GIN, GIP, etc

[Sean Smyth]

Scott writes:
> Bob wouldn't qualify - a station must be the ONLY licensed 
> service to the 
> community. WMBR, WHRB and WLVI all count against him here. Too bad - 
> Cambridge had 101,355 people in the 2000 census!

I thought it was the only licensed commercial radio service in a
community, maybe even the only licensed AM service in a community. I
thought it was population that held WJIB back for applying at the time,
but my memory was apparently faulty.

> If not for WZBC, WNTN would have come close: 83,829 people 
> there in 2000.

> >Speaking of which ... isn't LTAR's 10th anniversary sometime 
> this year?
> 
> That sounds about right. I remember Bob floating the idea at 
> the National 
> Radio Club's 1994 convention up in Merrimack, N.H., so the 
> show must have 
> started that fall.

I remember first hearing LTAR in October of '94 and it was episode No. 6
or so ... so it's somewhere around there!