Re: Bad Air: the Death of Local Radio ...

[Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>]

Rob wrote:
>>The Boston radio dial has a good deal more diversity than Mr. Ortiz would
>>care to admit. There are the public stations: WBUR, WGBH, and WUMB; there
>>are numerous college stations,

Donna wrote:
>Alas, many of the college stations are now under a mandate to be profitable 
>or have been taken in a more conservative direction. [...]

Did you really mean "college stations" there, Donna?  If so, what specific
examples can you cite of this?  I can see that being true of the "public
stations" (BUR, GBH, and UMB), but if, say, MBR had a "mandate to be
profitable", that memo must have somehow missed my desk...

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu