Re: Storm cancellations on radio, TV

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Kelly" <nuhuc@juno.com>
To: <steveord@bit-net.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Storm cancellations on radio, TV

> Me too... it smacks of using radio as a public address system, which does
> seem like a waste.  My place of employment uses TV and the web
> exclusively now for closings or changes.

At this point, radio has lost cancellations to TV and the web, but that has
come at a great cost.  It used to be every family listened to the radio on
stormy mornings.  Now, many families only tune into the radio while in the
car.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine