1. Charles Laquidara then spent four years doing The Charles Laquidara Radio Hour on WZLX.
17 Facts About Charles Laquidara
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Charles Laquidara hosted Charles Laquidara radio, an internet radio station from his home on Maui for several years and left Hawai'i in February 2020 to be closer to his family, including his grandchildren.
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Charles Laquidara spent the next eight years in the Los Angeles area, trying to get work as an actor in television and films.
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Charles Laquidara lost, but was awarded a tape recorder as a consolation prize.
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Charles Laquidara was considered for the lead in the film, The Boston Strangler, along with Alan Bates and Tony Curtis, but Curtis was ultimately awarded the lead role as Albert DeSalvo.
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The Big Mattress, Charles Laquidara's morning program, was a pioneer effort in FM broadcasting.
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Charles Laquidara revealed in an interview that the Glasscock character, who hosted his "own" show on Saturday mornings at WBCN, actually received higher ratings than Charles Laquidara's regular weekday broadcast.
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Charles Laquidara continued his sometimes controversial political activism while on-air at WBCN in Boston.
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Arbitron is a corporation that provides the radio industry with market research and listener counts, and Charles Laquidara used Duane to question the integrity of the powerful company.
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Charles Laquidara drew national attention in 1988 for leading anti-Apartheid protests and a boycott of Shell Oil.
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Charles Laquidara finally achieved movie acting credit in 1998, playing a small part as one of the "phone dates" in the film Next Stop Wonderland, which was shot in and around Boston.
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In 2005, Charles Laquidara sold his home in upcountry Maui for over $2 million to Oprah Winfrey, whose magazine referred to it as a "fixer-upper".
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Charles Laquidara occasionally prepared shows for internet broadcast via Mana'o Radio KEAO-LP in Wailuku, Hawaii.
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Charles Laquidara did weekly broadcasts for about a year and a half beginning in March 2005.
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Charles Laquidara resigned shortly after being chastised for playing Neil Young's song "Let's Impeach the President" during the height of the Iraq War.
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In 2009, Charles Laquidara returned to Boston to mark the closing of his original station, WBCN, doing a series of interviews and hosting an exclusive tribute party at a local nightclub to which only station employees and former employees were invited.
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Charles Laquidara was featured in a 2015 documentary about radio DJs called I Am What I Play, directed by Roger King.