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WBQT (FM)

May 01, 2023

WBQT (96.9 MHz "Hot 96.9") is a commercial FM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and airs an urban-leaning rhythmic hot AC radio format. WBQT's studios and offices are located in Waltham. Its transmitter is atop the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

WBQT
Broadcast areaGreater Boston
Frequency96.9 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingHot 96.9
Programming
FormatRhythmic hot AC
Ownership
Owner
WBOS, WBZ-FM, WKLB-FM, WRCA, WROR-FM
History
First air date
1945; 78 years ago (1945)
Former call signs
  • W1XHR (1945–48)
  • WXHR (1948–65)
  • WXHR-FM (1965–67)
  • WJIB (1967–90)
  • WCDJ (1990–93)
  • WBCS (1993–96)
  • WKLB-FM (1996–97)
  • WSJZ (1997–99)
  • WTKK (1999–2013)
Technical information
Facility ID25050
ClassB
ERP22,500 watts
HAAT224 meters (735 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
42°20′49″N 71°04′59″W / 42.347°N 71.083°W / 42.347; -71.083
Links
WebcastListen live
Listen live (via TuneIn)
Websitehot969boston.com

History

The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories and programming a classical music format. In 1966, WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the Boston Globe, and in 1967, became beautiful music station WJIB[1] (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge). WJIB's music and programming director was Marlin Taylor who instituted the beautiful music format.[2]

After several further ownership changes—first to General Electric in 1972, then to NBC in 1983 (three years before the merger between NBC's parent company, RCA, and GE) and Emmis Communications in 1988—it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ, "CD96.9", on October 26, 1990. The first song under the new format was "Breakout" by Swing Out Sister.[3][4]

After Greater Media bought the station in May 1993, the station began stunting with a simulcast of new sister station WMJX at 1:00 p.m. on May 4 of that year.[5] Two days later, at 4:00 p.m., WCDJ flipped to country as WBCS, "Country 96.9." The first song was "Here We Are" by Alabama.[6][7][8][9] The station became WKLB-FM on August 24, 1996, after the previous WKLB-FM was bought by Greater Media and consolidated with WBCS, with its frequency being converted to WROR-FM.[10] Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22, 1997, as WSJZ, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB).[11]

WTKK: rise of talk

On September 7, 1999, WSJZ flipped to talk, completing a one-month transition to the format,[12][13] and the station changed its call letters to WTKK. During its tenure as a talk station, WTKK used several monikers: "96.9 FM Talk" from its 1999 launch until 2007, "96.9 WTKK: Boston's Talk Evolution" from 2007 until 2010, "96.9 Boston Talks" from 2010 until September 2012, and "News Talk 96.9" from September 2012 until its January 2013 demise.[14]

 
WTKK's last logo as a talk station, used from November 7, 2012, to January 2, 2013

In April 2007, WTKK management attempted to add Boston Herald columnist and talk-show host Howie Carr to its lineup, when the station's syndicated morning show Imus in the Morning was cancelled after Don Imus' comments about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team got him fired by CBS Radio. But Carr's long-time radio employer and WTKK's chief rival, Entercom-owned WRKO, blocked that move by exercising a clause in Carr's contract allowing it to make a matching counter-offer.[15] Carr held out until November 16, 2007, after which point Carr returned to WRKO. On December 3, 2007, WTKK resumed broadcasting Imus in the Morning when it was picked up by WABC in New York City and syndicated by Westwood One. But over time, Imus' hours were cut back on WTKK, ultimately only airing for 2 hours every weekday morning.[16] In January 2011, WTKK dropped Imus from the lineup completely in favor of an extended edition of the local late morning team of Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.[17]

WTKK fired the controversial Jay Severin, a host since 1999, in April 2011 after he said he had slept with female interns at a company he had owned, and defended the practice.[18] He was officially replaced in June 2011 by radio host Doug Meehan.[19] Two months later, when rival station WXKS hired Severin for afternoon drive, WTKK shuffled its lineup to place politics-heavy Michael Graham in the 3:00 p.m. slot. The lineup at this point included Eagan and Braude, followed by various hosts in late mornings, then syndicated talker Michael Smerconish, followed by "The Daily Wrap", hosted by Michael Castner and syndicated by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, then the syndicated John Batchelor and Overnight America shows.

End of talk and the launch of Hot 96.9

In December 2012, Greater Media registered several web domains for WTKK, pointing that the future of the news/talk format was in serious doubt due to low ratings (in its last book as a talk station, WTKK had a 1.9 share of the market in the Boston Arbitron radio market ratings). Many of the domains included the word "Beat", pointing to an urban contemporary, rhythmic CHR, or rhythmic AC format. If this were to occur, this would have marked a return for either the Rhythmic AC format (which was last heard in 2005, when WQSX flipped to adult hits) or the urban format (which was last carried on a Boston station in 2006, when the former WILD-FM flipped to a simulcast of WAAF) in the market; in either case, this would have caused the station to compete against long-dominant WJMN.[20] Other domains pointed to possible adult hits, oldies, all-news, sports talk, active rock, dance music, adult contemporary, classic rock, mainstream rock, alternative rock, adult album alternative, or CHR formats. Further fueling the rumors of a format flip, on December 17, 2012, morning host Doug Meehan left to pursue a television opportunity in Arizona, while afternoon host Michael Graham left when his contract was not renewed.[21] In addition, weekend hosts were told the last weekend of 2012 that their shows would not continue in the new year.

 
Stunt logos as "Power 96.9", "Nova 96.9", "96.9 Mike FM" and "96.9 The Bone".

In compliance with a press release by Greater Media on January 1, 2013, the station flipped at 10:00 a.m. the next day, after Jim Braude and Margery Eagan's final morning show, starting its new incarnation as Urban Contemporary-formatted "Power 96.9", which began with "Diamonds" by Rihanna.[22][23] However, this would only turn out to be a stunt in a series of "micro-formats"; at 10:00 a.m. the following day, the station shifted to Dance as "Nova 96.9."[24][25] At Noon on January 4, the stunting shifted to adult hits, branded as "96.9 Mike FM" (using the former moniker/format of WMKK). At Midnight on January 6, the stunting would shift to classic rock as "96.9 The Bone."

On January 8, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., WTKK debuted its new, permanent format: Rhythmic AC, with the branding "Hot 96.9"; "Run This Town" by Jay-Z was the first song played.[26] According to a press release from Greater Media, the station's direction will primarily be focused on current Rhythmic and Dance hits mixed in with recurrents from the 1980s and 1990s, as it targets an audience who grew up listening to WJMN in the 1990s and 2000s, but want an alternative to Adult Top 40 WBMX, whose presentation is more Pop/Rock oriented. The flip brings the format back to Boston for the first time since WQSX flipped to WMKK in 2005. In addition, like WQSX, WTKK is also using "The Rhythm of Boston" as its on-air slogan (albeit briefly; the station adopted its "Today's Rhythm & All the Best Throwbacks" slogan a month later, which was modified to "Today's Hottest Music..." in July 2014, and then "Boston's New #1 For Throwbacks, Hit Music and The Best New Hip Hop and R&B!" in June 2016).[27] On March 20, 2013, WTKK changed its call sign to WBQT. Clear Channel soon obtained the former call sign for use on their current 106.1 FM facility in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In terms of staff announcements, Greater Media confirmed on January 3, 2013, that Pebbles, former long-time morning co-host on WJMN, will be WTKK's new morning show host.[28] Also brought on from WJMN was Melissa, who became the afternoon drive time host from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. In addition, on January 4, 2013, Greater Media announced that Jackson "Cadillac Jack" McCartney has been hired as Director of Programming for all 5 stations in their Boston cluster.[29] On February 20, 2013, it was announced that former WJMN DJ Roy Barboza was named Music Director and Mix Show Coordinator.[30] On March 1, 2013, it was announced that Baltazar, who co-hosted WJMN's morning show with Pebbles from 1995-2001, would become the new co-host of Hot 96.9's morning show beginning on March 4, 2013, reuniting him with Pebbles.[31] In August 2013, former WJMN personalities Deirdre Dagata and Hustle Simmons became weekend hosts at the station. On January 8, 2014, former WXKS personality Jackson Blue became WBQT's new afternoon host, with Melissa moving to middays. In April 2014, former WJMN personality Bobby Blaze briefly became a Sunday afternoon/evening host (he would be replaced by Reggie Beas). On August 18, 2014, Baltazar was released from the station, and was replaced by former New England Patriots player and WBZ-FM host Jermaine Wiggins. In addition, Melissa moved to morning drive, with Dagata replacing her in middays. On January 7, 2016, WBQT announced that Ramiro, former morning show host at WJMN from 2001 until he was let go in July 2015 (as well as the host of the Rhythmic edition of the syndicated Weekend Top 30), will host mornings with Wiggins, Pebbles and Melissa beginning January 14, 2016.[32]

With the station having moved further toward Rhythmic Top 40 to compete more with WJMN, Mediabase moved the station to the Rhythmic panel in January 2015.

On July 19, 2016, Beasley Media Group announced it would acquire Greater Media and its 21 stations (including WBQT) for $240 million.[33] The FCC approved the sale on October 6, 2016, and the sale closed on November 1, 2016.[34]

WBQT-HD2

WBQT-HD2 had programmed an all-Irish music format as "96.9 Irish", due in part to Boston's Irish history and influence. The HD2 subchannel had been on-air since 2006, when it debuted as "Classical 2.0."[35] In late 2006, when Greater Media purchased classical station WCRB, 96.9-2 flipped to an all-Irish format.[36] From early May to July 4, 2017, sister station WRCA simulcasted "96.9 Irish", while the station changed its branding to "Boston's Irish Channel". The station currently airs primarily Bloomberg News programming, with local news cut into the national programming of Bloomberg.

In October 2019, WBQT-HD2 flipped to a current-heavy urban contemporary format as "96.9 the Vibe".

WBQT no longer carries any HD-2 programming as of February 2021.

References

  1. ^ "Globe-Kaiser FM Station Opens Friday". The Boston Globe. September 12, 1967. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Marlin Taylor gets beautiful ratings with 'beautiful music'" (PDF). Television/Radio Age. September 7, 1970. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  3. ^ WJIB Adopts New Name; New Format, Boston Globe, October 26, 1990
  4. ^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1990/RR-1990-11-02.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ WCDJ makes the switch to soft rock, Boston Globe, May 5, 1993
  6. ^ WBCS debuts with country music, Boston Globe, May 7, 1993
  7. ^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1993/RR-1993-05-07.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1993/RR-1993-05-14.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ Format Change: 96.9 WCDJ Becomes Country WBCS - 05/06/1993 4:00 PM- YouTube
  10. ^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1996/R&R-1996-09-13.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  11. ^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-08-22.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  12. ^ Imus, Barnicle and new format for WSJZ, Boston Globe, August 12, 1999
  13. ^ Station set for all talk including Imus and Barnicle, Boston Globe, September 2, 1999
  14. ^ WTKK Rebrands as 'News Talk 96.9'
  15. ^ "Howie Carr's move to WTKK blocked, for now - the Boston Globe".
  16. ^ http://www.bostonherald.com/business/media/view.bg?articleid=1201852 WTKK dials back Don Imus, tunes into local talent
  17. ^ http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/media/view/20110112wtkk_kicks_imus_out_adds_more_of_eagan/srvc=home&position=also WTKK kicks Imus out, adds more of Eagan
  18. ^ http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/04/07/contentious_talk_show_host_severin_fired/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today%27s+paper+A+to+Z Contentious Talk Show Host Severin Fired
  19. ^ by http://bostonherald.com/blogs/news/messenger/index.php/2011/06/14/its-official-meehan-replace-severin/
  20. ^ Who's Dropping a Beat into Boston?
  21. ^ Michael Graham Exits WTKK
  22. ^ "Greatermedia.com - Las Vegas Media".
  23. ^ News Talk 96.9 Signs Off; Begins Stunting
  24. ^ All Access Music Group (January 3, 2013). "Power 96.9 Now Stunting As Nova 96.9 In Boston". All Access Music Group. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  25. ^ "Mixcloud".
  26. ^ Hot 96.9 Boston Debuts
  27. ^ Lance Venta (January 8, 2013). "Hot 96.9 Boston Debuts". Radio Insight. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
  28. ^ http://www.greatermedia.com/?p=4321 Veteran Boston Morning Personality Pebbles Joins 96.9FM
  29. ^ http://www.greatermedia.com/?p=4328 Cadillac Jack Named Director of Programming
  30. ^ "Barboza Named MD at Hot 96.9". Greater Media. February 20, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  31. ^ "Baltazar Returns to Boston to Co-Host Mornings on Hot 96.9 FM". Greater Media. March 1, 2013. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  32. ^ Ramiro Joins Hot 96.9 Boston
  33. ^ Beasley Acquires Greater Media
  34. ^ Beasley Closes on Greater Media Purchase; Makes Multiple Staff Moves
  35. ^ Tucker, Ken (January 19, 2006). "Greater Media, Emmis Unveil HD2 Strategies". Billboard. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  36. ^ "The Boston Radio Dial: WBQT(FM)".

External links

  • Official website
  • Station History
  • WBQT in the FCC FM station database
  • WBQT on Radio-Locator
  • WBQT in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

May 01, 2023
wbqt, wbqt, commercial, radio, station, boston, massachusetts, owned, beasley, broadcast, group, airs, urban, leaning, rhythmic, radio, format, wbqt, studios, offices, located, waltham, transmitter, atop, prudential, tower, boston, back, neighborhood, wbqtbost. WBQT 96 9 MHz Hot 96 9 is a commercial FM radio station in Boston Massachusetts It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and airs an urban leaning rhythmic hot AC radio format WBQT s studios and offices are located in Waltham Its transmitter is atop the Prudential Tower in Boston s Back Bay neighborhood WBQTBoston MassachusettsBroadcast areaGreater BostonFrequency96 9 MHz HD Radio BrandingHot 96 9ProgrammingFormatRhythmic hot ACOwnershipOwnerBeasley Broadcast Group Beasley Media Group Licenses LLC Sister stationsWBOS WBZ FM WKLB FM WRCA WROR FMHistoryFirst air date1945 78 years ago 1945 Former call signsW1XHR 1945 48 WXHR 1948 65 WXHR FM 1965 67 WJIB 1967 90 WCDJ 1990 93 WBCS 1993 96 WKLB FM 1996 97 WSJZ 1997 99 WTKK 1999 2013 Technical informationFacility ID25050ClassBERP22 500 wattsHAAT224 meters 735 ft Transmitter coordinates42 20 49 N 71 04 59 W 42 347 N 71 083 W 42 347 71 083LinksWebcastListen liveListen live via TuneIn Websitehot969boston wbr com Contents 1 History 1 1 WTKK rise of talk 1 2 End of talk and the launch of Hot 96 9 2 WBQT HD2 3 References 4 External linksHistory EditThe station originated in 1945 as W1XHR later WXHR owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories and programming a classical music format In 1966 WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the Boston Globe and in 1967 became beautiful music station WJIB 1 whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge WJIB s music and programming director was Marlin Taylor who instituted the beautiful music format 2 After several further ownership changes first to General Electric in 1972 then to NBC in 1983 three years before the merger between NBC s parent company RCA and GE and Emmis Communications in 1988 it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ CD96 9 on October 26 1990 The first song under the new format was Breakout by Swing Out Sister 3 4 After Greater Media bought the station in May 1993 the station began stunting with a simulcast of new sister station WMJX at 1 00 p m on May 4 of that year 5 Two days later at 4 00 p m WCDJ flipped to country as WBCS Country 96 9 The first song was Here We Are by Alabama 6 7 8 9 The station became WKLB FM on August 24 1996 after the previous WKLB FM was bought by Greater Media and consolidated with WBCS with its frequency being converted to WROR FM 10 Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22 1997 as WSJZ after a format swap with what had been WOAZ now WCRB 11 WTKK rise of talk Edit On September 7 1999 WSJZ flipped to talk completing a one month transition to the format 12 13 and the station changed its call letters to WTKK During its tenure as a talk station WTKK used several monikers 96 9 FM Talk from its 1999 launch until 2007 96 9 WTKK Boston s Talk Evolution from 2007 until 2010 96 9 Boston Talks from 2010 until September 2012 and News Talk 96 9 from September 2012 until its January 2013 demise 14 WTKK s last logo as a talk station used from November 7 2012 to January 2 2013 In April 2007 WTKK management attempted to add Boston Herald columnist and talk show host Howie Carr to its lineup when the station s syndicated morning show Imus in the Morning was cancelled after Don Imus comments about the Rutgers University Women s Basketball team got him fired by CBS Radio But Carr s long time radio employer and WTKK s chief rival Entercom owned WRKO blocked that move by exercising a clause in Carr s contract allowing it to make a matching counter offer 15 Carr held out until November 16 2007 after which point Carr returned to WRKO On December 3 2007 WTKK resumed broadcasting Imus in the Morning when it was picked up by WABC in New York City and syndicated by Westwood One But over time Imus hours were cut back on WTKK ultimately only airing for 2 hours every weekday morning 16 In January 2011 WTKK dropped Imus from the lineup completely in favor of an extended edition of the local late morning team of Jim Braude and Margery Eagan 17 WTKK fired the controversial Jay Severin a host since 1999 in April 2011 after he said he had slept with female interns at a company he had owned and defended the practice 18 He was officially replaced in June 2011 by radio host Doug Meehan 19 Two months later when rival station WXKS hired Severin for afternoon drive WTKK shuffled its lineup to place politics heavy Michael Graham in the 3 00 p m slot The lineup at this point included Eagan and Braude followed by various hosts in late mornings then syndicated talker Michael Smerconish followed by The Daily Wrap hosted by Michael Castner and syndicated by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network then the syndicated John Batchelor and Overnight America shows End of talk and the launch of Hot 96 9 Edit In December 2012 Greater Media registered several web domains for WTKK pointing that the future of the news talk format was in serious doubt due to low ratings in its last book as a talk station WTKK had a 1 9 share of the market in the Boston Arbitron radio market ratings Many of the domains included the word Beat pointing to an urban contemporary rhythmic CHR or rhythmic AC format If this were to occur this would have marked a return for either the Rhythmic AC format which was last heard in 2005 when WQSX flipped to adult hits or the urban format which was last carried on a Boston station in 2006 when the former WILD FM flipped to a simulcast of WAAF in the market in either case this would have caused the station to compete against long dominant WJMN 20 Other domains pointed to possible adult hits oldies all news sports talk active rock dance music adult contemporary classic rock mainstream rock alternative rock adult album alternative or CHR formats Further fueling the rumors of a format flip on December 17 2012 morning host Doug Meehan left to pursue a television opportunity in Arizona while afternoon host Michael Graham left when his contract was not renewed 21 In addition weekend hosts were told the last weekend of 2012 that their shows would not continue in the new year Stunt logos as Power 96 9 Nova 96 9 96 9 Mike FM and 96 9 The Bone In compliance with a press release by Greater Media on January 1 2013 the station flipped at 10 00 a m the next day after Jim Braude and Margery Eagan s final morning show starting its new incarnation as Urban Contemporary formatted Power 96 9 which began with Diamonds by Rihanna 22 23 However this would only turn out to be a stunt in a series of micro formats at 10 00 a m the following day the station shifted to Dance as Nova 96 9 24 25 At Noon on January 4 the stunting shifted to adult hits branded as 96 9 Mike FM using the former moniker format of WMKK At Midnight on January 6 the stunting would shift to classic rock as 96 9 The Bone On January 8 2013 at 11 00 a m WTKK debuted its new permanent format Rhythmic AC with the branding Hot 96 9 Run This Town by Jay Z was the first song played 26 According to a press release from Greater Media the station s direction will primarily be focused on current Rhythmic and Dance hits mixed in with recurrents from the 1980s and 1990s as it targets an audience who grew up listening to WJMN in the 1990s and 2000s but want an alternative to Adult Top 40 WBMX whose presentation is more Pop Rock oriented The flip brings the format back to Boston for the first time since WQSX flipped to WMKK in 2005 In addition like WQSX WTKK is also using The Rhythm of Boston as its on air slogan albeit briefly the station adopted its Today s Rhythm amp All the Best Throwbacks slogan a month later which was modified to Today s Hottest Music in July 2014 and then Boston s New 1 For Throwbacks Hit Music and The Best New Hip Hop and R amp B in June 2016 27 On March 20 2013 WTKK changed its call sign to WBQT Clear Channel soon obtained the former call sign for use on their current 106 1 FM facility in Raleigh North Carolina In terms of staff announcements Greater Media confirmed on January 3 2013 that Pebbles former long time morning co host on WJMN will be WTKK s new morning show host 28 Also brought on from WJMN was Melissa who became the afternoon drive time host from 2 00 p m to 7 00 p m In addition on January 4 2013 Greater Media announced that Jackson Cadillac Jack McCartney has been hired as Director of Programming for all 5 stations in their Boston cluster 29 On February 20 2013 it was announced that former WJMN DJ Roy Barboza was named Music Director and Mix Show Coordinator 30 On March 1 2013 it was announced that Baltazar who co hosted WJMN s morning show with Pebbles from 1995 2001 would become the new co host of Hot 96 9 s morning show beginning on March 4 2013 reuniting him with Pebbles 31 In August 2013 former WJMN personalities Deirdre Dagata and Hustle Simmons became weekend hosts at the station On January 8 2014 former WXKS personality Jackson Blue became WBQT s new afternoon host with Melissa moving to middays In April 2014 former WJMN personality Bobby Blaze briefly became a Sunday afternoon evening host he would be replaced by Reggie Beas On August 18 2014 Baltazar was released from the station and was replaced by former New England Patriots player and WBZ FM host Jermaine Wiggins In addition Melissa moved to morning drive with Dagata replacing her in middays On January 7 2016 WBQT announced that Ramiro former morning show host at WJMN from 2001 until he was let go in July 2015 as well as the host of the Rhythmic edition of the syndicated Weekend Top 30 will host mornings with Wiggins Pebbles and Melissa beginning January 14 2016 32 With the station having moved further toward Rhythmic Top 40 to compete more with WJMN Mediabase moved the station to the Rhythmic panel in January 2015 On July 19 2016 Beasley Media Group announced it would acquire Greater Media and its 21 stations including WBQT for 240 million 33 The FCC approved the sale on October 6 2016 and the sale closed on November 1 2016 34 WBQT HD2 EditWBQT HD2 had programmed an all Irish music format as 96 9 Irish due in part to Boston s Irish history and influence The HD2 subchannel had been on air since 2006 when it debuted as Classical 2 0 35 In late 2006 when Greater Media purchased classical station WCRB 96 9 2 flipped to an all Irish format 36 From early May to July 4 2017 sister station WRCA simulcasted 96 9 Irish while the station changed its branding to Boston s Irish Channel The station currently airs primarily Bloomberg News programming with local news cut into the national programming of Bloomberg In October 2019 WBQT HD2 flipped to a current heavy urban contemporary format as 96 9 the Vibe WBQT no longer carries any HD 2 programming as of February 2021 References Edit Globe Kaiser FM Station Opens Friday The Boston Globe September 12 1967 Retrieved November 5 2021 Marlin Taylor gets beautiful ratings with beautiful music PDF Television Radio Age September 7 1970 Retrieved November 5 2021 WJIB Adopts New Name New Format Boston Globe October 26 1990 http www americanradiohistory com Archive RandR 1990s 1990 RR 1990 11 02 pdf bare URL PDF WCDJ makes the switch to soft rock Boston Globe May 5 1993 WBCS debuts with country music Boston Globe May 7 1993 http www americanradiohistory com Archive RandR 1990s 1993 RR 1993 05 07 pdf bare URL PDF http www americanradiohistory com Archive RandR 1990s 1993 RR 1993 05 14 pdf bare URL PDF Format Change 96 9 WCDJ Becomes Country WBCS 05 06 1993 4 00 PM YouTube http www americanradiohistory com Archive RandR 1990s 1996 R amp R 1996 09 13 pdf bare URL PDF http www americanradiohistory com Archive RandR 1990s 1997 RR 1997 08 22 pdf bare URL PDF Imus Barnicle and new format for WSJZ Boston Globe August 12 1999 Station set for all talk including Imus and Barnicle Boston Globe September 2 1999 WTKK Rebrands as News Talk 96 9 Howie Carr s move to WTKK blocked for now the Boston Globe http www bostonherald com business media view bg articleid 1201852 WTKK dials back Don Imus tunes into local talent http www bostonherald com jobfind news media view 20110112wtkk kicks imus out adds more of eagan srvc home amp position also WTKK kicks Imus out adds more of Eagan http www boston com ae tv articles 2011 04 07 contentious talk show host severin fired rss id Boston Globe Today 27s paper A to Z Contentious Talk Show Host Severin Fired by http bostonherald com blogs news messenger index php 2011 06 14 its official meehan replace severin Who s Dropping a Beat into Boston Michael Graham Exits WTKK Greatermedia com Las Vegas Media News Talk 96 9 Signs Off Begins Stunting All Access Music Group January 3 2013 Power 96 9 Now Stunting As Nova 96 9 In Boston All Access Music Group Retrieved January 3 2013 Mixcloud Hot 96 9 Boston Debuts Lance Venta January 8 2013 Hot 96 9 Boston Debuts Radio Insight Retrieved January 8 2013 http www greatermedia com p 4321 Veteran Boston Morning Personality Pebbles Joins 96 9FM http www greatermedia com p 4328 Cadillac Jack Named Director of Programming Barboza Named MD at Hot 96 9 Greater Media February 20 2013 Retrieved March 2 2013 Baltazar Returns to Boston to Co Host Mornings on Hot 96 9 FM Greater Media March 1 2013 Retrieved March 2 2013 Ramiro Joins Hot 96 9 Boston Beasley Acquires Greater Media Beasley Closes on Greater Media Purchase Makes Multiple Staff Moves Tucker Ken January 19 2006 Greater Media Emmis Unveil HD2 Strategies Billboard Retrieved January 19 2016 The Boston Radio Dial WBQT FM External links EditOfficial website Station History WBQT in the FCC FM station database WBQT on Radio Locator WBQT in Nielsen Audio s FM station database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title WBQT FM amp oldid 1136608239, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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