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WEBN (102.7 FM) – branded as 102-7 WEBN – is a commercial active rock radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, serving Greater Cincinnati. Owned by iHeartMedia, WEBN serves as the FM flagship for the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network; and the home of radio personality Christopher "Kidd Chris" Foley. The WEBN studios are located in Cincinnati, as is the station transmitter. Besides a standard analog transmission, WEBN broadcasts over three HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. WEBN-HD2 simulcasts over local translators W264BW Norwood (100.7 FM) and W292CO Middletown (106.3 FM), while WEBN-HD3 simulcasts over W272BY Cincinnati (102.3 FM).
When it initially went on the air on August the 31st of 1967, it was owned by Frank Wood Sr. a Cincinnati attorney. WEBN broadcast classical music daytimes and an all night blues and jazz program. The night programming was managed by a bank of 10½-inch Scully reel to reel tape machines in an early instance of station automation. However in the late evening hours of Saturdays and Sundays, it also broadcast a program called "The WEBN's Jelly Pudding Show", hosted by Frank's son and WEBN's first ever DJ, Program Director, General Manager, and Owner himself the late and great Frank Wood Jr., known by his on-air name "Dr. Michael Bo Xanadu". The series featured many album cuts by both popular and upcoming artists other than the recognized Top 40 and Urban Contemporary songs, even playing full-length versions of tracks only heard on Top 40 in their radio edits. The Jelly Pudding Show's slogan had only four musical genres that says it all; "Rock, Jazz, Folk And Ragas". The Jelly Pudding Show and their rock music proved to be so popular and so successful that WEBN eventually made this AOR show the bulk of its programming, much to the consternation of Frank Sr. himself.
However it honored its roots as a classical music station by broadcasting classical music on Sunday mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm with Frank Wood Sr. as the host. This proved to be one of the station's most popular programs until Frank Sr. officially retired from WEBN on June the 30th of 1985. But perhaps the most distinctive feature of the program was Frank's weekly tradition of always playing a very long work which he preceded by announcing that the length of the work would give him enough time to eat a pie from Graeter's, a popular Cincinnati ice cream parlor that specializes in ice cream pies, confectioneries, and other baked goods. After Frank Sr.'s retirement (and before he died in 1991), the classical program continued for a few years with new host Larry Thomas from 55KRC and later began to include new age music. Its time was shifted from 6:00 am to 10:00 a.m. and the show eventually ended in 1987.
In its early but humble beginnings WEBN broadcast from a bright blue old house in Cincinnati's westside Price Hill neighborhood at 1050 Considine Ave. referred to on-air as "Price's Mountain", any listener and rock lover at any time 24 hours a day could visit the station and walk right into the studio and home and watch EBN's personalities broadcast their shows live. Visitors were right in the studio as the DJs broadcast live. The house wasn't hard to spot, as it had what appeared to be a cocker spaniel sitting in an old barbershop chair on the front porch. The taxidermized dog had been Frank Wood, Sr.'s pet, named Miles Duffy. Frank Sr., being basically a one man show when he began the station, decided to name "Miles Duffy" as WEBN's 1st ever fantasy program director to give the impression that WEBN had more employees and his so called on-air "staph" than just himself. This joke continued officially for some years even as the station continued to grow.
In 1973 WEBN moved to the eastside's Hyde Park Square referred to on air as "Hyde's Meadow". In 1988, the station moved to the neighborhood of Mount Adams, this time calling it "Frog's Mountain" joining with several other stations purchased in recent years by its corporate parent Jacor Communications. In 1999 Jacor was purchased by Clear Channel. Finally in 2004, all Cincinnati Clear Channel stations moved to the northern suburb of Sycamore Township. WEBN continued to call its location "Frog's Mountain". By 2006 WEBN was added to the Nielsen BDS Active Rock panel only to revert to Mainstream Rock the following year.[citation needed]
Radio personality Maxwell Slater Logan (Benjamin Bornstein), perhaps best known for his time at Cleveland rock station WMMS as host of The Maxwell Show, spent time at WEBN in early-to-mid 1990's under the on-air name Max Logan. Bo Matthews (Alex Gutierrez), formerly the program director at WMMS and a regular contributor to The Maxwell Show, took over as the WEBN program director on January 7, 2014. Matthews also served as vice president of programming for iHeartMedia's entire Cincinnati radio cluster before exiting the company in 2017.
Their eccentrical quirkyness also extended to actual advertising. Ad time on WEBN was extremely desirable to local merchants, but the station wasn't about to permit the staid and often amateurish production values that often permeated American radio[when?][vague][citation needed]. The majority of local spots were WEBN produced, and bore the same outrageous wit and audacity that the station was known for. And, as it had already promoted non-existent events, the station advertised products by "Brute Force Cybernetics", also the name of the corporate holding company. Brute Force Cybernetics featured a logo of three monkeys based on the theme "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." Among the BFC "products" for which the station broadcast tongue-in-cheek "ads" were:
These spots were picked up by some other stations, such as Chicago's WDAI in its progressive/underground days c. 1971.
WEBN
WEBN (102.7 FM) – branded as 102-7 WEBN – is a commercial active rock radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, serving Greater Cincinnati. Owned by iHeartMedia, WEBN serves as the FM flagship for the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network; and the home of radio personality Christopher "Kidd Chris" Foley. The WEBN studios are located in Cincinnati, as is the station transmitter. Besides a standard analog transmission, WEBN broadcasts over three HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. WEBN-HD2 simulcasts over local translators W264BW Norwood (100.7 FM) and W292CO Middletown (106.3 FM), while WEBN-HD3 simulcasts over W272BY Cincinnati (102.3 FM).
When it initially went on the air on August the 31st of 1967, it was owned by Frank Wood Sr. a Cincinnati attorney. WEBN broadcast classical music daytimes and an all night blues and jazz program. The night programming was managed by a bank of 10½-inch Scully reel to reel tape machines in an early instance of station automation. However in the late evening hours of Saturdays and Sundays, it also broadcast a program called "The WEBN's Jelly Pudding Show", hosted by Frank's son and WEBN's first ever DJ, Program Director, General Manager, and Owner himself the late and great Frank Wood Jr., known by his on-air name "Dr. Michael Bo Xanadu". The series featured many album cuts by both popular and upcoming artists other than the recognized Top 40 and Urban Contemporary songs, even playing full-length versions of tracks only heard on Top 40 in their radio edits. The Jelly Pudding Show's slogan had only four musical genres that says it all; "Rock, Jazz, Folk And Ragas". The Jelly Pudding Show and their rock music proved to be so popular and so successful that WEBN eventually made this AOR show the bulk of its programming, much to the consternation of Frank Sr. himself.
However it honored its roots as a classical music station by broadcasting classical music on Sunday mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm with Frank Wood Sr. as the host. This proved to be one of the station's most popular programs until Frank Sr. officially retired from WEBN on June the 30th of 1985. But perhaps the most distinctive feature of the program was Frank's weekly tradition of always playing a very long work which he preceded by announcing that the length of the work would give him enough time to eat a pie from Graeter's, a popular Cincinnati ice cream parlor that specializes in ice cream pies, confectioneries, and other baked goods. After Frank Sr.'s retirement (and before he died in 1991), the classical program continued for a few years with new host Larry Thomas from 55KRC and later began to include new age music. Its time was shifted from 6:00 am to 10:00 a.m. and the show eventually ended in 1987.
In its early but humble beginnings WEBN broadcast from a bright blue old house in Cincinnati's westside Price Hill neighborhood at 1050 Considine Ave. referred to on-air as "Price's Mountain", any listener and rock lover at any time 24 hours a day could visit the station and walk right into the studio and home and watch EBN's personalities broadcast their shows live. Visitors were right in the studio as the DJs broadcast live. The house wasn't hard to spot, as it had what appeared to be a cocker spaniel sitting in an old barbershop chair on the front porch. The taxidermized dog had been Frank Wood, Sr.'s pet, named Miles Duffy. Frank Sr., being basically a one man show when he began the station, decided to name "Miles Duffy" as WEBN's 1st ever fantasy program director to give the impression that WEBN had more employees and his so called on-air "staph" than just himself. This joke continued officially for some years even as the station continued to grow.
In 1973 WEBN moved to the eastside's Hyde Park Square referred to on air as "Hyde's Meadow". In 1988, the station moved to the neighborhood of Mount Adams, this time calling it "Frog's Mountain" joining with several other stations purchased in recent years by its corporate parent Jacor Communications. In 1999 Jacor was purchased by Clear Channel. Finally in 2004, all Cincinnati Clear Channel stations moved to the northern suburb of Sycamore Township. WEBN continued to call its location "Frog's Mountain". By 2006 WEBN was added to the Nielsen BDS Active Rock panel only to revert to Mainstream Rock the following year.[citation needed]
Radio personality Maxwell Slater Logan (Benjamin Bornstein), perhaps best known for his time at Cleveland rock station WMMS as host of The Maxwell Show, spent time at WEBN in early-to-mid 1990's under the on-air name Max Logan. Bo Matthews (Alex Gutierrez), formerly the program director at WMMS and a regular contributor to The Maxwell Show, took over as the WEBN program director on January 7, 2014. Matthews also served as vice president of programming for iHeartMedia's entire Cincinnati radio cluster before exiting the company in 2017.
Their eccentrical quirkyness also extended to actual advertising. Ad time on WEBN was extremely desirable to local merchants, but the station wasn't about to permit the staid and often amateurish production values that often permeated American radio[when?][vague][citation needed]. The majority of local spots were WEBN produced, and bore the same outrageous wit and audacity that the station was known for. And, as it had already promoted non-existent events, the station advertised products by "Brute Force Cybernetics", also the name of the corporate holding company. Brute Force Cybernetics featured a logo of three monkeys based on the theme "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." Among the BFC "products" for which the station broadcast tongue-in-cheek "ads" were:
These spots were picked up by some other stations, such as Chicago's WDAI in its progressive/underground days c. 1971.