â€In its early days, WEBN broadcast from a bright blue old house in Cincinnati's west-side Price Hill neighborhood at 1050 Considine Ave. referred to on-air as "Price's Mountain". Anyone at any time 24 hours a day could visit the station and walk right into the studio and home and watch on-air personalities broadcast their programs. Visitors were right in the studio as the DJs performed live. The house wasn't hard to spot - it had what appeared to be a cocker spaniel sitting in an old barbershop chair on the front porch. The taxidermied 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 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...â€
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Old man Wood was a piece of work. For years every Sunday morning from 9am to noon he'd host a classical music show, sounded like something you'd hear on an NPR station. His voice sounded like he had garbled peebles. The station never advertised or promoted his show, rather it came off as three hours of sanity amidst all the bizarre promotions and fake commercials the station ran.
The station established a (fake) corporate offshoot they called Brute Force Cybernetics that developed really bizarre products like three dimensional TVs, negative calorie cookies, and portable holes. They also started a massive fireworks show on Labor Day in downtown Cincinnati. Early on it anarchy. Drink, smoke, get naked, whatever, as long as you weren’t killing somebody, the cops just walked on by. That fireworks show is still an annual event, but now part of the mainstream.
