WBCN-FM, a collective of free-spirited radio pioneers, began broadcasting on the night of March 15, 1968, declaring FM independence and the beginning of Boston’s underground radio experiment, dubbed “The American Revolution.”
WBCN Program Director Sam Kopper hired 20-year-old Maxanne Sartori from [...]
Charles Laquidara, WBCN’s most enduring personality, was born on November [...]
Larry “Cha-Chi” Loprete was born in 1957 in Brighton, Massachusetts, [...]
In early 1969, after a year in which the counter-culture [...]
If you were listening to WBCN in the late-‘70s, then the presence [...]
On the fabled first night of WBCN’s “American Revolution;” March 15, [...]
In October 1969, WBCN hired 21-year old Brooklyn native and Brandeis student Norm Winer on [...]
Carter Alan, disc jockey and writer, began his career at [...]
Multi-award-winning, longtime WBCN program director Oedipus indirectly got into the radio [...]
After WBCN moved to its second location (on Stuart Street [...]
