RE: WNSH is back on the air

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

SRN is the news feed that WDER in Deery used/uses both under Spacetown and
Blount. I believe it a "christian" news network.

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> Strassberg
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:12 AM
> To: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu; David Moisan
> Subject: Re: WNSH is back on the air
>
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> SBN probably is Salem. If so, Salem has either changed the name
> of the news
> service yet again, or it has at least one more hourly satellite news
> feed--using the name SRN. When WBNW is running the Business Talk
> Network out
> of Colorado Springs the news feeds come from (or maybe came from) SRN. I
> haven't heard the SRN feed recently enough to know whether its name has
> changed again. I know that, before it became SRN, the feed used to have
> a different name, which I don't recall, but that feed, too, came
> from Salem.
>
> Although some of Salem's news feeds avoid using the Salem name,
> the focus of the feeds provides a pretty good clue to their source.
> Even their "secular" feeds are heavy on items that are primarily of
> interest to the Religious Right. This is even more true in the feeds that
> are tailored to Christian-formatted stations. The first Amendment protects
> Salem's choice of what it airs as news and I suppose that Salem feels
> that it is performing a public service by providing what it sees
> as balance
> in broadcast news, since the Right continues to assert that the mainstream
> media are under the control of a Leftist cabal.
>
> --
>
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
> Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Moisan <dmoisan@shore.net>
> To: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> <boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
> Date: Saturday, May 12, 2001 12:37 PM
> Subject: Re: WNSH is back on the air
>
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> >At 02:57 AM 5/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >>
> >>I think SBN is "Salem Broadcasting Network"?  I think they are the ones
> that
> >>syndicated Alan Keyes, Ollie North, Michael Medved and a few others.  I
> >
> >That makes sense;  I think WNSH carried at least one of those hosts.
> >
> >
> >>think they also feed an hourly newscast that is probably
> identified as SBN
> >>news.  But I could be wrong.
> >
> >They use either "SBN News" or "USA Radio News";  I've heard both, on
> >different hours.
> >
> >Take care,
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >David Moisan, N1KGH   ARES/SKYWARN                dmoisan@shore.net
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