Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Kevin Vahey]

Garrett, I want to thank you for keeping this community alive for 26 years

However, I respectfully say that not upgrading the software has been part
of the problem. .

https://list.org/

I will be happy to pay any cost to upgrade the software to keep this list
alive.

Of course radio is dying - the dropoff in cume numbers from 4 years ago is
staggering.

We have a month - between Garrett, Scott, Donna, myself and others we
should be able to figure out a way to keep us sputtering along





On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 2:33 PM Garrett Wollman <wollman@bostonradio.org>
wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> This mailing-list was originally created in 1997, at a time when both
> radio and the Internet were in a very different situation than they
> are now.  Broadcasting was experiencing paroxysms of consolidation,
> which has largely now ended, but was still quite vibrant and the
> medium through which many if not most people were exposed to news, new
> music, and political views.  In the Internet, it was still reasonably
> possible for anyone to operate public services like web and mail
> servers on pretty much any machine that had a full-time network
> connection.
>
> We no longer live in that world, and people no longer view
> mailing-lists like this one as an easy and low-effort way to exchange
> news and views.  So too has local radio largely gone by the wayside,
> as consolidation has led to more national programming and a continuous
> push to cut expenses like staffing (both on-air and behind the
> scenes).  Many of the industry pros who joined this list have retired;
> several are deceased, including Bob Bittner, whose "Let's Talk About
> Radio" show was one of the inspirations for this list.  Traffic here
> has dwindled to a trickle, with six months this year seeing no
> legitimate submissions at all.  It's time to hang up the cans.
>
> The archives will remain publicly accessible on bostonradio.org for as
> long as I'm able to keep it going, but this mailing-list, which
> depends on the unmaintained GNU Mailman 2.x, will be shut down on
> December 31, 2023.  I am sending this advance notice to allow those
> who wish to post any final words or reminiscences.  It's been nice
> knowing you all; do keep in touch.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>