Fwd: Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 4/2: The Eagle Has Crash-Landed

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

>Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 08:53:23 -0500
>To: nerw@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, nerw@bostonradio.org
>From: Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>
>Subject: Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 4/2: The Eagle Has Crash-Landed
>
>>Out in Dorchester, there's an empty room at Greater Media for the
>>moment.  WBOS (92.9 Brookline) "sent its DJs home for the week,"
>>according to the promotions folks...but we can't help but wonder if
>>Robin Young and the rest of the 'BOS jocks will be back at the end of
>>their one-week breaks, and if so, what format they'll be playing.
>>
>
>Rumor has it that they're reloading the juke box with new CD but nobody 
>seems to know what's on them. Rumor also has it that the jocks, er board 
>ops, this week are scrambling for cuts showing up on the playlist but not in 
>the machine.  Supposedly the jocks are still there, they're just not 
>talking.  J.J. - how about peeking in the door the next time you walk down 
>to the men's room and telling us who's pushing the buttons...
>
>>(You've gotta be versatile over there at 55 Morrissey Boulevard, at
>>least if you're J.J. Wright; one recent evening found him migrating
>>from the oldies on WROR across the hall to the smooth-jazz sounds of
>>WSJZ all in one long shift!)
>
>Jackie Brush does PM drive on WSJZ and the Sunday morning Jazz show on WMJX 
>down the hall in direct competition with WSJZ's Sunday morning Jazz show 
>with Jesse Sandidge (WSJZ's evening jock).  I still haven't figured that one 
>out.  At least when J.J. walks down the hall, he changes format on the way
;-).
>
>
>>Meanwhile, up on Wood Hill, WKLB-FM (99.5 Lowell) has applications in
>>to the FCC for two different changes to its current 26.5 kilowatts at
>>203 meters.  One, filed last month, would simply increase power to
>>28.5 kilowatts; the other, filed just this past week, would boost
>>power to 37 kilowatts but lower the antenna a bit, to 172 meters.
>
>Didn't they do this about 2 years ago when 99.5 was WOAZ or is this simply a 
>refiling of the same application?
>>

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