Re: Reading Services/WNMH

["Jim Hall" <aerie@shore.net>]

This service is also broadcast as the SAP on several NE television
stations. I think WFXT/25 still carries this, as does WENH/11.

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> From: Doug Bassett <dbassett@sover.net>
> To: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Reading Services/WNMH
> Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 10:45 AM
> 
> >From the 6/5 NERW:
> >
> >The Massachusetts Reading Service is helping several Bay State
> >noncomms stay on the air all summer long.  Stonehill College's WSHL
> >(91.3 South Easton MA) is normally off the air in the summer, but now
> >it's back on with MRS programming.  Other stations running the reading
> >service include UMass Lowell's WJUL (91.5 Lowell), Framingham State
> >College's WDJM (91.3 Framingham), and WVBF (1530) Middleborough
> >Center.
> >
> Out here in Western New England, the Radio Reading Service is heard on
> Northfield-Mt. Hermon's WNMH (91.5 Northfield), mostly reading articles
from
> periodicals. The audio quality of these broadcasts is terrible...sounds
like
> they were sitting inside a tin can when they made the tape. Kind of like
the
> NWS broadcasts on the WX band quality-wise.
> 
> This service is also broadcast on the FM subcarriers of several stations
in
> the Pioneer Valley area. It's the only ID I've heard recently that's
longer
> than WAMC's. I didn't catch all of the stations listed, but I heard WHAI
> (Greenfield), WJDF (Orange) and WBEC (Pittsfield) mentioned, as well as
WGBY
> (TV 57 Springfield).
> 
> Speaking of WNMH, I heard a very interesting program last Friday
afternoon.
> Never before have I heard such foul language on radio! The program
consisted
> of rap music, in which it seemed every other word was, or was a
derivative
> of one of my least favorite words in spoken English. The one that starts
> with "F" and ends with "K", and I ain't talkin' 'bout a firetruck! The
young
> man hosting the show finished with a brief statement thanking NMH for
> "screwing him over" all those times (?), flipped a switch, and right into
> RRS, already in progress.
> 
> Doug Bassett
> West Brattleboro, Vt.
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