Rhythm Club program

[Dan Strassberg]

There may be a WGKA-FM, but WGKA (AM) is a daytimer. (For years, it was
Atlanta's classical music station, but it is now owned by Salem and is doing
brokered religion, I believe.) In what daypart did the Atlanta R&B program
run? Maybe it's just me, but I think of little-known R&B as a late-night
format. It's hard to do a late-night program on a daytimer--at least if you
want anyone to hear the program. WGKA has applied to go full-time, but the
application has been pending for several years now. It's one of those
complicated deals. WGKA is on 1190. With the downgrade of WOWO, you'd think
adding night service would be simple, but the upgrade (which involves
construction of a five-or six-tower directional array at a site separate
from WGKA's current site, which would be retained as the day site) is tied
in with a WOWO upgrade, a WLIB upgrade, and maybe an upgrade to WBIS
Annapolis MD--all of which seem to be mired in one of the FCC's famous black
holes.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: <Boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: Rhythm Club program


> There's an interesting article at http://www.docnews.com/rhythm_club.html
about "The
> Rhythm Club," a program which began on WGKA in Atlanta, featuring an
interesting
> collection of rhythm and blues music by a DJ who has a incredible
collection of records and
> seemingly can't be stumped.  The program is now on Saturday nights on WMUA
in Amherst
> while its host, Brian Eagan, pursues a masters degree in history at UMass.
>
> It's an interesting and odd migration of a radio program.  I suppose it
will eventually return to
> Atlanta when Eagan gets his degree.  Right now, since WMUA streams over
the Internet,
> the program is available anywhere.  I don't know whether the Atlanta
station is on the net.
>
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> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
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