Re: WMBR Nightly News reinstated

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

A somewhat rhetorical question - why wasn't there anything on WMBR's 
website about this?   For that matter, I don't usually see much of anything 
in the way of changes on WMBR's site very often.   Granted I don't surf 
over there all that often, either, but that's because I've come to expect 
little in the way of changes (ouch - a vicious cycle! :-)

Then again, I suppose there's a wide range of "fluidity" from station to 
station in non-comm radio.  The vast difference between WRNI.org and 
WBUR.org comes to mind, as does WTBU (they seem to completely re-design 
their site about once a year, if not once a semester :-)
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At 01:34 AM 6/24/2002, elipolo@earthlink.net wrote:
>As posted here previously, the management and programming board at WMBR had
>made a preliminary decision a couple of weeks ago to cancel the WMBR
>Nightly News as of the start of the summer program schedule last Thursday.
>
>After a listener support campaign consisting of hundreds or e-mails, letters
>and phone calls and an eleventh-hour negotiation session last week between
>the WMBR News Department and the Program Director, the WMBR Nightly News has
>been reinstated (for now).
>
>Here's an excerpt of the release from the WMBR News Department:
>--------------------------
> >The WMBR News Department is very happy to announce that our Nightly News,
> >featuring Free Speech Radio Network News and the WMBR Local Edition, has
> >been reinstated in the WMBR program line-up.
> >
> >As was announced last week, WMBR’s Programming Board had decided to cancel
> >our news broadcasts as of this week. However, the News Department filed an
> >appeal, which was accepted by the board.
> >
> >We are extremely grateful to our listeners and friends, and particularly
> >John Grebe of WZBC, for all your letters and phone calls to our program
> >director, in support of our news and public affairs programming. The
> >great response we received definitely had a strong influence on the final
> >decision.
> >
> >Please tune in to Free Speech Radio News, the nation’s only daily,
> >progressive half-hour news program, weeknights at 6 on WMBR 88.1 fm (or on
> >the Internet at http://wmbr.mit.edu) ­ except Thursdays, when we present
> >the Local Edition, produced by the WMBR News Department.
> >
> >Linda Pinkow
> >Co-News Director
> >WMBR 88.1 FM
> >Community radio at MIT
><news@wmbr.mit.edu>
><http://wmbr.mit.edu>
>-------------------------