Blog: Idolator

Boston-area rock stalwart WBCN is reportedly going off the air this morning, with its Linkin-Park-and-Led-Zep playlist being shoved aside in order for parent company CBS Radio to make room for a new, all-sports yakfest on the area's radio dial. (WBCN had broadcast New England Patriots football.) WBCN was one of those stations that bridged the gap between "modern" and "mainstream" rock, two genres that have been coming together more and more as the number of rock stations in the country have diminished; as a marketing deck from December 2008 put it, [...]