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WJIB (740 AM) is a radio station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and serving Greater Boston.Licensed to RCRQ, Inc.—a company owned by veteran broadcaster John Garabedian —the station plays a mix of adult standards and soft oldies music from the early 1990s and earlier.
Call sign Frequency City of license [1] [2] Licensee [1] Format [citation needed]; WACE: 730 AM: Chicopee: Holy Family Communications: Catholic WACF-LP: 98.1 FM ...
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 [2] (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge).
A new joint venture between Kaiser Broadcasting and The Boston Globe, [13] WJIB sought to incorporate a format similar to the one developed by Taylor at WDVR. [6] He later had a role in supervising Kaiser's sister station, KFOG-FM, in San Francisco. [4] At WJIB, Taylor launched the roll out of his beautiful music programming in the fall of 1967.
WKLB quickly responded by adding newer songs to their playlist and reducing spins of older music. A similar program hosted by Burns and Fink, "Boston Country Oldies", now airs on WCAP, WWSF, and WCRN. On July 19, 2016, Beasley Media Group announced it would acquire Greater Media and its 21 stations (including WKLB) for $240 million. [6]
Four years after MTV's 1981 debut, Garabedian and fellow WMEX alumnus Arnie Ginsburg started a Boston-area 24-hour music video station, WVJV-TV (now WUTF-TV). Their station, known as "V66", mirrored MTV's early all-video format and lasted until 1986, when WVJV phased out videos and was sold to the HSN. [6] "Life On The V: The Story Of V66" is a ...
Music Review: Boston indie-folk quartet Darlingside sings the blues with a lovely, inviting intimacy. STEVEN WINE. July 25, 2023 at 9:25 AM “Everything Is Alive,” Darlingside (Thirty Tigers)
Boston: 1976 [5] " The Star-Spangled Banner/4th of July Reprise" Tom Scholz John Stafford Smith F.S. Key: Greatest Hits: 1997 [7] "Stare Out Your Window" Anton Cosmo: