Re: college radio gone dark for summer?

["Chris Beckwith" <beckwith@ime.net>]

"Sid Whitaker" <sid.javanet@rcn.com> wrote:

> In a recent  profile of the station that appeared in Casco Bay Weekly, the
station's management admitted that balancing student and community involvement
is a big challenge. <

I had a good chuckle over that one.  The WMPG hagiography in CBW was written by
the station's development director (i.e. chief fundraiser); you can read it at
http://www.cascobayweekly.com/cbw2003/cover/cover05.22.03.stm.  The resurrected
CBW is nothing more than a medium for the propagation of press releases from
various interest groups; this and other dubious ventures in Maine publishing was
covered with brutal accuracy by Edgar Allen Beem in a recent issue of The
Forecaster (which is unfortunately not available online.)

> (BTW, I'm still bummed that their translator occupies 104.1....I used to enjoy
catching WBCN in the West End and in the towns south of Portland)...<

As long as I was free to listen to one of Uncle Mel's better creations I didn't
much care what WMPG did with its purloined share of the student activity fee
(my having been liberated from PoGo U nearly twenty years ago) but the
translator is really infuriating.  At the rate we're going I wouldn't be at all
surprised if even WBZ becomes unlistenable in the Portland metro (so WMTW will
have to find another reason to complain that nobody's listening to their
all-news station.)

Take care,
Chris