From markwats@comcast.net Tue Feb 1 17:49:55 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Tue Feb 1 17:50:06 2005 Subject: EAS Problem In CT Today Message-ID: <005601c508b0$5bb286a0$6f918318@Mark> Just saw a report on WCVB (Channel 5) that there was a false EAS (Emergency Alert System) evacuation emergency message was sent out in Connecticut this afternoon. Instead of the weekly EAS test, viewers of some TV stations and cable TV systems in CT saw an EAS message telling residents to evacuate the state. The CT Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security confirmed in a press release that it was an erroneous message that went out in place of the EAS test and that no emergency took place. An investigation is underway into how this happened. Mark Watson From markwats@comcast.net Tue Feb 1 17:57:22 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Tue Feb 1 17:57:28 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark Message-ID: <005a01c508b1$65b15040$6f918318@Mark> The Nashua NH Telegraph reports that WSMN (1590 Nashua) went dark at 6 PM last night.and apparently is for sale, but the new owners will have to find a new studio and transmitter location as the current WSMN studio and transmitter site will be bulldozed shortly to make room for new houses. Here is a link to the article on the Telegraph's website: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050201/NEWS01/102010037/-1/news Mark Watson From scott@fybush.com Tue Feb 1 18:18:30 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue Feb 1 18:18:38 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> At 05:57 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: > The Nashua NH Telegraph reports that WSMN (1590 Nashua) went dark at 6 > PM last night.and apparently is for sale, but the new owners will have to > find a new studio and transmitter location as the current WSMN studio and > transmitter site will be bulldozed shortly to make room for new houses. This was coming for a long time, wasn't it? Dan Strassberg, how much power do you think 1590 could run ND-D from a single unobtrusive tower somewhere? I can't imagine that they can get a new DA built in a year (or, likely, ever) - and the clock is now ticking towards the deletion of the license on 1/31/06 unless they find a way to get back from some sort of temporary facility before that. I'm about to share the news with Mrs. NERW, who looks back on WSMN as the station that drove her completely out of radio in the early 90s...I don't expect any tears to be shed :-) s From lglavin@lycos.com Tue Feb 1 18:31:54 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Tue Feb 1 18:32:06 2005 Subject: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster Message-ID: <20050201233154.5BF8B3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Ernie Boch, Jr received cash for the family's cluster of 4 FM's on Cape Cod: WXTK,(95.1); WCOD,(106.1); WPXC (102.9); and the duopoly of WTWV (101.1) and WDVT (93.5). The buyer is Quantum, already the owner of several full-power outlets on the Cape, so they'll be spinning off two of the acquisitions. Quantum will keep WCOD and WXTK, both more-or-less full-power stations, and divest WPXC and the WTWV/WDVT duopoly, all four of which are the equivalent of the former class-A stations: 6KW @ 328 ft. They'll be more pervasive in their market than Greater Media is in Boston! -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From gary@garysicecream.com Tue Feb 1 18:48:03 2005 From: gary@garysicecream.com (gic) Date: Tue Feb 1 18:48:16 2005 Subject: The demise of WSMN Message-ID: <018501c508b8$78d0c640$6500a8c0@office> It is with a tear in the eye that I acknowledge the demise of WSMN. While certainly not my most favorite station that I ever worked at (1972) it WAS the station where the owner (Al Rock) paid for me to take classes and get my 1st Class FCC License (remember those days). My favorite memories of WSMN were "the stick" that we had to use to hit the plate button on the transmitter. Don Ayers (cough...cough...cough...hack..hack) warned us all NEVER to touch the metal on the transmitter - "Use the wooden stick and you won't die" - made me feel safe when I walked out to the "sunporch" where the transmitter lived. And the day that Al's daughter (Barbara Rock) made her debut as a news reader.....her first story was about someone who had been "in-dick-ted" by the grand jury - she pronounced indicted phonetically. Barbara Rock (and former WOTW's Jeff Kerouac) are the parents of Kristin Kerouac of Hometown Forecast Service (heard nationwide). -gary f From billings@suscom-maine.net Tue Feb 1 19:11:36 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Tue Feb 1 19:11:44 2005 Subject: EAS Problem In CT Today References: <005601c508b0$5bb286a0$6f918318@Mark> Message-ID: <004401c508bb$c2e12a10$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> The EAS that cried wolf! Will people listen when it matters in the future? From billings@suscom-maine.net Tue Feb 1 19:13:41 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Tue Feb 1 19:13:46 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <005201c508bc$0d1c4ec0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: Re: WSMN Goes dark > I'm about to share the news with Mrs. NERW, who looks back on WSMN as the > station that drove her completely out of radio in the early 90s...I don't > expect any tears to be shed :-) Care to share the story? From scott@fybush.com Tue Feb 1 19:51:00 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue Feb 1 19:51:05 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <005201c508bc$0d1c4ec0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> <005201c508bc$0d1c4ec0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201194949.01ff0698@gwind.pair.com> At 07:13 PM 2/1/2005, Daniel Billings wrote: >>I'm about to share the news with Mrs. NERW, who looks back on WSMN as the >>station that drove her completely out of radio in the early 90s...I don't >>expect any tears to be shed :-) > >Care to share the story? I'll leave that up to Lisa to decide. Suffice it to say that there are things that can be said about Maury Parent now that she might not have wanted to say publicly a year ago... I know she's not feeling the way I would if this were WCAP. (And I certainly hope THAT day never comes...) s From hykker@grolen.com Tue Feb 1 18:50:27 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Tue Feb 1 20:24:35 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20050201184535.01b3ef80@pop3.grolen.com> Scott Fybush wrote: >Dan Strassberg, how much power do you think 1590 could run ND-D from a >single unobtrusive tower somewhere? I can't imagine that they can get a >new DA built in a year (or, likely, ever) - and the clock is now ticking >towards the deletion of the license on 1/31/06 unless they find a way to >get back from some sort of temporary facility before that. Given the lack of available land and NIMBYs the likelihood of WSMN returning with a 3-tower DA are somewhere between slim and none.. Why would anyone want to throw the kind of money necessary to make it happen at a station that hasn't operated in the black in decades? From sven@gordsven.com Tue Feb 1 20:59:42 2005 From: sven@gordsven.com (Stephanie Weil) Date: Tue Feb 1 20:59:47 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20050201184535.01b3ef80@pop3.grolen.com> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> <6.0.3.0.0.20050201184535.01b3ef80@pop3.grolen.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, SteveOrdinetz wrote: > Given the lack of available land and NIMBYs the likelihood of WSMN > returning with a 3-tower DA are somewhere between slim and none.. Why Wonder what happened to the equipment and the record-collection. That is, if the station had any records to begin with? -- steph From scott@fybush.com Tue Feb 1 21:03:51 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue Feb 1 21:03:56 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> <6.0.3.0.0.20050201184535.01b3ef80@pop3.grolen.com> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201210312.020036b0@gwind.pair.com> At 08:59 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: >On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, SteveOrdinetz wrote: > > > Given the lack of available land and NIMBYs the likelihood of WSMN > > returning with a 3-tower DA are somewhere between slim and none.. Why > >Wonder what happened to the equipment and the record-collection. That is, >if the station had any records to begin with? Oh, you mean the albums with knife-marks across the tracks that were too "twangy" or too "loud" to be played on the air? Damn, I'm stealing Lisa's thunder already... s From markwats@comcast.net Tue Feb 1 21:13:00 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Tue Feb 1 21:13:17 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com><6.0.3.0.0.20050201184535.01b3ef80@pop3.grolen.com> Message-ID: <00a901c508cc$bb5b4a80$6f918318@Mark> Stephanie Weil wrote: > Wonder what happened to the equipment and the record-collection. That is, > if the station had any records to begin with? I wonder what happened to the "Weather Hawk" jingle and the other ancient jingles they ran for years? Does anyone have a copy of them somewhere? The last time I was in the WSMN building (early 90's) they had plenty of records in the library, and were still using Gates 16 inch turntables to play said records. Mark Watson From sven@gordsven.com Tue Feb 1 21:25:41 2005 From: sven@gordsven.com (Stephanie Weil) Date: Tue Feb 1 21:25:47 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201210312.020036b0@gwind.pair.com> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> <6.0.3.0.0.20050201184535.01b3ef80@pop3.grolen.com> <6.0.1.1.0.20050201210312.020036b0@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Scott Fybush wrote: > Oh, you mean the albums with knife-marks across the tracks that were too > "twangy" or too "loud" to be played on the air? *cringe* *wince* :( :( -- steph From scott@fybush.com Tue Feb 1 22:17:52 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue Feb 1 22:17:57 2005 Subject: **JUNK** Re: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201194949.01ff0698@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201221652.02027e40@gwind.pair.com> At 09:43 PM 2/1/2005, Rony Camille wrote: >Wait? are you implying that the Mrs. was involved with "the incident" >where a foreign object was thrown (mouse pad) well that's what i've heard. Noooo!!! She was at WSMN in 1990-91 and was long, long gone from the place by the time that incident was alleged to have occurred...but that doesn't mean she doesn't have some great stories to share with the list later. s From RBello@BelloAssoc.com Tue Feb 1 22:44:31 2005 From: RBello@BelloAssoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Tue Feb 1 22:44:42 2005 Subject: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster In-Reply-To: <20050201233154.5BF8B3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050201233154.5BF8B3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20050201223132.030a8340@pop.gis.net> Qantum (their spelling) already owns WRZE 96.3, WCIB 101.9 and WPXC 102.9 on the Cape. The first 2 being 50K watters. Qantum will own all but 2 of the full power stations if this goes forward. At 06:31 PM 2/1/2005, Laurence Glavin wrote: >Ernie Boch, Jr received cash for the family's cluster of 4 >FM's on Cape Cod: WXTK,(95.1); WCOD,(106.1); WPXC (102.9); >and the duopoly of WTWV (101.1) and WDVT (93.5). The buyer >is Quantum, already the owner of several full-power outlets >on the Cape, so they'll be spinning off two of the acquisitions. >Quantum will keep WCOD and WXTK, both more-or-less full-power >stations, and divest WPXC and the WTWV/WDVT duopoly, all >four of which are the equivalent of the former class-A stations: >6KW @ 328 ft. They'll be more pervasive in their market than >Greater Media is in Boston! > >-- From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Tue Feb 1 23:16:39 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Tue Feb 1 23:16:43 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark Message-ID: <200502012316.AA973931146@mail.ttlc.net> Scott Fybush wrote: >Oh, you mean the albums with knife-marks across the tracks >that were too "twangy" or too "loud" to be played on the air? WKTQ, South Paris had an album where all the grooves had been removed from a particular track by shaving with a knife. A Paul Lynde's routine was considered "too risque" for rural Maine in 1964. From scott@fybush.com Tue Feb 1 23:58:48 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue Feb 1 23:58:54 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <200502012316.AA973931146@mail.ttlc.net> References: <200502012316.AA973931146@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201232411.02040558@gwind.pair.com> At 11:16 PM 2/1/2005, rogerkirk wrote: >Scott Fybush wrote: > > >Oh, you mean the albums with knife-marks across the tracks > >that were too "twangy" or too "loud" to be played on the air? > >WKTQ, South Paris had an album where all the grooves had been >removed from a particular track by shaving with a knife. >A Paul Lynde's routine was considered "too risque" for rural >Maine in 1964. And with that, I give you Mrs. NERW and her comments about her last stop in the radio biz... I could say "good riddance" to the hellhole I worked at, except from the reports I've read, the station sounded like it was actually doing something decent under the business format. Scott was slightly incorrect...there were no knife-marks across the tracks, just notes on the CD cases saying not to play certain songs and a label-maker message on the console saying "don't play anything too twangy, use your head" -- really clear instructions, those. And during the Maury Parent regime, he would stomp down the stairs from his office and yell if he didn't like a track that was being played. It could have been on the air the day before, but if it struck him wrong that day, that was it. He banned Mariah Carey (!) because he thought her singing was like screaming. Since he wasn't managing the station anymore, maybe the atmosphere had a modicum of sanity, but it certainly didn't when I was there in 1991. I have many more stories if anyone wants to hear...Scott said I should talk about "Bush is in Brazil," which would make for a very long message. Will share if prompted. Lisa From gary@garysicecream.com Wed Feb 2 00:09:42 2005 From: gary@garysicecream.com (gic) Date: Wed Feb 2 00:09:53 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark References: <200502012316.AA973931146@mail.ttlc.net> <6.0.1.1.0.20050201232411.02040558@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <02c401c508e5$682fe730$6500a8c0@office> Consider yourself prompted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" To: ; "BRI" Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:58 PM Subject: Re: WSMN Goes dark > At 11:16 PM 2/1/2005, rogerkirk wrote: >>Scott Fybush wrote: >> >> >Oh, you mean the albums with knife-marks across the tracks >> >that were too "twangy" or too "loud" to be played on the air? >> >>WKTQ, South Paris had an album where all the grooves had been >>removed from a particular track by shaving with a knife. >>A Paul Lynde's routine was considered "too risque" for rural >>Maine in 1964. > > And with that, I give you Mrs. NERW and her comments about her last stop > in the radio biz... > > I could say "good riddance" to the hellhole I worked at, except from the > reports I've read, the station sounded like it was actually doing > something decent under the business format. > > Scott was slightly incorrect...there were no knife-marks across the > tracks, just notes on the CD cases saying not to play certain songs and a > label-maker message on the console saying "don't play anything too twangy, > use your head" -- really clear instructions, those. > > And during the Maury Parent regime, he would stomp down the stairs from > his office and yell if he didn't like a track that was being played. It > could have been on the air the day before, but if it struck him wrong that > day, that was it. He banned Mariah Carey (!) because he thought her > singing was like screaming. > > Since he wasn't managing the station anymore, maybe the atmosphere had a > modicum of sanity, but it certainly didn't when I was there in 1991. > > I have many more stories if anyone wants to hear...Scott said I should > talk about "Bush is in Brazil," which would make for a very long message. > Will share if prompted. > > Lisa > From scott@fybush.com Wed Feb 2 00:35:27 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Wed Feb 2 00:35:32 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <02c401c508e5$682fe730$6500a8c0@office> References: <200502012316.AA973931146@mail.ttlc.net> <6.0.1.1.0.20050201232411.02040558@gwind.pair.com> <02c401c508e5$682fe730$6500a8c0@office> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050202003458.020411e8@gwind.pair.com> "Tomorrow," she says. Stay tuned... s At 12:09 AM 2/2/2005, gic wrote: >Consider yourself prompted. > >>I have many more stories if anyone wants to hear...Scott said I should >>talk about "Bush is in Brazil," which would make for a very long message. >>Will share if prompted. >> >>Lisa > From rogerkola@aol.com Wed Feb 2 00:58:52 2005 From: rogerkola@aol.com (Roger Kolakowski) Date: Wed Feb 2 00:57:29 2005 Subject: EAS Problem In CT Today References: <005601c508b0$5bb286a0$6f918318@Mark> <004401c508bb$c2e12a10$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <002b01c508ec$465c8620$0200a8c0@teal> Where would you go? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: "Mark Watson" ; "Boston Radio" Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:11 PM Subject: Re: EAS Problem In CT Today > The EAS that cried wolf! Will people listen when it matters in the future? > > > > From lawyer@attorneyross.com Wed Feb 2 01:04:22 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed Feb 2 01:05:14 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201232411.02040558@gwind.pair.com> References: <200502012316.AA973931146@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <42002716.576.D75995@localhost> On 1 Feb 2005 at 23:58, Scott Fybush wrote: > I have many more stories if anyone wants to hear...Scott said I should > talk about "Bush is in Brazil," which would make for a very long > message. Will share if prompted. I'd love to hear more! -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Wed Feb 2 01:08:09 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Wed Feb 2 01:12:19 2005 Subject: EAS Problem In CT Today References: <005601c508b0$5bb286a0$6f918318@Mark> Message-ID: <00f501c508ee$11a51f80$1404fea9@xyz> From: "Mark Watson" > Instead of the weekly EAS test, viewers of some > TV stations and cable TV systems in CT saw an EAS message telling residents > to evacuate the state. The CT Office of Emergency Management and Homeland > Security confirmed in a press release that it was an erroneous message that > went out in place of the EAS test and that no emergency took place. An > investigation is underway into how this happened. Maybe there should be an investigation as to why nobody evacuated! From dan.strassberg@att.net Wed Feb 2 07:15:34 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Wed Feb 2 07:28:52 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark References: <6.0.1.1.0.20050201181823.01f989b8@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <002d01c50922$c35e4380$19eefea9@dstrassberg> It seems to me that a few months ago I came up with 300W ND-D from the 900 site, which is several miles north of what had been WSMN's site. I'd really have to check that figure, though. 300W might be adequate to cover Nashua and Merrimac by day, but I imagine that, at night, WSMN might be able to get a few tens of watts ND, which might or might not be useful. BTW, WSMN was the cause of WUNR's having to reduce radiation to the north in its CP for 20 kW-U. If WSMN should survive and replace its DA, the new DA would have to reduce radiation to the south to reduce overlap with WUNR--unless the FCC were to rule that WUNR's CP takes care of that overlap. If the Oakville CT 1590 CP (or is it just an application) is surrendered, WSMN ought to be able to slightly let out its pattern to the southwest--at least at night. Remember, WSMN was DA-1 and its pattern was designed to provide nighttime protection to the old 1590 in Waterbury. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: Re: WSMN Goes dark > At 05:57 PM 2/1/2005, you wrote: > > The Nashua NH Telegraph reports that WSMN (1590 Nashua) went dark at 6 > > PM last night.and apparently is for sale, but the new owners will have to > > find a new studio and transmitter location as the current WSMN studio and > > transmitter site will be bulldozed shortly to make room for new houses. > > This was coming for a long time, wasn't it? > > Dan Strassberg, how much power do you think 1590 could run ND-D from a > single unobtrusive tower somewhere? I can't imagine that they can get a new > DA built in a year (or, likely, ever) - and the clock is now ticking > towards the deletion of the license on 1/31/06 unless they find a way to > get back from some sort of temporary facility before that. > > I'm about to share the news with Mrs. NERW, who looks back on WSMN as the > station that drove her completely out of radio in the early 90s...I don't > expect any tears to be shed :-) > > s > From lglavin@lycos.com Wed Feb 2 17:05:55 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Wed Feb 2 17:06:03 2005 Subject: WSMN Not Completely Gone.... Message-ID: <20050202220555.A87CE3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> WSMN is not completely gone; at this very moment (5:00 pm EST, Groundhog Day 2005), it's emitting an unmodulated carrier on 1590 at what appears to me to be less than the full 5 gallons. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From gary@garysicecream.com Wed Feb 2 17:13:28 2005 From: gary@garysicecream.com (gic) Date: Wed Feb 2 17:13:39 2005 Subject: WSMN Not Completely Gone.... References: <20050202220555.A87CE3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <048601c50974$6cc010b0$6500a8c0@office> Could it be a pint or a quart? Sorry. -g ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Glavin" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: WSMN Not Completely Gone.... > WSMN is not completely gone; at this very moment (5:00 pm EST, Groundhog > Day 2005), it's emitting an unmodulated carrier on 1590 at what appears to > me to be less than the full 5 gallons. > -- > _______________________________________________ > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 > > From kc1ih@mac.com Wed Feb 2 20:24:36 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Wed Feb 2 20:24:45 2005 Subject: NH Stations Swap Formats Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050202202245.01f5f308@mail.mac.com> A couple of stations in NH are swapping formats on Friday: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050202/REPOSITORY/502020345/1221 Note that radio consultant Scott Fybush is quoted in the article. Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From billings@suscom-maine.net Wed Feb 2 20:57:45 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Wed Feb 2 20:57:49 2005 Subject: EAS Problem In CT Today References: <005601c508b0$5bb286a0$6f918318@Mark> <00f501c508ee$11a51f80$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <004a01c50993$c1b36850$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> I've always thought that EAS and the old EBS was something that was good in concept, but would never be very effective in a real emergency. Are there EAS success stories? I assume that they use it for hurricane warnings in the south. From kwillcox@wnsh.com Wed Feb 2 14:38:20 2005 From: kwillcox@wnsh.com (Keating Willcox) Date: Wed Feb 2 22:44:54 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 In-Reply-To: <200502021700.j12H02d7035076@rolinin.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200502021700.j12H02d7035076@rolinin.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20050202143653.02d1f588@mail.comcast.net> At 12:00 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote: >It seems to me that a few months ago I came up with 300W ND-D from the 900 >site, which is several miles north of what had been WSMN's site. I'd really >have to check that figure, though. 300W might be adequate to cover Nashua >and Merrimac by day, but I imagine that, at night, WMVU Nashua at900w daily had a super tower - wet feet - it would go forever. I read somewhere that by putting some juice on the guy wires, you could add some direction to the signal. Anyone have any other weird ideas? Sincerely, Keating Willcox ~/~ WNSH AM 1570 Beverly 'playing the best music ever recorded' kwillcox@wnsh.com www.wnsh.com 978-921-1570 FAX 978-468-1954 376 Hale Street, Beverly, MA 01915 From RBello@BelloAssoc.com Wed Feb 2 22:47:53 2005 From: RBello@BelloAssoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Wed Feb 2 22:48:01 2005 Subject: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster In-Reply-To: <20050201233154.5BF8B3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050201233154.5BF8B3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20050202224601.030b0bd0@pop.gis.net> Qantum is paying $21.3 million for the Boch stations. Details from the Cape Cod Times: http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/qantummakes2.htm At 06:31 PM 2/1/2005, Laurence Glavin wrote: >Ernie Boch, Jr received cash for the family's cluster of 4 >FM's on Cape Cod: WXTK,(95.1); WCOD,(106.1); WPXC (102.9); >and the duopoly of WTWV (101.1) and WDVT (93.5). The buyer >is Quantum, already the owner of several full-power outlets >on the Cape, so they'll be spinning off two of the acquisitions. >Quantum will keep WCOD and WXTK, both more-or-less full-power >stations, and divest WPXC and the WTWV/WDVT duopoly, all >four of which are the equivalent of the former class-A stations: >6KW @ 328 ft. They'll be more pervasive in their market than >Greater Media is in Boston! > >-- >_______________________________________________ >Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages >http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 Ron Bello Bello Associates, Inc. 160 Speen Street - Suite 303 Framingham, MA 01701 508-820-1100 Fax 820-1112 From scott@fybush.com Wed Feb 2 23:21:33 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Wed Feb 2 23:21:42 2005 Subject: "Bush is in Brazil" Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050202224400.020159a8@gwind.pair.com> Since I was prompted, here is another WSMN story, starring the late Maury Parent. When I was working in the news department in 1991, we would have a half-hour news report at 5 p.m. followed by "Open Line," a call-in show hosted by Maury. Was 5:30, drive time, an ideal time to have a call-in show, while people were still in their cars, heading home from work? (this was before cell phones were omnipresent, remember) No, but Maury didn't want to stay at work so late. That applied to him and no one else, of course. He also never had a topic prepared and kept just asking people to call in, saying "what's your pleasure, this is your show," etc. When no one called in, he would read the news briefs I had just used for my 5 p.m. report. Way to attract callers, huh? But every once in a while some people would call and a conversation would get going, usually in the second half of the show. One night I had just come back from dinner and was getting ready for a meeting, when I heard Maury talking about how Bush (senior) said the recession was over, and where did he get that idea anyway. Then he said "Bush is in Brazil." I was trying to figure out what that meant, wondering if it was some esoteric New Hampshire slang meaning "out of touch," when I heard him continue about how Bush was meeting with people all over the world, when his place was here in America. Then I remembered: Bush was attending an international environmental (or economic, I forget which it was) summit ... in ... wait for it ... Madrid! Wrong continent, wrong language. Sure, they shared a dominant religion and maybe some of their export products were the same, but Brazil and Spain aren't exactly two countries that are easily confused. I ran into the DJ's studio where Ken Richards was board-opping the show and asked him, "Which one of us is going to tell him that Madrid is in SPAIN?" Ken's response? "Come to think of it, you're right!" Nothing further was pursued with Maury, but I told the receptionist about it the next day, and she cracked up, and I told the afternoon jock, (Jay Carroll, who went by Jack Davis at SMN) who also thought it was hilarious. He even tried to build momentum for my initial interpretation of Maury's gaffe by saying on air, when he missed a record cue, "Pardon my error...I must be in Brazil!" From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Thu Feb 3 01:18:20 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Thu Feb 3 01:25:08 2005 Subject: EAS Problem In CT Today References: <005601c508b0$5bb286a0$6f918318@Mark><00f501c508ee$11a51f80$1404fea9@xyz> <004a01c50993$c1b36850$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <00cb01c509b9$041964e0$1404fea9@xyz> Years ago, when I was in Rhode Island, the state had a very good and very well maintained EBS system. When there was a statewide test sent out from the Statehouse, (I believe it started with WJAR), each station would relay/activate the EBS monitor at the next station, etc.) The test would conclude with a Civil Defense official making a short announcemenet (from the Statehouse) about it being a test. Each station picked up the audio from another station, from another station, etc...down the line...so that no phone lines were needed. You could tune around the dial in the state and hear everyone across the dial running it. If there was a station NOT running the test, it stuck out like a sore thumb...and why they didn't run it was probed and rectified for next time. I had no doubt that "if there were an actual emergency" in RI, that anyone within earshot of a radio would hear that something is going on...and in the case of Rhode Island...the information would originate from Civil Defnse in the Statehouse....to ALL stations. In theory, the idea of stations relaying alerts and transmissions to each other....without the need for phone lines, etc...is a simple and great idea. However, it relies on having trained personell....which is typically lacking. And, in larger markets, I know that most staff would hesitate to run the EBS relay and interrupt programming....and wait for some other verification. From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Thu Feb 3 05:51:10 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Thu Feb 3 05:51:53 2005 Subject: Joe Giotta's email? Message-ID: <009a01c509de$4a5b1500$1404fea9@xyz> Would anyone have Joe Giotta's email address? Can you forward it to me privately? I would assume he would have a voiceover web site...but I can't seem to locate it. Thanks! JP From raccoonradio@myway.com Thu Feb 3 11:47:26 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu Feb 3 11:47:38 2005 Subject: NH Stations Swap Formats Message-ID: <20050203164726.1302F3A25@mprdmxin.myway.com> Reminds me of when 99.5 and 96.9 did the smooth jazz/country flip. Imus on a country station? Well, he does wear those cowboy hats on the MSNBC simulcast, or used to, and has been known to play Kinky Friedman, Johnny Cash, etc., in bumpers. Another NH-involved flip happened recently, with WINQ country moving from 97.7 to 98.7, and oldies WOQL switching to 97.7 (also involves Winchendon, MA) _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From raccoonradio@myway.com Thu Feb 3 11:49:12 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu Feb 3 11:49:25 2005 Subject: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster Message-ID: <20050203164912.C50753A0E@mprdmxin.myway.com> >>Qantum is paying $21.3 million for the Boch stations "I can get you a radio station cluster for less, because our costs are less. My name is Ernie Boch, Jr.-- come on down!" :) _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From dan.strassberg@att.net Thu Feb 3 13:26:25 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Thu Feb 3 13:27:01 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 References: <200502021700.j12H02d7035076@rolinin.lcs.mit.edu> <6.2.0.14.2.20050202143653.02d1f588@mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: <005401c50a1d$f6487440$19eefea9@dstrassberg> I think you are talking about a scheme for creating a "single-tower" AM DA. The scheme was used only once to my knowledge. It was the brainchild of the late engineer Carl Smith of Cleveland OH, who, in his day, was considered by many to have been the premiere designer of AM DAs. Smith's name still graces a consulting-engineering firm that is widely regarded as one of the two or three premiere designers of AM DAs. I believe that the Carl Smith Company was the outfit that finally figured out how to adjust WBIX's very demanding five-tower array. By some technical sleight of hand that I don't understand, one of The Smith Co's engineers figured out how to rotate a spurious lobe from about 240 degrees, where it pointed right at KYW, to about 350 degrees, where it interferes with nothing. Anyhow, the "one-tower" DA was used successfully for many years by WTAM in Cleveland. Although there was only one tower, the array consisted of two elements. One was the tower, AFAIK, a conventional series-fed structure. The other element was a vertical wire dropped from one of the guy wires and insulated from the guy. Of necessity, the spacing between this element and the tower was pretty short and the tower heights were unequal. Apparently, the WTAM site was located close to the Lake Erie shore. That is, it was mainly either east of west of Cleveland. The pattern was designed to reduce radiation to the north--over the Lake and southern Ontario. The signal in that direction was not negligible, however. The signal to the east, west, and south was stronger, however. The arrangement sounds practical, so I am surprised that no other station has tried it. There are several stations that have used (and a couple that still use) vertical wires suspended from horizontal wires as DA elements. Of these, the best-known was WOR, when it operated from Carteret NJ. Another is KSUR 1260 in--I think--Beverly Hills CA. A third is the 1510 station currently licensed to a community near Oakland CA. If I'm not mistaken, the 1260 and 1510 stations are both owned by Saul Levine. The 1510 station is also unique in having the only rooftop DA in the US. I suspect that the WOR Carteret array began life as a long-wire but was later converted to a DA. The first DA, at shartetimers WFLA/WSUN in Tampa-St Petersburg, went on the air in 1931. By 1936, WOR's antenna was being operated as a DA. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keating Willcox" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Re: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 > At 12:00 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote: > >It seems to me that a few months ago I came up with 300W ND-D from the 900 > >site, which is several miles north of what had been WSMN's site. I'd really > >have to check that figure, though. 300W might be adequate to cover Nashua > >and Merrimac by day, but I imagine that, at night, > > > WMVU Nashua at900w daily had a super tower - wet feet - it would go > forever. I read somewhere that by putting some juice on the guy wires, you > could add some direction to the signal. Anyone have any other weird ideas? > > > Sincerely, > > Keating Willcox ~/~ > > WNSH AM 1570 Beverly > 'playing the best music ever recorded' > kwillcox@wnsh.com > www.wnsh.com > 978-921-1570 FAX 978-468-1954 > 376 Hale Street, Beverly, MA 01915 > > From n1qgs@yahoo.com Thu Feb 3 15:01:01 2005 From: n1qgs@yahoo.com (John Bolduc) Date: Thu Feb 3 15:01:39 2005 Subject: WSMN Goes dark In-Reply-To: <00a901c508cc$bb5b4a80$6f918318@Mark> Message-ID: <20050203200101.72187.qmail@web30707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- Mark Watson wrote: > Stephanie Weil wrote: > The > last time I was in the WSMN building (early 90's) they had plenty of > records > in the library, and were still using Gates 16 inch turntables to play > said > records. > I was an in studio guest on a couple occasions around 2000 and nothing had changed. I do remember a very strange door stop to keep the door to the main studio open or closed, depending on the whim of who was on the air. The records were all still there! John B Derry From madprof@ix.netcom.com Thu Feb 3 15:22:16 2005 From: madprof@ix.netcom.com (Robert F. Sutherland) Date: Thu Feb 3 15:19:40 2005 Subject: ReRe: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster References: <20050203164912.C50753A0E@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <003e01c50a2e$0eacb4a0$81cc9c04@p133> you, sir [Bob Nelson], are BAAAD (in a good way!) ummmm. very curious, the concept of buying radio stations on the auto-mile. Seriously, is there a question of Cape air monopoly? is this why 3 stations are being placed "in trust" to resell? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" To: ; Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster > > >>Qantum is paying $21.3 million for the Boch stations > > "I can get you a radio station cluster for less, because our costs are less. My name is Ernie Boch, Jr.-- come on down!" :) > > _______________________________________________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com > From scott@fybush.com Thu Feb 3 16:59:18 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Thu Feb 3 16:58:08 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 In-Reply-To: <005401c50a1d$f6487440$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <200502021700.j12H02d7035076@rolinin.lcs.mit.edu> <6.2.0.14.2.20050202143653.02d1f588@mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20050203163025.02bc9050@gwind.pair.com> Strassberg: >Apparently, the WTAM site was located close to the Lake Erie shore. That >is, it was >mainly either east of west of Cleveland. The pattern was designed to reduce >radiation to the north--over the Lake and southern Ontario. The signal in >that direction was not negligible, however. The signal to the east, west, >and south was stronger, however. The WTAM site to which Dan refers was in fact almost due south of Cleveland. The tower was also used for WNBK-TV (now WKYC, channel 3) and WTAM-FM 105.7, and continues to be used by channel 3 to this day. There's only about 15 miles of land, maybe 20 at the most, between that site and the lake, so knocking the signal down somewhat in that direction would probably not have been noticeable, especially given the low noise levels and more sensitive receivers of that era. >The arrangement sounds practical, so I am surprised that no other station >has tried it. There are several stations that have used (and a couple that >still use) vertical wires suspended from horizontal wires as DA elements. Of >these, the best-known was WOR, when it operated from Carteret NJ. Another is >KSUR 1260 in--I think--Beverly Hills CA. A third is the 1510 station >currently licensed to a community near Oakland CA. If I'm not mistaken, the >1260 and 1510 stations are both owned by Saul Levine. That's correct. There's another station in the LA market that uses a vertical wire as an element in a DA. KRLA 870 Glendale, the former KIEV, has two towers on a hilltop in the Eagle Rock area, with a third "tower" formed from a vertical wire. And down in San Diego, KCBQ 1170 operates fulltime, ND, from a wire hung from one of the guys of the KLSD 1360/KGB 101.5 tower. It's an interim setup to keep KCBQ on the air after it lost its site in Santee (now a Lowe's hardware store), until it can begin diplexing with KECR 910. >The 1510 station is >also unique in having the only rooftop DA in the US. There's the 1020/1150 array in LA, which appears to be a rooftop DA but really isn't - it's a conventional DA that's had a warehouse built right around the towers. Each tower sits in a little well inside the building, and each one has a conventional base insulator and ground system at the bottom. The entire building, of course, is enclosed in wire mesh to keep as much of the RF out as possible! >I suspect that the WOR >Carteret array began life as a long-wire but was later converted to a DA. >The first DA, at shartetimers WFLA/WSUN in Tampa-St Petersburg, went on the >air in 1931. By 1936, WOR's antenna was being operated as a DA. 1932, actually, for the WFLA/WSUN array. WOR in Carteret was designed from the beginning as a two-tower array with a dropped third wire. It went on the air from there in 1935, and operated with no major alterations until the move to Lyndhurst in 1967. From nostaticatall@comcast.net Thu Feb 3 16:55:09 2005 From: nostaticatall@comcast.net (David Tomm) Date: Thu Feb 3 17:36:18 2005 Subject: ReRe: Quantum Buys Boch Cape Cluster In-Reply-To: <003e01c50a2e$0eacb4a0$81cc9c04@p133> References: <20050203164912.C50753A0E@mprdmxin.myway.com> <003e01c50a2e$0eacb4a0$81cc9c04@p133> Message-ID: <45C0D7A5-762E-11D9-A436-000A95DCEF88@comcast.net> Yes. In a market of Cape Cod's size, one company can only own four stations. Qantum is retaining the four 50K signals and spinning off the other three. They are being put "in trust" to satisfy the FCC until the signals are sold off. On Feb 3, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Robert F. Sutherland wrote: > Seriously, is there a question of Cape air monopoly? is this why 3 > stations > are > being placed "in trust" to resell? > From lawyer@attorneyross.com Fri Feb 4 00:25:34 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Fri Feb 4 00:30:04 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20050203163025.02bc9050@gwind.pair.com> References: <005401c50a1d$f6487440$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <4202C0FE.28447.7A04BE@localhost> On 3 Feb 2005 at 16:59, Scott Fybush wrote: > There's the 1020/1150 array in LA, which appears to be a rooftop DA > but really isn't - it's a conventional DA that's had a warehouse built > right around the towers. Each tower sits in a little well inside the > building, and each one has a conventional base insulator and ground > system at the bottom. The entire building, of course, is enclosed in > wire mesh to keep as much of the RF out as possible! The truly unique arrangements that some stations have boggle the mind! -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From scott@fybush.com Fri Feb 4 01:13:53 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Fri Feb 4 01:14:00 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 In-Reply-To: <4202C0FE.28447.7A04BE@localhost> References: <005401c50a1d$f6487440$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <4202C0FE.28447.7A04BE@localhost> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050204011235.01fcb438@gwind.pair.com> At 12:25 AM 2/4/2005, A. Joseph Ross wrote: >On 3 Feb 2005 at 16:59, Scott Fybush wrote: > > > There's the 1020/1150 array in LA, which appears to be a rooftop DA > > but really isn't - it's a conventional DA that's had a warehouse built > > right around the towers. Each tower sits in a little well inside the > > building, and each one has a conventional base insulator and ground > > system at the bottom. The entire building, of course, is enclosed in > > wire mesh to keep as much of the RF out as possible! > >The truly unique arrangements that some stations have boggle the mind! The land values in parts of the LA basin boggle the mind! Were it not for the creeping NIMBYism and more restrictive zoning in the Boston area, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see something like that up our way eventually. For a really weird one, check out Friday's Tower Site of the Week...Atlanta's WSB, right in the middle of a shopping center. s From dan.strassberg@att.net Fri Feb 4 08:10:44 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Fri Feb 4 08:11:45 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 References: <005401c50a1d$f6487440$19eefea9@dstrassberg><4202C0FE.28447.7A04BE@localhost> <6.0.1.1.0.20050204011235.01fcb438@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <000c01c50abb$11757680$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Well, WWZN is in a parking lot. Two towers within the paved area and two beyond it. WXKS's towers--or at least one of them--were in the parking lot of a sub shop. Last time I passed by 99 Rvere Beach Parkway, it looked as if the sub shop was long gone, but I'll bet that the area surrounding the towers is still used as a parking lot. And if the Newton Aldermen had obliged, the folks at WCRB would by now have evicted WRCA from their parking lot. Also, what's the situation with WLQV, which lost three of its 12 towers to a WalMart. (I know that WLQV now operates 50 kW-D/10 kW-N DA-2 from the nine towers that remained after the WalMart was built, but I'd be willing to bet that at least part of the land occupied by WLQV's ground system is part of the WalMart parking lot.) And BTW, did Air America's new LA affiliate--one of the two stations that use the five-tower array whose ground system is on a warehouse roof--retain the KXTA calls? The air personailities keep referring to the station as K-Talk. There must be a dozen K-Talks, but only one AM can be KTLK. Last time I checked, there was a KTLK (AM) in the Denver area, but that was quite a while ago. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" To: "A. Joseph Ross" Cc: "bRI" Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:13 AM Subject: Re: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 > At 12:25 AM 2/4/2005, A. Joseph Ross wrote: > >On 3 Feb 2005 at 16:59, Scott Fybush wrote: > > > > > There's the 1020/1150 array in LA, which appears to be a rooftop DA > > > but really isn't - it's a conventional DA that's had a warehouse built > > > right around the towers. Each tower sits in a little well inside the > > > building, and each one has a conventional base insulator and ground > > > system at the bottom. The entire building, of course, is enclosed in > > > wire mesh to keep as much of the RF out as possible! > > > >The truly unique arrangements that some stations have boggle the mind! > > The land values in parts of the LA basin boggle the mind! > > Were it not for the creeping NIMBYism and more restrictive zoning in the > Boston area, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see something like that up > our way eventually. > > For a really weird one, check out Friday's Tower Site of the > Week...Atlanta's WSB, right in the middle of a shopping center. > > s > From scott@fybush.com Fri Feb 4 12:32:43 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Fri Feb 4 12:31:37 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 In-Reply-To: <000c01c50abb$11757680$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <005401c50a1d$f6487440$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <4202C0FE.28447.7A04BE@localhost> <6.0.1.1.0.20050204011235.01fcb438@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20050204122153.02c04f28@gwind.pair.com> At 08:10 AM 2/4/2005 -0500, Dan Strassberg wrote: >what's the situation with WLQV, which lost three of its 12 towers >to a WalMart. (I know that WLQV now operates 50 kW-D/10 kW-N DA-2 from the >nine towers that remained after the WalMart was built, but I'd be willing to >bet that at least part of the land occupied by WLQV's ground system is part >of the WalMart parking lot.) I'm quite certain that there's some of the WLQV ground system under the parking lot there, yes... >And BTW, did Air America's new LA affiliate--one of the two stations that >use the five-tower array whose ground system is on a warehouse roof--retain >the KXTA calls? The air personailities keep referring to the station as >K-Talk. There must be a dozen K-Talks, but only one AM can be KTLK. Last >time I checked, there was a KTLK (AM) in the Denver area, but that was quite >a while ago. That it was. KTLK 760 Thornton-Denver became KKZN, "the Zone," a few years ago, at which point the KTLK calls were parked on 1340 Santa Barbara CA, ex-KIST. When 1150 LA went to Air America, it got the KTLK calls and 1340 Santa Barbara went back to KIST. The KXTA calls are now defunct. 570 LA remains KLAC as "Xtra Sports," and 690 Tijuana remains XETRA as "Fabulous 690," with the standards that used to be on 570. I am eagerly anticipating my next visit to southern California in April to hear all the changes. (760 Denver, by the way, is also now Air America, with the interesting twist that it's identifying itself specifically as "Boulder's Progressive Talk" so as to appeal to the particularly crunchy part of the market. Imagine if WKOX/WXKS were ID'ing as "Cambridge's Progressive Talk" and you'd get the idea.) Oh, and as I noted earlier - the 1020/1150 array in LA has a conventional buried ground system, so far as I know. I'm sure the warehouse buildings were grounded to that system, but the chickenwire that covers the warehouse roof is there to shield the building, not to serve as the ground system. (I hope to visit this site and get a close-up look in April.) s From lglavin@lycos.com Fri Feb 4 14:47:28 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Fri Feb 4 14:47:35 2005 Subject: Al Franken Will Be Guest On Letterman Tonight (02/4) Message-ID: <20050204194728.1BBF9C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> According to the TV listings in today's (02/04) Boston Globe, Al Franken will be a guest on tonight's "David Letterman" Show. I only bring this up in the expectation that he'll mention Air America Radio in general, and the spike in the ratings for Gorham, Maine's WLVP. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sat Feb 5 00:21:54 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sat Feb 5 00:22:13 2005 Subject: Al Franken Will Be Guest On Letterman Tonight (02/4) In-Reply-To: <20050204194728.1BBF9C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <420411A2.22475.1089871@localhost> On 4 Feb 2005 at 14:47, Laurence Glavin wrote: > According to the TV listings in today's (02/04) Boston Globe, > Al Franken will be a guest on tonight's "David Letterman" Show. > I only bring this up in the expectation that he'll mention > Air America Radio in general, and the spike in the ratings > for Gorham, Maine's WLVP. He didn't, but I very much enjoyed watching this, and I wouldn't have known about it but for your post. Thank you. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From billo@shoreham.net Sat Feb 5 14:46:58 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill.....) Date: Sat Feb 5 14:47:06 2005 Subject: Listen...to...this... Message-ID: <420522B2.6040107@shoreham.net> Just surfing around the VOA site. First time I'd noticed, among the various audio feeds, "special English" audio and tv. All .. of.. the..stories...are... reported... very... slow....ly... Must go very well with lava lamps, feng shui paraphenlia, and chanting. That...is....all.... http://www.voanews.com/english/webcasts.cfm Bill... O... Neill.... -- Peace -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Feb 5 15:24:30 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat Feb 5 15:24:45 2005 Subject: Listen...to...this... Message-ID: <20050205202430.2F87986B0D@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> >From: "Bill O'Neill....." >To: "Boston Radio Interest" >Subject: Listen...to...this... >Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:46:58 -0500 > > Just surfing around the VOA site. First time I'd noticed, among the > various audio feeds, "special English" audio and tv. All .. of.. > the..stories...are... reported... very... slow....ly... Must go > very well with lava lamps, feng shui paraphenlia, and chanting. > That...is....all.... http://www.voanews.com/english/webcasts.cfm > > Bill... O... Neill.... > > -- Peace > What you described mirrors one of the greatest skits by Bob and Ray on their album "Bob and Ray: The Two and Only". Bob Elliott is interviewing the s p o k e s m a n for the slow talkers of America, played by Ray Goulding. As Ray talks R E A L L Y slowly, Bob gets exasperated and fills in the gaps with Ray's expected response. I know I once owned the album, but it seems to have disappeared. Too bad. But it WAS funny! -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From billo@shoreham.net Sat Feb 5 15:48:35 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Sat Feb 5 15:48:46 2005 Subject: Listen...to...this... In-Reply-To: <20050205202430.2F87986B0D@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050205202430.2F87986B0D@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <42053123.5070509@shoreham.net> Laurence Glavin wrote: >What you described mirrors one of the greatest skits by Bob and Ray >on their album "Bob and Ray: The Two and Only". >Bob Elliott is interviewing the s p o k e s m a n >for the slow talkers of America, played by Ray Goulding. >As Ray talks R E A L L Y slowly, Bob gets exasperated >and fills in the gaps with Ray's expected response. >I know I once owned the album, but it seems to have >disappeared. Too bad. But it WAS funny! > > > A latter gem from the duo, they were well in to retirement when they were cutting TV spots for Massachusetts Electric. One was a spinoff from their game that involved, "You tell me the answer and I'll tell you the question." Ray is doing well with the game when Bob says, "Hey, you're on a roll!" Ray: "Why is there butter on my pants?" Bill O'Neill -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 From sid@wrko.com Sat Feb 5 16:14:52 2005 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Sat Feb 5 16:15:21 2005 Subject: Listen...to...this... Message-ID: >>What you described mirrors one of the greatest skits by Bob and Ray on their album "Bob and Ray: The Two and Only". Bob Elliott is interviewing the s p o k e s m a n for the slow talkers of America, played by Ray Goulding. As Ray talks R E A L L Y slowly, Bob gets exasperated and fills in the gaps with Ray's expected response. I know I once owned the album, but it seems to have disappeared. Too bad. But it WAS funny!<< Harlow P Whitcomb. There's a version of that skit on the CD "Bob & Ray: A Night of Two Stars," which is available at www.bobandray.com. And, BTW, it was the other way around: Bob played Harlow P. Whitcomb, and Ray was the impatient interviewer. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC WAAF-WEEI AM/FM-WQSX-WRKO-WVEI 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Boston MA 02135-2040 From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sat Feb 5 23:25:42 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sat Feb 5 23:26:06 2005 Subject: Listen...to...this... In-Reply-To: <42053123.5070509@shoreham.net> References: <20050205202430.2F87986B0D@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <420555F6.31184.291244@localhost> On 5 Feb 2005 at 15:48, Bill O'Neill wrote: > A latter gem from the duo, they were well in to retirement when they > were cutting TV spots for Massachusetts Electric. One was a spinoff > from their game that involved, "You tell me the answer and I'll tell > you the question." Ray is doing well with the game when Bob says, > "Hey, you're on a roll!" Ray: "Why is there butter on my pants?" Steve Allen used to do a routine like that called "The Question Man." The premise was that knowledge had progressed to the point where there were a surplus of answers and not enough questions. The one I remember was when, presented with the answer "Khrushchev, pistol, clarinet, Lincoln Highway, carrot," Allen answered, "Name a red, a rod, a reed, a road, and a root." And these days, many of the SPAMs I get remind me of that "answer." -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From radiotony@comcast.net Sun Feb 6 07:42:14 2005 From: radiotony@comcast.net (tony schinella) Date: Sun Feb 6 07:42:26 2005 Subject: Fybush ... again ... :-) Message-ID: <000b01c50c49$49092850$04000100@tony> The ever popular Scott Fybush was quoted in this morning's Concord Monitor about radio sales in our area. The story ["Radio industry in flux"] is an interesting read but not online yet. It might be there tomorrow at cmonitor.com. They also highlighted the purchase of our station by a single owner who has gone out and hired news staff and gotten rid of all the syndicated programming in favor of local news, talk and sports. Best, Tony Schinella radiotony@comcast.net WKXL A&E/News 1450 Concord, NH http://politizine.blogspot.com From billo@shoreham.net Sun Feb 6 12:15:33 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Sun Feb 6 12:15:48 2005 Subject: Fybush ... again ... :-) In-Reply-To: <000b01c50c49$49092850$04000100@tony> References: <000b01c50c49$49092850$04000100@tony> Message-ID: <420650B5.3010109@shoreham.net> tony schinella wrote: > The ever popular Scott Fybush was quoted in this morning's Concord > Monitor about radio sales in our area. If you want to get the story right, you need the right sources! Way to go, Scott. Bill O'Neill -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 From scott@fybush.com Mon Feb 7 22:18:34 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon Feb 7 22:18:42 2005 Subject: Call change at WNRC... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20050207221737.02a873a8@gwind.pair.com> Just in over the NERW transom is word that WNRC 95.1 Dudley MA has applied to change calls to WXRB. Those who know Peter George know where THAT set of calls comes from - but I'll leave it to Pete to explain it to the list :-) s From lawyer@attorneyross.com Tue Feb 8 00:06:11 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Tue Feb 8 00:06:48 2005 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <42080273.8553.54FBCA@localhost> Al Franken originated his show from Los Angeles today to welcome Air America's new Los Angeles affiliate. He also mentioned a new affiliate in Texas, I believe Corpus Christie. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From scott@fybush.com Tue Feb 8 12:28:22 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue Feb 8 12:28:25 2005 Subject: Ships' bells on WPLM? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20050208122550.02cba7f8@gwind.pair.com> I am, admittedly, some nine months behind in listening to airchecks, which is why I'm just now listening to a tape of WPLM-FM that I made during my Boston visit last May...but: The WPLM-FM top-hour ID has the distinctive sound of the ships' bells and seagulls once heard on the late WJIB-FM. I remember when Bob was putting WJIB(AM) on the air that he explained that 96.9 still held the trademark on the bells and seagulls for some period of time after their last use there, which is why he never used them. Has the WPLM bells-and-gulls been noted by others on the list? And JIBGUY, why didn't you jump on 'em first?!?!? s (ding...ding...squawk...) From jjlehmann@comcast.net Tue Feb 8 12:37:54 2005 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Tue Feb 8 12:40:06 2005 Subject: Ships' bells on WPLM? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20050208122550.02cba7f8@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <200502081740.j18He4aZ064179@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Yes, WPLM (and WQRC) have been using them for quite a while now. I think they've been on there since Easy 99.1 started. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA >-----Original Message----- >From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston- >radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Scott Fybush >Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:28 PM >To: bri@bostonradio.org >Subject: Ships' bells on WPLM? > >I am, admittedly, some nine months behind in listening to airchecks, which >is why I'm just now listening to a tape of WPLM-FM that I made during my >Boston visit last May...but: > >The WPLM-FM top-hour ID has the distinctive sound of the ships' bells and >seagulls once heard on the late WJIB-FM. I remember when Bob was putting >WJIB(AM) on the air that he explained that 96.9 still held the trademark on >the bells and seagulls for some period of time after their last use there, >which is why he never used them. > >Has the WPLM bells-and-gulls been noted by others on the list? And JIBGUY, >why didn't you jump on 'em first?!?!? > >s (ding...ding...squawk...) From jjlehmann@comcast.net Tue Feb 8 12:43:31 2005 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Tue Feb 8 12:45:38 2005 Subject: Ships' bells on WPLM? In-Reply-To: <200502081740.j18He4aZ064179@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <200502081745.j18HjaaZ064262@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> >Yes, WPLM (and WQRC) have been using them for quite a while now. I think >they've been on there since Easy 99.1 started. Here's the audio from both of them. http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WPLM.mp3 http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WQRC.mp3 Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA From lglavin@lycos.com Tue Feb 8 17:02:27 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Tue Feb 8 17:02:40 2005 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <20050208220227.47521C615B@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "A. Joseph Ross" >To: bRI >Subject: Al Franken >Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:06:11 -0500 > > Al Franken originated his show from Los Angeles today to welcome > Air America's new Los > Angeles affiliate. He also mentioned a new affiliate in Texas, I > believe Corpus Christie. > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com > Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com Was Corpus Christie named after Phil Christie? -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From rogerkola@aol.com Tue Feb 8 19:38:47 2005 From: rogerkola@aol.com (Roger Kolakowski) Date: Tue Feb 8 19:39:09 2005 Subject: Ships' bells on WPLM? References: <200502081745.j18HjaaZ064262@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <000a01c50e3f$b81157c0$0200a8c0@teal> I guess I need an aircheck wav of JIB-FM but in my mind it was "crisper" and "stand alone." Roger WESX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Lehmann" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:43 PM Subject: RE: Ships' bells on WPLM? > >Yes, WPLM (and WQRC) have been using them for quite a while now. I think > >they've been on there since Easy 99.1 started. > > Here's the audio from both of them. > > http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WPLM.mp3 > http://home.comcast.net/~jjlehmann/WQRC.mp3 > > Jeff Lehmann > Hanson, MA > > From billings@suscom-maine.net Tue Feb 8 19:50:27 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Tue Feb 8 19:50:40 2005 Subject: Mark Persky Message-ID: <004401c50e41$58fc25b0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> I think Mark Persky has not been on the air as part of the morning show at WBLM since before Christmas? Does anyone know where he is? He has been part of the morning show there for decades. -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine From billings@suscom-maine.net Tue Feb 8 19:54:34 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Tue Feb 8 19:54:38 2005 Subject: Skowhegan/Waterville radio Message-ID: <004801c50e41$ec307930$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> The station on 107.9 in the Skowhegan area has dropped talk and picked up an AC format calling itself the mix. The talk format has moved to 1160 WSKW, replacing sports. (Clear Channel has sports on 97.5 WIGY Madison, which is also in the market.) The station under the same ownership at 93.5 is classic rock. I don't know anything about the ownership group but Scott reported recently that the stations had been sold. 107.9 used to be part of Clear Channel's talk simulcast with WVOM Howland and WCME but the FCC made Clear Channel end its LMA of the stations about a year ago. 107.9 continued with talk on its own until earlier this week. From fox893@yahoo.com Tue Feb 8 20:03:25 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Tue Feb 8 20:03:33 2005 Subject: Mark Persky In-Reply-To: <004401c50e41$58fc25b0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <20050209010325.68083.qmail@web54602.mail.yahoo.com> Someone I work with made comment about this a few days ago. He said that Celeste was sitting in on the morning show. I checked the website, however, and he is still listed as being part of the morning show. --- Daniel Billings wrote: > I think Mark Persky has not been on the air as part > of the morning show at > WBLM since before Christmas? Does anyone know where > he is? He has been > part of the morning show there for decades. > > -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 From fox893@yahoo.com Tue Feb 8 20:06:47 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Tue Feb 8 20:06:56 2005 Subject: Skowhegan/Waterville radio In-Reply-To: <004801c50e41$ec307930$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <20050209010648.95126.qmail@web54608.mail.yahoo.com> > The station on 107.9 in the Skowhegan area has > dropped talk and picked up an > AC format calling itself the mix. The talk format > has moved to 1160 WSKW, The last I knew, Jason Roberts, of this list, was programming both of those stations. I lived in Canaan for a while back in 2001 and 107.9 WHQO was called "108 The Party" and was a screaming commcercial free jockless CHR. Then CCU came in and added it to their N/T network. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From billings@suscom-maine.net Tue Feb 8 20:10:31 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Tue Feb 8 20:10:35 2005 Subject: Skowhegan/Waterville radio References: <20050209010648.95126.qmail@web54608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <006c01c50e44$26a045d0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooper Fox" To: "Daniel Billings" ; Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:06 PM Subject: Re: Skowhegan/Waterville radio > The last I knew, Jason Roberts, of this list, was > programming both of those stations. I think Jason left when the new owners came in. From madprof@ix.netcom.com Tue Feb 8 23:15:34 2005 From: madprof@ix.netcom.com (Robert F. Sutherland) Date: Tue Feb 8 23:13:35 2005 Subject: Ships' bells Message-ID: <006d01c50e5e$014f0e00$d4cc9c04@p133> My memory is incomplete, I recall WOCB 1240 West Yarmouth having a distinctive TOH announcement, 1960's thru early 80's. I believe it included ship's bells, but could have been a foghorn. My ex recalls "was just the voice that announced the station", I disagree. Each summer my ex-in-law's attended a convention in Dennisport, and listened for that station ID as a "recognition of being on the Cape". Does anybody else recall WOCB & remember what sound for sure? (A.Joe Ross, did you go there too, previously?) WOCB became WSOX about 1984, then WUOK thru 1996, then WBUR (really!) and, thank you Jeff, for the mp3 links! Bob / MadProf. From lawyer@attorneyross.com Wed Feb 9 00:27:21 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed Feb 9 00:27:40 2005 Subject: Ships' bells In-Reply-To: <006d01c50e5e$014f0e00$d4cc9c04@p133> Message-ID: <420958E9.10320.43EC05@localhost> On 8 Feb 2005 at 23:15, Robert F. Sutherland wrote: > Does anybody else recall WOCB & remember what sound for sure? > (A.Joe Ross, did you go there too, previously?) Nope. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From fox893@yahoo.com Wed Feb 9 04:08:26 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Wed Feb 9 04:08:35 2005 Subject: Skowhegan/Waterville radio In-Reply-To: <006c01c50e44$26a045d0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <20050209090826.88822.qmail@web54602.mail.yahoo.com> Who are the new owners? Would it have just reverted back to the previous owners when CCU last the LMA? I could have swore he was still there when they switched 93.5 to classic hits. --- Daniel Billings wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cooper Fox" > To: "Daniel Billings" ; > > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:06 PM > Subject: Re: Skowhegan/Waterville radio > > > > The last I knew, Jason Roberts, of this list, was > > programming both of those stations. > > I think Jason left when the new owners came in. > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From DonKelley@aol.com Wed Feb 9 06:46:23 2005 From: DonKelley@aol.com (DonKelley@aol.com) Date: Wed Feb 9 06:46:38 2005 Subject: Ships' bells Message-ID: <7755BD9F.65B073D4.0238A7FB@aol.com> In a message dated 2/8/2005 11:15:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Robert F. Sutherland" writes: >My memory is incomplete, ? ?I recall WOCB 1240 West Yarmouth >having a distinctive TOH announcement, 1960's thru early 80's. >I believe it included ship's bells, but could have been a foghorn. > >Does anybody else recall WOCB & remember what sound for sure? > >WOCB became WSOX about 1984, then WUOK thru 1996, then WBUR (really!) > >Bob / MadProf. > Some of that is accurate, some is not. I worked at WOCB from 1977-1980 when Sconnix owned the stations. WOCB-AM (1240) was a full-service AC and did not use a bell bouoy or foghorn on the ID. The ID was a quick weather/time talkup to NBC News on the hour. WOCB-FM (95.1) was Beautiful Music and was called W95 for about a year and briefly had a ship's horn on the ID. The AM call letters were never WSOX, but the FM calls were. WOCB-FM became WSOX in 1978 because we were a Red Sox network affiliate. The following year the decision was made to put the ball games on the AM (duh), but the WSOX calls remained on the FM. This was very confusing to listeners looking for the ball game. The explanation in 1979 was that WSOX actually stood for "The Sounds Of Excellence." In the early 80's Sconnix sold the station to the Sillerman-Morrow group and the FM calls became WRZE ("Breezy 95"). After that I lost track. The WRZE call letters, by the way, reappeared in the Cape Cod market in the 90's on 96.3, The Rose (CHR). From raccoonradio@myway.com Wed Feb 9 13:45:15 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Wed Feb 9 13:45:27 2005 Subject: Globe, Herald: "Neumy" leaving WEEI Message-ID: <20050209184515.7183B39A0@mprdmxin.myway.com> http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/articles/2005/02/09/neumeier_set_to_walk_from_weei/ http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=67589 Barring a last minute agreement, it looks like Bob Neumeier is leaving WEEI after his ("top-rated") show tomorrow. It could well be "the Dale Arnold Show" at least for now, unless 'EEI intends to replace him (and keep a duo format). If WWZN were to change format and Eddie Andleman needed a new radio home, might we be hearing a reunion of "The A Team"? Who knows. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From jjlehmann@comcast.net Wed Feb 9 13:57:37 2005 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Wed Feb 9 13:59:48 2005 Subject: Globe, Herald: "Neumy" leaving WEEI In-Reply-To: <20050209184515.7183B39A0@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <200502091859.j19IxjaZ078146@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> >If WWZN were to change format and Eddie Andleman needed a new >radio home, might we be hearing a reunion of "The A Team"? Who knows. I think the chances of that happening are VERY slim. Eddie frequently complains about past experiences with the people at WEEI on his show, and The Big Show on WEEI makes fun of Eddie just about every day. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA From francini@mac.com Wed Feb 9 15:28:46 2005 From: francini@mac.com (John Francini) Date: Wed Feb 9 15:28:54 2005 Subject: Globe, Herald: "Neumy" leaving WEEI Message-ID: The Big Show makes fun of everyone in the sports world just about every day -- whether they're in the studio with them or not. The list is rather long: o Mike Felger's penchant for skin lotion, and his former appellation of "douche bag"; o Big O's being referred to as "The Nipple" o Using sound clips of Ned Flanders ("The Simpsons") when referencing Dale Arnold o Butch Stearns and the whole concept of being "Butch-slapped" by Curt Schilling for foot-in-mouth worthy comments o "Evil" Tony Mazzarotti o Innumerable bits making fun of Pete The Meat Shepard o Dan "I'm Contributing!" Shaughnessey etc... etc... etc... Actually, the references to Eddie are among the least obvious of the bunch. Only the occasional "Well, um, I know a little bit about {x}..." is what I've heard most often. John Francini Nashua, NH On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Jeff Lehmann wrote: >> If WWZN were to change format and Eddie Andleman needed a new >> radio home, might we be hearing a reunion of "The A Team"? Who knows. > > I think the chances of that happening are VERY slim. Eddie frequently > complains about past experiences with the people at WEEI on his show, > and > The Big Show on WEEI makes fun of Eddie just about every day. > > Jeff Lehmann > Hanson, MA > > > From billings@suscom-maine.net Wed Feb 9 21:52:18 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Wed Feb 9 21:52:22 2005 Subject: Skowhegan/Waterville radio References: <20050209090826.88822.qmail@web54602.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <005101c50f1b$8903abe0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooper Fox" To: "Daniel Billings" ; Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:08 AM Subject: Re: Skowhegan/Waterville radio > Who are the new owners? Would it have just reverted > back to the previous owners when CCU last the LMA? I > could have swore he was still there when they switched > 93.5 to classic hits. It did revert to the previous owners but those owners sold a few months ago. I don't know who they are. Scott reported the sale and management changes in NERW. From lglavin@lycos.com Thu Feb 10 17:13:56 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Thu Feb 10 18:05:39 2005 Subject: "Wall $treet Week w/Fortune" To Discuss Radio Message-ID: <20050210221356.7E3D33384C@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> The PBS-TV show "Wall $treet Week with Fortune" will discuss the radio industry on its show beginning Friday Feb. 11th on stations carrying the program. "W$W" pops up at various times throught the weekend on multiple TV stations. For times where you live, check the Internets or (gasp!) your local paper. The first airing hereabouts will be on WGBH-TV, Boston Friday at 10:30 pm. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From billings@suscom-maine.net Thu Feb 10 18:26:47 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Thu Feb 10 18:26:53 2005 Subject: "Wall $treet Week w/Fortune" To Discuss Radio References: <20050210221356.7E3D33384C@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <001a01c50fc7$fdd23ed0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Maine PBS also runs the show at 10:30 p.m. on Friday. From lglavin@lycos.com Fri Feb 11 16:42:57 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Fri Feb 11 16:43:04 2005 Subject: "Wall $treet Week w/Fortune" To Discuss Radio Message-ID: <20050211214257.5FFCDE5BC7@ws7-2.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: "Laurence Glavin" , boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org Subject: Re: "Wall $treet Week w/Fortune" To Discuss Radio Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:26:47 -0500 > > Maine PBS also runs the show at 10:30 p.m. on Friday. I noticed in the Globe's TV listings that channel 36 in Providence has it the earliest of all: tonight at 8:30. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From billings@suscom-maine.net Fri Feb 11 19:15:08 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Fri Feb 11 19:15:11 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes Message-ID: <002301c51097$e93751b0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> A story in today's Morning Sentinel details the changes: http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/1361822.shtml 107.9 WHQO went from news and talk to "The Mix," a variety of music from the '70s through today. The station manager is quoted as saying the new format is aimed at women listeners age 25-54. The weirdest thing is that the switched the talk format to 1160 WSKW for one day before returning to sports talk. They were running liners on 107.9 urging talk listeners to switch to 1160. And then the next day they went back to sports. Weird. In the story, the station manager says the market has other talk stations but does not mention that there is another sports station in the market. They also promise local content to come. We'll see. -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine From radiotony@comcast.net Fri Feb 11 21:47:40 2005 From: radiotony@comcast.net (tony schinella) Date: Fri Feb 11 21:47:51 2005 Subject: Need broadcast engineer referral ... Message-ID: <00f201c510ad$388c1ba0$6400a8c0@tony> Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good broadcast engineer who might be interested in doing some major studio repair work? Said person should also know how to install sound cards in computers and be able to network one computer to our main board to record on-air programs. Please let me know if you know of anyone. Best, Tony Schinella radiotony@comcast.net WKXL A&E/News 1450 Concord, NH http://politizine.blogspot.com From revdoug1@verizon.net Fri Feb 11 21:52:53 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Fri Feb 11 21:58:19 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <002301c51097$e93751b0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <007901c510ad$f4e608b0$6401a8c0@pastor2> There are two other sports stations in the market, one to the south (1280 WFAU) and one to the east (620 WZON). But the Skowhegan area, especially to the north and west, isn't served by any other talk stations. 560 WGAN doesn't come in all that well, and 103.9 WVOM's signal from Howland meets interference from 103.7 WZPK Mount Washington. Somerset and Franklin Counties have no talk radio, save for what interactive programming WKTJ and MPBC have to offer. Doug Drown Bingham, Maine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 7:15 PM Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes > A story in today's Morning Sentinel details the changes: > > http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/1361822.shtml > > 107.9 WHQO went from news and talk to "The Mix," a variety of music from the > '70s through today. The station manager is quoted as saying the new format > is aimed at women listeners age 25-54. > > The weirdest thing is that the switched the talk format to 1160 WSKW for one > day before returning to sports talk. They were running liners on 107.9 > urging talk listeners to switch to 1160. And then the next day they went > back to sports. Weird. > > In the story, the station manager says the market has other talk stations > but does not mention that there is another sports station in the market. > > They also promise local content to come. We'll see. > > -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine > > > From billings@suscom-maine.net Fri Feb 11 22:39:20 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Fri Feb 11 22:39:23 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <002301c51097$e93751b0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <007901c510ad$f4e608b0$6401a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <000901c510b4$70204d50$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Drown" To: "Daniel Billings" ; Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > There are two other sports stations in the market, one to the south (1280 > WFAU) and one to the east (620 WZON). Isn't WFAU still simulcast on 97.5 WIGY Madison? That means a sports station right in Somerset County to compete with WSKW. From billings@suscom-maine.net Fri Feb 11 22:41:34 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Fri Feb 11 22:41:36 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune Message-ID: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> What a stupid show. The whole show is based on the idea that satellite radio is a threat to the business of traditional radio. From fox893@yahoo.com Fri Feb 11 23:30:59 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Fri Feb 11 23:31:07 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes In-Reply-To: <007901c510ad$f4e608b0$6401a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <20050212043100.70829.qmail@web54607.mail.yahoo.com> > doesn't come in all that well, and 103.9 WVOM's > signal from Howland meets > interference from 103.7 WZPK Mount Washington. Not to nitpick... But that station now has the calls WPKQ(not WZPK). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sat Feb 12 01:39:05 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sat Feb 12 01:43:08 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> From: "Daniel Billings" > What a stupid show. The whole show is based on the idea that satellite > radio is a threat to the business of traditional radio. And you completely reject that premise out of hand? No discussion. It's absolute nonsense? JP From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Feb 12 09:14:47 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat Feb 12 09:14:51 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Pappalardo" To: "Daniel Billings" Cc: "BRI" Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:39 AM Subject: Re: Wall Street Week/Fortune > And you completely reject that premise out of hand? > > No discussion. It's absolute nonsense? Right now it certainly is. They weren't talking about what might be 5 to 10 years down the road. They were acting like satellite radio is serious competition for traditional radio NOW. A discussion of what might happen is one thing but they were acting like it has already happened. From dcassell@gmail.com Sat Feb 12 09:42:24 2005 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Sat Feb 12 09:42:32 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> > > And you completely reject that premise out of hand? > > > > No discussion. It's absolute nonsense? > > Right now it certainly is. They weren't talking about what might be 5 to 10 > years down the road. They were acting like satellite radio is serious > competition for traditional radio NOW. A discussion of what might happen is > one thing but they were acting like it has already happened. If satellite wasn't a threat to the industry, why is the industry itself now airing it's own anti-satellite scare ads? You know, like the ones I've heard on Entercom stations? Satellite is to radio what the MP3/iPod craze is to the recording industry. MP3 came out of nowhere and blindsided the record companies. It's a serious threat to their business model. XM and Sirius both went on the air, what, 3 years ago? And they are now mentioned in the same breath along with MP3 and iPod. This is a huge threat to the radio industry. Well, in reality, the biggest threat to radio is radio itself. Radio will go down trying to save a failed business model, probably with lawsuits and anti-competitive legislation. Like the way they are trying to force the FCC to prohibit satellite radio from providing traffic updates. Same silly games the recording industry plays. Damon From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Feb 12 10:52:34 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat Feb 12 10:52:39 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af><016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz><000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <000701c5111a$de46c910$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Cassell" To: "BRI" Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:42 AM Subject: Re: Wall Street Week/Fortune > Satellite is to radio what the MP3/iPod craze is to the recording > industry. MP3 came out of nowhere and blindsided the record companies. > It's a serious threat to their business model. Bad analogy. Digital music is a threat to the recording industry because people can get it for free. Satellite radio costs money each month. Traditional radio is free. From dcassell@gmail.com Sat Feb 12 13:08:25 2005 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:08:33 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <000701c5111a$de46c910$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> <000701c5111a$de46c910$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <2979f9f40502121008f0f4e1@mail.gmail.com> > Bad analogy. Digital music is a threat to the recording industry because > people can get it for free. Satellite radio costs money each month. > Traditional radio is free. It is not a bad analogy. Apple is making killer money legally selling songs for 99 cents each to iPod owners through it's iTunes Music Store. They've sold 200 million songs so far. Do the math. Those are people who are now no longer walking into record stores and buying little plastic discs for $16. The distribution side of the business has changed entirely and it does not favor the big record labels any longer. Worse yet, customers can pick and choose what songs they want to listen to. If they download a song that stinks, they aren't going to buy any more songs from that album or artist. They just paid 99 cents to avoid a $16 mistake. So not only has the distribution gotten away from the recording industry, people have far more control over the quality of what they listen to. And this hurts the recording industry bigtime because most of what the major record companies put out is complete crap. Indepedent labels with good talent are now back on a level playing field. Basically, what goes around has come around for the record companies. They have resorted to suing their customers to maintain cash flow. Satellite radio is built on the same principles. Low cost, high quality, variety and control. People know what this is worth and will pay for it. Radio will continue to tightly-format and demograph itself to death and in the end radio station owners will still wonder what they did wrong. You'll see more NAB lawsuits and lobbying designed to hurt satellite radio but no real competitive changes. We haven't even mentioned next-gen cellular services, which promise to stream digital music and entertainment to handsets. Sprint is already testing it. Combined with Bluetooth and wifi, you'll see all kinds of devices ready to receive, record and share streams. We've only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of things that will hurt radio. Damon From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Sat Feb 12 13:19:54 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:19:57 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? Message-ID: <200502121319.AA3909877792@mail.ttlc.net> Today on WBZ the newsman referred to the President' Weekly Address "as heard, right here on WEEI - I mean WBZ..." Do they work for competing stations? From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Feb 12 13:26:34 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:26:41 2005 Subject: Stephanie Miller Shoots Up Message-ID: <20050212182634.A78ECC6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> No, she doesn't use drugs (I think); radiodailynews.com had a headline indicating that ratings for Stephanie Miller in some markets shot skyward like a North Korean missile. However the link they provided (the Ed Schultz show website) did not back up the story. So I found it on a GERMAN website: http://www.mysan.de/international/article40517.html Stephanie is going to have to get big ratings FAST lest CCU replace her on its O&O's with Jerry Springer! -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Feb 12 13:31:49 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:31:58 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? Message-ID: <20050212183149.EFC02C6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >From: rogerkirk >To: BRI >Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? >Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:19:54 -0500 > > Today on WBZ the newsman referred to the President' Weekly Address > "as heard, right here on WEEI - I mean WBZ..." > > Do they work for competing stations? I believe the newsman was Bill Lawrence; I heard it too. The first thought that passed through my mind when I heard it was that Bill was listening to WEEI as he drove into work. A couple of years ago, when Jordan Weinstein began doing the 6:00 am - 9:00 am announcing shift on WGBH-FM after being jettisoned by Jane from WBUR, I heard him say "WBUR" at least once. Occupational hazard? -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Feb 12 13:38:51 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:38:59 2005 Subject: Farewell WSMN; 1590 Dialspot Silent in Nashua Message-ID: <20050212183851.CD5ADC6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Shortly after the story ran that WSMN was being shut down in the Nashua Telegraph, I posted an item to the effect that the station was still transmitting an unmodulated carrier. This went on for several days, but when I did my Saturday morning radio pass today, AM 1590 was silent except for a faint signal from WARV-AM, West Warwick RI (I didn't catch the call letters, but it was running commercial "religion") and splatter from WUNR. So at least temporarily, an era has ended. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From dlh@donnahalper.com Sat Feb 12 13:42:24 2005 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:43:09 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? In-Reply-To: <20050212183149.EFC02C6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20050212134045.02b15320@pop.registeredsite.com> >it was said-- > >I believe the newsman was Bill Lawrence; I heard it too. >The first thought that passed through my mind when I heard it >was that Bill was listening to WEEI as he drove into work. I could be wrong (wouldn't be the first time!) but didn't Bill Lawrence work for WEEI a long time ago? I have heard a number of d.j.'s mistakenly use the call letters of a former station out of habit-- I recall in the mid 60s when Jefferson Kaye left WBZ for WKBW in Buffalo, and his first night on the air, he used the WBZ call letters several times, and got really upset with himself when he did! From dbroda@nycap.rr.com Sat Feb 12 13:49:24 2005 From: dbroda@nycap.rr.com (dbroda@nycap.rr.com) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:49:28 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune Message-ID: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> Broadcast radio is obviously concerned, as stated, for otherwise Entercom and others wouldn't be airing attack ads (partly accurate, partly misleading). Long term, satellite radio could easily narrow (but not kill) the audience for broadcast radio, lessening the value of non-top stations. (I not only love my XM, I use its feed of ESPN and Fox Sports Radio rather than the local stations'. 1300 AM has a putrid nighttime signal and it has frequent technical glitches, often being kicked off-air. Why wouldn't I use my XM? Even 1300's Yankee games will be on XM this year.) OTOH, it also might actually force broadcast station owners to give us more of the one thing broadcast radio will always be able to give us that sat radio can't -- local programming. From dan.strassberg@att.net Sat Feb 12 13:59:16 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Sat Feb 12 13:59:15 2005 Subject: Stephanie Miller Shoots Up References: <20050212182634.A78ECC6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <000f01c51134$f6efa800$19eefea9@dstrassberg> My guess is that the link between CCU and Jones Networks is far too strong for CCU to contemplate replacing Miller with Springer. I predict that, instead, CCU stations that carry progressive talk will broadcast Miller on delay, but will not drop her. They will drop Randi Rhodes, who in my opinion, is Air America's strongest talent--no contest. The problem is that CCU doesn't like what Rhodes has to say. At the moment, some CCU stations, such as WKOXKS, are probably contractually obligated to carry Rhodes, but she is already on delay in this market (and I think is not carried live on ANY CCU progressive talker). She is going to be out for medical reasons for the next month--replaced by "best of" on some days and by other AAR talent on other days. However, as soon as the contractual obligations end, I think Rhodes will be history on CCU stations--unless they shuffle her to overnights. Not that she COULD help her case with the right-wingnuts who run CCU, but publicly declaring over the air, as she has done several times, that she doesn't trust CCU and doesn't like Ed Schultz certainly can't help the situation. Bottom line is if you are a Randi fan, which I certainly am, you'll have to get satellite radio (I believe AAR is on both Sirius and XM) or you will have to listen to the streaming audio from the AAR Web site. Dan Strassberg, Contributing Editor EDN Magazine | Reed Electronics Group | www.edn.com Fax 707-215-6367 | StrassbergEDN@att.net *** CONTACT ME BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO SEND ATTACHMENTS LARGER THAN 1 Mbyte *** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Glavin" To: Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:26 PM Subject: Stephanie Miller Shoots Up > No, she doesn't use drugs (I think); radiodailynews.com > had a headline indicating that ratings for Stephanie Miller > in some markets shot skyward like a North Korean missile. > However the link they provided (the Ed Schultz show website) > did not back up the story. So I found it on a GERMAN website: > > http://www.mysan.de/international/article40517.html > > Stephanie is going to have to get big ratings FAST lest > CCU replace her on its O&O's with Jerry Springer! > -- > _______________________________________________ > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp ?SRC=lycos10 > > From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Feb 12 14:43:49 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat Feb 12 14:43:52 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> Message-ID: <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "BRI" Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Wall Street Week/Fortune > Long term, satellite radio could easily narrow (but not kill) the audience > for broadcast radio, lessening the value of non-top stations. Long-term, maybe. But the TV show made it seem like it was already happening. They never once mentioned the small number of subscribers to put the business in perspective. It was a totally one-sided ad for satellite radio -- and on public TV no less! I wonder if one of these companies just made an underwriting deal with PBS. From ssmyth@psu.edu Sat Feb 12 14:51:40 2005 From: ssmyth@psu.edu (Sean Smyth) Date: Sat Feb 12 14:51:46 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? Message-ID: <200502121951.OAA11576@webmail6.cac.psu.edu> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:42:24 +0000, Donna Halper wrote: > I could be wrong (wouldn't be the first time!) but didn't Bill Lawrence > work for WEEI a long time ago? Indeed. He worked for WEEI at least until the sports changeover in 1991. He may have stuck around awhile afterward doing hourly news updates (which they still had in the early days). Some other guys at the time were retained as producers (Bill Lee comes to mind) after the flop. Was WEEI union then? Maybe they had to keep those guys on to fulfill the contract. > I have heard a number of d.j.'s mistakenly > use the call letters of a former station out of habit-- I recall in the mid > 60s when Jefferson Kaye left WBZ for WKBW in Buffalo, and his first night > on the air, he used the WBZ call letters several times, and got really > upset with himself when he did! I've done it a number of times, albeit on a much smaller level (with a lot fewer listeners). Live radio; gotta love it. From billo@shoreham.net Sat Feb 12 15:53:32 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill.) Date: Sat Feb 12 15:53:48 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> Damon Cassell wrote: >Well, in reality, the biggest threat to radio is radio >itself. > That sounds about right. Radio has been falling all over itself in a charade of balancing financial return with an attempt to be relevant, locally. That is where the point of diminishing returns steps in. Invariably, good radio thinkers are weaker in the business side while the latter sit in the corner office. >Like the way >they are trying to force the FCC to prohibit satellite radio from >providing traffic updates. Same silly games the recording industry >plays. > > I have been listening to Sirius via Dish Network (6001-6099). The live jocks taking calls, etc. There is a refreshing genuineness to it that you don't get with terrestrial network music shows. There's no canned voice drop-ins with local calls - even the casual listeners knows that it's bogus. Once Sirius/XM is integrated into AM/FM/Sat radios, with a seamless click of a preset, local radio will have to choose to either be history or to do the very things that no satellite or national signal can possibly do - be excruciatingly local as well as being accessible to less affluent advertisers. Bill O'Neill -- "I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been." Billie Holiday -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 From dcassell@gmail.com Sat Feb 12 16:03:51 2005 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Sat Feb 12 16:04:00 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:43:49 -0500, Daniel Billings wrote: > They never once mentioned the small number of subscribers to put > the business in perspective. Sirius is now at just over 1 million, and I think XM is at almost 3.5 million. I just read the numbers last night but don't presently have them handy. Yes, this is a small number in the grand scheme of things but if you look at the trend, it's taking off. Both Sirius and XM have big draws that haven't even come into play yet: Sirius has Stern and the NFL coming over and XM will have the MLB. You can bet that there will be more competition between the two to upstage the other in terms of attractions. Damon From radiojunkie3@yahoo.com Sat Feb 12 16:30:08 2005 From: radiojunkie3@yahoo.com (Peter Q. George) Date: Sat Feb 12 16:30:17 2005 Subject: Possible quick fix for WSMN? (was Re: Farewell WSMN; 1590 Dialspot Silent in Nashua) In-Reply-To: <20050212183851.CD5ADC6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <20050212213008.95681.qmail@web50805.mail.yahoo.com> Yup, I noticed it on my way to Manchester today. Just a faint signal from WARV and splatter from WUNR. Question.... Now that the clock has started on WSMN's one year silent period, could they possibly run... say, 250 watts/ND on the 900/Nashua tower to keep the license active until a more permanent solution could be found? Obviously, this is a "special" circumstance in the eyes of the FCC, due to encroachment of an old antenna array. Any thoughts? 73, Peter Q. George (K1XRB) Whitman, Massachusetts --- Laurence Glavin wrote: > Shortly after the story ran that WSMN was being shut > down > in the Nashua Telegraph, I posted an item to the > effect that > the station was still transmitting an unmodulated > carrier. > This went on for several days, but when I did my > Saturday > morning radio pass today, AM 1590 was silent except > for a faint > signal from WARV-AM, West Warwick RI (I didn't catch > the > call letters, but it was running commercial > "religion") > and splatter from WUNR. So at least temporarily, an > era has ended. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow > Pages > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 > > > ===== Peter Q. George (K1XRB) Whitman, Massachusetts "Scanning the bands since 1967" radiojunkie1@yahoo.com radiojunkie3@yahoo.com *********************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sat Feb 12 16:30:17 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sat Feb 12 16:36:52 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> > > They never once mentioned the small number of subscribers to put > > the business in perspective. > > Sirius is now at just over 1 million, 1 million spread out over 120 channels? ( = 8,333 cume per channel?) > and I think XM is at almost 3.5 > million. 3.5 Million spread out over 130 channels? ( = 26,000 cume per channel?) I would assume some channels more, some less... So, it appears that some of the channels are similar to working at a radio station Springfield? I just read the numbers last night but don't presently have > them handy. Yes, this is a small number in the grand scheme of things > but if you look at the trend, it's taking off. Both Sirius and XM have > big draws that haven't even come into play yet: Sirius has Stern and > the NFL coming over and XM will have the MLB. You can bet that there > will be more competition between the two to upstage the other in terms > of attractions. > > Damon From revdoug1@verizon.net Sat Feb 12 14:05:25 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Sat Feb 12 16:38:21 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050212134045.02b15320@pop.registeredsite.com> Message-ID: <00fc01c51135$cfdd4190$6401a8c0@pastor2> Bill Lawrence did indeed work at WEEI before going to WBZ, as did Diane Stern. I think he worked at WMEX a long time ago, too. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Halper" To: "Laurence Glavin" ; ; "BRI" Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? > > >it was said-- > > > >I believe the newsman was Bill Lawrence; I heard it too. > >The first thought that passed through my mind when I heard it > >was that Bill was listening to WEEI as he drove into work. > > I could be wrong (wouldn't be the first time!) but didn't Bill Lawrence > work for WEEI a long time ago? I have heard a number of d.j.'s mistakenly > use the call letters of a former station out of habit-- I recall in the mid > 60s when Jefferson Kaye left WBZ for WKBW in Buffalo, and his first night > on the air, he used the WBZ call letters several times, and got really > upset with himself when he did! > > From revdoug1@verizon.net Sat Feb 12 15:53:49 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Sat Feb 12 16:38:22 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? References: <200502121951.OAA11576@webmail6.cac.psu.edu> Message-ID: <011601c51144$f4658770$6401a8c0@pastor2> One of WGY's newscasters --- I can't remember who, but I heard it --- introduced the hourly CBS newscast as an NBC newscast shortly after the station switched networks in 1988 or '89. It had been with NBC for over 60 years. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Smyth" To: "Donna Halper" Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:51 PM Subject: Re: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:42:24 +0000, Donna Halper wrote: > > I could be wrong (wouldn't be the first time!) but didn't Bill Lawrence > > work for WEEI a long time ago? > > Indeed. He worked for WEEI at least until the sports changeover in 1991. He may > have stuck around awhile afterward doing hourly news updates (which they still > had in the early days). Some other guys at the time were retained as producers > (Bill Lee comes to mind) after the flop. Was WEEI union then? Maybe they had to > keep those guys on to fulfill the contract. > > > I have heard a number of d.j.'s mistakenly > > use the call letters of a former station out of habit-- I recall in the mid > > 60s when Jefferson Kaye left WBZ for WKBW in Buffalo, and his first night > > on the air, he used the WBZ call letters several times, and got really > > upset with himself when he did! > > I've done it a number of times, albeit on a much smaller level (with a lot fewer > listeners). > > Live radio; gotta love it. > > From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Sat Feb 12 16:49:40 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sat Feb 12 16:49:43 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> Message-ID: <200502122149.j1CLne4N018522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> < said: > Once Sirius/XM is integrated into AM/FM/Sat radios, with a seamless > click of a preset, local radio will have to choose to either be history > or to do the very things that no satellite or national signal can > possibly do - be excruciatingly local as well as being accessible to > less affluent advertisers. I recently bought a new car with a three-month trial subscription to XM. It has definitely changed my listening habits, but I'm not sure how much it has taken away from the terrestrial broadcasters I listen to. In the old car, I generally gave about equal shares to AM (WBZ), FM (WXRV), and silence. The other two stations have roughly the same turn-off rate, but now I'm switching to XM (BBCWS) instead of shutting the radio off. (I really haven't given any attention to the other 150 XM services.) -GAWollman From dcassell@gmail.com Sat Feb 12 19:04:56 2005 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Sat Feb 12 19:05:10 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> Dividing satellite subscriber base by channel is, at best, a pretty poor attempt at radio-industry apology. It's simply an example of the 'old think' that is ruining radio and implies that satellite listeners are loyal only to one channel, which is far from the case. I'm sorry, but tired old radio industry formulas like cume simply don'y apply. XM saw it's subscriber base increase by nearly 70% last year. Can you think of a radio station that can ever claim anything that approximates? Damon On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:30:17 -0500, Joseph Pappalardo wrote: > > > > They never once mentioned the small number of subscribers to put > > > the business in perspective. > > > > Sirius is now at just over 1 million, > > 1 million spread out over 120 channels? ( = 8,333 cume per channel?) > > > > and I think XM is at almost 3.5 > > million. > > 3.5 Million spread out over 130 channels? ( = 26,000 cume per channel?) > > I would assume some channels more, some less... > > So, it appears that some of the channels are similar to working at a radio > station Springfield? > > > I just read the numbers last night but don't presently have > > them handy. Yes, this is a small number in the grand scheme of things > > but if you look at the trend, it's taking off. Both Sirius and XM have > > big draws that haven't even come into play yet: Sirius has Stern and > > the NFL coming over and XM will have the MLB. You can bet that there > > will be more competition between the two to upstage the other in terms > > of attractions. > > > > Damon > > From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Feb 12 19:15:09 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat Feb 12 19:15:14 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af><2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com><015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Cassell" To: "Joseph Pappalardo" Cc: "BRI" Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Wall Street Week/Fortune > Dividing satellite subscriber base by channel is, at best, a pretty > poor attempt at radio-industry apology. It's simply an example of the > 'old think' that is ruining radio and implies that satellite listeners > are loyal only to one channel, which is far from the case. OK. Let's stick with the big numbers. 4.5 million vs. how many who listen to traditional radio? 150 million? 200 million? > I'm sorry, but tired old radio industry formulas like cume simply > don'y apply. XM saw it's subscriber base increase by nearly 70% last > year. Can you think of a radio station that can ever claim anything > that approximates? There are lots of examples of stations that changed formats and increased their ratinsg by 70%. In Portland, 107.5 went from country to class rock and its ratings more than doubled. From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sat Feb 12 19:21:15 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sat Feb 12 19:30:28 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af><2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com><015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <023d01c51163$10d73160$1404fea9@xyz> > Dividing satellite subscriber base by channel is, at best, a pretty > poor attempt at radio-industry apology. It's simply an example of the > 'old think' that is ruining radio and implies that satellite listeners > are loyal only to one channel, which is far from the case. No, the case is that people can only listen to one channel at a time. > I'm sorry, but tired old radio industry formulas like cume simply > don'y apply. XM saw it's subscriber base increase by nearly 70% last > year. "New" thinking like that hides the obvious. 70% of nothing is nothing. Plus, I like the "old" radio thinking of 'making money'...which they have not figured out how to do yet. From dcassell@gmail.com Sat Feb 12 20:04:14 2005 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Sat Feb 12 20:04:22 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:15:09 -0500, Daniel Billings wrote: > OK. Let's stick with the big numbers. > > There are lots of examples of stations that changed formats and increased > their ratinsg by 70%. In Portland, 107.5 went from country to class rock > and its ratings more than doubled. Let's stick with the trend. Format changes aside, can a radio station double it's ratings, year after year, like satellite has? Because that's what is happening with satellite, and there's nothing to indicate it will stop any time soon. These people aren't joining up because they want to kiss off $10 a month on a grand experiment. These people are joining because it's a seriously competitive alternative to radio. It's not going to stop, and the exodus is going to hurt radio in a big way in a much quicker timeframe than 5-10 years, as you said originally. This thing is knocking on the door right now. Damon From hykker@grolen.com Sat Feb 12 20:26:54 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Sat Feb 12 20:26:47 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20050212200838.01bd49e0@pop3.grolen.com> Bill O'Neill. wrote: >Once Sirius/XM is integrated into AM/FM/Sat radios, with a seamless click >of a preset, local radio will have to choose to either be history or to do >the very things that no satellite or national signal can possibly do - be >excruciatingly local as well as being accessible to less affluent advertisers. "Excruciatingly local" for the sake of being local isn't gonna cut it. You still need to do GOOD radio...be a station people actually want to listen to...."howdy folks" radio with lost dog reports and hour-long interviews with candidates for sewer commisioner circa 1963 isn't gonna fly. It was bad radio then, it's bad radio now. And if you set the ad rates so every mom & pop greeting card shop in town can advertise on your station how are you gonna afford to pay your airstaff without 30 min/hr. spot loads? From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Feb 12 21:47:35 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat Feb 12 21:47:40 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af><2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com><015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz><2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com><000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <000901c51176$5fe148a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Cassell" To: "BRI" Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Wall Street Week/Fortune > Let's stick with the trend. Format changes aside, can a radio station > double it's ratings, year after year, like satellite has? If you start at 0, you have nowhere to go but up. > These > people are joining because it's a seriously competitive alternative to > radio. It's not going to stop, and the exodus is going to hurt radio > in a big way in a much quicker timeframe than 5-10 years, as you said > originally. This thing is knocking on the door right now. We'll see. I think the number of people willing to pay every month for radio is pretty small. From caustin@cox.net Sat Feb 12 22:22:43 2005 From: caustin@cox.net (Chip Austin) Date: Sat Feb 12 22:22:58 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <420EC803.5050808@cox.net> Not a relevant statistic for a business model that sells subscription fees for the 120 channels as a package rather than selling ads on each (or any) channel. > 1 million spread out over 120 channels? ( = 8,333 cume per channel?) From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sat Feb 12 23:51:46 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sat Feb 12 23:52:27 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> References: <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <420E9692.29509.7B810F@localhost> On 12 Feb 2005 at 9:42, Damon Cassell wrote: > Satellite is to radio what the MP3/iPod craze is to the recording > industry. MP3 came out of nowhere and blindsided the record companies. > It's a serious threat to their business model. XM and Sirius both went > on the air, what, 3 years ago? And they are now mentioned in the same > breath along with MP3 and iPod. This is a huge threat to the radio > industry. Well, in reality, the biggest threat to radio is radio > itself. Radio will go down trying to save a failed business model, > probably with lawsuits and anti-competitive legislation. Like the way > they are trying to force the FCC to prohibit satellite radio from > providing traffic updates. Same silly games the recording industry > plays. Some of these things remind me of how newspapers tried to prevent radio from carrying news in the early days. They finally relented, and radio was allowed a once-a-day "press radio news" report. This gradually changed and completely changed by the start of World War II. After the war, there was a similar conspiracy to keep television out. It became routine at news events for print and newsreel photographers and reporters to be allowed, but television to be excluded. This came to an end rather abruptly in June 1952, at General Eisenhower's first major campaign press conference. As usual, television crews were to be excluded, but William Paley said that CBS was sending a crew, and the Eisenhower campaign was going to have to throw them out. The Eisenhower campaign quickly relented, and NBC also sent a crew. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sat Feb 12 23:51:46 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sat Feb 12 23:52:29 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? In-Reply-To: <20050212183149.EFC02C6136@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <420E9692.13302.7B81E0@localhost> On 12 Feb 2005 at 13:31, Laurence Glavin wrote: > > Today on WBZ the newsman referred to the President' Weekly Address > > "as heard, right here on WEEI - I mean WBZ..." > > > > Do they work for competing stations? > > I believe the newsman was Bill Lawrence; I heard it too. > The first thought that passed through my mind when I heard it > was that Bill was listening to WEEI as he drove into work. > A couple of years ago, when Jordan Weinstein began doing the > 6:00 am - 9:00 am announcing shift on WGBH-FM after being > jettisoned by Jane from WBUR, I heard him say "WBUR" at least > once. Occupational hazard? This reminds me of a story I read shortly after Weld became governor. It seems there was this one high-level official from the Dukakis administration (whose name escapes me) that Weld decided to keep on. One day, while this guy was in the State House cafeteria, someone asked him, "How's the Governor?" He replied, "I saw him last week. He's enjoying teaching at Northeastern." This, of course quickly got back to Weld, and fortunately for the hapless official, Weld had a sense of humor and had a good laugh over it. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sat Feb 12 23:51:46 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sat Feb 12 23:52:31 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <2979f9f40502121008f0f4e1@mail.gmail.com> References: <000701c5111a$de46c910$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <420E9692.12634.7B817A@localhost> On 12 Feb 2005 at 13:08, Damon Cassell wrote: > Satellite radio is built on the same principles. Low cost, high > quality, variety and control. People know what this is worth and will > pay for it. Radio will continue to tightly-format and demograph itself > to death and in the end radio station owners will still wonder what > they did wrong. You'll see more NAB lawsuits and lobbying designed to > hurt satellite radio but no real competitive changes. According to capitalist theory, at some point, someone in traditional radio should try a more open format, promote it heavily, do well with it, and then be widely copied. So far, though, it hasn't happened. I've often wondered how well Bob Bittner would do if he actually had a large promotion budget. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sat Feb 12 23:51:46 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sat Feb 12 23:52:33 2005 Subject: Mentioning the Competition's Call Letters??? In-Reply-To: <011601c51144$f4658770$6401a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <420E9692.19223.7B8247@localhost> On 12 Feb 2005 at 15:53, Doug Drown wrote: > One of WGY's newscasters --- I can't remember who, but I heard it --- > introduced the hourly CBS newscast as an NBC newscast shortly after > the station switched networks in 1988 or '89. It had been with NBC > for over 60 years. Sometime in December 1963, doing a newscast on WMUA at UMass, out of habit, I referred to President Kennedy as giving out Medals of Freedom, when it was President Johnson. I quickly corrected myself. I think I remember hearing a newscaster on WHYN make the same mistake around then. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From dbroda@nycap.rr.com Sun Feb 13 02:19:30 2005 From: dbroda@nycap.rr.com (Douglas J. Broda) Date: Sun Feb 13 02:19:38 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20050212200838.01bd49e0@pop3.grolen.com> References: <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20050213021337.02697018@pop.nycap.rr.com> At 08:26 PM 2/12/2005 -0500, SteveOrdinetz wrote: > Bill O'Neill. wrote: >>Once Sirius/XM is integrated into AM/FM/Sat radios, with a seamless click >>of a preset, local radio will have to choose to either be history or to >>do the very things that no satellite or national signal can possibly do - >>be excruciatingly local as well as being accessible to less affluent >>advertisers. > > >"Excruciatingly local" for the sake of being local isn't gonna cut >it. You still need to do GOOD radio...be a station people actually want >to listen to...."howdy folks" radio with lost dog reports and hour-long >interviews with candidates for sewer commisioner circa 1963 isn't gonna >fly. It was bad radio then, it's bad radio now. And if you set the ad >rates so every mom & pop greeting card shop in town can advertise on your >station how are you gonna afford to pay your airstaff without 30 min/hr. >spot loads? Of course lousy local radio won't do it. It will need to be local and interesting, at least much of the time. I'm not blind with nostalgia to the point where I think all the local/live stuff we had once was good. Some of it was atrocious, or, worse, boring. But I also recall that quite a bit of it was good, and a lot of the good stuff (and the innovation) went away because getting stuff off the bird made more sense to the bottom line. Sat radio, if it continues to grow, creates the very risk that terrestrial broadcasters will have to spend more money to get that audience than they do now, and that's why it scares them enough to create those ads. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Douglas J. Broda Attorney at Law 80 Ferry Street, Troy, NY 12180 USA (518) 272-0580 doug@dougbroda.com From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sun Feb 13 03:03:39 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sun Feb 13 03:06:07 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af><2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com><015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz><2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com><000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <032301c511a2$b7f6b4e0$1404fea9@xyz> > > OK. Let's stick with the big numbers. > > > > There are lots of examples of stations that changed formats and increased > > their ratinsg by 70%. In Portland, 107.5 went from country to class rock > > and its ratings more than doubled. > > Let's stick with the trend. Format changes aside, can a radio station > double it's ratings, year after year, like satellite has? It did when it was new. > Because > that's what is happening with satellite, and there's nothing to > indicate it will stop any time soon. These people aren't joining up > because they want to kiss off $10 a month on a grand experiment. Keep in mind that they aren't making money at $10 a month. Will the people be flocking to it in droves when it's $19.95 a month? > These > people are joining because it's a seriously competitive alternative to > radio. The people who are joining are doing so because they want a format or something that they can't find on the dial right now. i.e. Jazz, All Comedy, Old Time Radio, etc. Secondly, although they are coming out with alternatives, right now it seems to be for people who spend a LOT of time in their cars. Lastly, XM and Sirius can't give LOCAL...Is there an alternative to WBZ on Sattelite? Is there a place where I can hear Howie Carr rail against Beacon Hill, is there a place I can hear music interspersed with info about First Night, Local Concerts, Red Sox and Patriots victory parades? ....or the snow that's falling outside? > It's not going to stop, and the exodus is going to hurt radio > in a big way in a much quicker timeframe than 5-10 years, as you said > originally. This thing is knocking on the door right now. Well I know you're probably not old enough to remember life without FM radio...but when the superiority of FM came along...people didn't flock to it in droves overnight. It took a while for it to be commercially viable, for the technology to make it efficient and useful without being a pain, and you are correct, that the AM's had to innovate to survive, we now have all (local)news, (local) sports, (local) news/talk, etc. > > Satellite radio is built on the same principles. Low cost, high > > quality, variety and control. People know what this is worth and will > > pay for it. So far, people aren't willing to pay for it. Of all the audiophiles I know, only 1 person among my social, family and professional circles has found the need or dsesire to have it. >> Radio will continue to tightly-format and demograph itself > > to death and in the end radio station owners will still wonder what > > they did wrong. Well, with advertising revenues increasing beyond inflation and COL in major markets, right now it doesn't support you're specualtion and enthusiasm. From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sun Feb 13 03:04:44 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sun Feb 13 03:06:11 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com><002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com><015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <420EC803.5050808@cox.net> Message-ID: <032801c511a2$b81fe7c0$1404fea9@xyz> > Not a relevant statistic for a business model that sells subscription > fees for the 120 channels as a package rather than selling ads on each > (or any) channel. > > > > 1 million spread out over 120 channels? ( = 8,333 cume per channel?) > It was just some rough "thinking out loud" numbers, but you get the idea...it ain't there yet". From dan.strassberg@att.net Sun Feb 13 07:35:35 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Sun Feb 13 07:35:34 2005 Subject: Possible quick fix for WSMN? (was Re: Farewell WSMN; 1590 Dialspot Silent in Nashua) References: <20050212213008.95681.qmail@web50805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <000d01c511c8$88cb8da0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Pete: I think so. When WSRO 1470 (now WAZN) lost its site, it built a new 100' top-loaded tower in Hudson and operated under STA with (I think) 300W-D and a few watts at night for something like four years. There was big-time overlap between WSRO's previous 5 kW ND day signal from Fitchburg St and either first-adjacent WBET or first-adjacents WBET and WSAR. Whether any overlap remained after WSRO moved north to Hudson, reduced its power, and changed to a less efficient antenna, I don't know. I guess the question is if WSMN operates ND days from 900's tower, can it run some meaningful power without increasing overlap with WUNR and maybe WARV. If not, is there another site further north at which WSMN could construct a single 100' top-loaded tower. A 100' tower, even without top loading, but with a standard ground system, is actually a little bit more than tall enough to produce minimum Class B efficiency at 1590, but using the guy wires for a top load would increase the efficiency without increasing the cost very much. There might also be a cell tower somewhere on the north side of Nashua whose operator would be amenable to the installation of a skirt-fed Folded Unipole antenna. If a site could be found from which WSMN's 5 mV/m contour covered 80% of Nashua and the signal caused no prohibited overlap with any station (including the application for 1580 in "Cordaville MA"--really just a neighbohood in Framingham), WSMN could be licensed as a Class D AM and could operate indefinitely. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Q. George" To: "Laurence Glavin" ; Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: Possible quick fix for WSMN? (was Re: Farewell WSMN;1590 Dialspot Silent in Nashua) > Yup, I noticed it on my way to Manchester today. Just > a faint signal from WARV and splatter from WUNR. > Question.... Now that the clock has started on WSMN's > one year silent period, could they possibly run... > say, 250 watts/ND on the 900/Nashua tower to keep the > license active until a more permanent solution could > be found? Obviously, this is a "special" circumstance > in the eyes of the FCC, due to encroachment of an old > antenna array. Any thoughts? > > 73, > > Peter Q. George (K1XRB) > Whitman, Massachusetts > > > > --- Laurence Glavin wrote: > > > Shortly after the story ran that WSMN was being shut > > down > > in the Nashua Telegraph, I posted an item to the > > effect that > > the station was still transmitting an unmodulated > > carrier. > > This went on for several days, but when I did my > > Saturday > > morning radio pass today, AM 1590 was silent except > > for a faint > > signal from WARV-AM, West Warwick RI (I didn't catch > > the > > call letters, but it was running commercial > > "religion") > > and splatter from WUNR. So at least temporarily, an > > era has ended. > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow > > Pages > > > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp ?SRC=lycos10 > > > > > > > > > ===== > Peter Q. George (K1XRB) > Whitman, Massachusetts > "Scanning the bands since 1967" > radiojunkie1@yahoo.com > radiojunkie3@yahoo.com > *********************************************************** > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! > http://my.yahoo.com From hykker@grolen.com Sun Feb 13 08:53:16 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Sun Feb 13 08:53:01 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20050213084104.01c12200@pop3.grolen.com> Damon Cassell wrote: >Let's stick with the trend. Format changes aside, can a radio station >double it's ratings, year after year, like satellite has? Because >that's what is happening with satellite, and there's nothing to >indicate it will stop any time soon. These people aren't joining up >because they want to kiss off $10 a month on a grand experiment. This is a bogus argument. It's like a station with a .1 share growing to a .2 and claiming to be the market's fastest growing radio station. Technically they're correct...not likely anyone else doubled their audience, but they're still pretty insignificant. >These >people are joining because it's a seriously competitive alternative to >radio. It's not going to stop, and the exodus is going to hurt radio >in a big way in a much quicker timeframe than 5-10 years, as you said >originally. This thing is knocking on the door right now. You seem to have your mind made up and don't wish to be confused by the facts. The $10 (or $13 depending on service) monthly fee is PER RADIO. How many people have only one radio? As others have noted, satellite radio seems to appeal to either people who want to hear programming that is not commercially viable or who spend many hours a day driving. I see it being like cable/satellite tv. Been around a long time, yet broadcast tv is doing just fine. I don't see this "exodus" you're talking about. Don't believe the hype. From markwats@comcast.net Sun Feb 13 09:54:23 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Sun Feb 13 09:54:32 2005 Subject: Lowell Sun Quietly Exits WUML? Message-ID: <002e01c511db$e9ee5d70$6f918318@Mark> It appears that when 2004 ended and 2005 began, the Lowell Sun ended it's involvement with the "Lowell Sunrise" program on U Mass Lowell's WUML (91.5 Lowell). I've noticed that the ads for the show in the Sun have disappeared, and I received an e-mail from someone looking for a copy of an article that ran in the Dracut Dispatch (a weekly which was purchased last year by Media News, owners of the Sun) announcing the end of the Sun's involvement with the program. Said article never appeared in the Sun, unlike all the hoopla when the Sun announced the venture back in 2003. Searching the Dispatch archives on line brought only 2 hits, one a reprint of an article about Paul Sullivan's health issues, and an article that may have been the one in question from 1/6/05 entitled "Sun Sets On My Radio Days". However, one has to pay $2.95 to read the whole article. For the benefit of all of us on the list, as well as satisfying my curiousity, I sprung for the article, and got to read the column by Dispatch & Sun correspondent Dennis Shaughnessy who tells about the end of his involvement with "Lowell Sunrise" as of 12/31/04. One line which I think can help confirm for us the Sun's exit from WUML (quoted for scholarly purposes only): " The University and the paper have decided on a different approach". That different approach that I heard in listening for about 30 minutes this past Thursday has new liners, intros/outros, etc all voiced by Bob Ellis which have no mention of the venture between U Mass Lowell & the Sun, but some Sun reporters apparently still appear on the show. Also missing in the 30 minutes I listened are the underwriting announcements, which were heard at the top & bottom of the hour plus a couple of times in between. Checking out the WUML message board, no official announcement there either, although there was one comment from someone regarding the Lowell Sun's "failed experiment". So curious minds want to know what happened between the Sun & U Mass Lowell to have the Sun set on it's radio involvement on WUML. Mark Watson From brian_vita@cssinc.com Sun Feb 13 10:40:25 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Sun Feb 13 10:38:33 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <032301c511a2$b7f6b4e0$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> > Lastly, XM and Sirius can't give LOCAL...Is there an > alternative to WBZ on Satellite? Is there a place where I > can hear Howie Carr rail against Beacon Hill, is there a > place I can hear music interspersed with info about First > Night, Local Concerts, Red Sox and Patriots victory parades? > ....or the > snow that's falling outside? Trojan Horse #1 - Aside from schedule events, like Victory parades, local radio has been asleep at the switch. Many is the weekend that a major news event has happened, local or national, or a major weather event and the station is running on auto-pilot from a bird. There are, of course, exceptions but I'm talking the norm. On the satellite side, both XM and Sirius offer CNN and Fox news feeds 24/7. Likewise, XM has channel 247 which is their disaster channel and channel 210 which is Boston traffic and weather. > > Of all the audiophiles I know, only 1 person among my social, > family and professional circles has found the need or desire > to have it. Make that two. If you count in my family, make that 5. First of all, an audiophile is not someone who listens to any car stereo in any car for hi-fi. Secondly, a satellite channel doesn't try to be all things to everyone. If I'm in the mood for 60's oldies, I turn to channel 6 where I'll here a deep library of 60 music. Not a homogenized short playlist of someone's complication of the "best of" the 60's. By all counts, sales of the satellite radios has been phenomenal for the past months. Wal-Mart has just started selling XM. More new cars have it as a standard or optional feature. > > Well, with advertising revenues increasing beyond inflation > and COL in major markets, right now it doesn't support you're > speculation and enthusiasm. > PuhLeeese - This sounds like the lie that I hear in my industry - "Hollywood Box Office sales hit a record year". Yes, but ticket sales were down. The figure was reached by raising the ticket prices. In summary, will satellite replace FM? Probably not. I see FM being as where AM was in 1969. Satellite will become the new FM and FM will end up where AM is now. Where will AM be? Data communications. Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 +1-978-538-7575 Voice +1-978-538-7550 Fax www.cssinc.com From rogerkola@aol.com Sun Feb 13 11:46:05 2005 From: rogerkola@aol.com (Roger Kolakowski) Date: Sun Feb 13 11:46:33 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> Message-ID: <001501c511eb$84e7d5e0$0200a8c0@teal> Brian and others brought up the "transition" from AM to FM beginning in the late 60's..... Here's a scenerio which would instantly boost the status of Satellite radio to the detriment of terrestrial offerings. Now these will be rough figures, so I don't wish to debate that they aren't exact; this is a scenerio so it's just that they might be feasable. Either Chevrolet or Ford sells 4 million vehicles each per year. I own an Edsel so we will chose Ford. Ford goes out and negotiates between XM and Sirius for the rights to put "Pre-Paid" satellite service in ALL their vehicles. The yearly "retail" value of the least expensive single service is currently $120 or so depending on prepayment. But Ford is offering 4 Million, "lifetime subscriptions" in a year...so they can negotiate it for ...say ..$50/yr for round numbers. Now the average vehicle lasts for 10 years? (round figures again) So, for $500 per vehicle lifetime (no more $, maybe much less because they are first on the block) Ford supplies all their vehicles with Satellite receivers and the winner of the satellite contract realizes $200 million in income "automatically" EVERY YEAR, And still has the other 70% of the auto and aftermarket to persue. Now we can argue that $500 is signifigant in the purchase price of a car, but the "option" cost of FM Radio, tape decks, CD Players etc has been "rolled into" the price in the past....but, again, this is just a scenerio... One last option....Ford, instead of "buying rights" to satellite broadcasts, "sees the light" and purchases enough of the stock in one of the services to make it their deal.....win/win... Let's pretend this is out of a college Management Course...but it's one way to get there quickly... Roger WESX From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sun Feb 13 13:08:59 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sun Feb 13 13:19:23 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> Message-ID: <00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> > > Lastly, XM and Sirius can't give LOCAL...Is there an > > alternative to WBZ on Satellite? Is there a place where I > > can hear Howie Carr rail against Beacon Hill, is there a > > place I can hear music interspersed with info about First > > Night, Local Concerts, Red Sox and Patriots victory parades? > > ....or the > > snow that's falling outside? > > Trojan Horse #1 - Aside from schedule events, like Victory parades, local > radio has been asleep at the switch. Many is the weekend that a major news > event has happened, local or national, or a major weather event and the > station is running on auto-pilot from a bird. Typically not in a major market. Again, can sattelite ever replace Howie Carr's rants about Beacon Hill hacks? Local concerts? Snowstorms? Boston Pops concerts? And WBZ's news? And yes, local radio will have to adapt....as they always have. > PuhLeeese - This sounds like the lie that I hear in my industry - "Hollywood > Box Office sales hit a record year". Yes, but ticket sales were down. The > figure was reached by raising the ticket prices. And, people still buying the raised ticket prices. (And agencies paying higher rates to reach local markets/audiences) From lglavin@lycos.com Sun Feb 13 13:32:08 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sun Feb 13 13:32:16 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune Message-ID: <20050213183208.67E97E5BC7@ws7-2.us4.outblaze.com> >From: "A. Joseph Ross" >To: BRI , "Damon Cassell" >Subject: Re: Wall Street Week/Fortune >Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:51:46 -0500 > > I've often wondered how well Bob Bittner would do if he actually > had a large promotion budget. > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com > Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com He'd probably get better ratings than 50,000-watt WWZN. Wait a minute: he ALREADY gets better ratings than 50,000-watt WWZN. Never mind. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From dcassell@gmail.com Sun Feb 13 14:30:17 2005 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Sun Feb 13 14:30:30 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> <00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <2979f9f405021311304156e4fc@mail.gmail.com> > Again, can sattelite ever replace Howie Carr's rants about Beacon Hill > hacks? Local concerts? Snowstorms? Boston Pops concerts? And WBZ's news? Realistically, no, satellite cannot do these things (yet). But it is not, in my estimation, a competitive disadvantage. And while you might mistake me as anti-radio, I'm far from it. I listen to Carr; I listen to 'BZ for traffic and weather; I listen to Stern on WBCN. But the problem for radio is that little 'MODE' button on my steering wheel. The moment 'RKO or 'BCN segues into a 20 minute barrage of commercials, I'm back on XM, and advertisers never have a chance. I'm so, so, SO glad to be free from Giant Glass and East-West Mortgage. Sometimes, I might return to radio before my commute ends, and sometimes I may stay with XM. At a higher level, the question becomes: are consumers willing to sacrafice localism in favor of variety and no commercials? I believe that the answer to this is yes. Satellite can't yet give you local weather, news, arts and entertainment, but most consumers have that information available, on-demand, on their computers. Damon From billo@shoreham.net Sun Feb 13 15:16:51 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Sun Feb 13 15:17:06 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20050212200838.01bd49e0@pop3.grolen.com> References: <001101c510b4$bfa47130$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <016b01c510cd$f4649620$1404fea9@xyz> <000b01c5110d$35481290$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212064215c518b@mail.gmail.com> <420E6CCC.2090703@shoreham.net> <6.0.3.0.0.20050212200838.01bd49e0@pop3.grolen.com> Message-ID: <420FB5B3.8000005@shoreham.net> SteveOrdinetz wrote: > You still need to do GOOD radio...be a station people actually want to > listen to...."howdy folks" radio with lost dog reports and hour-long > interviews with candidates for sewer commisioner circa 1963 isn't > gonna fly. I agree that all radio needs to be listenable, but "howdy folks" can be successful if it's authentic and genuine versus a bogus set of liners polished by a well-meaning consultant. Political wonks spewing forth during valuable dayparts don't spawn the kind of buzz that builds listenership; creative ways to execute the local mix can yield increase. Local focus programming is most vulnerable because it is different. It's (without effort) not hip, nationally relevant nor have any Iraqi implications. > And if you set the ad rates so every mom & pop greeting card shop in > town can advertise on your station how are you gonna afford to pay > your airstaff without 30 min/hr. spot loads? If you can fill 15-20 units of inventory every hour, regardless of the rate, a tip of the headphones! If you can garner such investment from many different accounts (read: business partnerships) at loss-leader rates, and then show increase (read: it's not bad radio) then even a modest increase in rates can be encouraging. More likely that the model of a jock lounge and newsroom with 5 FTEs apiece will never happen again. Bridging new technologies and local talent along with appropriate network programming can make for a self-sustaining operation. In that respect, it ain't 1963 anymore. Bill O'Neill -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 From ka1mvk@gmail.com Sun Feb 13 00:18:28 2005 From: ka1mvk@gmail.com (Andy Soule) Date: Sun Feb 13 16:51:09 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <002301c51097$e93751b0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af><007901c510ad$f4e608b0$6401a8c0@pastor2> <000901c510b4$70204d50$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <008901c5118b$74c65b10$9865fea9@Scooby> Has anyone tuned in WIGY lately? For a couple years or more, that station has sounded horrible, I mean BAD, like worse than a cell phone, with Buzzes and funny noises. I think maybe Clear Channel forgot they own it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: "Doug Drown" ; Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:39 PM Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > Isn't WFAU still simulcast on 97.5 WIGY Madison? That means a sports > station right in Somerset County to compete with WSKW. > > > > From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sun Feb 13 16:48:02 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sun Feb 13 16:56:14 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara><00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f405021311304156e4fc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <019f01c51216$b2c591c0$1404fea9@xyz> > > Again, can sattelite ever replace Howie Carr's rants about Beacon Hill > > hacks? Local concerts? Snowstorms? Boston Pops concerts? And WBZ's news? > > Realistically, no, satellite cannot do these things (yet). But it is > not, in my estimation, a competitive disadvantage. And while you might > mistake me as anti-radio, I'm far from it. I listen to Carr; I listen > to 'BZ for traffic and weather; I listen to Stern on WBCN. But the > problem for radio is that little 'MODE' button on my steering wheel. > The moment 'RKO or 'BCN segues into a 20 minute barrage of > commercials, I'm back on XM, and advertisers never have a chance. This has always been an option...most likeley with CD's, as most car's come with CD players these days. People have been hitting the CD button when they are sick of radio for years now. Yet they come back to be "connected" locally. > At a higher level, the question becomes: are consumers willing to > sacrafice localism in favor of variety and no commercials? I believe > that the answer to this is yes. The real question is are people willing pay extra for something that they get for free now. And the next question ("Remember when your cable bill was 11.95?"), are people willing to pay the increase in prices that will no doubtedly occur. Some are, and those are the early jumpers, but again, more than trying to avoid "Giant Glass", they are hoping to get a format, that they cannot get otherwise. The one audiophile I know in my circle who got it, did so because he can't find Jazz on the radio anymore. Some will pay for Stern, etc. > Satellite can't yet give you local > weather, news, arts and entertainment, but most consumers have that > information available, on-demand, on their computers. Yeah, that's what I want, to take my computer into the car. Again, can sattelite replace WROR Loren and Wally's "Men from Maine" bit? Wally's take on local sports? Curt Schilling's weekly appearance? From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Sun Feb 13 17:54:37 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sun Feb 13 17:54:41 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <032301c511a2$b7f6b4e0$1404fea9@xyz> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> <032301c511a2$b7f6b4e0$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <200502132254.j1DMsbJ0029942@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> < said: > Well, with advertising revenues increasing beyond inflation and COL in major > markets, right now it doesn't support you're specualtion and enthusiasm. In a consolidating, oligopoly marketplace, increasing revenues are the regime which would be expected. -GAWollman From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Sun Feb 13 18:04:14 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sun Feb 13 18:04:17 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20050213084104.01c12200@pop3.grolen.com> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.3.0.0.20050213084104.01c12200@pop3.grolen.com> Message-ID: <200502132304.j1DN4Dkc030016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> < said: > I see it being like cable/satellite tv. Been around a long time, yet > broadcast tv is doing just fine. I don't see this "exodus" you're talking > about. Don't believe the hype. Is it? How many people get their TV over the air these days? 5% of the audience? Right now, the only reason for existence for 90% of broadcast TV stations is guaranteed cable/satellite carriage. (Digital TV had a chance to change that, as recently as three years ago, but failed utterly in providing content viewers were actually interested in receiving -- in contrast to the UK, for example, where Freeview is serious competition to cable and satellite in communities where it's available.) -GAWollman From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Sun Feb 13 18:21:11 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sun Feb 13 18:21:14 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> <00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <200502132321.j1DNLBWn030123@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> < said: > Again, can sattelite ever replace Howie Carr's rants about Beacon Hill > hacks? Apparently so, since the show was syndicated. For the 95% of the market that isn't remotely interested in either Howie or state government? Absolutely. (It may be tragic, but most of the electorate is profoundly disinterested in their state and local government.) > Local concerts? Sure -- the mass-audience ones are invariably part of a national tour. The non-mass-audience ones don't make it on local radio anyway. > Snowstorms? What, other than a weather forecast, do you want radio to provide? Closings and cancellations? Telephone AVR or the Internet are better media for this information (and the result of excluding it would be better radio besides!). > Boston Pops concerts? There's nothing specifically local about Pops concerts; they're one of the best-known light-music orchestras in the country. I could easily see them doing a deal to put every performance on satellite, if the audience is there. > And WBZ's news? That's about the only thing in your list that has a meaningful local component (and yet that's still not enough to get more than 10% of the available audience). -GAWollman From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Sun Feb 13 18:33:26 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sun Feb 13 18:33:29 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <019f01c51216$b2c591c0$1404fea9@xyz> References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> <00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f405021311304156e4fc@mail.gmail.com> <019f01c51216$b2c591c0$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <200502132333.j1DNXQOp030204@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> < said: > Again, can sattelite replace WROR Loren and Wally's "Men from Maine" bit? > Wally's take on local sports? Curt Schilling's weekly appearance? I don't know -- how long until Messrs. Brine and Owens' contracts are up? There's nothing preventing either DARS operator from creating a "New England talk and entertainment" channel if that was what it took. (Their licenses require all of the programming to be identical across the nation, but certainly don't prohibit targeting of channels to specific demographic groups!) -GAWollman From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Sun Feb 13 19:03:11 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sun Feb 13 19:03:16 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <420E9692.12634.7B817A@localhost> References: <000701c5111a$de46c910$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f40502121008f0f4e1@mail.gmail.com> <420E9692.12634.7B817A@localhost> Message-ID: <200502140003.j1E03BR6030417@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> < said: > According to capitalist theory, at some point, someone in > traditional radio should try a more open format, promote it heavily, > do well with it, and then be widely copied. So far, though, it > hasn't happened. Except that radio is an oligopoly marketplace, enforced by government licensing of outlets, so there's no reason to expect that this will happen. Now, when GM starts hawking "OnStar+3" with mobile broadband multimedia, watch out! -GAWollman From joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com Sun Feb 13 19:29:42 2005 From: joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com (Joseph Pappalardo) Date: Sun Feb 13 19:31:32 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara><00a301c511f8$5f1e25a0$1404fea9@xyz><2979f9f405021311304156e4fc@mail.gmail.com><019f01c51216$b2c591c0$1404fea9@xyz> <200502132333.j1DNXQOp030204@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <006601c5122c$539d35c0$1404fea9@xyz> > < said: > > > Again, can sattelite replace WROR Loren and Wally's "Men from Maine" bit? > > Wally's take on local sports? Curt Schilling's weekly appearance? > > I don't know -- how long until Messrs. Brine and Owens' contracts are > up? >From what I heard, they just renewed at a record amount. > There's nothing preventing either DARS operator from creating a "New > England talk and entertainment" channel if that was what it took. Except that it would require an expenditure of more money. Considering they are still losing tons of money...I don't know if thats' what they really want to do. > > Again, can sattelite ever replace Howie Carr's rants about Beacon Hill > > hacks? > > Apparently so, since the show was syndicated. Forget the syndication efforts...which are minimal at this point. It's one of the places you can still hear about the Big Dig water-woes, Fat Matt Amorillo, Ted Kennedy's "Wizard of Ahhhh's", etc. The show does pretty well in Boston. > > Local concerts? > > Sure -- the mass-audience ones are invariably part of a national > tour. The non-mass-audience ones don't make it on local radio anyway. It's still the primary place where people find out about concerts in Boston. Will Deadheads find the concert of their favorite group? Probably, but most of the local show, which don't have huge cult followigns are still promoted on radio. > > Snowstorms? > > What, other than a weather forecast, do you want radio to provide? Stories about who got what amount of snow, parking bans, Mayor Mumbles procalmations about 'saving parking spaces', cancellations...and thing like Chuck Knowlin saying, "I just saw a guy on Cross-Counrty skies headed down the center of Boylston Street" > > Boston Pops concerts? > > There's nothing specifically local about Pops concerts; they're one of > the best-known light-music orchestras in the country. I could easily > see them doing a deal to put every performance on satellite, if the > audience is there. It might not be there for a national audience. But it certainly IS there for locals, Friday afternoons of GBH-FM, Sunday's from Tanglewood, etc., etc. > > And WBZ's news? > > That's about the only thing in your list that has a meaningful local > component... "Meaningful" is up to the individual. People like JJ Wright and Dale because they know them as Boston personalities who are in touch with some of the nuances of Boston. Same probably for Matty. The River is percieved as a local station that brings people into the studio...which means they are in Haverill Mass...not some studio in DC or NYC. Club Kiss is out at Local clubs...not some club in LA. People like to feel like they are in touch with the city...and know what everyone else' is doing outside of their own mundane life. Sunny Jo White was the master of this....people would tune in to fell "in touch" with what's going on. Radio could and probably will have to do this better. From scott@fybush.com Sun Feb 13 22:18:21 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Sun Feb 13 22:19:18 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <200502132304.j1DN4Dkc030016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <44c2f46e95.46e9544c2f@nyroc.rr.com> <002101c5113b$2c6709a0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212130377aea783@mail.gmail.com> <015301c5114a$cce8fb40$1404fea9@xyz> <2979f9f40502121604f2e2112@mail.gmail.com> <000501c51161$1458a1e0$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <2979f9f4050212170468ce0826@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.3.0.0.20050213084104.01c12200@pop3.grolen.com> <200502132304.j1DN4Dkc030016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050213221704.020bc680@gwind.pair.com> At 06:04 PM 2/13/2005, Garrett Wollman wrote: >< said: > > > I see it being like cable/satellite tv. Been around a long time, yet > > broadcast tv is doing just fine. I don't see this "exodus" you're talking > > about. Don't believe the hype. > >Is it? How many people get their TV over the air these days? 5% of >the audience? Believe it or not, there are still markets where cable/satellite penetration is barely 50%. Take away OTA TV in Houston and people WILL notice. (That's one reason Time Warner's news channel in Houston folded...not enough penetration.) s From gary@garysicecream.com Sun Feb 13 22:40:20 2005 From: gary@garysicecream.com (gic) Date: Sun Feb 13 22:40:31 2005 Subject: ?? about Radio Watch this week Message-ID: <08b101c51246$e8a18f80$6500a8c0@office> If there is a new production director at WODS (according to Fybush's Radio Watch), then what happened to Joe Cortese who has been holding down that position? g From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sun Feb 13 23:05:52 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sun Feb 13 23:06:43 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <003301c511e2$56ed23b0$660fa8c0@elara> References: <032301c511a2$b7f6b4e0$1404fea9@xyz> Message-ID: <420FDD50.31718.B1A93A@localhost> On 13 Feb 2005 at 10:40, Brian Vita wrote: > In summary, will satellite replace FM? Probably not. I see FM being > as where AM was in 1969. Satellite will become the new FM and FM will > end up where AM is now. Where will AM be? Data communications. Or maybe they could open it up to low-power community stations. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From brian_vita@cssinc.com Sun Feb 13 23:15:13 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Sun Feb 13 23:15:18 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune In-Reply-To: <420FDD50.31718.B1A93A@localhost> Message-ID: <000501c5124b$c80c8cc0$c3ec33d1@alvin> > On 13 Feb 2005 at 10:40, Brian Vita wrote: > > > In summary, will satellite replace FM? Probably not. I > see FM being > > as where AM was in 1969. Satellite will become the new FM > and FM will > > end up where AM is now. Where will AM be? Data communications. > > Or maybe they could open it up to low-power community stations. > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com > Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com > > Gee, if that happens I've got a bunch of leftover AM xmtrs from drive-ins that I could unload :-) Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St. - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 USA +1-978-538-7575 voice +1-978-538-7550 fax www.cssinc.com From rogerkola@aol.com Mon Feb 14 07:10:11 2005 From: rogerkola@aol.com (Roger Kolakowski) Date: Mon Feb 14 07:10:46 2005 Subject: Wall Street Week/Fortune References: <032301c511a2$b7f6b4e0$1404fea9@xyz> <420FDD50.31718.B1A93A@localhost> Message-ID: <001a01c5128e$235a3ea0$0200a8c0@teal> There may be another battle on the Low Power front....of all the TV channel 6 stations in the country who were given a choice of staying on their temporary UHF Digital channel or their original Analog VHF Channel Six after the "changeover," ...only five stations in the country chose to keep their channel 6 allocation. This frees up 6 MHz of space right under the current FM Broadcast band for "band expansion," LPFM (or commercial auction?) Roger WESX > On 13 Feb 2005 at 10:40, Brian Vita wrote: > > > In summary, will satellite replace FM? Probably not. I see FM being > > as where AM was in 1969. Satellite will become the new FM and FM will > > end up where AM is now. Where will AM be? Data communications. > > Or maybe they could open it up to low-power community stations. > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com > Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com > > > > From fox893@yahoo.com Mon Feb 14 07:26:58 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Mon Feb 14 07:27:06 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes In-Reply-To: <008901c5118b$74c65b10$9865fea9@Scooby> Message-ID: <20050214122658.15199.qmail@web54606.mail.yahoo.com> The calls are familiar... What's the COL? --- Andy Soule wrote: > Has anyone tuned in WIGY lately? For a couple years > or more, that station > has sounded horrible, I mean BAD, like worse than a > cell phone, with Buzzes > and funny noises. I think maybe Clear Channel > forgot they own it. > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com From fox893@yahoo.com Mon Feb 14 09:48:24 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Mon Feb 14 09:48:32 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes In-Reply-To: <021201c5129d$416c4ff0$9865fea9@RammaScooby> Message-ID: <20050214144824.61786.qmail@web54607.mail.yahoo.com> What has the format been in the past? --- Andy Soule wrote: > Calls were on 105.9 eons ago. Now in madsion on > 97.5 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cooper Fox" > To: "Andy Soule" ; > > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:26 AM > Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > > > > > > The calls are familiar... What's the COL? > > > > > > > > --- Andy Soule wrote: > > > >> Has anyone tuned in WIGY lately? For a couple > years > >> or more, that station > >> has sounded horrible, I mean BAD, like worse than > a > >> cell phone, with Buzzes > >> and funny noises. I think maybe Clear Channel > >> forgot they own it. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From revdoug1@verizon.net Mon Feb 14 07:21:14 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Mon Feb 14 11:29:28 2005 Subject: Changes at Channel 5 Bangor Message-ID: <01b701c5128f$ad641d90$6401a8c0@pastor2> Does anyone know what happened to Jon Small, the morning anchor at WABI-TV in Bangor? He disappeared from the airwaves around the first of January, and I don't recall reading anything about his departure. He had been with the station for at least seven or eight years. Doug Drown From revdoug1@verizon.net Mon Feb 14 08:21:33 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Mon Feb 14 11:29:29 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <20050214122658.15199.qmail@web54606.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <01c601c51298$1a7ac6b0$6401a8c0@pastor2> 97.5 in Madison. All sports. The call letters used to be those of another station in Brunswick, years ago. And Andy's right --- it does sound awful. I made a point of listening to it a couple of days ago after someone pointed out that it's in direct competition with Mountain Wireless's WSKW (AM) in Skowhegan, five miles away (also all sports). I'm not a sports radio fan, so I seldom tune in to stations with that format. D.D. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooper Fox" To: "Andy Soule" ; Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:26 AM Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > > The calls are familiar... What's the COL? > > > > --- Andy Soule wrote: > > > Has anyone tuned in WIGY lately? For a couple years > > or more, that station > > has sounded horrible, I mean BAD, like worse than a > > cell phone, with Buzzes > > and funny noises. I think maybe Clear Channel > > forgot they own it. > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > From mattosborne1976@yahoo.com Mon Feb 14 11:37:58 2005 From: mattosborne1976@yahoo.com (Matthew Osborne) Date: Mon Feb 14 11:38:08 2005 Subject: CC Poughkeepsie - Asleep at the switch Message-ID: <20050214163758.64110.qmail@web52609.mail.yahoo.com> This morning I was listening to the new format (Lite FM AC), which is now in place on WFKP (99.3 FM) Ellenville NY (see this week's NERW). Apparently someone at Clear Channel Poughkeepsie is/was asleep at the switch though - right in the middle of a commercial break what do I hear - a promo for the CJ's Playhouse morning show on 96.1 and 99.3 Kiss FM (the station's old format), followed immediately by a voicetracked liner into the next Lite music hour on the new 99.3 Lite FM. Of course, I guess I really shouldn't be surprised - this is the same comnpany that STILL (as of 2 weeks ago) has a billboard up in Rosendale NY promoting the defunct for almost 2 years now 92.9 Rock (former WRKW Saugerties, now playing oldies as WBPM). Wonder if someone over there is ever gonna get a clue and keep their things updated properly? And to think - this market is only 70-80 miles north of NYC Matt Osborne Poughkeepsie, NY __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Mon Feb 14 13:52:07 2005 From: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon Feb 14 13:52:10 2005 Subject: Book recommendation Message-ID: <200502141852.j1EIq7O6040311@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Malcolm Gladwell's /Blink/ has received a lot of buzz lately, and was at the top of this week's NYT non-fiction hardcover bestseller list. In one chapter of the book, he looks at why focus groups frequently come up with completely different results from trained evaluators, sometimes with disastrous consequences (e.g., New Coke). One of his examples is a recording artist who blows away people with a serious interest in music (producers, label executives, concert promoters, etc.) but is unable to make any headway in the industry because he scores poorly in radio music testing. This effect may help explain why people in the radio business tend to have much greater appreciation for diverse programming than the audience as a whole is thought by managers to have. In a talk from his current book tour shown on C-SPAN2 last night, Gladwell was asked about differences in intuitive ability between men and women. He responded that he didn't think there were any, but that the social expectations are different so men in particular are expected to come to a rational conclusion based on a thorough, objective evaluation of the evidence. He cites as an example one of his bosses (at Conde Nast Publications; he writes for /The New Yorker/) who will make business decisions based on his intuitive feel for the market, but then must commission a focus group to back up his decision. (And if it doesn't, he'll just keep on setting them up until he gets one that does.) -GAWollman From billings@suscom-maine.net Mon Feb 14 19:41:33 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Mon Feb 14 19:41:37 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <20050214122658.15199.qmail@web54606.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002d01c512f7$190a3a90$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooper Fox" To: "Andy Soule" ; Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:26 AM Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > The calls are familiar... What's the COL? 97.5 WIGY Madison. It is only by Clear Channel and simulcasts the sports programming that is also on 1280 WFAU Gardiner and 1450 WRKD Rockland. I tuned into WIGY today and it is unlistenable. I don't know how they get the audio to it but it sounds horrible just as Andy suggested. From revdoug1@verizon.net Mon Feb 14 21:07:28 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Mon Feb 14 21:05:09 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <20050214122658.15199.qmail@web54606.mail.yahoo.com> <002d01c512f7$190a3a90$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <026301c51303$1be52980$6401a8c0@pastor2> If Clear Channel had any brains they would simulcast WIGY with their other two "Voice of Maine" stations. At least WIGY would get some ratings; as I said in an earlier post, west-central Maine has no talk radio station. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: "Cooper Fox" ; "Andy Soule" ; Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:41 PM Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cooper Fox" > To: "Andy Soule" ; > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:26 AM > Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > > > > > The calls are familiar... What's the COL? > > 97.5 WIGY Madison. It is only by Clear Channel and simulcasts the sports > programming that is also on 1280 WFAU Gardiner and 1450 WRKD Rockland. > > I tuned into WIGY today and it is unlistenable. I don't know how they get > the audio to it but it sounds horrible just as Andy suggested. > > > From billings@suscom-maine.net Mon Feb 14 21:52:22 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Mon Feb 14 21:52:26 2005 Subject: More on Skowhegan radio changes References: <20050214122658.15199.qmail@web54606.mail.yahoo.com> <002d01c512f7$190a3a90$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <026301c51303$1be52980$6401a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <000501c51309$5fadb460$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Drown" To: "Daniel Billings" ; "Cooper Fox" ; "Andy Soule" ; Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 9:07 PM Subject: Re: More on Skowhegan radio changes > If Clear Channel had any brains they would simulcast WIGY with their other > two "Voice of Maine" stations. At least WIGY would get some ratings; as I > said in an earlier post, west-central Maine has no talk radio station. I don't know why they didn't do that when they lost 107.9. It does make sense. From raccoonradio@myway.com Tue Feb 15 14:15:04 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue Feb 15 14:15:16 2005 Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston Message-ID: <20050215191504.26EB339AB@mprdmxin.myway.com> Which of these syndie talkers would you like to hear in Boston? (to the best of my knowledge they aren't heard here) Glenn Beck (conservative--on up in NH I think) Tammy Bruce ("an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan progressive feminist"--from bio on her site) Phil Hendrie (comedy-talk, in the sense of he does several voices in spoofing talk shows) Jim Bohannon Neal Boortz (is he on WTTT? don't think so) Gene Burns (yes, I know he's not syndicated but...wishful thinking!) Alan Colmes Fox News Live ("Red White and liberal") Rusty Humphries Rollye James (formerly an occasional host on "Coast to Coast"--does a good trivia show on Fridays) Lars Larson G.Gordon Liddy Mancow Muller (soon to be syndie) Michael Reagan Tony Snow Doug Stephan (morning drive, used to be based here) Probably a few I didn't think of (especially in the liberal sense, though most of the major lib talkers are indeed on at WKOXKS)... I would want to hear Hendrie (funny!), James (for the trivia at least), Tammy Bruce (good filling in for the Ingraham-mer last night), Colmes (too leftist for the conservatives, too centrist for the liberals?), and Burns if someone would syndicate him. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From billo@shoreham.net Tue Feb 15 14:36:34 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Tue Feb 15 14:36:42 2005 Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston In-Reply-To: <20050215191504.26EB339AB@mprdmxin.myway.com> References: <20050215191504.26EB339AB@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <42124F42.7050609@shoreham.net> Bob Nelson wrote: >Which of these syndie talkers would you like to hear in Boston? (to the best of my knowledge they aren't heard here) > >Glenn Beck (conservative--on up in NH I think) > >I would want to hear Hendrie (funny!), James (for the trivia at least), >Tammy Bruce (good filling in for the Ingraham-mer last night), Colmes >(too leftist for the conservatives, too centrist for the liberals?), >and Burns if someone would syndicate him. > Beck is in Philly and feeds 0900 to 1200. He's good. Execution is very good, jocular, can be serious, leans to the right but non-partisan and will take a swing at both sides. A rising star if he keeps it going. Carries on WGY (Albany area), WXZO (VT) and in Manchester & c. He could draw numbers from both sides of center. Very funny Valentines Day bit that actually works. Has guys "fill in the blanks" on a very smooth love letter. On air, rehearses with Beck how the cold call will go to the spouse/girlfriend. Fake in/outro for the sake of the unwitting partner as "Couple of the Year." Beck leads her with just enough specifics so that she believes the bit. Even preps the guy to, on cue, say, "(name) I love you." Then it's dinner, flowers, applause and, after the call ends, a review. It may seem kind of nasty but it does work and the end-result for the couple can be a good thing (until she finds out about the radio thing.) Phil Hendrie is a great listen but, unfortunately, has been bumped to 1900 to 2200 from the west coast. During the post-911 overdose of talk, Hendrie was extremely refreshing with this talk show on talk shows. If you appreciate voice work, bits, timing, writing, and call execution, you might want to give him a listen. I just intended a one or two-word response and fell off of the OnAnOnAnOn wagon. (Jerry Williams: "On An On An On An On... a twelve step program for people who can't stop talking.") RIP Bill O'Neill -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 From brian_vita@cssinc.com Tue Feb 15 15:01:10 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Tue Feb 15 15:01:27 2005 Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston In-Reply-To: <20050215191504.26EB339AB@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <004101c51399$191640e0$c3ec33d1@alvin> Just some observations... > Which of these syndie talkers would you like to hear in > Boston? (to the best of my knowledge they aren't heard here) > > Glenn Beck (conservative--on up in NH I think) I listen to him on XM > > Tammy Bruce ("an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, > pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan progressive > feminist"--from bio on her site) > > Phil Hendrie (comedy-talk, in the sense of he does several > voices in spoofing talk shows) > > Jim Bohannon Available on XM > > Neal Boortz (is he on WTTT? don't think so) > > Gene Burns (yes, I know he's not syndicated but...wishful thinking!) > > Alan Colmes Fox News Live ("Red White and liberal") Available on XM but why? > > Rusty Humphries On XM > > Rollye James (formerly an occasional host on "Coast to > Coast"--does a good trivia show on Fridays) On XM > > Lars Larson On XM > > G.Gordon Liddy > > Mancow Muller (soon to be syndie) > > Michael Reagan On XM > > Tony Snow On XM > Guess that I don't need any of them on local radio Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St. - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 USA +1-978-538-7575 voice +1-978-538-7550 fax www.cssinc.com From billo@shoreham.net Tue Feb 15 15:06:03 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Tue Feb 15 15:06:16 2005 Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston In-Reply-To: <004101c51399$191640e0$c3ec33d1@alvin> References: <004101c51399$191640e0$c3ec33d1@alvin> Message-ID: <4212562B.9030906@shoreham.net> Brian Vita wrote: >On XM > > > >Guess that I don't need any of them on local radio > > > Ouch. That's gotta hurt. Bill O'Neill -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 From dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Feb 15 16:20:10 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Tue Feb 15 16:20:44 2005 Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston References: <20050215191504.26EB339AB@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <002701c513a4$3a515460$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Stephan has been on WBIX almost from the day Langer started running the station again. I think the current hours on 1060 are 4:00 AM to 8:00 AM. Stephan had been on till 9:00 AM until a week or so ago when Stu Taylor, who had been buying weekend time for a financial talk show (the disclaimor says that guests pay to appear on the program), apparently decided that enough other CEO's of publicly traded microcap companies would pay him to tout their stock that he could make a go of an additional five hours a week. Between Taylor, Barry Armstrong, Clark Howard, and Jim Cramer, WBIX is carrying six hours a day of financial talk M-F and more on weekends. I think that brokered financial talk is a terrible substitute for the real product that WBIX used to provide until its world imploded, but I think the fact that these programs are running at all demonstrates that the format CAN work in Boston. It's a delicate balancing act. To make the format pay, much of the programming has to be brokered. But the brokered programming is basically infomercials to which nobody wants to listen. I guess the secret is to find programming that is available for barter and can be placed between the infomercials. That's the format that CCU has apparently been doing successfully for the last four years or so at WHNZ in Tampa. If largely brokered financial talk can work in Tampa, it ought to work in Boston. BTW, I vote for Hendrie. I'm not sure whether his schtick wears well, but it's a hoot if you listen only occasionally. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston > > Which of these syndie talkers would you like to hear in Boston? (to the best of my knowledge they aren't heard here) > > Glenn Beck (conservative--on up in NH I think) > > Tammy Bruce ("an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan progressive feminist"--from bio on her site) > > Phil Hendrie (comedy-talk, in the sense of he does several voices in spoofing talk shows) > > Jim Bohannon > > Neal Boortz (is he on WTTT? don't think so) > > Gene Burns (yes, I know he's not syndicated but...wishful thinking!) > > Alan Colmes Fox News Live ("Red White and liberal") > > Rusty Humphries > > Rollye James (formerly an occasional host on "Coast to Coast"--does a good trivia show on Fridays) > > Lars Larson > > G.Gordon Liddy > > Mancow Muller (soon to be syndie) > > Michael Reagan > > Tony Snow > > Doug Stephan (morning drive, used to be based here) > > Probably a few I didn't think of (especially in the liberal sense, though most of the major lib talkers are indeed on at WKOXKS)... > > I would want to hear Hendrie (funny!), James (for the trivia at least), > Tammy Bruce (good filling in for the Ingraham-mer last night), Colmes > (too leftist for the conservatives, too centrist for the liberals?), > and Burns if someone would syndicate him. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From mlaurence@mindspring.com Tue Feb 15 18:55:42 2005 From: mlaurence@mindspring.com (Mark Laurence) Date: Tue Feb 15 18:55:46 2005 Subject: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Boston In-Reply-To: <002701c513a4$3a515460$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <20050215191504.26EB339AB@mprdmxin.myway.com> <002701c513a4$3a515460$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <6a39a70948d766f1ebd11128f707f598@mindspring.com> On Feb 15, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Dan Strassberg wrote: > BTW, I vote for Hendrie. I'm not sure whether his schtick wears well, > but > it's a hoot if you listen only occasionally. The first time I heard Phil Hendrie, I could hardly believe my ears. His show segments started out sounding fairly normal, but then you'd hear the guest say something that sounded completely off-base, and then he'd become so outrageous you'd think this was hardly possible. Meanwhile Hendrie was trying to play the outraged host and the callers were screaming with indignation at the whole event. Then I discovered his tricks and his true talent. I was in LA at the time, and when I got back home to Boston I found his show online and listened every day for months. Fortunately that was before September 11, when the show was consistently funny and creative. After that, Phil decided he could no longer make constant fun of talk radio. Instead he had to become "normal" talk radio and take on serious topics in between the skits. The problem is, he's not very good at it, and I have yet to find a single fan in his message boards who doesn't agree. He's styled himself into a blue-collar Everyman who used to be liberal, until the World Trade Center attack, and now he wants to blow things up in response. Unlike good talk show hosts, Hendrie doesn't have any facts to back up his opinions. He just spouts off with a "you know I'm right" attitude and yells at callers who disagree. It's quite tiresome, and he sometimes does it for hours at a time, leaving one or two quick segments for his creative bits. Then you can hear what got him his national network gig, for 15 minutes or so. After that, he goes back to being the angry and boring straight guy. What a shame. Mark From Kaimbridge@programmer.net Wed Feb 16 10:28:09 2005 From: Kaimbridge@programmer.net (Kaimbridge M. GoldChild) Date: Wed Feb 16 10:28:26 2005 Subject: [B-R-I] Re: Syndie talkers you'd like to hear in Message-ID: <42136689.DB62D900@Programmer.Net> Bob "Robert Raccoon" Nelson wrote, > Which of these syndie talkers would you like to hear in Boston? > (to the best of my knowledge they aren't heard here) > Probably a few I didn't think of (especially in the liberal sense, > though most of the major lib talkers are indeed on at WKOXKS)... Yup, probably one of the better ones: WOR's "LIONEL"! http://www.wor710.com/lionel.shtml For a good laugh, take a look at his "photo gallery" (Rated MA: Viewer discretion is advised! P=): http://lionelonline.com/photos.htm "The monkey's dead, the show's over...SUE YA!" --Lionel's closing line ~Kaimbridge~ ----- Wanted?Kaimbridge (w/mugshot!): http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/digitology/Wanted_KMGC.html ---------- Digitology?The Grand Theory Of The Universe: http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/digitology/index.html ***** Void Where Permitted; Limit 0 Per Customer. ***** From billings@suscom-maine.net Wed Feb 16 20:07:59 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Wed Feb 16 20:08:02 2005 Subject: MPBN is next Message-ID: <000b01c5148d$1f93c790$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., the operators of Maine Public Broadcasting and Maine Public Radio, will formerly change its name to the Maine Public Broadcasting Network on February 23. The TV and Radio networks will stop using the names Maine Public Broadcasting and Maine Public Radio and will both be called the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Before the merger with WCBB-Channel 10, the corporation was called the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN). In fact, I only recently stopped referring to them as MPBN. Now the name is back! From revdoug1@verizon.net Wed Feb 16 20:23:40 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Wed Feb 16 20:21:18 2005 Subject: MPBN is next References: <000b01c5148d$1f93c790$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <001701c5148f$5251f970$6401a8c0@pastor2> It's an appropriate change, I think. I'm with you --- I'm used to referring to them as MPBN. I suspect a lot of other people are, too. Maybe that's why the decision has been made. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:07 PM Subject: MPBN is next > Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., the operators of Maine Public Broadcasting > and Maine Public Radio, will formerly change its name to the Maine Public > Broadcasting Network on February 23. The TV and Radio networks will stop > using the names Maine Public Broadcasting and Maine Public Radio and will > both be called the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. > > Before the merger with WCBB-Channel 10, the corporation was called the Maine > Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN). In fact, I only recently stopped > referring to them as MPBN. Now the name is back! > > > > > From mhiggs@gmail.com Thu Feb 17 01:36:34 2005 From: mhiggs@gmail.com (Matt Higgs) Date: Thu Feb 17 01:36:38 2005 Subject: MPBN is next In-Reply-To: <000b01c5148d$1f93c790$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <000b01c5148d$1f93c790$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: I was wondering what was going on. Two weeks ago, during "Nova" s new bug appeared in the lower right that said "MPBN" with a new logo and everything. Apparently it must have been a technical glitch..they've never used it since. -Matt On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:07:59 -0500, Daniel Billings wrote: > Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., the operators of Maine Public Broadcasting > and Maine Public Radio, will formerly change its name to the Maine Public > Broadcasting Network on February 23. The TV and Radio networks will stop > using the names Maine Public Broadcasting and Maine Public Radio and will > both be called the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. > > Before the merger with WCBB-Channel 10, the corporation was called the Maine > Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN). In fact, I only recently stopped > referring to them as MPBN. Now the name is back! > > From billo@shoreham.net Thu Feb 17 18:21:25 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill.....) Date: Thu Feb 17 18:21:35 2005 Subject: Turkeys DO fly, Les. Message-ID: <421526F5.6050504@shoreham.net> "Booger," the word that got the fictitious Johnny Fever fired from his radio gig, landing him at WKRP Cincinnati. The more things change.... Bill O'Neill -- Peace -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 From billings@suscom-maine.net Thu Feb 17 18:37:13 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Thu Feb 17 18:37:20 2005 Subject: Persky's absence from WBLM makes the news Message-ID: <003901c51549$9bf09b80$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050217persky.shtml Two weeks after I raised the issue here, the local daily newspaper* finally noticed that Mark Persky is missing from the WBLM Morning show. The story is that he is on leave and nobody will say why. Persky's lawyer says he wants to come back and Persky's on-air partner says he would like him to come back. Management says that they can't comment out of respect to Mark's privacy. The story also says that Celeste was moved permently to the morning show at about the time that Persky left the show, but it did not say whether the two events were related. The story raises more questions than it answers. Celeste is a good addition to the show IMHO, with or without Persky. -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine * Went I was the producer for the morning talk show on WGAN in the early 1990's, the Press Herald would often mention something that happened on the show without mentioning the station's call letters. They would usually say "on a local morning talk show" or "on a local talk station." As a result, show co-host Jim Crocker decided we should never mention the name of the newspaper on the air. We just called it "the local daily newspaper" and that was sometimes shortened to the LDN. From lglavin@lycos.com Fri Feb 18 17:17:27 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Fri Feb 18 17:17:36 2005 Subject: WBOT-FM Moves Closer To Hub Message-ID: <20050218221727.75CCB3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Now that the 97.7 formerly licensed to Winchendon, Mass has hightailed itself to the Keene, NH market, WBOT-FM, licensed to Armpit, Mass (fine comment from someone who lives in a City adjacent to Lawrence, Mass) but currently transmitting from Abington, has applied to the FCC to move its transmitter within route 128, raise its HAAT, and install a directional antenna. Any chance WJMN will raise an objection? WOKQ too? -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From elipolo@earthlink.net Sat Feb 19 12:43:36 2005 From: elipolo@earthlink.net (Eli Polonsky) Date: Sat Feb 19 12:26:38 2005 Subject: WBOT-FM Moves Closer To Hub In-Reply-To: <20050218221727.75CCB3384B@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: On 2/18/05 5:17 PM, "Laurence Glavin" wrote: > Now that the 97.7 formerly licensed to Winchendon, Mass > has hightailed itself to the Keene, NH market, WBOT-FM, > licensed to Armpit, Mass (fine comment from someone who > lives in a City adjacent to Lawrence, Mass) but currently > transmitting from Abington, has applied to the FCC to > move its transmitter within route 128, raise its HAAT, and > install a directional antenna. Any chance WJMN will raise > an objection? WOKQ too? I don't see any technical grounds that WJMN could object on, they're not near them on the dial, and they can't object simply because they're a format competitor. Eli Polonsky From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Feb 19 12:52:50 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat Feb 19 12:52:58 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now Message-ID: <20050219175250.A6CA0C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> At this very minute: 12:42 pm EST Saturday Feb 19, 2005, WCAP-AM 980 in Lowell, MA is off-the-air. Not that I wish ill of any station, except WCRB, but I love when that happens because often I can observe what its disappearance causes to be available. (I'm sure it's just a temporary interruption, like the WLLH-AM Lowell transmitter outage in November.) In WCAP's absence, WZAN in Portland booms in here about 30 miles north of Boston, with just a little interference from the 970 in Southbridge, MA. I don't even know if the 990 in Providence (is it still WALE?) is on-the-air, but there was no audible station at 990 where I live. At 980 itself, I could pick up a sports station, but there was not a sation ID or commercial that hinted at the station's locale. It could have been the 980 in Groton, CT or even WOFX(?) in Troy, NY. In very cold weather like today (22 degrees F in Methuen; how cold is it in northwestern VT...I have the feeling we may find out) AM stations get a little better mileage even at midday, so it could have been a 5KW signal that managed to travel over the Taconic/Berkshire mountains and east almost to the Massachusetts coast. The 960 in Fitchburg is also coming in a little better than usual and can be heard over WROL 950 splatter. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Feb 19 14:57:47 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat Feb 19 14:57:54 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now Message-ID: <20050219195747.B0FD9C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >From: "Laurence Glavin" >To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org >Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:52:50 -0500 > I received an e-mail not cced to the whole board that there's a problem with a phasor. Hmmm... it's a Saturday of a holiday weekend; will the station have to order parts and get a consulting engineer? This could keep 980 in Lowell silent for a couple of days. Or do they have spares out there in the woods NW of the city, and service can be expected to resume momentarily? As they say, stay tuned. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From sid.whitaker@unh.edu Sat Feb 19 15:18:32 2005 From: sid.whitaker@unh.edu (Sid Whitaker) Date: Sat Feb 19 15:18:38 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now In-Reply-To: <20050219175250.A6CA0C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050219175250.A6CA0C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <1108844312.42179f187916a@webmail.unh.edu> Quoting Laurence Glavin : > In WCAP's absence, WZAN in Portland booms > in here about 30 miles north of Boston, with just a little > interference from the 970 in Southbridge, MA. Apparently some of the 5kw Portland AMs throw a decent signal to the S-SW. Some years ago, when I lived in Springfield, Mass. and worked at WHYN (560), we went off the air one winter morning and we and faintly heard WGAN Portland. At 980 itself, I could pick up a sports > station, but there was not a sation ID or commercial that > hinted at the station's locale. It could have been the > 980 in Groton, CT or even WOFX(?) in Troy, NY. I'm guessing WOFX, which runs sports and has a good ND signal daytime and throws a solid beam due E at night. SW From jjlehmann@comcast.net Sat Feb 19 15:23:46 2005 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Sat Feb 19 15:23:48 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now In-Reply-To: <1108844312.42179f187916a@webmail.unh.edu> Message-ID: <200502192023.j1JKNjd5030497@rolinin.lcs.mit.edu> >I'm guessing WOFX, which runs sports and has a good ND signal daytime and >throws >a solid beam due E at night. That would be my guess as well. I know that at least at night, they're a very common catch here on the south shore. Also, 980 WSUB in Groton, CT is no longer a sports station. They went back to regular news and talk over a year ago. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA From dan.strassberg@att.net Sat Feb 19 15:49:57 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Sat Feb 19 15:49:55 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now References: <20050219195747.B0FD9C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <001c01c516c4$9696e640$19eefea9@dstrassberg> If anyone at WCAP can get hold of the station's chief engineer--presumably a contract person--switching over to reduced power (1 kW or so) ND operation--at least during daytime hours--ought to be something that can be accomplished in a few hours. In fact, I would be surprised if the phasor wasn't designed to allow such an emergency switch-over. The station may have to operate daytime only, however, until the repairs are complete. And I also believe that the 980 station you are picking up must be WOFX. Unless you are getting some daytime skywave (certainly a possibility at this time of year), you have a very sensitive radio. I don't think WOFX could possibly deliver a groundwave of more than 50 microvolts/meter to your location. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Glavin" To: "Laurence Glavin" ; Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 2:57 PM Subject: Re: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now > >From: "Laurence Glavin" > >To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org > >Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now > >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:52:50 -0500 > > > > I received an e-mail not cced to the whole board > that there's a problem with a phasor. Hmmm... > it's a Saturday of a holiday weekend; will > the station have to order parts and get a consulting > engineer? This could keep 980 in Lowell silent > for a couple of days. Or do they have spares > out there in the woods NW of the city, and service > can be expected to resume momentarily? > As they say, stay tuned. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp ?SRC=lycos10 > > From lglavin@lycos.com Sun Feb 20 13:17:17 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sun Feb 20 13:17:27 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now Message-ID: <20050220181717.8580686B0D@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Strassberg" >To: "Laurence Glavin" >Subject: Re: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:49:57 -0500 > > And I also believe that the 980 station you are picking up must be WOFX. > Unless you are getting some daytime skywave (certainly a possibility at this > time of year), you have a very sensitive radio. It IS a very sensitive radio; it won't work if I insult it. > I don't think WOFX could > possibly deliver a groundwave of more than 50 microvolts/meter to your > locationNYC at midday, the 1660 in Elizabeth, NJ > > -- > Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net > Taking into account the hilly terrain over which it passes, the Taconics in NY state and our Berkshires, it is quite remarkable that a 5KW station would reach this far, but the weather is also dry and cold which helps a bit. Up by the police calls, I also note that I was getting WQEW from NYC and the 1660 in New Jersey, and the 1530 in Bridgeport, CT was providing increased interference to the now mighty WVBF 1530 in Middleboro, Mass. These are tough pickups at midday in June. BTW, WCAP is back on the air today, but as I had it on for a while it would disappear for 10 or 20 seconds. Someone must be checking the DA-D/DA-N switching! -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From raccoonradio@myway.com Sun Feb 20 14:12:36 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sun Feb 20 14:12:48 2005 Subject: Pro Jo: Dial to the Left for WHJJ Message-ID: <20050220191236.7AFB939E7@mprdmxin.myway.com> Providence Journal article on Air America/WHJJ, with references to or quotes from Steve Kass, John DePetro, Arlene Violet, etc. The ratings have suffered so far but maybe they just need more local content? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1347269/posts _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From lawyer@attorneyross.com Sun Feb 20 22:53:35 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Sun Feb 20 22:57:24 2005 Subject: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now In-Reply-To: <20050219195747.B0FD9C6132@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <421914EF.27362.C2D476@localhost> On 19 Feb 2005 at 14:57, Laurence Glavin wrote: > I received an e-mail not cced to the whole board > that there's a problem with a phasor. I guess they need to call in Captain Kirk. ;-> -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From billo@shoreham.net Mon Feb 21 06:15:45 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Mon Feb 21 06:15:56 2005 Subject: WCAP back on same day (was: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now) In-Reply-To: <421914EF.27362.C2D476@localhost> References: <421914EF.27362.C2D476@localhost> Message-ID: <4219C2E1.1070608@shoreham.net> A. Joseph Ross wrote: >I guess they need to call in Captain Kirk. ;-> > Looks like did a good job, off air in AM, back on around 4 p.m. same day. Bill O'Neill From paulcurrier@adelphia.net Mon Feb 21 09:27:33 2005 From: paulcurrier@adelphia.net (Paul B. Currier) Date: Mon Feb 21 09:29:45 2005 Subject: WCAP back on same day (was: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now) References: <421914EF.27362.C2D476@localhost> <4219C2E1.1070608@shoreham.net> Message-ID: <001501c51821$7ba2c760$97033418@DG07P241> ...Phasors must have been set only on stun....... Paul @ Cape ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill O'Neill" To: "A. Joseph Ross" Cc: Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 6:15 AM Subject: WCAP back on same day (was: WCAP-AM Off The Air Right Now) > A. Joseph Ross wrote: > > >I guess they need to call in Captain Kirk. ;-> > > > Looks like did a good job, off air in AM, back on around 4 p.m. same day. > > Bill O'Neill From billo@shoreham.net Mon Feb 21 09:31:08 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Mon Feb 21 09:31:16 2005 Subject: WCAP back on same day In-Reply-To: <001501c51821$7ba2c760$97033418@DG07P241> References: <421914EF.27362.C2D476@localhost> <4219C2E1.1070608@shoreham.net> <001501c51821$7ba2c760$97033418@DG07P241> Message-ID: <4219F0AC.8050202@shoreham.net> Paul B. Currier wrote: >...Phasors must have been set only on stun....... > >Paul @ Cape > > Transmitter tribble. Bill O'Neill From billings@suscom-maine.net Mon Feb 21 14:11:46 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Mon Feb 21 14:11:50 2005 Subject: Changes at WMCM Message-ID: <000301c51849$2fec4620$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Clear Channel's 103.3 WMCM Rockland appears to have dropped ABC's Real Country network for a locally produced format with voice tracked jocks from their other stations in Augusta and midcoast cluster. The format is still a mix of current country and country oldies. The morning show is still live, as it was before. From fox893@yahoo.com Mon Feb 21 16:20:50 2005 From: fox893@yahoo.com (Cooper Fox) Date: Mon Feb 21 16:21:00 2005 Subject: Changes at WMCM In-Reply-To: <000301c51849$2fec4620$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <20050221212051.45583.qmail@web54605.mail.yahoo.com> > Clear Channel's 103.3 WMCM Rockland appears to have > dropped ABC's Real > Country network for a locally produced format with > voice tracked jocks from > their other stations in Augusta and midcoast > cluster. The format is still a > mix of current country and country oldies. The > morning show is still live, > as it was before. DJ McCoy still the morning jock? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com From billings@suscom-maine.net Mon Feb 21 16:35:04 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Mon Feb 21 16:35:08 2005 Subject: Changes at WMCM References: <20050221212051.45583.qmail@web54605.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <001301c5185d$350e6c50$bee705cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooper Fox" To: "Daniel Billings" ; Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Changes at WMCM > DJ McCoy still the morning jock? Yes. From raccoonradio@myway.com Tue Feb 22 00:45:21 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue Feb 22 00:45:35 2005 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <20050222054521.EC80812DCD@mprdmxin.myway.com> Looks like student run radio at UMass Lowell may be on the way out--unless the students fight back. Is this the start of a trend? Details at the station's site: http://www.wuml.org _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From lawyer@attorneyross.com Tue Feb 22 01:12:40 2005 From: lawyer@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Tue Feb 22 01:12:50 2005 Subject: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <20050222054521.EC80812DCD@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <421A8708.2309.1ACA3C1@localhost> On 22 Feb 2005 at 0:45, Bob Nelson wrote: > Looks like student run radio at UMass Lowell may be on the way > out--unless the students fight back. Is this the start of a trend? I don't know, but I can't imagine that happening at UMass Amherst without a big fight from the students. And plenty of alumni as well. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From sid@wrko.com Tue Feb 22 08:35:28 2005 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Tue Feb 22 08:36:06 2005 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: >>> Looks like student run radio at UMass Lowell may be on the way > out--unless the students fight back. Is this the start of a trend? I don't know, but I can't imagine that happening at UMass Amherst without a big fight from the students. And plenty of alumni as well.<< Don't be too sure of that. From my observations of college-age students at Framingham State, where I am every week, they don't use radio like students used to. They get their music in other media, most notably MP3 players like the iPod or portable CD players. They're the first generation of young people who have grown up with CD and DVD burners on their PC's, so they don't need to listen to someone else's mix of music. They make their own. It used to be that students lined up for shifts at WDJM. Not anymore. Radio is irrelevant to most of them...a trend which is going to hit commercial radio in the butt if they don't do something in a hurry to make themselves relevant and listenable again. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WQSX - WRKO - WVEI 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Boston MA 02135-2040 Phone: 617-779-5369 Fax: 617-779-5379 E-Mail: sid@wrko.com From SonnyDaye1@aol.com Tue Feb 22 14:03:14 2005 From: SonnyDaye1@aol.com (SonnyDaye1@aol.com) Date: Tue Feb 22 14:03:28 2005 Subject: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 9, Issue 60 (College Radio Thread) Message-ID: <57A49173.698AA9E1.0CE337EB@aol.com> Sid Schweiger said: <<>> Maybe this is the kick in the butt radio needs to force it to go back to the "good ole days" when disc jockeys were creative, entertaining and had talent (Joey Reynolds, Ron Landry, Sandy Beach, Jess Cain, etc.). -Sonny Daye = = = Original message = = = Subj: Re: (no subject) Date: 2/22/2005 1:12:40 AM Eastern Standard Time From: "A. Joseph Ross" To: raccoonradio@myway.com Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org On 22 Feb 2005 at 0:45, Bob Nelson wrote: > Looks like student run radio at UMass Lowell may be on the way > out--unless the students fight back. Is this the start of a trend? I don't know, but I can't imagine that happening at UMass Amherst without a big fight from the students. And plenty of alumni as well. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@attorneyross.com Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.co Subj: Re: (no subject) Date: 2/22/2005 8:35:28 AM Eastern Standard Time From: "Sid Schweiger" To: >>> Looks like student run radio at UMass Lowell may be on the way > out--unless the students fight back. Is this the start of a trend? I don't know, but I can't imagine that happening at UMass Amherst without a big fight from the students. And plenty of alumni as well.<< Don't be too sure of that. From my observations of college-age students at Framingham State, where I am every week, they don't use radio like students used to. They get their music in other media, most notably MP3 players like the iPod or portable CD players. They're the first generation of young people who have grown up with CD and DVD burners on their PC's, so they don't need to listen to someone else's mix of music. They make their own. It used to be that students lined up for shifts at WDJM. Not anymore. Radio is irrelevant to most of them...a trend which is going to hit commercial radio in the butt if they don't do something in a hurry to make themselves relevant and listenable again. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WQSX - WRKO - WVEI 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Boston MA 02135-2040 Phone: 617-779-5369 Fax: 617-779-5379 E-Mail: sid@wrko.com ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. From SonnyDaye1@aol.com Tue Feb 22 14:03:17 2005 From: SonnyDaye1@aol.com (SonnyDaye1@aol.com) Date: Tue Feb 22 14:03:32 2005 Subject: NECN Message-ID: <2607EB16.781AB97F.0CE337EB@aol.com> Hi, Anyone happen to know the schedule of NECN? I'd love to know which time slots are done live. It would be very helpful to know which weather segments are live and which are re-hashed from an hour or two or three ago. Nothing worse than looking at radar that is three hours old, assuming it is current, and leaving the umbrella home. :-) Thanks for any info. -Sonny Daye . ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. From miscon@miscon.net Tue Feb 22 14:46:07 2005 From: miscon@miscon.net (Mission Control) Date: Tue Feb 22 14:46:13 2005 Subject: WUML (was "no subject") Message-ID: <200502221446.AA227868892@miscon.net> >>> Looks like student run radio at UMass Lowell may be on the way > out--unless the students fight back. Is this the start of a trend? >>> I don't know, but I can't imagine that happening at UMass Amherst without a big fight from the students. And plenty of alumni as well.<< There will be a meeting between students, alumni, community and all others concerned on Wednesday @ 4:30pm in the basement of the Lydon Library. Should be interesting, though the outcome (IMNSHO) has already been determined. Let me put it this way: They'll be broadcasting Lowell Spinners games this summer (hey, isn't WCAP already doing that?!), and Christopher Lydon (from what I've heard) has landed some type of gig there... hmmm. Sid said: >From my observations of college-age students at Framingham State, where I am every week, they don't use radio like students used to. True. It's been that way for a while, actually. He continued: It used to be that students lined up for shifts at WDJM. Not anymore. Radio is irrelevant to most of them... At WUML there are not enough time-slots for all the interested students; and the students that are a part of the station eat, sleep, and breathe radio. Let's call this for what it is... the university sees the station as a tool (finally! one might say), and will use it as it sees fit. While it will no doubt be at the expense of the current students at WUML, it could (rather it SHOULD) be of benefit to future students interested in broadcast media. AN let's face it, the way the university is going about this change is far from optimal, though that's to be expected from the UMass machinery... Unfortunately, the university is about 30 years too late in this implimentation (thankfully for me!), but hey... Mike From elipolo@earthlink.net Tue Feb 22 23:05:26 2005 From: elipolo@earthlink.net (Eli Polonsky) Date: Tue Feb 22 23:04:52 2005 Subject: College radio trends (was: (no subject)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 2/22/05 8:35 AM, "Sid Schweiger" wrote: > Don't be too sure of that. From my observations of college-age > students at Framingham State, where I am every week, they don't use > radio like students used to. They get their music in other media, most > notably MP3 players like the iPod or portable CD players. They're the > first generation of young people who have grown up with CD and DVD > burners on their PC's, so they don't need to listen to someone else's > mix of music. They make their own. > > It used to be that students lined up for shifts at WDJM. Not anymore. > Radio is irrelevant to most of them... You may be correct for a long-term trend, but locally on a case-by-case basis, the opposite has been happening in the short term over the past few years at some local college stations. It depends on how the station is run, and how it's purpose is defined by the host university. Some schools want their stations to be money-making (although technically "non-profit") professional to semi-professional primarily community entities, and others simply want their station to be a campus activity for students, nothing more. MIT's WMBR, whose community involvement was never officially sanctioned by MIT and was a fluke borne of past neglect of the station by MIT, has greatly increased their student involvement over the past few years as relations were re-established between the station and the institute. Some of the students are enjoying plugging their new digital media devices (iPod's, laptops with digital jukebox programs like iTunes, etc...) into the boards, and playing their digital music mixes over the air without actually physically DJ'ing a show in real time. A number of popular community produced shows and/or show hosts left over the past couple of years, some had gotten "the axe" from new student management, and some chose to leave voluntarily when the "writing on the wall" became apparent enough. The stations annual fundraiser was down from the previous year for the first time ever last fall, a dramatic 25 percent drop in pledges. However, it's more important to MIT that it's students run the station however they please, rather than to air community produced programs that bring in more pledge money than the all-volunteer station actually needs. I've heard that similar mirroring situations have been happening in the past few years at Tufts' WMFO and perhaps at Brandeis' WBRS as well. Eli Polonsky From billo@shoreham.net Thu Feb 24 18:31:55 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill.) Date: Thu Feb 24 18:32:07 2005 Subject: WUML Message-ID: <421E63EB.9060803@shoreham.net> Lots to talk about regarding WUML. www.wuml.org if you would like some direct info. Suffice it to say that nothing is etched in stone, just yet, but there has been deep talks with the university involving the Lowell Spinners contract, among other things. Contrary to commercial radio where AM drive is king, it's the early and late evening slots that are the centerpiece of college radio programming. More to come, with a likely announcement regarding the Spinners on Friday. Bill O'Neill -- "I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been." Billie Holiday -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 From markwats@comcast.net Thu Feb 24 19:37:18 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Thu Feb 24 19:37:30 2005 Subject: WAMG & WLLH Sold Message-ID: <004301c51ad2$2af2b290$6f918318@Mark> Saw a report on All Access that Mega is selling WAMG (890 Dedham) and WLLH (1400) Lowell & Lawrence to a company backed by Waller Sutton. Sale price reported as $9 million. No indication on format or other changes. Anyone on the list know anything about Waller Sutton? Mark Watson From ssmyth@psu.edu Fri Feb 25 11:33:25 2005 From: ssmyth@psu.edu (Sean Smyth) Date: Fri Feb 25 11:33:30 2005 Subject: Shea leaving Bruins' gig? Message-ID: <200502251633.LAA11008@webmail2.cac.psu.edu> It's implied here that, if the Bruins ever return to the ice, Dave Shea may not be the road TV voice. He's been tapped as the new voice of the Washington Nationals, nee Montreal Expos. http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050224&content_id=949810&vkey=news_was&fext=.jsp&c_id=was From markwats@comcast.net Fri Feb 25 16:39:40 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Fri Feb 25 16:39:50 2005 Subject: It's Official: Christopher Lydon & The Lowell Spinners On WUML Message-ID: <004b01c51b82$852a0870$6f918318@Mark> Front page story in today's Lowell Sun with the official word: Christopher Lydon will be joining WUML (91.5 Lowell) for a daily 1 hour talk show and the Lowell Spinners baseball games will move from their home for the past 2 seasons WCAP (980 Lowell) to WUML. In the article, the Lowell Sun finally acknowledges that they are no longer a part of the morning "Sunrise" show. That fact was reported in one of the Sun's co-owned weekly papers, but never mentioned in the "mother" paper until today. The addition of Lydon & the Spinners will take more air time away from student and community programming, which has many WUML staffers & U Mass Lowell students less than pleased. Here is a link to the article: http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_2584996 Mark Watson From markwats@comcast.net Fri Feb 25 16:52:46 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Fri Feb 25 16:52:55 2005 Subject: WSMN Back In The News, Not Back On The Air Message-ID: <005101c51b84$594b0950$6f918318@Mark> Friday's Nashua Telegraph reports that the former owners of WSMN (1590 Nashua), WSMN Broadcasting, have filed suit against the development company that purchased the property that housed WSMN's studios and transmitter site claiming that the developers have yet to pay the full amount agreed to in the sale contract and that the developers have not allowed WSMN Broadcasting to remove it's broadcasting equipment from the premises while letting another company use said equipment and collecting rent from the other company. WSMN went dark on Jan. 31st. Here's a link to the article: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050225/NEWS01/50225026/-1/news Mark Watson From tklaundry@juno.com Fri Feb 25 20:15:28 2005 From: tklaundry@juno.com (Dave Faneuf) Date: Fri Feb 25 20:16:44 2005 Subject: It's Official: Christopher Lydon & The Lowell Spinners On WUML Message-ID: <20050225.201528.908.0.tklaundry@juno.com> What the on line version of the story doesn't mention that is in the printed version is that in addition to Lydon, his former producer Mary McGrath is part of the package and that they'll be doing the show from WGBH until 2006. df From raccoonradio@myway.com Sun Feb 27 21:32:33 2005 From: raccoonradio@myway.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sun Feb 27 21:32:54 2005 Subject: Vinikoor weighs COL move for NH station Message-ID: <20050228023233.CCC6D3A0A@mprdmxin.myway.com> Bob Vinikoor is thinking of moving the COL for his unbuilt AM station in Lebanon, NH to N. Charlestown, NH. It would have a signal that would reach from "Burlington to Manchester" and he could change his FM 99.7 signal to classical (??) The AM station (720, right?) would have talk and sports. http://www.vnews.com/02242005/2272237.htm _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com From hykker@grolen.com Sun Feb 27 21:45:54 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Sun Feb 27 21:45:40 2005 Subject: Vinikoor weighs COL move for NH station In-Reply-To: <20050228023233.CCC6D3A0A@mprdmxin.myway.com> References: <20050228023233.CCC6D3A0A@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20050227214257.01b96300@pop3.grolen.com> Bob Nelson wrote: >Bob Vinikoor is thinking of moving the COL for his unbuilt AM station in >Lebanon, NH to N. Charlestown, NH. It would have a signal that would reach >from "Burlington to Manchester" and he could change his FM 99.7 signal to >classical (??) The AM station (720, right?) would have talk and sports. What is the proposed pattern for this station? I'd guess a NW-SE figure 8 or hotdog pattern? From scott@fybush.com Sun Feb 27 23:17:31 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Sun Feb 27 23:17:44 2005 Subject: Vinikoor weighs COL move for NH station In-Reply-To: <20050228023233.CCC6D3A0A@mprdmxin.myway.com> References: <20050228023233.CCC6D3A0A@mprdmxin.myway.com> Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050227231519.04007d08@gwind.pair.com> At 09:32 PM 2/27/2005, you wrote: >Bob Vinikoor is thinking of moving the COL for his unbuilt AM station in >Lebanon, NH to N. Charlestown, NH. It would have a signal that would reach >from "Burlington to Manchester" and he could change his FM 99.7 signal to >classical (??) The AM station (720, right?) would have talk and sports. > >http://www.vnews.com/02242005/2272237.htm > >_______________________________________________ >No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. >Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com This is not quite accurate. The COL would change to Claremont under this plan, though the towers would be in N. Charlestown. The app was filed something like a year ago, during the AM major change window. And broadcasting from a solid piece of granite, there's no way a 50 kW signal gets from "Burlington to Manchester." Maybe "Randolph to New London," on a good day... s