Re: George Taylor Morris Leaves WBOS: Is A Format Change On The Way There?

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@wavewizard.com>]

At 01:43 PM 1/5/00 -0500, PublicRef2 wrote:
>In today's (January 5th) edition, the Herald's Dean Johnson reported
>that veteran Boston radio personality and programmer George Taylor
>Morris has left WBOS-FM (92.9), just days before the Fall Arbritron
>books came out.
>
>Is another shoe about to drop, mainly that WBOS will see a format
>change?
>


How many times have we heard THAT rumor?  I'll believe it when I hear the
"atomic clock".

>
>I personally feel that WOS' current "AAA" format will be history
>sometime in the next few days, and that it will probably be replaced by
>a "Jammin' Oldies" clone. This could be the best news little WXRV has
>ever had, as most listeners who would be displaced by any WBOS format
>change will head to WXRV, and give that little station "decent" ratings
>numbers for the first time.
>


Not too likely on either count imho.  93.7 is a pretty reasonable facsimile
of "Jammin' Oldies", I'm sure WJMN is not gonna sit quietly by and let
another station use "Jammin'" in their market.

I can't see WXRV gaining much by this, either.  I'm sure everyone who likes
what they're doing is already listening...it isn't like AAA is a format
that readily lends itself to radio wars.  With the 2 stations as close to
each other on the dial as they are, it's hard to believe that listeners to
one are unaware of the other.