RE: WREM-Format?

["Gavin Burt" <Prospect@msn.com>]

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From: 	Donna Halper
Sent: 	Sunday, August 03, 1997 3:15 AM
To: 	Gavin Burt
Cc: 	boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: 	Re: WREM-Format?

All of this simulcasting in northern Maine depresses me.  I used to consult
WAGM (AC) and WEGP (which leaned more top-40, but eventually moved AC and
then, I think country-- it's been a while since I was up there).  In the
early 80s, Presque Isle/Caribou still had a top-40, an AC, a sort of AOR, a
country, and a beautiful music-- plus a college station which aired some
local and some NPR shows.  Today, several stations are dark, and almost
everything else simulcasts somebody else's programming... yup, the economy
sure is getting better! 

I don't recall WREM in Monticello--  could it be the former WOZW at about
710 AM?

Donna-Yes, I think WOZW was the same station.  If I recall I read that in 
Scott Fybush's Maine Radio History.  Yea, it's sad to see radio going like 
this in an area like Presque Isle.  One wonders if someday all the Aroostook 
County radio stations will start simulcasting other stations (i.e. Bangor 
stations).  What a nightmare that would be!  I also wonder how many stations 
up there use satellite or automation.

- -Gavin
Prospect@msn.com

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