Katy Abel:

I was on 'BCN 1980-1988...news director during much of that time. What do I remember most? Bucking the corporate tide with strong support from Oedipus and Charles and Berardini to call our listeners attention to all sorts of stuff going on around the world...Reagan's secret wars in Central America...human rights violations all over the globe...the AIDs crisis, and especially, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Charles gets huge credit for going out on a limb and fronting the SHELLSHOCK campaign to get listeners to cut up Shell credit cards in protest of the oil company's refusal to stop "fueling" the apartheid regime in South Africa. He was fearless, over and over, and Tony and Oedi fought the suits in NYC time and again, even though we drove them crazy and drove the sales staff nuts, but in the end they'd let us go on the air and fight the power and speak the truth.

It was (relatively) easy to do that in the counter-cultural 70's....but we kept it up in the 80's even when the world was spinning to the right and I don't think LaQuidara and the others get enough credit. Hey, he made Time Magazine for the Shellshock campaign. And the City of Boston stopped bying Shell Oil. Talk about radio that ROCKS...that's a part of the BCN legacy, and I'm proud I was there.