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Re: Renamed WHOB from Nashua Pride





On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:09:27 -0400 SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>
writes:
>   tklaundry@juno.com wrote:
> 
  Prior to Telemedia buying the 
> station I used to enjoy them, they had an edge in music that other
stations 
> on my dial didn't have, now they are the usual fare.
Steve wrote: 
> They also have something else they didn't have before TeleMedia 
> bought 
> them: listeners.  While their free-form altrock format may have 
> appealed to 
> obscure music nuts, they went many years with a sub-1 share.  
> Ratings are 
> still a pale shadow of what they were in the late 80s, at least they 
> show 
> up now.
> 
Actually I wasn't talking about their sound in the late 80's.  You're
right the "Honey B" was terrible.  I bought the laundromat in late 98 and
started listening to them in the mat in early 99,  at that point they
were gathering steam, more than a dozen people asked me what station I
had on,  then when Jack Baldwin left (in addition to being PD he also did
the music) and Telemedia took over it became as homogenized as just about
everything else.  The only reason I haven't swapped to WBOS is that it
won't come in on my system here (very cheap)
df