Re: WBIX--what gives?

[Ron Bello <RBello@BelloAssoc.com>]

Later in the day, WBIX was back to regular programming.

An off the cuff comment eluded to their technical problems
due to "everything blowing up".  They were referring to the
power problems NStar has been faced with since yesterday
near the Fleet Center and North Washington St.


At 09:48 AM 4/29/02 -0400, Strassberg, Dan  (Cahners) wrote:
>I tuned in to AM 1060 at 8:30 this morning expecting to catch WBIX's Boston
>Business Journal AM Report with Dave Anthony and Brad and Bonnie Bleidt. Mr
>and Mrs Bleidt's financial-managment firm has been LMAing 1060 Monday thru
>Friday from 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM (or, in winter months, from local sunrise to
>Philadelphia sunset). What I heard instead was the satellite delivered
>Bloomberg On the Money--apparently uninterrupted by any local
>content--straight through until 9:00, when an unfamiliar voice did the legal
>ID and announced that the following was an "encore presentation" of the
>locally originated Bailey and Stein show.
>
>Have the Bleidts decided that they could no longer afford to plow more money
>into their radio venture? Did they miss a payment to station owner Alex
>Langer? Has Langer sold the station and terminated the Bleidt's LMA? Have
>the employees unionized and gone out on strike? Was there some technical
>difficulty that interrupted the feed from the Boston studios (in the
>Bleidts' North End offices) to the Framingham TX? Inquiring minds want to
>know.
>
>Dan Strassberg, Senior Technical Editor, EDN Magazine,
>Reed Electronics Group,
>275 Washington St, Newton, MA 02458-1630, USA
>1-617-558-4205, Fax 1-617-928-4205, ALTERNATE Fax 1-617-558-4470,
>ednstrassberg@cahners.com, www.edn.com