Re: Did anyone else hear this?

["Mark Casey" <map@map.com>]

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> From: Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>
> To: Mike Thomas <nostatic@earthlink.net>
> Cc: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@world.std.com>;
boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Did anyone else hear this?
> Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 2:56 AM
> 
> 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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