WCLZ off cable

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On the Casco Cable system that serves the Bath/Brunswikc area, the public 
access channel is Channel 13.  Most of the time the channel features a 
bulletin board of local events and for at least 15 years the sound track 
running along with the bulletin board was WCLZ.  I guess that WCLZ was 
included because it was the "local" station and it has lasted through various 
formats, owners and the station physically moving to Portland.  The cable 
companies pays little attention to the bulletin board, often continuing to 
run messages weeks after events have happened and sometimes the channel goes 
more than a day with nothing on it and today the computer has been stuck on 
the same slide all day.  They must have got complaints about the countdown 
stunt now running on WCLZ because after less than a day of the countdown WCLZ 
was pulled.  Yesterday, the bulletin board had no soundtrack and today a 
barely audible feed of Maine Public Radio has been added.  I wonder if WCLZ 
will return when the new format debuts on Monday?

Since WJTO is now the only radio station actually operating in the 
Bath/Brunswick service area, they should pick up the station.  It would 
greatly improve the stations nighttime coverage area.  But then again, Casco 
Cable would not be able to pick up the station at night even though they are 
located only a few miles from WJTO.  Maybe a phone feed could be arranged?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine