Re: Fwd: RE: Boston spring 2002 Arbitrends-- two questions

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

  Mike Thomas wrote:
>WUBB has been automated country for a few years now.  I'm suprised that 
>Clear Channel hasn't tried something else with that frequency, since 
>theres no way it can possibly compete with WOKQ.  When it was a Hot AC as 
>"The Heat" in the mid 90's, it would get at least a one share in Portsmouth.


Wasn't that frequency (95.3?) oldies for many years?  I thought it was 
moderately successful with that format...can't immediately place another 
oldies station in that market, maybe that would be an option as well (not 
like we need another oldies station here in N.H., but...)




>  I would think that some other "boutique" format could replicate those 
> numbers for Clear Channel, and help to generate some revenue out of that 
> station.    How about moving WMYF's (1380-Portsmouth) nostalgia format to 
> that frequency?   1380 was a dog station until WMYF was revived there, 
> and now it at least gets some numbers.  Considering how well stations 
> like WPLM/Plymouth, WOCN/Cape Cod and WNLC/East Lyme, CT are doing with 
> standards on FM, such a format on WUBB could work, since standards have 
> always had a very loyal following in the Portsmouth market.
>
>Laurence Glavin wrote:
>
>>What is really sad about all these Southern NH numbers is the fact that 
>>WUBB 95.3 FM
>>is a virtual no-show.  Apparently it has adopted a number of formats in
>>order to make its presence known, but to no effect.  Why do I care?
>>Well its only function is to cause interference to Harvard's W-H-RB, the
>>only source of high-quality classical programming during the evening
>>hours in metro Boston. If WUBB didn't exist at all, WHRB would have a 
>>passable stereo signal even
>>25 miles north of One Financial Center in Boston.  I have a pushbutton 
>>for WHRB
>>in my car and can carry it north to Andover before WUBB splatters in.
>>It's too bad Harvard U isn't interested enough in its radio station to
>>buy WUBB and silence it!
>>
>>Laurence Glavin
>>Methuen, MA
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