Re: Did anyone else hear this?

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

At 02:11 AM 9/10/99 -0400, Mike Thomas wrote:
>When I was at WMUA during the mid 1980's, the polka show also brought in more
>listener donations than all of the other shows on the station combined.  Also,
>when I lived in Connecticut, many of the local AM's had weekend polka shows,
>particularly in New Britain, Waterbury and Willimantic, since these areas had
>sizable Polish-American populations.  There was a polka show on 
>WILI-Willimantic
>which ran every week for over thirty years until the lady who hosted it 
>finally
>hung up her cans.  My wife tells me that many stations ran polka 
>programming in
>Ohio and Western Pennsylvania as well.  I think at one time there were a few
>all-polka stations in the midwest many years ago.

I can't decide on the proper response:

#1
"See, I told you the format works"

or

#2
"There go those Polka freaks, dragging out the five or six stations where 
the format has worked...."

Brian


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