brenner@aruba.DEC (05/30/84)
[bleap!] There *is* one reason to listen to commercial AM radio in Boston--at least on weekdays between local sunrise and sunset. WNTN (Newton, 1550 I think) broadcasts really good, well-mixed dance music, chosen from new disco, new wave danceable stuff, and vintage disco (if you can call stuff from late 70s--early 80s vintage already). They slogan themselves as "your daytime nightclub", and they saved my head the week I was stuck with a rental car with an AM-only radio. BTW, while you're mentioning good non-commercial FM stations in Boston, you really ought to mention WHRB, 95.4, Cambridge, Harvard Radio. Their twice-yearly "Orgies" of non-stop music are famous or notorious. Imagine several days, 24 hours a day, of playing the entire discography of Charles Mingus or of every Shubert song ever recorded. WHRB has pulled this off. Orgies have also featured multi-hour shows on just about any rock, RnB, folk, new/no wave, funk, jazz, classical, etc artist you could imagine in your wildest dreams. Inbetween these periods of excess, WHRB plays stuff from all these areas in more moderate doses. Because they're low-power and have their antenna atop Holyoke Center in Harvard Square, they're a little hard to pull in from many locales, but worth it. Ellen Brenner ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!aruba!brenner P.S. WHRB is in mid-Orgy right now. They're timed to coincide with midterms and finals at ol' Ivy.