in 1967 I was 10 years old and lived in Arlington just outside of downtown Boston.. I was infatuated with radios and knew the entire AM radio band. Us kids listened to WRKO and WMEX. Our parents listened to WHDH and WBZ. Sports fans listened to WEEI. By the time I was 12 or 13, I discovered the FM dial and WBCN soon was my radio station of choice. But.... I was closet WJIB listener... didn't dare tell my friends I liked to listen to WJIB... Ha Ha! Today I live 1200 miles from Boston and was very pleased to recently discovered WJIB 97 FM on the Web! Love hearing the bells!
Thank you for posting this. When I went to live in Boston in 1980 WJIB was the first radio station that I tuned into in the radio that I brought with me. I loved the station identification music and the sound of the seagulls in the background.
I just love listening to WJIB Radio 740AM because of the easy listening music without all of the JUNK those other stations play. Thank You so very much for posting this. I LOVE IT VERY, VERY MUCH.
My grandparents would play JIB all night to sleep to. Hearing this reminds me fondly of growing up in their home. If I could duplicate their playlists it would still be great for falling asleep to! Just can't quite find the right mix of those slow, stringy atmospheric instrumentals. This track illustrates WJIB's vibe to a T. Heck, maybe their entire format was literally all Frank Chacksfield...
Thanks for the interesting look-back. I would have been 10 at the time, and many interesting changes even penetrated our poor neighborhood. What's now the 495 region couldn't yet pick up music-only stations unless they were symphonic. We ran WJIB dinner hour over Dad's mono Detrola hi-fi. In a couple of years the Sylvania superheterodyne AM-FM table radio was $9 at Spags. Tube gear had always sounded good, but transistor had a crispness that's hard to put into words.
The old WJIB-FM's transmitter remained atop Zion Hill in Woburn for only about a year before moving to a newly-built tower in Needham along with then-sister station WKBG-TV (now WLVI) and WSBK-TV.
Very nice. I remember 96.9 as a smooth Jazz station: WCDJ. Being born in 1979, the only EZ/BM station I remember is WLKW-FM/101.5. By the ship's bells, the sign-on must've been at 12, 4 or 8 o'clock.
Unreal! Was knee high to a grasshopper with my Sicilian grandfather on the couch watching Godzilla creature double feature, while my angelic grandmother Rita filled the Pope tower condo in Salem with the smell of her freshly made custard and the sound of the north shore coast with those legendary bells and gulls. Grazie!
NESN used to air this station with a computerized full-screen "sports text" (or whatever you call it) after signing off for the night. That's how I became acquainted with WJIB, while working the overnight shift at CNN Headline News in Atlanta - after a Bruins game, I guess.
UA-cam limits us to 500 characters. I didn't like everything on WJIB, rather typical for a pre-teen those days, but JIB was playing in every single doctor and dentist office we visited. For some reason I remember hearing Chip Whitmore the most -- just learned today of his 1977 helicopter crash. Many have forgotten, WCOZ was a complement/competitor to the JIB format. Now a rocker, they weren't in the market very long. I do like Bob Bittner's iteration a bit more -- decades later of course.
love the simulated cart machine.. if I had a nickel for everytime I put one of those babies in an IT machine .. and hey, remember when every market had at least one "beautiful music" station..
WJIB FM 97, a radio station, which has lots of beautiful music by Henry Mancini, Bert Kaempert, Nelson Riddle, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis, Jr. Lots of quiet music! No Jonas Bros., no Lady Gaga, no Demi Lovato, no Andra Day, no Owl City, no Vampire Weekend, no Big Sean, no Tori Kelly, no Taylor Swift or any of the pop superstars of recent years and today! Ring the bell of "Old Ironsides!" ("Ding!, Ding! Ding! Ding!")
I know it was supposed to recreate a 1967 sign on, which it does superbly... But that 1975-2008 copyright on each frame is distracting. Makes it hard to be 1967 believable.
in 1967 I was 10 years old and lived in Arlington just outside of downtown Boston.. I was infatuated with radios and knew the entire AM radio band. Us kids listened to WRKO and WMEX. Our parents listened to WHDH and WBZ. Sports fans listened to WEEI. By the time I was 12 or 13, I discovered the FM dial and WBCN soon was my radio station of choice. But.... I was closet WJIB listener... didn't dare tell my friends I liked to listen to WJIB... Ha Ha! Today I live 1200 miles from Boston and was very pleased to recently discovered WJIB 97 FM on the Web! Love hearing the bells!
Brought tears to an old man's eyes. Seems every radio in Wellesley was turned to this station. Best radio ever. Thank you for posting.
Very happy to do it, thanks
Thank you for posting this. When I went to live in Boston in 1980 WJIB was the first radio station that I tuned into in the radio that I brought with me. I loved the station identification music and the sound of the seagulls in the background.
I just love listening to WJIB Radio 740AM because of the easy listening music without all of the JUNK those other stations play. Thank You so very much for posting this. I LOVE IT VERY, VERY MUCH.
I have corrected the auto-text in the closed-caption feature on this. Select CC button at bottom of video screen to read
I'm from western mass but when I went to Boston I always looked for WJIB. I love the ships bell in the station ID.
My grandparents would play JIB all night to sleep to. Hearing this reminds me fondly of growing up in their home. If I could duplicate their playlists it would still be great for falling asleep to! Just can't quite find the right mix of those slow, stringy atmospheric instrumentals. This track illustrates WJIB's vibe to a T. Heck, maybe their entire format was literally all Frank Chacksfield...
Try 'JIB on the Web email address is live365.com/station/JIB-on-the-Web-a04394
Thanks for the interesting look-back. I would have been 10 at the time, and many interesting changes even penetrated our poor neighborhood. What's now the 495 region couldn't yet pick up music-only stations unless they were symphonic. We ran WJIB dinner hour over Dad's mono Detrola hi-fi. In a couple of years the Sylvania superheterodyne AM-FM table radio was $9 at Spags. Tube gear had always sounded good, but transistor had a crispness that's hard to put into words.
The old WJIB-FM's transmitter remained atop Zion Hill in Woburn for only about a year before moving to a newly-built tower in Needham along with then-sister station WKBG-TV (now WLVI) and WSBK-TV.
Very nice. I remember 96.9 as a smooth Jazz station: WCDJ. Being born in 1979, the only EZ/BM station I remember is WLKW-FM/101.5. By the ship's bells, the sign-on must've been at 12, 4 or 8 o'clock.
Unreal! Was knee high to a grasshopper with my Sicilian grandfather on the couch watching Godzilla creature double feature, while my angelic grandmother Rita filled the Pope tower condo in Salem with the smell of her freshly made custard and the sound of the north shore coast with those legendary bells and gulls. Grazie!
I find it odd that music like this was popular when life was pretty boring and it is no longer in favor especially now when we could really use it!
thank you...you don't know how good this makes me feel...
isnt WJIB on 740 AM that intro is a very peaceful way to start your day
thabks for uploading
NESN used to air this station with a computerized full-screen "sports text" (or whatever you call it) after signing off for the night. That's how I became acquainted with WJIB, while working the overnight shift at CNN Headline News in Atlanta - after a Bruins game, I guess.
I am so glad that wjib fm is back on the fm dial fm 101.3 am740 wjib cambridge boston ma mid coast of maine bath portland sm730 wjto
UA-cam limits us to 500 characters. I didn't like everything on WJIB, rather typical for a pre-teen those days, but JIB was playing in every single doctor and dentist office we visited. For some reason I remember hearing Chip Whitmore the most -- just learned today of his 1977 helicopter crash. Many have forgotten, WCOZ was a complement/competitor to the JIB format. Now a rocker, they weren't in the market very long. I do like Bob Bittner's iteration a bit more -- decades later of course.
love the simulated cart machine.. if I had a nickel for everytime I put one of those babies in an IT machine .. and hey, remember when every market had at least one "beautiful music" station..
So glad WJIB is now on AM radio.
Reminds me of being in the dentist's office; the torture before the torture
Interesting to learn it was originally signed on by the Globe.
It was signed on by Harvey Radio Labs as W1XHR.
WJIB FM 97, a radio station, which has lots of beautiful music by Henry Mancini,
Bert Kaempert, Nelson Riddle, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and
Sammy Davis, Jr. Lots of quiet music! No Jonas Bros., no Lady Gaga, no Demi
Lovato, no Andra Day, no Owl City, no Vampire Weekend, no Big Sean, no Tori
Kelly, no Taylor Swift or any of the pop superstars of recent years and today!
Ring the bell of "Old Ironsides!" ("Ding!, Ding! Ding! Ding!")
I know it was supposed to recreate a 1967 sign on, which it does superbly... But that 1975-2008 copyright on each frame is distracting. Makes it hard to be 1967 believable.
+boofdfast This re-creation of the original sign-on is an audio production. The images are only added to give some visual form to the clip.