Re: Fwd: Herald: Is WWZN dragging down SNR?

[aread@speakeasy.net]

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> From: elipolo@earthlink.net [mailto:elipolo@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2003 06:35 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: Fwd: Herald: Is WWZN dragging down SNR?
> 
> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:48:41 -0400
> From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Herald: Is WWZN dragging down SNR?
> 
> > ... WWZN has no right to exist really...
> > Vulcan should just turn in the license and sell the towers for 
> > scrap metal. Then maybe the Wizzer in Grenfield could go full-time.
> 
> Don't turn it in... I'm still daydreaming that someone will turn 1510 
> into Boston's 1950's through mid-1960's "Real Oldies" station, somewhat 
> like WSAI in Cincinnati.
> 
> WWZN only got an 0.4 in the last book, and has always languished near 
> there, when they've even shown up. I'd imagine that a 50's through mid 
> 60's Oldies format, if done well and properly promoted, could at least 
> pull a consistent 1+ share, and if largely voicetracked (like WSAI) may 
> not cost substantially more to operate than WWZN presently does.
> 


Or give it to a college station.  There's three halfway decent college programs with tiny or non-existant broadcast signals right in Boston (WTBU/Boston University, WRBB/Northeastern and MassComm).   Granted all we need is another college station here in Boston...but a well-run college station is pretty damn good.  Witness the success of WERS and WHRB, and the slightly lessor success of WMBR and WZBC.

I think actually WTBU would thrive with an AM signal - the journalism dep't at BU is huge and renowned nationwide.  A news format on an AM run out of WTBU wouldn't exactly give WBUR a run for its money, but it'd be a helluva training platform.

Hmmm...with the way WBUR has been cutting NPR programs in favor of the BBC World Service, you could have then subsidize it somewhat and either put the "lost" NPR stuff (like On the Media) on an AM signal, or bring it back to FM and put the BBC on the AM, with lots of news generated by the kids.

Certainly TBU has the facilities to handle it...it's all WBUR's old space.

- Aaron