Re: Black Tuesday at WSMN

["Paul Hopfgarten" <Hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

- -----Original Message-----
From: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>
To: MATT SOBOLEWSKI <KUJX66A@prodigy.com>;
boston-radio-interest@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
<boston-radio-interest@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 19, 1998 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: Black Tuesday at WSMN


>At 12:08 AM 3/19/98 -0500, MATT   SOBOLEWSKI wrote:
>>While we were all reading each others posts about Black Monday at
>>WGIR-FM......we all missed the purge at WSMN in Nashua NH. New
>>General Manager Ed Crecelius is making format changes.  Long time
>>staffers John Halbert, Robin Belzil and Kevin Farwell along with Nick
>>Diamond and Eric Nurenberg are all out.
>
>I kind of had a feeling that there was another shoe that was gonna drop
>after Maury Parent got bounced.  I'm surprised that the ownership let
>things go on as long as they did...paid spots are all but nonexistent, most
>stopsets consist of just carted PSAs.  Clearly no one listens to the
>station...a couple weeks ago I heard Nick Diamond do a ridiculously easy
>trivia contest...it went about 20 min before he finally had a winner.  I
>wish them luck with local talk...WMVU doesn't seem to have much success
>with it.

I think they'll have at least a better "shot", as the WMVU signal is a
difficult listen during the day, and non-existant at night in Derry, some 15
miles east. WSMN comes in pretty decent here day and night.

- -Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

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