WODS (103.3 FM) – branded as 103.3 AMP Radio – is a commercial contemporary hit radio (CHR) radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. Owned by Entercom, the station serves Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. The WODS studios are located in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Newton. Besides a standard analog transmission, WODS broadcasts over three HD Radio channels, and is available online via Radio.com.

The station signed on the air in July 1948 as WEEI-FM, under the ownership of CBS.^[2] In its early years, it mainly simulcast co-owned WEEI (590 AM). Beginning in 1965, WEEI-FM began carrying "The Young Sound", an easy listening format focusing on instrumental versions of recent pop tunes, which aired on many of CBS's FM owned-and-operated stations. By 1969, "The Young Sound" had evolved to an automated Top 40/AOR hybrid format, with voice tracked announcements by Dick Provost. In late 1972, WEEI-FM flipped to adult contemporary, then evolved into its famous "Soft Rock" format in 1977, which remained in place until 1983. During the Soft Rock years, WEEI-FM's playlist was limited to the softer hits of rock-oriented artists, artists heard only on Top 40 stations were not aired.

By 1981, all of the other owned-and-operated CBS FM radio stations were carrying the "Hot Hits" format, supervised by programmer Mike Joseph, except for WCBS-FM in New York City. Unlike its sister stations, though, WEEI-FM played hits from the past several years as well as the hits of the current day. At midnight on March 9, 1983, WEEI-FM changed its call sign to WHTT, and re-branded as "HitRadio 103", and then "Power 103".^[3]

WHTT continued with a Top 40 format until 7 p.m. on July 7, 1986. Because WHTT was involved in a three-way Top 40 battle with WXKS-FM and WZOU, they launched an adult rock format known as Boston's Quality Rock, playing a blend of softer Album Rock cuts, some pop songs and some eclectic smooth jazz. The station's call sign changed to WMRQ, branded on-air as "Q-103".^[4][5] The air staff stayed on from WHTT initially, though most gradually left over the next year.

On October 7, 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.^[6] The station had a very deep playlist, playing a larger number of songs than most oldies stations. The station's call letters were soon changed to WODS to reflect the oldies format. WMRQ's airstaff stayed with the station despite the format change, and a couple people continued at the station right up to the station's final day 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, WODS added more 1970s music but continued to focus on the 1960s and still played a considerable number of pre-1964 oldies. In the late 1990s, the station rebranded as "Oldies 103.3". In 2001, WODS began to move away from 1950s' music. The station added more late 1970s songs and a few 1980s hits. In 2001, Little Walter's Time Machine was replaced with the Boston-based syndicated show The Lost 45s; the program's host Barry Scott stayed with the station until WODS's final day, when he became the first to be hired away by long-time rival WROR-FM. In 2002, WODS eliminated most of the pre-64 oldies and by 2005, WODS was half 1964-1969 and half 1970-1979 with a few pre-1964 oldies and 1980s' songs mixed in.

In 2005, there were rumors CBS was planning to switch one of its Boston FM stations to Adult Hits as "Jack FM" which had been successful in a number of other radio markets, WODS was one of those stations under consideration, similar Oldies stations in Chicago, Baltimore, and New York had flipped at the same time. These rumors were rendered moot when Entercom-owned WQSX (93.7 FM) switched to Adult Hits as "93.7 Mike FM" instead on April 14.

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 Day. 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 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. This tradition was 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.

WODS added HD Radio operations in 2006. 103.3 HD1 carried the standard analog radio format, 103.3 HD2 carried a "soft rock" format known as "The Cove," and 103.3 HD3 carried a simulcast of WBZ. After the sign on of "98.5 The Sports Hub" on August 13, 2009, the simulcast moved to the HD3 channel of 98.5, while 103.3 HD3 flipped to Christian rock, branded as "Mercy Rock: The Christian Rock of Boston."

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. In October 2008, WODS switched nights for the two shows and added a second airing of "AT40:70s" on Sunday mornings at 10. The 2-hour version (second and third hours) played in the morning and the entire 3-hour version played at night. In 2009, the morning broadcast was dropped with AT40: 70s airing only Sundays at midnight.

In 2008, WODS added Tom Kent's nationally syndicated show weeknights from 7-10 p.m. As a result, the Top 20 Countdown, a Thursday night staple on WODS for many years, was moved to Saturdays from 7-9 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 J.J. Wright. Tom Kent's syndicated show only lasted a few months and was replaced with local programming again.

In October 2009, WODS changed its station branding from "Oldies 103.3" to "103.3 WODS". At that point, WODS began focusing on hits from 1970 to 1984, with only a few 1960s songs per hour. The station also played an occasional 1990s song as well. However, this adjustment did more to hurt than help in the ratings.

Over the years, WODS produced numerous free summer concerts starting at the steps of Boston City Hall Plaza in 1988 before moving to the larger Hatch Memorial Shell in May 1996. Acts who have performed as part of the concert series include Chubby Checker (August 11, 1990), Paul Revere & the Raiders (August 4, 1990), The Monkees, Peter Cetera, Bobby Vee (July 7, 1990), Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (July 14, 1990), The Cadillacs & The Chiffons] (both July 21, 1990), The Jive Five & The Del-Vikings (both July 28, 1990), and dozens more. The final concert lineup during the summer of 2012 included Jefferson Starship, Burton Cummings (of The Guess Who) and Rick Springfield.

• Frank Kingston Smith
• Barry Scott of The Lost 45s

On June 27, 2012, CBS announced that the station would flip back to Top 40 as "103.3 AMP Radio" the following day at Noon. Within hours of the announcement, the air staff was laid off and the station began to run jockless, with recorded liners thanking loyal listeners of WODS and advising them that "Boston's Greatest Hits" would move to its HD2 subchannel. One of the now-unemployed DJs, Paula Street (who had been with WODS since February 1988), confirmed on the Radio-Info Boston message board [2] that a goodbye show for the format would happen before the flip at Noon.^[7] The last show of the Breakfast Club with John Laurenti and Karen Blake took place on that day by ending their show with "I Got a Woman" by Ray Charles. Jay Gordon then played his last song, "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley. Barry Scott of The Lost 45s then played his last song, "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks. Paula Street and J.J. Wright then played their last song, Fun Fun Fun by The Beach Boys (the station's first song as WODS) at 11:20AM. Then, the station played the following songs, with no DJs:

• Chairmen of the Board - "Give Me Just A Little More Time"
• Bon Jovi - "Livin' On A Prayer"
• David Bowie - "Changes"
• Donovan - "Sunshine Superman"
• The Beatles - "P.S. I Love You"
• Donna Summer - "Last Dance" - the last song on WODS

At 11:55, the station went into a brief introductory montage which included a clip of Blow by Kesha. At Noon, "AMP Radio" officially launched with "Where Have You Been" by Rihanna.

Like most of the CBS Radio owned and operated Top 40 stations, WODS' music direction tends to favor Rhythmic and Dance Pop hits, but unlike the others, WODS places less emphasis on Hip-Hop tracks and recurrents. This choice of direction puts WODS in a unique position, as it takes on iHeartMedia's Mainstream Top 40 WXKS-FM and Rhythmic contemporary WJMN, thus reigniting a Top 40 war between the three stations for the first time since 1986.

After a few months of being jockless, WODS added a full-time air staff.

Because WODS no longer plays Christmas music during the holiday season, 103.3 HD3 flipped from Christian rock to Christmas music on October 19, 2012, in order to capture that previous audience. The "Mercy Rock" format moved to WBMX-HD3, with the "New Sky Radio" talk format switching to a new WBMX-HD4 channel. On January 23, 2013, 103.3 HD3 flipped to "The Cove", returning the previous soft AC format heard on 103.3-HD2.

On February 12, 2013, CBS announced that former Elvis Duran and the Morning Show co-host TJ Taormina would become the host of the station's morning drive show starting April 1.^[8]

On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom (which locally owns WEEI, WEEI-FM, WRKO, WKAF and WAAF).^[9] WODS, WBMX, WEEI-AM-FM and WAAF were retained by Entercom, while sister stations WBZ and WZLX, as well as WKAF and WRKO, were spun off to iHeartMedia (WBZ-FM was then traded to Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for WMJX).^[10][11] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th.^[12][13]

On February 26, 2019, it was reported that Entercom was flipping HD channels in six markets, including WODS HD2's Oldies/Classic hits format, to its "Channel Q" a talk and dance music format, aimed at the LGBTQ community. ^[14]

• George, Peter (in part). "WODS(FM)". The Boston Radio Dial. The Archives at BostonRadio.org. Retrieved 2006-02-20.

• 103.3 AMP Radio website
• Facility details for Facility ID WODS ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
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