WBOS is a commercial radio station located in Brookline, Massachusetts, broadcasting to the Greater Boston area on 92.9 FM. The station airs an alternative music format branded as "Radio 92.9". WBOS is owned and operated by Greater Media. It is based in Dorchester, and broadcasts from the top of the Prudential Tower in Back Bay.
WBOS-FM signed-on in 1958, simulcasting most of the programming of WBOS (AM). Most of the AM station's programming was ...
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WBOS is a commercial radio station located in Brookline, Massachusetts, broadcasting to the Greater Boston area on 92.9 FM. The station airs an alternative music format branded as "Radio 92.9". WBOS is owned and operated by Greater Media. It is based in Dorchester, and broadcasts from the top of the Prudential Tower in Back Bay.
WBOS-FM signed-on in 1958, simulcasting most of the programming of WBOS (AM). Most of the AM station's programming was beautiful music, but when the AM broadcast ethnic programming, the FM side continued to broadcast beautiful music, which was branded on both AM and FM as "Boston's Music Theatre". In 1975, WBOS changed to a hodgepodge format which did not gain much of an audience.
In 1978, Boston radio personality Ron Robin, disgusted at the fact that the airtime for his weekly disco music show on WVBF had been cut back, left WVBF and began doing a four-hour Sunday-night disco show for WBOS.
The success of that show led to rapid expansion of the disco...
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