WODS, known on-air as "103-3 AMP Radio" is a radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. WODS airs a Top 40 format, and is under the ownership of CBS Radio.

WODS began as WEEI-FM in 1948. It ran CBS's "The Young Sound" format beginning in 1965 after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations forced it to cease to be a 24-hour relay of the AM side (WEEI 590). "The Young Sound" was an easy listening format focusing on instrumental versions of recent pop tunes. By 1969, "The Young Sound" had evolved to a Top 40/AOR hybrid format, voice tracked on WEEI-FM by Dick Provost. In late 1972, WEEI-FM flipped to an adult contemporary format. The station evolved into its famous "Soft Rock" format in 1977, which remained in place until 1982 when it flipped to a Top 40 format. By 1981, all of the other owned-and-operated CBS FM radio stations employed the Hot Hits format except for WCBS-FM. Unlike their sister stations, though, WEEI-FM played hits from the past several years all along. The other Hot Hits stations evolved to what WEEI-FM was doing in 1983. By then, the Los Angeles station had dropped the format and reverted back to adult rock.

In 1983, WEEI-FM changed call letters to WHTT after WEEI (AM) was sold; WEEI-FM is now the call letters to Lawrence-licensed 93.7, which is the simulcast of the current WEEI (AM), now on 850. The station was for a time in the mid 1980s one of Boston's most popular stations, but its stay at the top of the Arbitron ratings was not to last. WHTT continued with a Top 40 format until July 1986. At that point ratings were decent but it was determined that it was tough competing directly with WXKS-FM "Kiss 108", as well as WZOU (now WJMN). Top 40 formats are generally hard to sell unless ratings are extremely high. It was also determined that Boston could not support three viable Top 40 stations. As a result, WHTT launched an adult rock format known as "Boston's Quality Rock" playing a blend of softer Album Rock cuts, pop rock cuts, some eclectic smooth jazz, and a few mainstream pop hits. The on-air staff stayed on from WHTT initially, though most gradually left over the next year. The station became then became WMRQ, "Q103". The ratings went downhill fast.

In October 1987, the station switched to an oldies format playing the Rock and Roll Hits from 1955 to 1969 and was branded as "Oldies 103". The first song on "Oldies 103" was "Fun Fun Fun" by The Beach Boys. The station had a very deep playlist, playing a larger number of songs than most oldies stations. The station's call letters soon were changed to WODS. WMRQ's airstaff stayed with the station despite the format change, and several continued at the station right up to the station's demise in 2012. By 1989, WODS was also playing a very limited amount of music from the early 1970s up to 1972 mixed with the 1950s and 1960s.

As time went on, Oldies 103 added more 1970s music but continued to focus on the 1960s and still played a considerable amount of pre-1964 oldies. In 2001, WODS began to move away from 50s music. The station added more late 1970s songs and a few 1980s hits.

At the end of 2001, Little Walter's Sunday Night Time Machine was replaced with the long-running Sunday night Boston tradition The Lost 45s with Barry Scott, which enabled the station to move forward in its music selection through the 1970s and some early 1980s. In 2002, most of the pre-1964 oldies were eliminated and are now rarely, if ever, heard. WODS got deeper into music of the 1970s. By 2005, WODS was just about half 1964-1969 and half 1970-1979. Occasionally, they played a song from the 1980s and a handful of pre-1964 songs.

Prior to the 1990s, WODS only played moderate amounts of Christmas music during the holiday season and did not go wall to wall, even on Christmas. Beginning in the early 1990s, the station began wall to wall Christmas music on Christmas Eve and continued until Christmas evening. Beginning in 2003, WODS has played holiday music from a week before Thanksgiving until Christmas Day. However, in 2007, it started its Christmas music on Monday November 12; and in 2008, it commenced on Thursday, November 6 - the earliest it has ever been. The official website features a 24-hour holiday music channel all year long. This tradition has been continued in 2009 with Christmas music playing on Friday, November 13, and it started on Thursday, November 18 in 2010. In 2011, Christmas music began on Friday, November 11.

In 2007, WODS added Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The '70s Saturdays nights at 11 p.m. and The Wolfman Jack Show Sunday nights at 11 p.m. In October 2008, WODS switched nights for the two shows and added a second airing of AT40:70s Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. The 2-hour version (second and third hours) plays in the morning and the entire 3-hour version plays at night. In 2009 the morning broadcast was dropped and now AT40: 70s airs only Sundays at midnight.

In 2008, WODS added Tom Kent's syndicated show weeknights from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. As a result, the Top 20 Countdown—a Thursday night staple on WODS for many years—was moved to Saturday mornings from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. with Patrick Callahan as host as of October 4. The Top 20 Countdown was originally known as the Thursday Night Countdown, with hosts including Sandy Benson, Patrick Callahan and most recently, J.J. Wright; though Jay Gordon, Dan McCoy and Norm Thibeault took over hosting duties while Sandy was out on maternity leave. Tom Kent's generic syndicated show only lasted a few months and, in a rare move, was replaced with local programming again. On July 10, 2010, Barry Scott returned to Saturday Nights from 7PM until Midnight where he hosts the "Saturday Night 70's". On Sunday nights from 7 p.m. until midnight, WODS plays Barry Scott's The Lost 45s. On June 10, 2011, WODS began airing "Back to the 80's Friday Nights" with Joe Cortese (which formerly aired on sister station WBMX) from 7PM-Midnight every Friday.

In October 2009, WODS changed their on-air name from "Oldies 103.3" to "103.3 WODS". At that point, WODS began focusing on Classic Hits from 1970 to 1984, with about half a dozen 60's songs per hour. The station also played an occasional 90's song as well. However, this adjustment did more to hurt than help in the ratings, as it began to lose listeners to WROR.^{[citation needed]}

On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, it was announced that the station will flip back to Top 40, branded as "103-3 AMP Radio". Within hours of the announcement of the switch, the WODS airstaffers were let go and the station began to run jockless. Already one of the now-unemployed DJs, Paula Street (who had been with WODS since the flip to Oldies in 1987), confirmed on the Radio-Info Boston message board[1] that a good-bye to listeners would happen before the station flips to Top 40/CHR at noon on June 28, 2012. When that happens, the classic hits format will move over to WODS' HD2 subchannel, replacing soft rock "The Cove".^[2] The last show of the Breakfast Club with John Laurenti and Karen Blake took place on that day with playing their ending song "Listen to the Music" by the Doobie Brothers. Jay Gordon played his last song "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley. Barry Scott then played his last song, "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks. Paula Street and J.J. Wright played their last song Fun Fun Fun by The Beach Boys (which was also the station's first song as "Oldies 103") at 11:20AM. Then, the station went into a series of jockless songs. At 11:53, Last Dance by Donna Summer played as the official last song on WODS. Then, the station went into a brief intro which included Blow by Ke$ha. At 12:00, "AMP Radio" officially launched with "Where Have You Been" by Rihanna.

Like most of the CBS Radio O&O Top 40 stations, WODS' music direction tends to favor Rhythmic and Dance Pop hits, but unlike the others, they place less emphasis on Hip-Hop tracks and recurrents. This choice of direction puts them in a unique position, as it takes on the Clear Channel Top 40 combo of Mainstream WXKS and Rhythmic WJMN, thus reigniting a Top 40 war between the three stations for the first time since 1986. At the same time, the move also allows sister station WBMX to adjust their Adult Top 40 direction.

To be announced

• Barry Scott-host of The Lost 45s
• J.J. Wright
• Paula Street
• Karen Blake
• Deirdre Dagata
• John Laurenti
• Patrick Callahan
• "Mighty Mike" Osborne
• Ralphie Marino
• Mike O'Reilly
• Joe Cortese
• Jay Gordon-host of Elvis Only
• Mike Finegan (who was with the station prior to the WODS launch in 1987 until November 2008)
• Austin Of Boston (Austin Davis)
• Jason Wright
• Brian Murphy
• Dan McCoy
• Rick Hunter (came to the station the day it became WMRQ in 1986 and the first post WHTT announcer)
• Rick Shockley
• Robby Bridges
• Mike Addams
• Sandy Benson (also arrived at the sign on of WMRQ in 1986)
• Michele "With One L" Hughes
• Dale Dorman
• June Knight
• Mauzy Stafford
• John Potter
• Paul Perry
• Mark "The Captain's Cupcake" Maimone
• Jimmy DelPonte
• Tom St. John
• Steve Kelly
• Little Walter DeVenne
• "The Famous" Jim Sands
• Doug Taylor
• Frank Kingston Smith
• Joe McMillan
• Bill Lawrence
• Norm Thibeault
• Pete Falconi
• Steve York
• Harry Nelson
• Jeff Lawrence
• Maurice Wilkey
• Judy Pancoast
• Neal White
• Chris Zito
• Brett Richards
• Matthew Reid
• Mike McGowan
• Dave Faneuf - July 1987 through December 1998. Named Best Newscaster in Boston 1996.
• Gordon Hill

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• 103.3 WODS
• Jason Wright
• The Lost 45s with Barry Scott
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• Karen Blake DJ