WWBX The format started at Its studios are located in Brighton , and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower. On December 4, , the call letters changed to WWBX, after the call letters were transferred to a sister station in Chicago.
The A classical music station in its first ten years on the air, beginning in , WBCN featured a rock format for 41 years. The station's battle of the bands' competition, the Rock 'n' Roll Rumble , survived the station's demise.
Boston DJ Anngelle Wood [ 5 ] remains the host and music director of both the radio show and The Rumble—these are the last remaining ties to the original While still digital and largely automated, the online stream was live Monday through Friday during the day.
In May , One of the on-air personalities at that time was Ron Della Chiesa , who also served as the music host and program director. Johnson remained with the station until , just prior to the changeover from classical to easy-listening , and then to rock. The station slowly began to change to an "underground" progressive rock format on the night of March 15, At first, the new "American Revolution" format was only heard during the late-evening and overnight hours, but in mid-May, the station expanded the rock programming to 24 hours a day.
By June , the station's air staff included Mississippi, Peter Wolf who was just starting with the J. In the summer of , Kopper was made the station's first program director. That fall, Segal and Kopper hired J. Jackson as a disc jockey.
