By ciao - Oct 20, 2005, 9:40 PM Post #1 of 13
Finally Boston has an FM R& B station: WILD-FM. We're only the last major city in the United States to have an Urban AC station, where you can hear old school R&B and contemporary artists like Maxwell. WILD made the switch from AM to FM. Plus you can listen all day, unlike the old station which went off the air at sundown, and had a horrible signal even when it was on the air. The AM station is now gospel, another first for Boston radio. Finally! "George Bush doesn't care about black people" Kanye West-2005
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By adamg - Oct 20, 2005, 10:00 PM Post #2 of 13 [In reply to]
What's the frequency (Kenneth)?
By ciao - Oct 20, 2005, 10:07 PM Post #3 of 13 [In reply to]
Ha ha. It's 97.7 FM, but you won't be hearing R.E.M. Sorry! "George Bush doesn't care about black people" Kanye West-2005
By Ron Newman - Oct 20, 2005, 10:36 PM Post #4 of 13 [In reply to]
Actually not. Some time in the mid-1980s, WCAS-AM 740, a daytime-only station in Cambridge, changed to an all–gospel format and renamed itself WLVG. This lasted a couple of years. The frequency now belongs to WJIB-AM.
By ciao - Oct 20, 2005, 10:48 PM Post #5 of 13 [In reply to]
Maybe. But WLVG didn't last long, and it's quite strange that since its demise the gospel format was lacking in Boston for so long. It's good to see that Radio One added Gospel to the airwaves. Radio One has had major success with its gospel stations in other cities, it'll be interesting to see how they do with 1090, even with its daytime only signal. "George Bush doesn't care about black people" Kanye West-2005
What GREAT news! I've loved WILD since the 80s, and hated the fact Boston didn't have a single R&B station. I jumped up the second I read this and tuned my radio to 97.7. Thanks!
By adamg - Oct 21, 2005, 3:56 PM Post #7 of 13 [In reply to]
Welcome to Wicked Good! And for the rest of you, yes, for a change, this is a real person. And yes, it's sad I have to mention that when somebody is actually enthusiastic about something in a post involving music and/or radio instead of all snarly and nasty, given how rare it is these days for anybody here to post anything here other than snarly and nasty.
By adamg - Oct 21, 2005, 4:10 PM Post #8 of 13 [In reply to]
Apparently, not everybody's happy with the changes at 97.7: We've been on the phone all morning trying to track down details, and the upshot is that it's pretty dire, but not quite as bleak as a total wipeout. ... http://www.wbothot977.com
By Sparky - Oct 21, 2005, 5:10 PM Post #9 of 13 [In reply to]
Ding Ding!
By Ron Newman - Oct 21, 2005, 5:25 PM Post #10 of 13 [In reply to]
... which I think still has the same 250-watt signal it had when it was WCAS. Can you receive it in Norwood? (WCAS = Watertown Cambridge Arlington Somerville --- the only towns where you could reliably receive the station)
By adamg - Oct 21, 2005, 5:40 PM Post #11 of 13 [In reply to]
By Sparky - Oct 21, 2005, 6:01 PM Post #12 of 13 [In reply to]
I'm not sure if it's the same WJIB as I remember it, that now uses those call letters. The one I remember as a kid played music Fred & Miki would have enjoyed, Sinatra, the Mills Brothers, Tony Bennett, Percy Faith, etc. It had a nautical theme hence the jib in WJIB, it would strike a ship's bell on the hour, ding ding, and during commercials. It was located on Commercial Wharf and you could walk by and watch the show being broadcast through their window there. Not very exciting now perhaps but as a kid to see where the signal originated that carried itself all the way to Norwell was kinda neat. I don't think that it's current 250 watt signal makes it over the Great Blue Hill between me & the station. A discussion about the old WJIB: http://lists.bostonradio.org/bri/v02/msg05752.html
By Fred Sennott - Oct 21, 2005, 9:09 PM Post #13 of 13 [In reply to]
I would still enjoy hearing their music. Trust in God and sin not.Don't blame me I'm like Sparky I voted for Sarah to.
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