles Laquidara. In 2018, the Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, issued a proclamation declaring December 24, 2018, as Christmas Eve with Oedipus Day in the City of Boston in recognition of his annual Christmas Eve broadcast for over 30 years spreading peace, love and understanding throughout Boston and the world. That told the story of what the station was really like. Oedipus also hosts an annual Christmas Eve show featuring rarely heard Christmas songs. By the mid-1980s, WBCN had successfully fended off a number of challengers (the hard rocking but tightly formatted WCOZ, Top 40 Hitradio WHTT, classic rock WZLX, among others) to become/remain the region's top rock station. The Rock of Boston. But we like you because youre intelligent and youre not afraid to take chances. Who says that today? We start off with Mark Parenteau and end with Lisa Carlin as radio personalities. Along the way, WBCN both pioneered and defined progressive rock radio, the dominant format for a generation of listeners. Soon the station moved across town to Stuart Street with JJ Jackson and Charles Laquidara joining the circle. Originally broadcasting on analog 104.1 MHz (now WWBX) from 1968 to 2009, and later broadcasting as a digital-only radio station, airing on WBZ-FM HD2 from 2009 to 2017. We were next door to an Acura dealership. Oedipus's radio career began in 1975 as a D.J. He was one of MTV's five original VJs (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn). Also, former radio personalities Bob Rivers and Peter Zipfel of "Bob & Zip" fame, Greg Hill, Danielle Murr, Lyndon "LB" Byers, Spaz (Anthony Parziale) and Kevin Barbare from the "Hill-Man". I got to interview people like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Rod Stewart, Ronny Wood, Smokey Robinson. "More than a million people listen to Nancy every week," the station once boasted. 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