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...rated stations play a standard fare of top-forty rock, interspersed with the loud vacantminded prattle of their disc jockeys. Most of the rest divide air time between soupic housewife music (Mantovani, Perry Como) and the insufferable boring call-us-up-and-talk-about-it shows. A handful of FM stations play classical music regularly, but it still remains difficult to find good folk music or jazz--even on the FM band. The one noble exception to the dismal norm is the Educational outlet, WGBH-FM. But even WGBH confines itself to classical music, and information-education programs...
Until this year, when the B.U. owned but professionally-operated WBUR-FM came up with an exciting alternative to the boredom which is Boston radio. From midnight until three every morning except Tuesday they broadcast a hip combination of in-music and far-out rapping by a 26-year-old former B.U. student who goes by the name of Uncle...
...example, wowed them in Birmingham under the alias of Mel Kent, then moved to San Diego and on to Los Angeles as Johnny Mitchell, then to San Francisco as Brother Sebastian Stone. Last week he packed up and headed for Manhattan, where he will remain Sebastian Stone on WOR-FM for $80,000 a year...
When Harvard football, soccer, and cross-country teams all take the trek--nigh impossible except by Mohawk charter--to Cornell, fans are generally left twiddling their thumbs in Cambridge. But not this weekend. WRKO-AM and FM is leaping noisly into the breach with a three-day program of New England's All Time Top 300 that is designed to turn thumb-twiddlers to foot-stompers...
...General Manager Robert Whitney estimates that his beefed-up staff is "at least five times" the size of a regular radio news team. WCBS in New York has increased its news staff from 16 to 38, will add 15 more by Jan. 1. At Los Angeles' KABC-FM, news segments are updated every half-hour, rewritten completely at least twelve times a day. Nonetheless, the all-news format is paying off for some stations. Scanning the balance sheets after 2½ years of news-only operation, WAVA's Burgreen predicts that "within the next five years there will...