Former WEBN-FM owner Frank “Bo” Wood, who took Cincinnati on a fun ride to the “lunatic fringe of American FM radio,” has died at age 83. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
Wood founded WEBN-FM with his father, Frank Wood Sr., in an old house on Considine Avenue in East Price Hill and grew it into Cincinnati’s most influential and outrageous FM station, and one of America’s iconic rock stations.
Born Frank E. “Bo” Wood III (and known as Frank Jr.) he once described his radio philosophy to me as “something humorous, menacing, and with a twist.”…