From kc1ih@mac.com Tue Nov 1 11:23:44 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:23:44 -0500 Subject: WNEF Changes This Week Message-ID: I heard on WUMB this morning an announcement that their Newburyport transmitter (WNEF, 91.7) will have intermittent service this week. They said that it will be off completely part of this afternoon, and will be at reduced power for a few days after that. But they said that this will result in an improved coverage area after this work is completed. I presume this means the new antenna is being installed, which should result in a better signal, especially to the west. -- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From raccoonradio@gmail.com Wed Nov 2 14:34:32 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:34:32 -0500 Subject: Molori, Scott's Shots on Theo-gate, Eddie A's last show Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511021134r2efbb06bh6c68735910827f8@mail.gmail.com> A special edition of Molori's Media Blitz on the Theo situation and Eddie Andleman's last show, a soldiers' home benefit in Chelsea (tomorrow 2-4 pm on Air America 1510--I mean, Classic Country 1510--I mean La Mega 1510--I mean Dollar-A-Holler-Preachers 1510--though one Sporting News Radio "source" told Molori that the SNR network was concentrating on itself and its L.A. station now and might be able to re-energize WWZN later...) http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/blitz/ And some Scott's Shots commentary on Theo's press conf. today. Surely all this will be forgotten in a week or two when Theo is introduced by Frank ("I'm Not The Author Of Angela's Ashes") McCourt as the new Dodgers GM (just kidding...I think) http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/shots/ Oh, and I guess that Globe ban on its writers appearing on WEEI has ended with Dan Shaughnessy showing up on Dennis and Callahan? From temporalorbit@hotmail.com Wed Nov 2 16:11:02 2005 From: temporalorbit@hotmail.com (Gregory Costa) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:11:02 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! Message-ID: Well, I'm not involved in the broadcast industry in any way, however......... I grew up in Massachusetts during the 70's and 80's and loved watching such shows as WLVI's "Creature Double Feature", WSBK's "Movie Loft", etc. Well, I moved to North Carolina in 1994 and have been feeling somewhat nostalgic, of late. So, I was wondering if anyone has archived any video footage or audio recordings of the theme music and intros to the following programs? "Creature Double Feature" "WSBK - Matinee Movie" "WSBK - Movie Loft" I believe WSBK also had a late-nite mystery or chiller movie of some sort, as well. This is purely for my own collection and will not be reproduced in any manner. - Greg _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From radiotony@comcast.net Wed Nov 2 21:06:24 2005 From: radiotony@comcast.net (radiotony) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:06:24 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200511030207.jA327EAr092013@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Thanks for bringing back some memories! I was talking to a woman I met recently about the late Judy Jarvis, who used to be the GM at 56 and also a syndicated talker. When they took Creature Double Feature off the air, a bunch of us in Concord mailed in letters to Jarvis to complain. At the time, she co-hosted "Ask the Manager" or "Meet the Manager" or something, I don't remember. However, I don't remember them ever reading our letters. Best, Anthony Schinella Program Director/News/A&E WKXL 1450 AM/Concord, NH http://www.wkxl1450.com http://politizine.blogspot.com WKXL: Winner of six 2005 Golden Mike Awards - more than any other radio station in New Hampshire! -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Costa Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:11 PM To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! Well, I'm not involved in the broadcast industry in any way, however......... I grew up in Massachusetts during the 70's and 80's and loved watching such shows as WLVI's "Creature Double Feature", WSBK's "Movie Loft", etc. Well, I moved to North Carolina in 1994 and have been feeling somewhat nostalgic, of late. So, I was wondering if anyone has archived any video footage or audio recordings of the theme music and intros to the following programs? "Creature Double Feature" "WSBK - Matinee Movie" "WSBK - Movie Loft" I believe WSBK also had a late-nite mystery or chiller movie of some sort, as well. This is purely for my own collection and will not be reproduced in any manner. - Greg _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From raccoonradio@gmail.com Thu Nov 3 03:21:13 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:21:13 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: <200511030207.jA327EAr092013@rolinin.bostonradio.org> References: <200511030207.jA327EAr092013@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511030021i3a4f435cv72f86f55ea07b7a3@mail.gmail.com> On 11/2/05, radiotony wrote: At the time, she co-hosted "Ask the Manager" or "Meet > the Manager" or something "Ask the Manager" was Ch 38 while "Meet the Manager" was on 56. And right now there's a similar show on Ch. 68, "Ask Bob The Manager". Of course there was nothing like the good old days of ATM (no, I don't mean a banking machine) w/ Dana Hersey, Dan Berkery, Joe Dimino, et al ...a real cult show. http://www.flyingdreams.org/tv/gallery/atm.htm From lspin@comcast.net Thu Nov 3 19:00:55 2005 From: lspin@comcast.net (Lou) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:00:55 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: <1fbbbced0511030021i3a4f435cv72f86f55ea07b7a3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200511040001.jA401JEX001439@rolinin.bostonradio.org> TV38's "Ask The Manager" was a really great show. It was interesting to see the amount of mail they received from Canada, where TV38 was carried as a cable 'superstation.' There was another, locally produced, very short lived show from the TV38 golden age. It was named "We Don't Knock." Dana Hersey would take a camera crew and invade various places in the Boston area. One particular show I remember was the one where they raided the different studios of Boston Radio morning teams. Loren and Wally seem to come to mind here. I actually think I have that show lurking around the apartment on a VHS tape. -Lou -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Bob Nelson Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:21 AM To: radiotony; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org; Bob Nelson Subject: Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! On 11/2/05, radiotony wrote: At the time, she co-hosted "Ask the Manager" or "Meet > the Manager" or something "Ask the Manager" was Ch 38 while "Meet the Manager" was on 56. And right now there's a similar show on Ch. 68, "Ask Bob The Manager". Of course there was nothing like the good old days of ATM (no, I don't mean a banking machine) w/ Dana Hersey, Dan Berkery, Joe Dimino, et al ...a real cult show. http://www.flyingdreams.org/tv/gallery/atm.htm From rogerkola@aol.com Thu Nov 3 19:55:59 2005 From: rogerkola@aol.com (Roger Kolakowski) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:55:59 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! References: <200511040001.jA401JEX001439@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <000801c5e0da$893a0320$0200a8c0@Tanguray> Ask the Manager had a great show...it was either Christmas Eve or New Years Eve (after the "Stooges"?) with a laid back, how things went this year theme....as I remember ...Dana Hersey after a trip to the Stockyard in a Santa Suit...it is all very fuzzy to me... Roger WA1KAT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lou" To: "'Bob Nelson'" ; "'radiotony'" ; Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:00 PM Subject: RE: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! > TV38's "Ask The Manager" was a really great show. It was interesting to see > the amount of mail they received from Canada, where TV38 was carried as a > cable 'superstation.' > > There was another, locally produced, very short lived show from the TV38 > golden age. It was named "We Don't Knock." Dana Hersey would take a camera > crew and invade various places in the Boston area. One particular show I > remember was the one where they raided the different studios of Boston Radio > morning teams. Loren and Wally seem to come to mind here. I actually think > I have that show lurking around the apartment on a VHS tape. > > -Lou > > -----Original Message----- > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of > Bob Nelson > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:21 AM > To: radiotony; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org; Bob Nelson > Subject: Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! > > On 11/2/05, radiotony wrote: > At the time, she co-hosted "Ask the Manager" or "Meet > > the Manager" or something > > "Ask the Manager" was Ch 38 while "Meet the Manager" was on 56. And > right now there's a similar show on Ch. 68, "Ask Bob The Manager". Of > course there was nothing like the good old days of ATM (no, I don't > mean a banking machine) w/ Dana Hersey, Dan Berkery, Joe Dimino, et al > ...a real cult show. > > http://www.flyingdreams.org/tv/gallery/atm.htm > > > > From n1wbd@usadatanet.net Fri Nov 4 00:00:39 2005 From: n1wbd@usadatanet.net (Bob Hale) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:00:39 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! References: <200511040001.jA401JEX001439@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <003e01c5e0fc$b41ac1c0$a1e64345@boby4je8282cf5> How many folks remember Willie Whistle and Major Mudd? I have another question... Does anyone have the story on what killed over the air paytv stations in the 80's like WQTV 68 and their Starcase service or WSMW-TV 27 Preview service. Was it pirates or cable tv or both? Thanks Bob Hale N1WBD Grafton,NH From dlh@donnahalper.com Fri Nov 4 00:48:20 2005 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:48:20 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: <003e01c5e0fc$b41ac1c0$a1e64345@boby4je8282cf5> References: <200511040001.jA401JEX001439@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20051104004750.02d9a820@pop.registeredsite.com> At 12:00 AM 11/4/2005 -0500, Bob Hale wrote: >How many folks remember Willie Whistle and Major Mudd? I have a scanned photo of the late great Major Mudd and if you want it, contact me off-list. From joe@attorneyross.com Fri Nov 4 01:06:57 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 01:06:57 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: <003e01c5e0fc$b41ac1c0$a1e64345@boby4je8282cf5> Message-ID: <436AB431.13771.D0B1CE@localhost> On 4 Nov 2005 at 0:00, Bob Hale wrote: > How many folks remember Willie Whistle and Major Mudd? Hey, I remember them. I also remember some character who hosted movies called "Feep," though I called him "Beechballhead." -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From billo@shoreham.net Fri Nov 4 07:42:34 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:42:34 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: <003e01c5e0fc$b41ac1c0$a1e64345@boby4je8282cf5> References: <200511040001.jA401JEX001439@rolinin.bostonradio.org> <003e01c5e0fc$b41ac1c0$a1e64345@boby4je8282cf5> Message-ID: <436B573A.7080607@shoreham.net> Bob Hale wrote: > How many folks remember Willie Whistle and Major Mudd? Major Mudd and that high-tech card board air-powered door to the set? How can I forget. Even as a kid, I wondered why they didn't grease that track a little bit. "I'll be blasting you" was considered a good thing. How times have changed. Bill O'Neill From revdoug1@verizon.net Fri Nov 4 08:24:01 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:24:01 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! References: <200511040001.jA401JEX001439@rolinin.bostonradio.org> <003e01c5e0fc$b41ac1c0$a1e64345@boby4je8282cf5> <436B573A.7080607@shoreham.net> Message-ID: <006c01c5e143$058ca910$6501a8c0@pastor2> I never did find out who Willie Whistle really was after the show was discontinued. I always thought that was a totally unique act. I've never known of anyone like him anywhere else. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill O'Neill" To: "Bob Hale" Cc: Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! > Bob Hale wrote: > > > How many folks remember Willie Whistle and Major Mudd? > > Major Mudd and that high-tech card board air-powered door to the set? > How can I forget. Even as a kid, I wondered why they didn't grease that > track a little bit. "I'll be blasting you" was considered a good thing. > How times have changed. > > Bill O'Neill > From radiojunkie3@yahoo.com Fri Nov 4 10:26:54 2005 From: radiojunkie3@yahoo.com (Peter Q. George) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 07:26:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Who was Willie Whistle? (was Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!!) In-Reply-To: <006c01c5e143$058ca910$6501a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <20051104152654.15139.qmail@web50812.mail.yahoo.com> I have it on good authority that Willie Whistle was Dick Beach, a longtime employee of WSBK-TV (now retired). --- Doug Drown wrote: > I never did find out who Willie Whistle really was > after the show was > discontinued. I always thought that was a totally > unique act. I've never > known of anyone like him anywhere else. > > Doug Peter Q. George (K1XRB) Whitman, Massachusetts "Scanning the bands since 1967" radiojunkie1@yahoo.com radiojunkie3@yahoo.com *********************************************************** __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From brian_vita@cssinc.com Fri Nov 4 10:49:44 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:49:44 -0500 Subject: Who was Willie Whistle? (was Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!!) In-Reply-To: <20051104152654.15139.qmail@web50812.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <001c01c5e157$616bdb70$6800a8c0@Andrastea> >I have it on good authority that Willie Whistle was >Dick Beach, a longtime employee of WSBK-TV (now >retired). And all these years I thought it was Jimmy Carter... Brian From dlh@donnahalper.com Fri Nov 4 11:49:22 2005 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:49:22 -0500 Subject: Who was Willie Whistle? (was Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!!) In-Reply-To: <20051104152654.15139.qmail@web50812.mail.yahoo.com> References: <006c01c5e143$058ca910$6501a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20051104114816.02dee068@pop.registeredsite.com> Peter Q. George wrote: >I have it on good authority that Willie Whistle was >Dick Beach, a longtime employee of WSBK-TV (now >retired). And Peter gets a cookie!!! From the old "Ask the Globe" column: Q. Who used to play the clown Willie Whistle on Channel 38? D.S., Littleton A. That was the station's program director Dick Beach, who played Willie for nearly two decades before retiring and moving West in the mid-1980s. Throughout the period Beach kept Willie's true identity a secret. He had previously, in 1962, played a clown named Salty at a TV station in Toledo, Ohio. In addition to his managerial duties, and playing Willie in a number of charitable appearances, Beach also hosted a mornin g cartoon show on Ch. 38 five days a week. From Joe@attorneyross.com Fri Nov 4 13:13:46 2005 From: Joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:13:46 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! In-Reply-To: <006c01c5e143$058ca910$6501a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <436B5E8A.11752.45ABCF@localhost> On 4 Nov 2005 Doug Drown wrote: > I never did find out who Willie Whistle really was after the show was > discontinued. I always thought that was a totally unique act. I've > never known of anyone like him anywhere else. I remember once, sometime in the early 70s, I was walking down Tremont Street along the Common, and I suddenly heard Willie Whistle, saying, "Hi, how're you doin'?" I did a double-take and saw him walking along, in costume, with some other people, and he seemed to enjoy my reaction. Whenever I saw him on TV, I assumed the "voice" was dubbed somehow with a special effect, but apparently he was able to do that by himself. I've always wondered how. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax: 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From temporalorbit@hotmail.com Fri Nov 4 16:34:09 2005 From: temporalorbit@hotmail.com (Gregory Costa) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:34:09 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! Message-ID: I ran across an old post from March of 1998 concerning TV38 and the way most television stations discard precious broadcast history... I'll put a link to the archived page, and a a small blurb, so you know which post it is that I'm referencing, because I'm not sure if it's taboo to cut and paste an entire post without that person's permission. (I'm still new at this) Subject: Re: WBZ archives & WAPE "In TV as well, both local stations and networks are notorious for destroying history as soon as possible...." http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:v8BVJVXpzaEJ:www.bostonradio.org/boston-radio-interest/v01.n364 Check it out!! _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ From revdoug1@verizon.net Fri Nov 4 22:29:39 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:29:39 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! References: <436B5E8A.11752.45ABCF@localhost> Message-ID: <00f601c5e1b9$282415a0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Re Willie's "voice": I always assumed he did it via some sort of device he had in his mouth. If he didn't, then I surely don't have a clue. Joe, you may inadvertently have introduced us to the greatest mystery in all of New England broadcasting. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Joseph Ross" To: ; "Bob Hale" ; "Doug Drown" Cc: Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:13 PM Subject: Re: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! > On 4 Nov 2005 Doug Drown wrote: > > > I never did find out who Willie Whistle really was after the show was > > discontinued. I always thought that was a totally unique act. I've > > never known of anyone like him anywhere else. > > I remember once, sometime in the early 70s, I was walking down Tremont Street along the > Common, and I suddenly heard Willie Whistle, saying, "Hi, how're you doin'?" I did a > double-take and saw him walking along, in costume, with some other people, and he > seemed to enjoy my reaction. > > Whenever I saw him on TV, I assumed the "voice" was dubbed somehow with a special > effect, but apparently he was able to do that by himself. I've always wondered how. > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax: 617.742.7581 > Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com > > > From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Nov 5 14:43:14 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:43:14 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina Message-ID: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> According to *inerrant Boston Phoenix Media guru Mark Jurkowitz, former "The Connection" host Dick Gordon will resurface on University of North Carolina pubcaster WUNC-FM early next year. He will host a one-hour long program that WUNC hopes to syndicate to other noncomm stations. It's supposed to air in the early afternoon, probably before NPR's "Talk of the Nation". Any chance WGBH-FM might be interested, if only to stick it to WBUR? *as we all know, AM stations WXKS, Everett and WKOX, Framingham are daytime-only outlets. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Sat Nov 5 14:55:15 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:55:15 -0500 Subject: Last Night WCEC-AM Was On At Full Power Message-ID: <20051105195515.9183186B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> During the Friday-Saturday overnight period (11/4-11/5), WCEC-AM 1110 in Salem, NH was broadcasting with full power each of the times I checked (they were airing CNN Radio's Spanish language newscasts right off the bird). WCEC has been on the air pre-sunrise while EDST was in effect for a while, which is why I've been occasionally checking the 1110 dial spot. Previously, when they were on pre-sunrise, and after sunset, it appeared that they powered down somewhat (either with their daytime DA, or perhaps non-directionally, I really don't know; the FCC authorization only lists sunrise-to-sunset power of 5KW-DA, nothing for the time between sunset in NH and at WBT in Charlotte, NC). But last night, they had enough signal strength about 3 miles to the southeast of their array to overwhelm WBT's signal. Denizens of the live-free-or-die state may want to check out to see if WCEC continues this practice. It should be quite audible from Salem to Derry. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From kc1ih@mac.com Sat Nov 5 15:37:27 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:37:27 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina In-Reply-To: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> At 02:43 PM 11/5/2005, Laurence Glavin wrote: >According to *inerrant Boston Phoenix Media guru Mark Jurkowitz, >former "The Connection" host Dick Gordon will resurface on >University of North Carolina pubcaster WUNC-FM early next year. >He will host a one-hour long program that WUNC hopes to syndicate >to other noncomm stations. It's supposed to air in the early afternoon, >probably before NPR's "Talk of the Nation". Any chance WGBH-FM >might be interested, if only to stick it to WBUR? And stick it to the Jazz listeners on WGBH? They'de probably just take away another hour of Jazz, given their history. > *as we all know, AM stations WXKS, Everett and WKOX, Framingham >are daytime-only outlets. Or as most of us know, WXKS and WKOX are both on at night, albeit at greatly reduced power from their daytime levels. Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From dan.strassberg@att.net Sat Nov 5 16:28:39 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:28:39 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> Message-ID: <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> I've read that, nationwide (not necessarily just in Boston, in fact, not necessarily in Boston at all), jazz listeners are the most niggardly with their financial support of public radio. Even classical-music listeners are more generous and news-talk listeners are supposed to be the most generous of all groups that support public radio. So if public-radio stations reduce the amount of time during which they air jazz, they are--allegedly, at least--reacting to a failure of jazz listeners to support their preferred kind of programming. Satellite radio anyone? Podcasts, anyone? Acoustic music, such as WUMB et al carries by day, is on so few stations that there probably are no valid statistics on the generosity (or lack thereof) of acoustic-music listeners. Still, it would be interesting to know how the acoustic-music audience compares in giving to the jazz audience. Although, one might think that the acoustic audience skews younger (and is hence less affluent) than the jazz audience, this may, in fact, not be true. Heck, it might be interesting to find out how the giving of the three or four other opera devotees (besides Mr Glavin) in Greater Boston compares with the giving by devotees of orchestral music. My guess is that the opera-listener numbers are so minuscule that each person would have to give many times his/her annual income for public-radio stations to get support for opera equal in dollars to the (none-too-great) support they receive for orchestral classical music. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Weil" To: Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina > And stick it to the Jazz listeners on WGBH? They'de probably just > take away another hour of Jazz, given their history. > > Larry Weil > Lake Wobegone, NH > From kc1ih@mac.com Sat Nov 5 16:48:52 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:48:52 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina In-Reply-To: <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> At 04:28 PM 11/5/2005, Dan Strassberg wrote: >Acoustic music, such as WUMB et al carries by day, is on so few stations >that there probably are no valid statistics on the generosity (or lack >thereof) of acoustic-music listeners. Still, it would be interesting to know >how the acoustic-music audience compares in giving to the jazz audience. >Although, one might think that the acoustic audience skews younger (and is >hence less affluent) than the jazz audience, this may, in fact, not be true. Acoustic music can have more than one definition. The music that WERS carries in the morning is considered acoustic, but it is much different than what is carried on WUMB, which might be considered to cater more to "old folkies". I'm sure that in the morning the audience for WERS skews much younger than that for WUMB. There is a parallel for this in the satellite world. XM has two channels chat can be considered to be acoustic music. "The Village" carries older folk music while "The Loft" plays newer folk and acoustic rock. Boos to Sirius which recently canceled it's "Folktown" channel in favor of a new channel called "Coffee House", which is supposedly acoustic rock but in reality is hard to figure out, with lots of Jazz and other stuff mixed in. I think they are hoping this will appeal to some of the new subscribers they are getting with the onset of Howard Stern. Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Nov 5 20:56:45 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:56:45 -0500 Subject: WLOB-FM moving tower? Message-ID: <000f01c5e275$57771480$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> I have been told that WLOB-FM is moving its tower from Rumford to Streaked Moutain in Buckfield or Paris. This will put it much closer to Lewiston and Portland? Can anyone confirm that or provide details from the FCC? -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine From revdoug1@verizon.net Sat Nov 5 22:03:35 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:03:35 -0500 Subject: WLOB-FM moving tower? References: <000f01c5e275$57771480$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <022f01c5e27e$ae7643b0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Distressing news if it's true, as it may deprive central Maine of its only talk station. Moreover, it's difficult to see the advantage. Assuming the AM and the FM will continue to simulcast, the AM signal reaches a pretty fair distance north of Portland. The FM augments it nicely, well up into the Skowhegan area and even over toward Bangor. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 8:56 PM Subject: WLOB-FM moving tower? > I have been told that WLOB-FM is moving its tower from Rumford to Streaked > Moutain in Buckfield or Paris. This will put it much closer to Lewiston and > Portland? Can anyone confirm that or provide details from the FCC? > > -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine > > > > From n1qgs@yahoo.com Sat Nov 5 23:23:10 2005 From: n1qgs@yahoo.com (John Bolduc) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:23:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: What do you do when idiots are standing just behind reporter in live news shot? Message-ID: <20051106042310.23295.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Channel 9 Manchester NH this evening had a live news shot from downtown Manchester during the 11PM news. During the live shot two roughly 20 year old young ladies were starting to ham in up just behind the female reporter. This went on for probably 20 seconds and went down hill from the start. It concluded with one of the young lady's, in clear view of the camera, giving herself, how do I word this...., a passionate bosom massage. What do you do in a case like that. First thing that came to mind to me is for the cameraman to do an extreme close-up on the reporter. The expression on the female anchors face was somewhat stunned. John B Derry NH From dan.strassberg@att.net Sun Nov 6 13:41:03 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 13:41:03 -0500 Subject: Fw: Has Broadcast News really changed this much? (thanks, Harry Weinstein) Message-ID: <000d01c5e301$acd156c0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Thanks to Len Zola and his Media Gang updates, which are available only by e-mail (hence no link avaialble in lieu of the post). AFAIK, this is NOT copyrighted material; it certainly was not marked as such. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: Has Broadcast News really changed this much? (thanks, Harry Weinstein) > In an effort to explain the changing world of Television News I have listed > the new definitions of some old TV News cliches: > > > "WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO BRING YOU A SPECIAL REPORT": > > OLD: The president has been shot. > > NEW: A cute girl is missing. > > "BREAKING NEWS": > > OLD: The president will resign. > > NEW: There's a car on the side of the road with a flat. > > "NEWS ALERT": > > OLD: Man will land on the moon within the hour. > > NEW: Man landed on Pam Anderson over the weekend. > > "EXCLUSIVE" > > OLD: We are the only people he would do an interview with. > > NEW: We are the only people he would do an interview with > from 7:43 am - 7:48 am. > > "LIVE!" > > OLD: Live! > > NEW: Live (on tape or possibly an :01 generic for everyone)! > > "STORM CENTRAL IS IN FULL GEAR!" > > OLD: A major, possibly record-breaking storm is headed our way and there is > important information you need to know for your safety. > > NEW: It's looking sorta cloudy, isn't it? Why not buy a loaf of bread and a > gallon of milk from one of our grocery store sponsors? > > "WE HAVE A CREW ON THE WAY." > > OLD: We have a crew on the way. > > NEW: We just saw the story on the other channel and we're calling in our > truck guy from his day off. > > "WE HAVE NEW DETAILS..." > > OLD: We have found out additional facts that are new and pertinent to your > understanding of this complex story. > > NEW: We got nothin', but we're rewriting the copy in the present tense. > > "OUR TEAM COVERAGE" > > OLD: Four reporters on a big story that requires several locations to tell > properly. > > NEW: Eighteen reporters on a non-story, possibly standing within inches of > each other. > > "WE ARE SENDING OUT OUR CHOPPER." > > OLD: Because there's a riot in the streets, and aerials will provide > perspective as to its intensity, range, and danger. > > NEW: Because the promos say we will. > > "WE ARE THE NUMBER ONE NEWS STATION IN TOWN!" > > OLD: We won in the ratings. > > NEW: We won in the ratings among 34-59 year old middle-income white females > earning $34,500 - $52,875 with two or fewer kids who are expected to purchase > shoes in the next quarter. > > "GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION." > > OLD: Go to our website for the exact same information. > > NEW: Go to our website for more information buried among car ads, Google > ads, our marketing message, our "community" work, team bios, show schedules and > how to buy advertising on our channel. > > "WE ARE MAKING CALLS RIGHT NOW TO FIND OUT MORE." > > OLD: We are making calls to our contacts who can give us the inside scoop. > > NEW: We are waiting for the AP update thingy to go "ping"! > > "THIS STORY WILL HAVE MAJOR IMPACT HERE AT HOME." > > OLD: Ways the national or international story directly impacts our community. > > NEW: Someone in our 250 square mile area has a cousin who knows someone > there. > > "THERE HAS BEEN A MAJOR OUTBREAK OF A DEADLY VIRUS." > > OLD: 35,000 people are infected and it is spreading out of control. > > NEW: It showed up in a dead bird. > > "THIS JUST IN..." > > OLD: We just found this out and we want you to know about it. > > NEW: We finally got the prompter to work. > > "JEFF SMITH IS ON ASSIGNMENT." > > OLD: Jeff Smith is doing a weeklong investigation into City Hall corruption. > > NEW: Jeff Smith is holding out for more money. > > "OUR REPORTER JOINS US BY VIDEOPHONE." > > OLD: Because we wanted to get this to you quickly, and it's the best we can > do right now. > > NEW: Because it's so much cheaper than a live truck, a truck op, a cameraman > and satellite time. > > > "VISIT OUR BLOG." > > OLD: Our what? > > NEW: Our GM saw someone else doing it, so here it is. > > > "ARE YOUR CHILDREN IN DANGER? WATCH US TONIGHT TO FIND OUT." > > OLD: Yes, there is contaminated water at our playground that is making > children ill. > > NEW: No they aren't. Good tease writing, though. > From pete@partnercomm.com Mon Nov 7 10:57:29 2005 From: pete@partnercomm.com (Peter Murray) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:57:29 -0500 Subject: WLOB-FM moving tower? In-Reply-To: <022f01c5e27e$ae7643b0$6501a8c0@pastor2> References: <000f01c5e275$57771480$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <022f01c5e27e$ae7643b0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <436F7969.6000206@partnercomm.com> Not making any judgments here, but WLOB-FM has had a construction permit on the books since 7-June-2005 for a downgrade to directional C1, at a site just east of Norway, ME. http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=WLOB&service=FM -Peter -- Peter Murray (N3IXY) Vienna, VA From temporalorbit@hotmail.com Sat Nov 5 15:32:16 2005 From: temporalorbit@hotmail.com (Gregory Costa) Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:32:16 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! (Creature Double Feature) Message-ID: Found 2 tribute sites to the old "Creature Double Feature" show that aired on WLVI!! The first one has a low bandwidth and so is not always available. The second one has 2 audio files from the old show in mp3 format, available for download!! Boy, these brought back memories!! www.geocities.com/dzilla1964 www.shado-x.com/cdf.html ENJOY!! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ From wollman@csail.mit.edu Mon Nov 7 11:40:54 2005 From: wollman@csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:40:54 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> Message-ID: <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> < said: > Acoustic music can have more than one definition. The music that > WERS carries in the morning is considered acoustic, but it is much > different than what is carried on WUMB, which might be considered to > cater more to "old folkies". I'm sure that in the morning the > audience for WERS skews much younger than that for WUMB. ...and both of those are different from what's heard on WNCW or on WXPN's "World Cafe" (syndicated by PRI). "A Prairie Home Companion" has all acoustic music, but it's mostly not "acoustic music", and PHC listeners probably wouldn't be too happy to hear the "live, acoustic" version of Dishwalla's "Counting Blue Cars" or BHTM's "Please Don't Tell Her", which get decent airplay on adult-alternative stations like WXRV. They all have some overlap, though, in artists if not always in songs. Then there's WPAQ, which I think is still the nation's only commercial all-bluegrass station. -GAWollman From raccoonradio@gmail.com Mon Nov 7 12:02:23 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:02:23 -0500 Subject: Ahhhh!! Boston TV Memories!! (Creature Double Feature) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511070902h15695c1al3604f2a2e5d17748@mail.gmail.com> Thanks for the tip--certain pages of the first one didn't show up, though, because it's a _basic_ Geocities site (parts or all of it shut down when bandwith is exceeded, but messageboard worked fine). I saw CDF when it aired back then and enjoyed stuff like the Incredible Shrinking Man. Thanks! From wollman@csail.mit.edu Mon Nov 7 12:05:22 2005 From: wollman@csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:05:22 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina In-Reply-To: <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <17263.35154.156379.614484@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> < said: > Acoustic music, such as WUMB et al carries by day, is on so few stations > that there probably are no valid statistics on the generosity (or lack > thereof) of acoustic-music listeners. Still, it would be interesting to know > how the acoustic-music audience compares in giving to the jazz > audience. Statistics, perhaps not, although I'm certain WGBH knows how much money they get per hour of folk versus news, classical, jazz, and blues. But to give one point for comparison: Penn's WXPN has an annual budget of $5-6 million, and about half of that comes from listeners. I was hoping to be able to find comparable numbers for WRTI, to do an apples-to-apples comparison (not possible in our market because of the great disparity of signals), but I couldn't find anything. (Federal law requires that stations receiving CPB funding make financial reports available to the public, but no more so than the FCC requires Public Files to be, so most stations just stick their financial reports in the public file.) -GAWollman From wollman@csail.mit.edu Mon Nov 7 12:07:54 2005 From: wollman@csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:07:54 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina In-Reply-To: <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <17263.35306.461656.743632@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> < WXPN's "World Cafe" (syndicated by PRI) Actually, I just found out that they switched to NPR this summer. -GAWollman From dan.strassberg@att.net Mon Nov 7 12:19:31 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:19:31 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com><6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com><000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg><6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Is WPAQ still on AM (740, IIRC) in Mt Airy NC? Back in the late 40s, when I spent a couple of weeks on vacation in western NC (nearest market was Knoxville TN), I could pick up maybe half a dozen stations that broadcast no kind of music other than Bluegrass. One that I remember was WGAP Marysville-Alcoa TN (1450?). In those days, I don't think that anyone had yet named the genre Bluegrass. Having been raised in New York City, that kind of music sure sounded odd to me and I can't say that I much liked it. I guess it's an acquired taste. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Wollman" To: "Larry Weil" Cc: Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina > Then there's WPAQ, which I think is still the nation's only > commercial all-bluegrass station. > > -GAWollman > From scott@fybush.com Mon Nov 7 12:25:25 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:25:25 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina In-Reply-To: <17263.35154.156379.614484@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20051107122029.030605f8@gwind.pair.com> >But to give one point for comparison: Penn's WXPN has an annual budget >of $5-6 million, and about half of that comes from listeners. I was >hoping to be able to find comparable numbers for WRTI, to do an >apples-to-apples comparison (not possible in our market because of the >great disparity of signals), but I couldn't find anything. I think that might be more of an apples-to-tangelos comparison, or somesuch, since WRTI is an unusual hybrid of classical and jazz, 12 hours of one and 12 of the other. Absent some sort of an internal breakdown of which timeslots draw the greater number of membership pledges, I'm not sure how you'd attribute the numbers there. (WRTI ceased being a straight jazz outlet when WFLN went away in 1995...) I suspect the best comparison might be in Los Angeles, where KKJZ's jazz, KCRW's AAA/news mix, KUSC's classical and KPCC's news/talk all compete for member support on signals that are not entirely comparable, but at least not quite as wildly disparate as Boston. On a smaller scale, Asheville (AAA WNCW vs. classical/news WCQS) might also be instructive on that point. s From wollman@csail.mit.edu Mon Nov 7 12:35:38 2005 From: wollman@csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:35:38 -0500 Subject: Bluegrass on the radio In-Reply-To: <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <17263.36970.525518.634019@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> < said: > Is WPAQ still on AM (740, IIRC) in Mt Airy NC? You betcha. (Oops. I don't think they're into bluegrass all that much in Minnesota. What's the appropriate Southernism?) Scott and I were there a few years ago and forwent the opportunity to stop by and visit. While we were parked next to the studios, someone else drove up and it turned out to be one of the local old-timers showing up to play some live music on air. -GAWollman From scott@fybush.com Mon Nov 7 12:48:01 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:48:01 -0500 Subject: Bluegrass on the radio In-Reply-To: <17263.36970.525518.634019@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> References: <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20051107124634.0314d128@gwind.pair.com> At 12:35 PM 11/7/2005 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >< said: > > > Is WPAQ still on AM (740, IIRC) in Mt Airy NC? > >You betcha. (Oops. I don't think they're into bluegrass all that >much in Minnesota. What's the appropriate Southernism?) > >Scott and I were there a few years ago and forwent the opportunity to >stop by and visit. That's right up there at the very top of my "missed radio opportunities" regret list - that, and passing up the chance to ride the elevator up one of the Philly TV towers. Apparently, the inside of the WPAQ building is something of a radio museum, with much of the original equipment from the station's 1948 sign-on still present and operating. (Shades of WCAP :-) s From revdoug1@verizon.net Mon Nov 7 13:47:06 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:47:06 -0500 Subject: Bluegrass on the radio References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <17263.36970.525518.634019@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <049101c5e3cb$a7750ee0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Bluegrass is a uniquely Southern term, but Cape Breton fiddle music comes close to it as a musical genre, and the last time I was there (late '90s) it was ubiquitous on the radio. Nova Scotia has a rich culture of country music with a Gaelic flair. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Wollman" To: "Dan Strassberg" Cc: Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: Bluegrass on the radio > < said: > > > Is WPAQ still on AM (740, IIRC) in Mt Airy NC? > > You betcha. (Oops. I don't think they're into bluegrass all that > much in Minnesota. What's the appropriate Southernism?) > > Scott and I were there a few years ago and forwent the opportunity to > stop by and visit. While we were parked next to the studios, someone > else drove up and it turned out to be one of the local old-timers > showing up to play some live music on air. > > -GAWollman > > From billo@shoreham.net Mon Nov 7 14:41:39 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:41:39 -0500 Subject: Bluegrass on the radio In-Reply-To: <049101c5e3cb$a7750ee0$6501a8c0@pastor2> References: <20051105194314.61A8386B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105153354.0221e128@mail.mac.com> <000e01c5e24f$f19b2ea0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <6.2.3.4.2.20051105163846.021fb330@mail.mac.com> <17263.33686.779976.734261@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <001d01c5e3bf$700101a0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <17263.36970.525518.634019@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <049101c5e3cb$a7750ee0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <436FADF3.90904@shoreham.net> Doug Drown wrote: >Bluegrass is a uniquely Southern term, but Cape Breton fiddle music comes >close to it as a musical genre, > I've generally considered that radio target as a blend of "folk, traditional, and bluegrass music" unless the programming was clearly targeted to a particular background. Bill O'Neill From lglavin@lycos.com Mon Nov 7 17:09:56 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:09:56 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina Message-ID: <20051107220957.33AD6C612E@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Strassberg" >To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org, "Larry Weil" >Subject: Re: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina >Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:28:39 -0500 > > Heck, it might be interesting to find out how the giving of the three or > four other opera devotees (besides Mr Glavin) in Greater Boston compares > with the giving by devotees of orchestral music. My guess is that the > opera-listener numbers are so minuscule that each person would have to give > many times his/her annual income for public-radio stations to get support > for opera equal in dollars to the (none-too-great) support they receive for > orchestral classical music. > > -- > Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net > eFax 707-215-6367 I don't want to mention any names, but some people need to get out more. The Handel-and-Haydn Society just had a successful run of three performances of a staged opera at the Cutler (NOT Jim Cutler) Majestic(?) theater in mid-October...I was there for one of them. Boston Lyric Opera is presenting six performances of a mainstream opera, "Lucie de Lammermoor" (in French to attract WJIB-AM morning drivetime devotees) which therefore will play before 12,000-plus probably unduplicated listeners (I've known people who go to more than one performance during a run, usually in New York to hear alternate casts, which doesn't happen here intentionally). Two years ago, the Boston Lyric presented "Carmen" free at the Common or Public Gardens, and the authorities counted 140,000 people in attendance. I also attended a nearly-sold-out performance at Symphony Hall by Cecelia Bartoli, and I have little doubt a big crowd will be there for Diana Voigt next week. Oh, BTW, WGBH-FM will carry a live broadcast of this Sunday's performance of the aforementioned "Lucie..."; they perhaps wouldn't undertake this moderately expensive enterprise if they didn't get support. And oh yes, on my WGBH membership card, it says member since 1986. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Mon Nov 7 17:11:47 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:11:47 -0500 Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina Message-ID: <20051107221147.4DC94C612E@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Larry Weil" >To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org >Subject: Re: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina >Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:37:27 -0500 > > At 02:43 PM 11/5/2005, Laurence Glavin wrote: > > > According to *inerrant Boston Phoenix Media guru Mark Jurkowitz, > > former "The Connection" host Dick Gordon will resurface on > > University of North Carolina pubcaster WUNC-FM early next year. > > He will host a one-hour long program that WUNC hopes to syndicate > > to other noncomm stations. It's supposed to air in the early afternoon, > > probably before NPR's "Talk of the Nation". Any chance WGBH-FM > > might be interested, if only to stick it to WBUR? > > And stick it to the Jazz listeners on WGBH? They'de probably just > take away another hour of Jazz, given their history. > > > *as we all know, AM stations WXKS, Everett and WKOX, Framingham > > are daytime-only outlets. > > Or as most of us know, WXKS and WKOX are both on at night, albeit > at greatly reduced power from their daytime levels. > > > Larry Weil > Lake Wobegone, NH I was making a jocular reference to an assertion by M.J. when he worked for the Globe that the AirAmerica twins were daytimers because HE couldn't hear them at night. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From billings@suscom-maine.net Mon Nov 7 21:15:19 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:15:19 -0500 Subject: WLOB-FM moving tower? References: <000f01c5e275$57771480$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af><022f01c5e27e$ae7643b0$6501a8c0@pastor2> <436F7969.6000206@partnercomm.com> Message-ID: <000a01c5e40a$45c6f5c0$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Murray" To: Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:57 AM Subject: Re: WLOB-FM moving tower? > Not making any judgments here, but WLOB-FM has had a construction permit > on the books since 7-June-2005 for a downgrade to directional C1, at a > site just east of Norway, ME. > > http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=WLOB&service=FM I think it is about to happen. What will the direction be? What does C1 mean for power? From joe@attorneyross.com Tue Nov 8 00:06:37 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:06:37 -0500 Subject: Immitating newscasts Message-ID: <436FEC0D.23519.5B80D7@localhost> I thought that ever since the 1939 "War of the Worlds" broadcast, which mimicked radio news broadcasts, stations and networks had policies against allowing entertainment shows to pretend to be news coverage. Last night on "The West Wing," they featured a debate between the two Presidential candidates in their fictitious election. As a gimmick, the debate was performed live, with a second performance for the West Coast, as often was done with live radio shows in the old days. And at the bottom right corner of the screen was the word "Live," the NBC Peacock logo, and the words "NBC News." -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Nov 8 03:49:39 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 03:49:39 -0500 Subject: Immitating newscasts In-Reply-To: <436FEC0D.23519.5B80D7@localhost> References: <436FEC0D.23519.5B80D7@localhost> Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511080049p77f2ed9ag7f0987974755611b@mail.gmail.com> NBC has gotten some heat over this. Reported on during CNN's "Showbiz Tonight"; and the following TV Newser item links to 3 points of view on it: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/ Sometimes a Saturday Night Live spoof of "Hardball", "Larry King Live", "Nightline", or other shows will sport the "network logo" to make it seem real. From mattosborne1976@yahoo.com Tue Nov 8 08:41:37 2005 From: mattosborne1976@yahoo.com (Matthew Osborne) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 05:41:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: NERW 11/7/2005 - WKLI Albany NY Message-ID: <20051108134137.60017.qmail@web36910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> It was reported in this week's NERW that WKLI Albany (100.9 FM) had flipped to a 24/7 Christmas music format. However, as of this morning (Tuesday 11/8 7:30 AM) they are playing their normal Adult Standards format. So they have not gone all-Christmas music 24/7 as reported. What was heard may be a weekend only deal for now, to become more widespread later this month, although I cannot confirm that at this time. Side note: With all of this fuss over all-Christmas music formats and its widely expanding scope the past few years, has anyone in the industry realized that if half to 3/4 of all stations in some markets go all Christmas early in November, that not only will that dull the ratings boost each station may see by this phenomenon, but it could open the door for a competitor to slip in by supplying the missing format and possibly cause said other station(s) trouble? Thoughts, comments? Matt Osborne Schenectady, NY __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com From sid1030@yahoo.com Tue Nov 8 14:03:59 2005 From: sid1030@yahoo.com (Sid Whitaker) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:03:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: interference on 1030 Message-ID: <20051108190359.14839.qmail@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> listening to 1030 in the Albany area around 6pm last night (post-sunset, as near as I can tell), I heard WBZ fighting it out with country music and Sean Hannity. Sounds like someone's running unauthorized nighttime or critical hours. ---Sid __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Nov 8 14:32:36 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:32:36 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030 References: <20051108190359.14839.qmail@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <002901c5e49b$31b163e0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> It's been identified as a daytimer in WV, but I don't recall the calls or CoL. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sid Whitaker" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:03 PM Subject: interference on 1030 > listening to 1030 in the Albany area around 6pm last > night (post-sunset, as near as I can tell), I heard > WBZ fighting it out with country music and Sean > Hannity. Sounds like someone's running unauthorized > nighttime or critical hours. > > ---Sid > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com From sid@wrko.com Tue Nov 8 15:01:36 2005 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:01:36 -0700 Subject: interference on 1030 Message-ID: >>It's been identified as a daytimer in WV, but I don't recall the calls or CoL.<< WBGS in Point Pleasant...10 kW-D-DA, 2.9 kW-CH-NDA. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - 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 dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Nov 8 15:15:00 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:15:00 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030 References: Message-ID: <005301c5e4a1$4bdbf0e0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> I looked it up in AMSTNS. Very odd facilities. I gather that Point Pleasant is not very close to Pittsburgh (suburb of Charleston--maybe?) because KDKA is right in front of the pattern maximum--equivalent to about 25 kW ND. I realize that the soil conductivity in the Appalachians isn't great but I didn't expect to see a pattern like that. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sid Schweiger" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: interference on 1030 > >>It's been identified as a daytimer in WV, but I don't recall the calls > or > CoL.<< > > WBGS in Point Pleasant...10 kW-D-DA, 2.9 kW-CH-NDA. > > > > > > Sid Schweiger > IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC > WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - 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 gary@garysicecream.com Tue Nov 8 15:10:06 2005 From: gary@garysicecream.com (Gary's Ice Cream) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:10:06 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030 In-Reply-To: <20051108190359.14839.qmail@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200511082049.jA8KnjLp049942@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> I talked to Dave, the tech on duty at WBZ this afternoon and told him about the interference last night. He mentioned that he lives in New Bedford and heard it himself this morning on the way into work. They are looking into it. -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Sid Whitaker Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:04 PM To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org Subject: interference on 1030 listening to 1030 in the Albany area around 6pm last night (post-sunset, as near as I can tell), I heard WBZ fighting it out with country music and Sean Hannity. Sounds like someone's running unauthorized nighttime or critical hours. ---Sid __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From sid1030@yahoo.com Tue Nov 8 17:56:44 2005 From: sid1030@yahoo.com (Sid Whitaker) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:56:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: Interference on 810 In-Reply-To: <20051108190359.14839.qmail@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20051108225644.38716.qmail@web53011.mail.yahoo.com> While I'm complaining about interference on clear channels, add 810 to the list. On I-91 south in VT this past weekend, I heard CJVA's French music walking all over WGY, well after dark. Supposedly they're DA after sunset. Do I recall something about Canadian stations not interefering with US 1-A clear channels after dark, or am I off-base with this?? Sid --- Sid Whitaker wrote: > listening to 1030 in the Albany area around 6pm last > night (post-sunset, as near as I can tell), I heard > WBZ fighting it out with country music and Sean > Hannity. Sounds like someone's running unauthorized > nighttime or critical hours. > > ---Sid > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in > one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From kc1ih@mac.com Tue Nov 8 20:57:14 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:57:14 -0500 Subject: WNEF Update Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051108204937.02b713c0@mail.mac.com> I went to the WUMB member concert in Newburyport on Monday night, and got to speak to both Pat Monteith (Gen'l Mgr) and Grady Moates (CE) about the Newburyport 91.7 signal, WNEF. Where they are now is that the new antenna has been installed, but they are operating at half power until the needed FCC approval is received. They expect this by the end of the month. My observation in Salem, NH, is that they are already a bit stronger than before, but still suffering from splash for WUML on 91.5. I listened briefly to WUML around noontime today, they were doing foreign language programming, which seemed to me to be loud and distorted. I have no means to measure this, but it seemed to me that they might be over-modulated. Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From billo@shoreham.net Tue Nov 8 21:21:34 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:21:34 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030 In-Reply-To: <002901c5e49b$31b163e0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <20051108190359.14839.qmail@web53006.mail.yahoo.com> <002901c5e49b$31b163e0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <43715D2E.30609@shoreham.net> It's a kW daytimer licensed to Point Pleasant, WV about an hour nw of Huntington. Old time Gospel. The FM is a country station at 99.5. Both signed on about 5-7 years ago IIRC. Bill O'Neill Dan Strassberg wrote: >It's been identified as a daytimer in WV, but I don't recall the calls or >CoL. > > From billo@shoreham.net Tue Nov 8 21:23:19 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (Bill O'Neill) Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:23:19 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43715D97.2020509@shoreham.net> Sid Schweiger wrote: >>>WBGS in Point Pleasant...10 kW-D-DA, 2.9 kW-CH-NDA >>> >>> Oops, I erred in my post re: WBGS' power. -b From lspin@comcast.net Tue Nov 8 21:41:14 2005 From: lspin@comcast.net (Lou) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:41:14 -0500 Subject: WNEF Update In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051108204937.02b713c0@mail.mac.com> Message-ID: <200511090243.jA92hV7j048143@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Wow... Pat Monteith is still working at WUMB. She was the PD when I was a student there in 1979/80. -Lou -----Original Message----- From: Larry Weil Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:57 PM Subject: WNEF Update I went to the WUMB member concert in Newburyport on Monday night, and got to speak to both Pat Monteith (Gen'l Mgr) and Grady Moates (CE) about the Newburyport 91.7 signal, WNEF. From xtrovato@yahoo.com Tue Nov 8 22:47:16 2005 From: xtrovato@yahoo.com (Rob) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:47:16 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) Message-ID: <001b01c5e4e0$58253d90$0180050a@gmiboston.com> When John Garabedian used to run WGTR (1060AM - Natick), he would tell stories about Westinghouse registering opposition with the FCC any time 'GTR they made an application for ANY kind of changes. Both, because KYW was on 1060....and the proximity of 1060 to 1030 in Boston. Typically, discouraging and delaying anything with paperwork and layers of lawyers. I am surprised that Westinghouse/CBS/Infinity/Whatever folks ever allowed the WV station to get on the air....without deluging them in legal paperwork and ongoing objections. After all, in the battle of lawyers and legal actions...the Westinghouse/CBS/Infinity legal department can outwit and outlast a smaller station. For a long time, Greater Media opposed WVBF's attempt to move their TX & tower to the Prudential Tower by claiming some kind of interference possibilities. Also using the phrase "Why would a *Framingham* station be concerned about putting an antenna in Boston?". Now that Greater Media *owns* 105.7....where do you think they broadcast from? ;-) Bill O'Neill wrote: It's a kW daytimer licensed to Point Pleasant, WV about an hour nw of Huntington. Old time Gospel. The FM is a country station at 99.5. Both signed on about 5-7 years ago IIRC. Bill O'Neill Dan Strassberg wrote: >It's been identified as a daytimer in WV, but I don't recall the calls or >CoL. > > From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 9 01:07:52 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:07:52 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) In-Reply-To: <001b01c5e4e0$58253d90$0180050a@gmiboston.com> Message-ID: <43714BE8.19600.8915BA@localhost> On 8 Nov 2005 at 22:47, Rob wrote: > I am surprised that Westinghouse/CBS/Infinity/Whatever folks ever > allowed the WV station to get on the air....without deluging them in > legal paperwork and ongoing objections. I'm surprised they ever allowed 1060 to get on the air. > For a long time, Greater Media opposed WVBF's attempt to move their TX > & tower to the Prudential Tower by claiming some kind of interference > possibilities. Also using the phrase "Why would a *Framingham* station > be concerned about putting an antenna in Boston?". Well, the fact of the matter is, 105.7 is one of the major things that interferes with the WCRB signal in downtown Boston. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From elipolo@earthlink.net Wed Nov 9 01:41:12 2005 From: elipolo@earthlink.net (Eli Polonsky) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:41:12 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Subject: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina Message-ID: <7116236.1131518472561.JavaMail.root@elwamui-little.atl.sa.earthlink.net> > From: Garrett Wollman > CC: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org > To: "Dan Strassberg" > Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:05:22 -0500 > Subject: Re: Dick Gordon To Host Show From North Carolina > > But to give one point for comparison: Penn's WXPN has an annual > budget of $5-6 million, and about half of that comes from listeners WXPN is in a fortunate position format-wise that apparently can't happen for a public or non-commercial station in Boston. Due to WXPN's longtime success as Philadelphia's AAA station, they have prevented any commercial station in that market from viably competing with that format. There is no commercial AAA station in Philadelphia, WXPN is serving that format in the market. WFUV has done the same thing in NYC. No commercial AAA there. Here in Boston, there are two commercial AAA's in the market, WBOS and WXRV, which prevents any non-comm's from adopting the format. 'UMB has developed some similar formatting elements as WXPN (and WFUV) and airs some of the same syndicated NPR/ PRI music programs at night and weekends, but sticks with their folk music niche format for their local programming. Eli Polonsky From mamros@MIT.EDU Wed Nov 9 10:05:59 2005 From: mamros@MIT.EDU (Shawn Mamros) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:05:59 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:07:52 EST." <43714BE8.19600.8915BA@localhost> Message-ID: <200511091505.jA9F5xCn014445@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu> >Well, the fact of the matter is, 105.7 is one of the major things that > interferes with the WCRB >signal in downtown Boston. At first, I was thinking, "how could that be?" But I think I figured it out, and it's not strictly (or at least not solely) WROR's fault. WBCN also transmits from the Pru. 105.7 minus 104.1 equals 1.6 MHz. And, by sheer coincidence, 104.1 minus 102.5 also equals 1.6 MHz. So intermod between WROR and WBCN could create a "beat" frequency that causes a reflection of the higher frequency (WROR) to one that's lower than the lower frequency (WBCN), and works out to be right on top of WCRB. (It would most likely work the other way around, too; try listening to 107.3, and I wouldn't be surprised if you pick up WBCN up there.) With WCRB transmitting from out on 128, it makes sense that the "beat" coming from the Pru could be stronger right on Boston. Not sure if there's much WROR or WBCN could do about it either, unless one of them moves off the Pru, or WCRB moves in closer to downtown. -Shawn Mamros E-mail to: mamros -at- mit dot edu From dan.strassberg@att.net Wed Nov 9 11:58:01 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:58:01 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) References: <200511091505.jA9F5xCn014445@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu> Message-ID: <001201c5e54e$c85bdb00$19eefea9@dstrassberg> 104.1 and 105.7 definitely do produce a mixing product at 102.5 and undoubtedly that product does interfere with WCRB downtown. When WCRB lost its place on the Channel 2/4/5 tower, it must have had a choice of moving to FM 128 or the Pru. I suspect that the choice of FM 128 was economically more attractive. For sure, it is exactly such problems that have motivated the exodus of so many of the major Boston FMs from Newton to downtown. More people probably live in the interference zone around the Newton/Needham towers than live in the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and the South End, but the advertising agencies are in town, so even though the rent on FM 128 may be lower, a site downtown may indeed be more valuable. I guess that if time buyers can't hear a station they are unlikely to place spots on it. Perhaps that's less important to WCRB than to other commercial FMs, since a lot of ads on WCRB are institutional in nature. The nature of WCRB's clients may well have tipped the balance in favor of staying in the Newton/Needham area. If WCRB is sold, the new buyer might well want to move the transmitter downtown. I bet the decision depends strongly on the new format, if any. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Mamros" To: "A. Joseph Ross" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) > >Well, the fact of the matter is, 105.7 is one of the major things that > > interferes with the WCRB > >signal in downtown Boston. > > At first, I was thinking, "how could that be?" But I think I figured > it out, and it's not strictly (or at least not solely) WROR's fault. > > WBCN also transmits from the Pru. 105.7 minus 104.1 equals 1.6 MHz. > And, by sheer coincidence, 104.1 minus 102.5 also equals 1.6 MHz. > So intermod between WROR and WBCN could create a "beat" frequency > that causes a reflection of the higher frequency (WROR) to one that's > lower than the lower frequency (WBCN), and works out to be right on > top of WCRB. (It would most likely work the other way around, too; > try listening to 107.3, and I wouldn't be surprised if you pick up > WBCN up there.) With WCRB transmitting from out on 128, it makes > sense that the "beat" coming from the Pru could be stronger right > on Boston. > > Not sure if there's much WROR or WBCN could do about it either, > unless one of them moves off the Pru, or WCRB moves in closer to > downtown. > > -Shawn Mamros > E-mail to: mamros -at- mit dot edu From sid1030@yahoo.com Wed Nov 9 16:27:25 2005 From: sid1030@yahoo.com (Sid Whitaker) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:27:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) In-Reply-To: <001201c5e54e$c85bdb00$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <20051109212725.20301.qmail@web53002.mail.yahoo.com> For what it's worth, I pick up the Pru FMs at very distant points much better than the FM 128ers. For example, 'BCN is a consistent catch at the height of land on Route 2 along the Mass.- NY border, where the FM 128ers are splatter. I had them on US 2 in St. Johnsbury VT last weekend. Not bad. Of course co-channel interference may explain some of this. Sid __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From lglavin@lycos.com Wed Nov 9 16:48:57 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:48:57 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) Message-ID: <20051109214857.333F186B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Strassberg" >To: "A. Joseph Ross" , "Shawn Mamros" >Subject: Re: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) >Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:58:01 -0500 > > 104.1 and 105.7 definitely do produce a mixing product at 102.5 and > undoubtedly that product does interfere with WCRB downtown. When WCRB lost > its place on the Channel 2/4/5 tower, it must have had a choice of moving to > FM 128 or the Pru. I suspect that the choice of FM 128 was economically more > attractive. For sure, it is exactly such problems that have motivated the > exodus of so many of the major Boston FMs from Newton to downtown. More > people probably live in the interference zone around the Newton/Needham > towers than live in the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and the South End, but the > advertising agencies are in town, so even though the rent on FM 128 may be > lower, a site downtown may indeed be more valuable. I guess that if time > buyers can't hear a station they are unlikely to place spots on it. Perhaps > that's less important to WCRB than to other commercial FMs, since a lot of > ads on WCRB are institutional in nature. The nature of WCRB's clients may > well have tipped the balance in favor of staying in the Newton/Needham area. > If WCRB is sold, the new buyer might well want to move the transmitter > downtown. I bet the decision depends strongly on the new format, if any. > > -- > Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net > eFax 707-215-6367 > One factor not mentioned is the fact that WCRB operates with just a tad less than full power for a station at its antenna height (351 meters) because of the currently non-existent but still authorized station at 102.3 licensed to Truro on the Cape. WROR is licensed with 9.0 KW; when WBOS was there, they were authorized to operate with 8.8 KW; WCRB has 8.1 KW. So one conclusion is that they would have to operate with even LESS relative power on the Pru...which raises this quizzical question: why is WBCN authorized for the full 50K@500' NDA from the Pru with an actually-operating outlet on the next-adjacent channel (WOCN-FM 103.9), while WCRB, farther away, has to truncate its signal for a non- existent FM? Is it because WBCN was in situ when WOCN went on-the-air while WCRB moved toard the coast? -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From elipolo@earthlink.net Wed Nov 9 17:53:04 2005 From: elipolo@earthlink.net (Eli Polonsky) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:53:04 -0500 Subject: WNEF Update Message-ID: > > From: "Lou" > To: "'Larry Weil'" , > "'Boston Radio'" > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:41:14 -0500 > Subject: RE: WNEF Update > > Wow... Pat Monteith is still working at WUMB. She was the PD > when I was a student there in 1979/80. She's been GM since (and before) they came on to the public airwaves in 1982, and was involved in the station since she was a U. Mass. Boston student in the late 60's/early 70's. She was the main person who was actually responsible for putting it on the air from the closed-circuit station it originally was (after a lengthy complicated process to carve out a frequency to be granted on the dial), and then for it's transformation from a volunteer community/student station to a paid professional Public Radio station with their joining the CPB in 1986. She's been there her entire adult life, and will most likely continue to be dedicated to it indefinitely. EP From rickkelly@gmail.com Wed Nov 9 18:40:37 2005 From: rickkelly@gmail.com (Rick Kelly) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:40:37 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) In-Reply-To: <20051109214857.333F186B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20051109214857.333F186B11@ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <521b7fd10511091540g8cea56tf8fe74ac13f2f15@mail.gmail.com> On 11/9/05, Laurence Glavin wrote: > why is WBCN authorized for the full 50K@500' NDA from the Pru with > an actually-operating outlet on the next-adjacent channel (WOCN-FM 103.9), > while WCRB, farther away, has to truncate its signal for a non- > existent FM? Not to mention having to deal with 104.1 licensed to Waterbury with tower located 10 miles south of Hartford... they are very close together. -Rick Kelly www.northeastairchecks.com From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Wed Nov 9 19:50:03 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:50:03 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) Message-ID: <200511091950.AA639369772@mail.ttlc.net> Based on the very poor signal strength exhibited by WBZ 1030 in Fremont/Danville/Hampstead/Plaistow NH, it seems like they are on low power TX. Is this possible? Anybody on the list privy to this kind of confidential info? From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Wed Nov 9 19:53:13 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:53:13 -0500 Subject: New Voice On WBZ? Message-ID: <200511091953.AA759038582@mail.ttlc.net> This morning, Bob McMann shared the newcasting duties with Kendell Buell - formerly of WBZ Traffic. From markwats@comcast.net Wed Nov 9 20:30:56 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:30:56 -0500 Subject: New Voice On WBZ? References: <200511091953.AA759038582@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <009901c5e596$6ae3b450$69081f42@Mark> Roger Kirk wrote: > This morning, Bob McMann shared the newcasting duties >with Kendell > Buell - formerly of WBZ Traffic. I heard Kendall doing the midday news one day last week. No bio for him on the WBZ Radio website, but I did notice most of the regular "Traffic on the 3's" reporters have bios there now. Mark Watson From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 9 23:57:30 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:57:30 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) In-Reply-To: <20051109212725.20301.qmail@web53002.mail.yahoo.com> References: <001201c5e54e$c85bdb00$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <43728CEA.4906.4A2288@localhost> On 9 Nov 2005 at 13:27, Sid Whitaker wrote: > For what it's worth, I pick up the Pru FMs at very > distant points much better than the FM 128ers. For > example, 'BCN is a consistent catch at the height of > land on Route 2 along the Mass.- NY border, where the > FM 128ers are splatter. I had them on US 2 in St. > Johnsbury VT last weekend. Not bad. Of course > co-channel interference may explain some of this. Then again, I've heard WCRB in my car as far out as Chicopee. I improved my reception of WCRB in my office by swapping the Sony radio that I bought in 1985 for an older Sylvania radio that I bought in 1968. The Sylvania was, at the time, just about the top AM-FM table radio I could get without getting stereo. It seems much better at rejecting these image signals. Now the Sony is at home, and I have trouble getting WCRB on it, and the same is the case with most newer radios. My mother's portable radio that I bought her sometime in the 70s isn't too bad, if I place the whip antenna properly. I have a couple of old AM-FM radios that have Conelrad markings and vacuum tubes, and they get WCRB quite well. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From dan.strassberg@att.net Thu Nov 10 07:38:06 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:38:06 -0500 Subject: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) References: <001201c5e54e$c85bdb00$19eefea9@dstrassberg> <43728CEA.4906.4A2288@localhost> Message-ID: <002e01c5e5f4$f9cefcc0$19eefea9@dstrassberg> I imagine that, for FM sensitivity, the best currently sold, relatively small, and very good sounding (but not cheap and only ac-line powered) mono-only radio would be the Tivoli Audio Kloss Model 1. The AM sensitivity is decidedly mediocre, but with the addition of a Select-A-Tenna tunable passive loop, my Model 1's AM sensitivity becomes fully equivalent to that of my Super Radio III. (I have, however, inadvertently positioned that Select-A-Tenna so that the enhanced signal it emitted cancelled out the signal the Model 1's built-in antenna was picking up, this making inaudible the station I was trying to listen to--WJIB. This is known as shooting yourself in the foot.) The Model 1 lets you select (via a real-panel slide switch) between using as an FM antenna the ac-line cord or an external antenna. An (expensive) coaxial connector is provided for the external antenna and a mating connector with a wire attached (the simplest form of external antenna) is provided. When I bought my Model 1 a couple years ago, the price was $100. Stereo and clock-radio versions were not available at the time but are available now. A dealer that seems to do a good buiness in them is Cameras Inc on Mass Ave in Arlington, a little way west of Arlington Center and the side of the street opposite the High School. I was introduced to the Model 1 by a friend in upstate New York who is a real radio buff and classical music devotee. By now, the Model 1 may be made in China as are virtually all consumer-electronic products, but I'm pretty sure that my two (or so) year old unit had a Made in U.S.A. sticker on it. Tivoli audio is headquartered in the Boston area. -- Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net eFax 707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Joseph Ross" To: "Sid Whitaker" ; Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:57 PM Subject: Re: interference on 1030....and other things. ;-) > On 9 Nov 2005 at 13:27, Sid Whitaker wrote: > > > For what it's worth, I pick up the Pru FMs at very > > distant points much better than the FM 128ers. For > > example, 'BCN is a consistent catch at the height of > > land on Route 2 along the Mass.- NY border, where the > > FM 128ers are splatter. I had them on US 2 in St. > > Johnsbury VT last weekend. Not bad. Of course > > co-channel interference may explain some of this. > > Then again, I've heard WCRB in my car as far out as Chicopee. > > I improved my reception of WCRB in my office by swapping the Sony radio that I bought in > 1985 for an older Sylvania radio that I bought in 1968. The Sylvania was, at the time, just > about the top AM-FM table radio I could get without getting stereo. It seems much better at > rejecting these image signals. > > Now the Sony is at home, and I have trouble getting WCRB on it, and the same is the case > with most newer radios. My mother's portable radio that I bought her sometime in the 70s > isn't too bad, if I place the whip antenna properly. I have a couple of old AM-FM radios that > have Conelrad markings and vacuum tubes, and they get WCRB quite well. > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 > Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com > > From paulcurrier@adelphia.net Fri Nov 11 07:34:26 2005 From: paulcurrier@adelphia.net (Paul B. Currier) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:34:26 -0500 Subject: New Voice On WBZ? References: <200511091953.AA759038582@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <003901c5e6bc$40afcb70$98803418@DG07P241> But the old voice is returning Monday - Gary L is back after 6 weeks! He'll be broadcasting from....???? Paul SAndwich ----- Original Message ----- From: "rogerkirk" To: "BRI" Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:53 PM Subject: New Voice On WBZ? > This morning, Bob McMann shared the newcasting duties with Kendell Buell - formerly of WBZ Traffic. > From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Fri Nov 11 19:54:53 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:54:53 -0500 Subject: Stern Suspended 1 Day Message-ID: <200511111954.AA2297626782@mail.ttlc.net> Apparently Tom Chiusano (GM K-Rock) didn't appreciate Howards frequent suggestions to his listeners about following him to Sirius. Article at: http://www.billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/business/digital/ article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001435106 From rickkelly@gmail.com Sat Nov 12 07:13:03 2005 From: rickkelly@gmail.com (Rick Kelly) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 07:13:03 -0500 Subject: Stern Suspended 1 Day In-Reply-To: <200511111954.AA2297626782@mail.ttlc.net> References: <200511111954.AA2297626782@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <521b7fd10511120413x201f8894h5a9ce86a9606346d@mail.gmail.com> On 11/11/05, rogerkirk wrote: > Apparently Tom Chiusano (GM K-Rock) didn't appreciate Howards frequent suggestions to his listeners about following him to Sirius.<< I thought I read somewhere (maybe the NY Radio Message Board) that Howard took like a personal day or something, and Infinity decided to build a stunt around it - reslting in the "suspension" story. -- Rick Kelly www.northeastairchecks.com From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Nov 12 09:15:56 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:15:56 -0500 Subject: Bud Sawyer retires Message-ID: <001101c5e793$996c5670$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> The Lewiston Sun Journal reports that Bud Sawyer retired as morning host on WLAM yesterday. He is 73. I did not know he was back at the station. At one point, he had left WLAM and did a show on WLOB. Sawyer was the long time morning man at WPOR and was at WGAN before that. http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/20051112099.php Registered is required at the above From billings@suscom-maine.net Sat Nov 12 09:21:41 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:21:41 -0500 Subject: WLAM changing to all sports Message-ID: <001f01c5e794$66e1d760$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> The story below is about the weekend french show ending on WLAM, but it also says that the station is dropping its nostalgia format for ESPN on December 6th. http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/20051112107.php Registration required From revdoug1@verizon.net Sat Nov 12 10:37:11 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:37:11 -0500 Subject: Bud Sawyer retires References: <001101c5e793$996c5670$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> Message-ID: <09e101c5e79e$f39d79c0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Bud Sawyer is a beloved figure in Maine broadcasting, and a very personable man. I know he's a Mainer by birth (Jonesport), but am I correct in thinking that he was at WAAB in Worcester back in the early '60s? Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Billings" To: Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:15 AM Subject: Bud Sawyer retires > The Lewiston Sun Journal reports that Bud Sawyer retired as morning host on > WLAM yesterday. He is 73. I did not know he was back at the station. At > one point, he had left WLAM and did a show on WLOB. Sawyer was the long > time morning man at WPOR and was at WGAN before that. > > http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/20051112099.php > > Registered is required at the above > > From Dfaneuf@WBUR.BU.EDU Sun Nov 13 12:49:31 2005 From: Dfaneuf@WBUR.BU.EDU (Dave Faneuf) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:49:31 -0500 Subject: Decertification vote at Entercom? Message-ID: <4377365E.6280.35CADF@localhost> >From Bostonradio.blogspot.com via AllAccess. Entercom employees are asking the NLRB to allow a decertification vote to remove AFTRA as their bargaining unit. From lglavin@lycos.com Sun Nov 13 15:39:16 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:39:16 -0500 Subject: Boston Herald Article About Franken Message-ID: <20051113203916.3F949C6137@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Today's Boston Sunday Herald book section contains a short article about Al Franken, who's doing his show Tuesday from the W-I-I-I-L BUR Theater (how Mr. Ed addressed Alan Young) and then later appearing for a book signing of his latest tome "The Truth (With Jokes)". The URL for this article is: http://theedge.bostonherald.com/bookNews/view.bg?articleid=111975 Franken is also supposed to be a guest on the channel 25 morning news (I wonder if Doug Goudie will conduct the interview). Oh, BTW, I have a ticket to the Tuesday broadcast as I did last year; I wonder if CCU will provide some free eats as they did then. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From andysoule@gmail.com Sat Nov 12 12:21:47 2005 From: andysoule@gmail.com (Andy Soule) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:21:47 -0500 Subject: Bud Sawyer retires References: <001101c5e793$996c5670$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> <09e101c5e79e$f39d79c0$6501a8c0@pastor2> Message-ID: <001b01c5e7ad$923a4d20$03a7a8c0@scooby3> What is on 870 these days? From raccoonradio@gmail.com Mon Nov 14 15:28:37 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:28:37 -0500 Subject: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511141228s147e7e25t7f109979b01d8a0e@mail.gmail.com> WTKK has made it official: Michael Graham is indeed their afternoon/drivetime guy. It's on allaccess.com; also on the station's site, http://www.969fmtalk.com The line up page on the station's site lists Graham, then lists Severin but "without a time slot". Severin can negotiate exclusively with Greater Media till the end of the year in the hopes of getting his new show on WTKK; the show is supposed to begin nationwide on Jan 3. From nostaticatall@comcast.net Mon Nov 14 16:02:45 2005 From: nostaticatall@comcast.net (David Tomm) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:02:45 -0500 Subject: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons In-Reply-To: <1fbbbced0511141228s147e7e25t7f109979b01d8a0e@mail.gmail.com> References: <1fbbbced0511141228s147e7e25t7f109979b01d8a0e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: All the pieces seem to be falling into place. Now that Graham's been hired and we know that Severino's new show will air live at night, chances are WTKK will indeed air it. I find it interesting that Imus, also distributed by Westwood One, gets an extension late last week. Did the negotiations between Greater Media and WW1 to run Severin's show also involve extending Imus? It makes sense. GM was all set to drop the I-man as of a couple of months ago, but all of a sudden he gets extended. Then, after removing all mentions of Severin from the air and website, WTKK hires a replacement but then Severin's picture pops up on the site with no timeslot listed. My guess is that we should be getting a presser soon from GM announcing the addition of Severin's new show to the lineup. Now the question is, which night show bites the dust? Ingraham or Hannity? Or does WTKK blow out Barnicle, Egan & Braude and move Ingraham to middays 10a-1p? Dave Tomm "Mike Thomas" On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: > WTKK has made it official: Michael Graham is indeed their > afternoon/drivetime guy. > It's on allaccess.com; also on the station's site, > http://www.969fmtalk.com > > The line up page on the station's site lists Graham, then lists > Severin but "without a time slot". Severin can > negotiate exclusively with Greater Media till the end of the year in > the hopes of getting > his new show on WTKK; the show is supposed to begin nationwide on Jan > 3. > From scott@fybush.com Mon Nov 14 16:14:48 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:14:48 -0500 Subject: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons In-Reply-To: References: <1fbbbced0511141228s147e7e25t7f109979b01d8a0e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051114161353.041ed2a0@gwind.pair.com> >Now the question is, which night show bites the dust? Ingraham or >Hannity? Or does WTKK blow out Barnicle, Egan & Braude and move Ingraham >to middays 10a-1p? And...why was everyone so ready to believe that WBZ would blow out local Sullivan to pick up syndicated Severin? s From xtrovato@yahoo.com Mon Nov 14 16:33:42 2005 From: xtrovato@yahoo.com (R Trovato) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:33:42 -0500 Subject: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons References: <1fbbbced0511141228s147e7e25t7f109979b01d8a0e@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20051114161353.041ed2a0@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <055e01c5e963$3540cb00$ab66fea9@hsd1.ma.comcast.net> > And...why was everyone so ready to believe that WBZ would blow out local > Sullivan to pick up syndicated Severin? Because it would be a.) cheaper b.) Severin is better than Sullivan c.) There is no local talk out there to compete with after 8PM. c.) It's no longer Westinghouse. d.) BZ is in trouble. From gary@garysicecream.com Mon Nov 14 16:09:31 2005 From: gary@garysicecream.com (Gary's Ice Cream) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:09:31 -0500 Subject: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200511142144.jAELisFO041651@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> I wouldn't be so sure......I've been told that Severin will be live on WBZ. That comes from a highly placed WBZ staffer. -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of David Tomm Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 4:03 PM To: Bob Nelson Cc: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org Subject: Re: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons All the pieces seem to be falling into place. Now that Graham's been hired and we know that Severino's new show will air live at night, chances are WTKK will indeed air it. I find it interesting that Imus, also distributed by Westwood One, gets an extension late last week. Did the negotiations between Greater Media and WW1 to run Severin's show also involve extending Imus? It makes sense. GM was all set to drop the I-man as of a couple of months ago, but all of a sudden he gets extended. Then, after removing all mentions of Severin from the air and website, WTKK hires a replacement but then Severin's picture pops up on the site with no timeslot listed. My guess is that we should be getting a presser soon from GM announcing the addition of Severin's new show to the lineup. Now the question is, which night show bites the dust? Ingraham or Hannity? Or does WTKK blow out Barnicle, Egan & Braude and move Ingraham to middays 10a-1p? Dave Tomm "Mike Thomas" On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: > WTKK has made it official: Michael Graham is indeed their > afternoon/drivetime guy. > It's on allaccess.com; also on the station's site, > http://www.969fmtalk.com > > The line up page on the station's site lists Graham, then lists > Severin but "without a time slot". Severin can negotiate exclusively > with Greater Media till the end of the year in the hopes of getting > his new show on WTKK; the show is supposed to begin nationwide on Jan > 3. > From markwats@comcast.net Mon Nov 14 18:06:14 2005 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:06:14 -0500 Subject: Maury Parent Receives Posthumous Award From Nashua Club Message-ID: <004a01c5e970$05420970$69081f42@Mark> At the annual National French Week celebration at Club Richelieu of Nashua NH last week, the "Franco-American Personality of the Year" award was posthumously to Maury Parent, the longtime Nashua radio personality who hosted a weekly French radio program for many years on WOTW, WSMN, WMVU and WSNH until his unexpected passing in August 2004. An article about the award is on the Nashua Telegraph's website, a link to said article below: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051114/COMMUNITY02/51114041 Please note you may have to register (for free) to see the entire article. Mark Watson From billings@suscom-maine.net Mon Nov 14 22:43:59 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:43:59 -0500 Subject: Bud Sawyer retires References: <001101c5e793$996c5670$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af><09e101c5e79e$f39d79c0$6501a8c0@pastor2> <001b01c5e7ad$923a4d20$03a7a8c0@scooby3> Message-ID: <000701c5e996$d0aad530$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Soule" To: Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Bud Sawyer retires > What is on 870 these days? Air America. From joe@attorneyross.com Tue Nov 15 00:33:31 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:33:31 -0500 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> Al Franken is moving to Minnesota after the first of the year, and his show on Air America will originate from there, at least when he's not on the road. His sidekick, Catherine Lampher, has left because she doesn't want to move to Minnesota. There's speculation about Franken running for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota, which is his original home state. So far, he says he is undecided. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From dlh@donnahalper.com Tue Nov 15 02:06:42 2005 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:06:42 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20051115020501.02e94290@pop.registeredsite.com> At 12:33 AM 11/15/2005 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote: >Al Franken is moving to Minnesota after the first of the year, and his >show on Air America >will originate from there, at least when he's not on the road. His >sidekick, Catherine >Lampher, has left because she doesn't want to move to Minnesota. Umm, she used to live in Minnesota. That's where she and Al met. She is writing a book and I think the real story is she got tired of being just a sidekick whose role was to laugh at Al's jokes. She had a long history in public radio and felt she wasn't doing enough of the things she really enjoyed doing. I expect she'll be back on the radio eventually, perhaps back at Public Radio. From paulcurrier@adelphia.net Tue Nov 15 07:28:09 2005 From: paulcurrier@adelphia.net (Paul B. Currier) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:28:09 -0500 Subject: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons References: <1fbbbced0511141228s147e7e25t7f109979b01d8a0e@mail.gmail.com><6.2.1.2.0.20051114161353.041ed2a0@gwind.pair.com> <055e01c5e963$3540cb00$ab66fea9@hsd1.ma.comcast.net> Message-ID: <002101c5e9e0$09e4c1a0$98803418@DG07P241> Would you please explain b. & d.? Paul C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "R Trovato" To: "David Tomm" ; "Bob Nelson" ; "Scott Fybush" Cc: Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: It's official: Graham on WTKK afternoons > > > And...why was everyone so ready to believe that WBZ would blow out local > > Sullivan to pick up syndicated Severin? > > Because it would be a.) cheaper b.) Severin is better than Sullivan c.) > There is no local talk out there to compete with after 8PM. c.) It's no > longer Westinghouse. d.) BZ is in trouble. > > From brian_vita@cssinc.com Tue Nov 15 09:21:46 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:21:46 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> Message-ID: <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> A. Joseph Ross wrote: >Al Franken is moving to Minnesota after the first of the year, and his show on Air America >will originate from there, at least when he's not on the road. His sidekick, Catherine >Lampher, has left because she doesn't want to move to Minnesota. > > This is, of course, assuming that Air America still exists next year. As for his sidekick, perhaps she would like to get paid. -- Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 USA Sales: (800)231-8849 Office: (978)538-7575 Fax: (978)538-7550 www.cssinc.com From kc1ih@mac.com Tue Nov 15 11:40:05 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:40:05 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> Message-ID: At 9:21 AM -0500 11/15/05, Brian Vita wrote: >This is, of course, assuming that Air America still exists next year. Yea, last year all the "experts" were saying that AirAmerica would fold right after the elections. Well, they're still here, so I wouldn't put much stock in the doomsdayers quite yet. -- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Nov 15 13:01:32 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:01:32 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.com> But some of their most "successful" shows didn't come from the AAR stable, they came from Jones (Steph Miller, Ed Schulz). Still on air but not exactly pulling WRKO- or WTKK-style numbers. Meanwhile AAR has resorted to begging and they had to "borrow" (read: steal) money from needy boys and girls in NYC. (See Michelle Malkin and Radio Equalizer.) Franken has a mere 12.5 million fewer listeners than Rush. From nostaticatall@comcast.net Tue Nov 15 13:40:11 2005 From: nostaticatall@comcast.net (David Tomm) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:40:11 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.com> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Nov 15, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: > But some of their most "successful" shows didn't come from the AAR > stable, they came from Jones (Steph Miller, Ed Schulz). Still on air > but not exactly pulling WRKO- or WTKK-style numbers. Franken and Rhodes aren't too far behind in the affiliate count in comparison to Shultz and both have far more stations than Miller. Also, WKOX/WXKS doesn't have nearly the signal coverage of a WRKO or WTKK so you can't expect them to compete with them at this point. It will be interesting to see what happens when WKOX finally makes the move to Newton and goes to 50,000 watts. > Meanwhile AAR has resorted to begging Actually, they are developing revenue streams from their listeners, just like Limboob and O"Really do on their websites. The methodology is different but the result is the same...money flowing from listeners to the syndicator. > and they had to "borrow" (read: steal) money from needy boys and girls > in NYC. (See > Michelle Malkin and Radio Equalizer.) You mean Evan Cohen, a former Republican operative, and former CEO of the company who no longer has any connection to the new management of Air America, took the loan. The network is repaying the loan in good faith but I wouldn't be surprised to see them sue Cohen for the balance. Sorry right wingers, this "story" just isn't sticking after months of misinformation on conservative blogs. > Franken has a mere 12.5 million fewer listeners than Rush. And a lot less stations as well. How many listeners/stations did Rush have a year and a half into his show? Probably not anywhere close to what he has now. --Dave Tomm "Mike Thomas From xtrovato@yahoo.com Tue Nov 15 13:58:20 2005 From: xtrovato@yahoo.com (R Trovato) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:58:20 -0500 Subject: Al Franken References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com><1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <02ab01c5ea16$8eddae40$ab66fea9@hsd1.ma.comcast.net> > > Meanwhile AAR has resorted to begging > > Actually, they are developing revenue streams from their listeners, > just like Limboob and O"Really do on their websites. The methodology > is different but the result is the same...money flowing from listeners > to the syndicator. No, it's more like Public Radio and TV. >From what I understand the Limbaugh and O'Reilley web sites are run by the talent for the talent as a separate venture. (Much like them writing a book, etc.) Money flowing from listeners to the talent. (With O'Reilley's Web fees going to charity.) > The network is repaying the loan in good > faith but I wouldn't be surprised to see them sue Cohen for the > balance. Sorry right wingers, this "story" just isn't sticking after > months of misinformation on conservative blogs. .....right-wing, left-wing...it doesn't matter.......it's just "odd" that they would need to get a loan from the Boys Club...and not the traditional sources that most do. Possible because they couldn't get loans the traditional ways, due to their tightrope financial position. In any event, it's a pretty big risk for the Boy's Club (a charity) to lend money to broadcaster with very little track record....and whatever financial track record they had at the time.....had been bad. From kc1ih@mac.com Tue Nov 15 14:35:27 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:35:27 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.co m> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051115143334.0224a8b8@mail.mac.com> At 01:01 PM 11/15/2005, Bob Nelson wrote: >Meanwhile AAR has resorted to begging and they had to >"borrow" (read: steal) money from needy boys and girls in NYC. (See >Michelle Malkin and Radio Equalizer.) Huh? I never heard of of this site, and this does not sound credible. Sounds more like a site for rumor mongers. Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From tmw207@adelphia.net Tue Nov 15 14:21:49 2005 From: tmw207@adelphia.net (Terry) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:21:49 -0500 Subject: Al Franken References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <000901c5ea19$d40b00a0$51b42146@terrylh7k0kjh9> "Franken has a mere 12.5 million fewer listeners than Rush." Rush is owned and operated by most stations carrying him. He had quite a few less in the 80's when he first started. (when he was really entertaining) AAR has been on the air for just over a year and they are now getting national accounts, when they first started it was only PA's You who don't agree with AAR programming have a closed mind, me, I listen to them all! and then take the best of the info and process it. Terry --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0546-2, 11/15/2005 Tested on: 11/15/2005 2:21:50 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com From lglavin@lycos.com Tue Nov 15 16:56:46 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:56:46 -0500 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <20051115215646.66E60E5BD9@ws7-2.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: Terry >To: "Bob Nelson" , boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org >Subject: Re: Al Franken >Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:21:49 -0500 > > > Rush is owned and operated by most stations carrying him. He had > quite a few less in the 80's when he first started. (when he was > really entertaining) AAR has been on the air for just over a year > and they are now getting national accounts, when they first started > it was only PA's > > I just got back from attending Franken's show at the W-I-I-I-L Bur Theater. I judge about 600-650 people showed up (the theater seats about 30 across, 25 or so rows back, and was 80% occupied downstairs. I was under the balcony overhang and couldn't tell if any of the seats up there were occupied.) You have to remember that Al is a show-business person, a comedian and writer for the original Saturday Night Live. During the remotes, he plays to the audience somewhat, using facial gestures and voice inflections to get a reaction from the audience. He was playing before HIS people, so one can expect he'd have them pretty much "in the palm of his hand". He had more people from Harvard than WHRB (ok I exaggerate) including Laurence Tribe from the law school. The banter was very good between Al and LT...the more professorial men talking about the health care issue later were earnest and sincere, and it occurred to me that to the listener at home or on the road, it had the feel of NPR. When I'm not taking the day off to go to an Al Franken local appearance, I only get to hear the replays on Saturday and Sunday, so I don't know how many listener calls he takes when he does a regular studio show, but he took no calls today. I don't listen much to Rush either, but I would say that Al Franken engages the mind more than El Rushbo who seems to preach to the converted of a more fundamentalist and simple-minded church. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From dlh@donnahalper.com Tue Nov 15 17:02:09 2005 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:02:09 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <1fbbbced0511151001k7ba18d8ew47e0604cd00bff54@mail.gmail.co m> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20051115165617.02c00eb8@pop.registeredsite.com> our right wing friends said-- > Meanwhile AAR has resorted to begging and they had to >"borrow" (read: steal) money from needy boys and girls in NYC. (See >Michelle Malkin and >Radio Equalizer.) Umm, Michelle is a discredited right-wing shill, sort of like Ann Coulter, and few of us take her seriously. (Btw, we don't necessarily take Michael Moore seriously either-- I am not a fan of extremists on either side.) But if I want objective news from the right wing perspective, I go to the Wall Street Journal or National Review, both of which have acknowledged that after a shaky start, a year later Air America is doing okay financially in a number of their markets, while still struggling in others (poor signals haven't helped). And as for AAR 'begging'-- or rather, doing on-air fundraising, like Public Radio has done for years, how is that any worse than this from the Rush Limbaugh show: "Support our men and women in uniform by giving a subscription to Rush 24/7 and the Limbaugh Letter to a member of the US Armed Forces. He or she will receive unfettered access to Rush 24/7 online as well as every big, colorful issue of The Limbaugh Letter " Rush is charging $49.95 for a soldier to receive his radio broadcast and newsletter. Ouch. From sid@wrko.com Tue Nov 15 17:21:53 2005 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:21:53 -0700 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: >>And as for AAR 'begging'-- or rather, doing on-air fundraising, like Public Radio has done for years, how is that any worse than this from the Rush Limbaugh show: "Support our men and women in uniform by giving a subscription to Rush 24/7 and the Limbaugh Letter to a member of the US Armed Forces. He or she will receive unfettered access to Rush 24/7 online as well as every big, colorful issue of The Limbaugh Letter " Rush is charging $49.95 for a soldier to receive his radio broadcast and newsletter. Ouch.<< I'm extremely surprised...and my surprise is obviously out of another era...that Rush's affiliates let him get away with this, and with the nearly continuous stream of promos driving people to his web site, using the affiliates' air. Have we already begun slitting our own throats when we let crap like this go? Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - 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 lglavin@lycos.com Tue Nov 15 18:06:12 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:06:12 -0500 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <20051115230613.B3D0FC6134@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sid Schweiger" >To: dlh@donnahalper.com, boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org >Subject: Re: Al Franken >Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:21:53 -0700 > > > I'm extremely surprised...and my surprise is obviously out of another > era...that Rush's affiliates let him get away with this, and with the > nearly continuous stream of promos driving people to his web site, using > the affiliates' air. Have we already begun slitting our own throats > when we let crap like this go? > > > > Sid Schweiger > IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC > WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI > 20 Guest St / 3d Floor > Boston MA 02135-2040 > Phone: 617-779-5369 > Fax: 617-779-5379 > E-Mail: sid@wrko.com I've often wondered how NBC-TV broadcast affiliates like it when during that network's top-rated nightly newscast, the anchor often promotes shows that are scheduled later the same night on MSNBC, or less-often, CNBC? If I were an NBC affiliate but not an O&O, I might consider delaying the NBC feed, and covering such references with a promo or spot...but would the network let them get away with it? -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Tue Nov 15 18:12:09 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:12:09 -0500 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <20051115231209.862B4C6134@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Donna Halper" >To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org >Subject: Re: Al Franken >Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:02:09 -0500 > > our right wing friends said-- > > > Meanwhile AAR has resorted to begging and they had to > > "borrow" (read: steal) money from needy boys and girls in NYC. (See > > Michelle Malkin and > > Radio Equalizer.) > > Umm, Michelle is a discredited right-wing shill, sort of like Ann > Coulter, and few of us take her seriously. Recently, the like-minded Wall Street Journal took her to task for jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon with reference to a young man who committed suicide in Oklahoma. This may not be her only transgression: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/10/journalistic-standards.html (This qualifies as a legitimate Boston Radio post because Howie Carr has her on regularly and Jay Severin used to.) -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 16 00:46:30 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:30 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> Message-ID: <437A8166.5281.677C7D@localhost> On 15 Nov 2005 at 9:21, Brian Vita wrote: > This is, of course, assuming that Air America still exists next year. > As for his sidekick, perhaps she would like to get paid. Do you have some information about her not being paid, or are you just trying to badmouth Air America? -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 16 00:46:31 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:31 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: References: <4379EEFA.9050902@cssinc.com> Message-ID: <437A8167.18529.677E27@localhost> On 15 Nov 2005 at 11:40, Larry Weil wrote: > Yea, last year all the "experts" were saying that AirAmerica would > fold right after the elections. Well, they're still here, so I > wouldn't put much stock in the doomsdayers quite yet. Agreed. However, I must say, I think that it would be a serious blow to Air America if they should lose Al Franken to a Senate race. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 16 00:46:31 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:31 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <437A8167.23993.677EBE@localhost> On 15 Nov 2005 at 15:21, Sid Schweiger wrote: > I'm extremely surprised...and my surprise is obviously out of another > era...that Rush's affiliates let him get away with this, and with the > nearly continuous stream of promos driving people to his web site, > using the affiliates' air. Have we already begun slitting our own > throats when we let crap like this go? I believe Lenin said something like, "The capitalists will compete with each other to sell us the rope with which we will hang them." -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 16 00:46:31 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:31 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <20051115215646.66E60E5BD9@ws7-2.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <437A8167.30194.677F3F@localhost> On 15 Nov 2005 at 16:56, Laurence Glavin wrote: > When I'm not taking the day off to go to an Al Franken local > appearance, I only get to hear the replays on Saturday and Sunday, > so I don't know how many listener calls he takes when he does a > regular studio show, but he took no calls today. What time are the replays? Al Franken usually doesn't take listener calls. He occasionally has a feature which is a takeoff on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," in which he asks a caller to tell whether a particular statement from Rush Limbaugh or some other conservative columnist is the truth, a lie, or a weasel. That's about all the listener calls he takes. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 16 00:46:31 2005 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:31 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <20051115230613.B3D0FC6134@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <437A8167.834.678088@localhost> On 15 Nov 2005 at 18:06, Laurence Glavin wrote: > I've often wondered how NBC-TV broadcast affiliates like it when > during that network's top-rated nightly newscast, the anchor often > promotes shows that are scheduled later the same night on MSNBC, or > less-often, CNBC? If I were an NBC affiliate but not an O&O, I might > consider delaying the NBC feed, and covering such references with a > promo or spot...but would the network let them get away with it? I would think it would be hard to do a local spot that would fit the timing right, but I do remember that being done back in the early 1950s. We lived in the Albany area at the time, and Wonder Bread and Hostess Cupcakes, the Wednesday sponsors of the Howdy Doody show, were not marketed in our area. The local station would cover all ads on Wednesday with local ads, mostly for Planters Peanuts, with some guy in a Mr. Peanut costume. But the local ads usually didn't last as long as the national ads, so they were usually followed by a slide that read, "And now, Kids, back to Howdy Doody," which remained on the screen for what seemed like an eternity. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax 617.742.7581 Boston, MA 02108-2503 http://www.attorneyross.com From raccoonradio@gmail.com Wed Nov 16 03:05:57 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:05:57 -0500 Subject: BRW: Christmas 103.3 on Friday Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511160005q60e786a0k94796db2a041e769@mail.gmail.com> http://www.bostonradiowatch.com says that Oldies 103.3 flips to all-Christmas (well, except for shows like Lost 45s and Elvis Only) this Friday. From brian_vita@cssinc.com Wed Nov 16 06:59:06 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:59:06 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <437A8166.5281.677C7D@localhost> References: <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <437A8166.5281.677C7D@localhost> Message-ID: <437B1F0A.10609@cssinc.com> A. Joseph Ross wrote: >On 15 Nov 2005 at 9:21, Brian Vita wrote: > > > >>This is, of course, assuming that Air America still exists next year. >>As for his sidekick, perhaps she would like to get paid. >> >> > >Do you have some information about her not being paid, or are you just trying to badmouth >Air America? > > > The comment was based upon AA's well known financial difficulties including articles indicating that they were having difficulty making payroll. I believe that Franken even took a pay cut. The point being that the writing seems to be on the wall. -- Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 USA Sales: (800)231-8849 Office: (978)538-7575 Fax: (978)538-7550 www.cssinc.com From hykker@grolen.com Wed Nov 16 07:28:22 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:28:22 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <437A8167.23993.677EBE@localhost> References: <437A8167.23993.677EBE@localhost> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20051116072657.01b0c8a0@pop3.grolen.com> A. Joseph Ross wrote: >I believe Lenin said something like, "The capitalists will compete with >each other to sell us >the rope with which we will hang them." And as we all can see the former Soviet Union has become quite the economic powerhouse. From dlh@donnahalper.com Wed Nov 16 10:50:58 2005 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:50:58 -0500 Subject: Al Franken In-Reply-To: <437B1F0A.10609@cssinc.com> References: <437A8166.5281.677C7D@localhost> <43792CDB.24763.7BE1AE@localhost> <437A8166.5281.677C7D@localhost> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20051116105003.02c19da8@pop.registeredsite.com> >>Brian wrote-- >The comment was based upon AA's well known financial difficulties >including articles indicating that they were having difficulty making >payroll. I believe that Franken even took a pay cut. The point being >that the writing seems to be on the wall. Umm, old information. Even the conservative Wall St. Journal has since acknowledged that the new management-- two radio guys with experience in management, have put AAR on a much sounder financial footing. From lglavin@lycos.com Wed Nov 16 13:34:55 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:34:55 -0500 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <20051116183455.4D8BBC6134@ws7-5.us4.outblaze.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "A. Joseph Ross" >To: Boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org, "Larry Weil" >Subject: Re: Al Franken >Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:31 -0500 > > On 15 Nov 2005 at 11:40, Larry Weil wrote: > > > Yea, last year all the "experts" were saying that AirAmerica would > > fold right after the elections. Well, they're still here, so I > > wouldn't put much stock in the doomsdayers quite yet. > > Agreed. However, I must say, I think that it would be a serious > blow to Air America if they > should lose Al Franken to a Senate race. > > -- A few days ago I observed that AirAmerica Radio seemed to be developing a bench. Over the weekend the NY Times ran a story about Rachel Maddow and Randi Rhodes; I believe Rachel is being groomed for a more advantageous time slot than 5:00 am (when I'm up at that hour, I listen to her on WLIB, NYC when it's not being obliterated by WOWO, Ft Wayne, IN or splatter from WHAM Rochester, NY) possibly replacing Mark Maron on "Morning Sedition". And they already syndicate Thom HartmanThom Hartman and could possibly slide him right into Franken's slot. And they need to find more work for Kent Jones, a former writer for Jon Stewart's show. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From lglavin@lycos.com Wed Nov 16 16:19:28 2005 From: lglavin@lycos.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:19:28 -0500 Subject: Al Franken Message-ID: <20051116211929.26FC4CA09C@ws7-4.us4.outblaze.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Joseph Ross" To: Terry , "Bob Nelson" , boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org, "Laurence Glavin" Subject: Re: Al Franken Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:46:31 -0500 > > On 15 Nov 2005 at 16:56, Laurence Glavin wrote: > > > When I'm not taking the day off to go to an Al Franken local > > appearance, I only get to hear the replays on Saturday and Sunday, > > so I don't know how many listener calls he takes when he does a > > regular studio show, but he took no calls today. > > What time are the replays? > The "Best of Al Franken" (probably like other "Best of..." shows by other talk show hosts on other stations just shows picked at random) is heard Saturday afternoon from 1:00 to 3:00 pm and Sunday mornings from 8:00 till 10:00 am. Chances are they will re-air the Tuesday show from Boston. For pictures taken during the broadcast go to: http://www.bostonsprogressivetalk.com As I said, I was seated downstairs under the balcony overhang...no amount of scrutiny will reveal my visage. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 From hmglaz@webtv.net Wed Nov 16 16:44:26 2005 From: hmglaz@webtv.net (Howard Glazer) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:44:26 -0500 Subject: Hartford-related Message-ID: <16304-437BA83A-818@storefull-3335.bay.webtv.net> A note and an observation: -- For those of you with XM, the Sixties on 6 channel will be "recreating" WPOP Hartford on Friday from 4 to 9 p.m. These shows aren't all that good -- generally, they consist of old jingles and whatever vintage airchecks are available, with the rest of the voicing being done by XM's Terry Young -- but occasionally Terry gets one of the featured station's former DJs on the phone for some nostalgic talk. Might be worth a listen for fans of Hartford Top 40 radio. -- WDRC-FM has plunged headlong into a modified "Jack" format: hits (and even some non-hits and album tracks) of the '60s through '80s. The DJs -- yes, they've kept the DJs -- talk about "building Connecticut's biggest music library" and say DRC-FM is "like your iPod on shuffle." The discussion board at radio-info.com seems to be totally negative on this, but I kind of like what I'm hearing. The transitions can be kind of jarring -- I heard the Rascals' "A Girl Like You" followed by the Village People's "YMCA" this afternoon, followed a few minutes later by an even more unlikely pairing: the Outsiders' "Time Won't Let Me" and David Bowie's "Golden Years." A few nights ago, during the overnight (which appears to be staffed by interns and/or Conn School of Broadcasting students), the Ohio Express' "Beg Borrow and Steal" and Donovan's "Season of the Witch" aired back to back. But the way I see it, it beats "Monday Monday" into "Brown-Eyed Girl" for the gazillionth time. What do you radio pros make of this apparently home-grown variation of "Jack"? Will the playlist tighten back up with the first bad book? Will outside consultants be hired? Howard From billings@suscom-maine.net Wed Nov 16 20:14:04 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:14:04 -0500 Subject: Amazing! WPOR plays a Johnny Cash song Message-ID: <000901c5eb14$34a48e40$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> I was shocked this morning to hear WPOR play "Ring of Fire." It has probably been more than 20 years since Johnny Cash has been on their play list. They are doing a Johnny Cash song of the day this week as part of a promotion for the Cash bio-pic "Walk the Line." I don't know what it says about radio or popular culture when music that is not usually deemed worthy of airplay gets airplay due to a movie. Or is due to $ for the promotion? -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine From xtrovato@yahoo.com Wed Nov 16 22:29:56 2005 From: xtrovato@yahoo.com (Rob) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:29:56 -0500 Subject: Fw: Max Robbins blog/site? Message-ID: <000801c5eb27$34edaa90$0180050a@gmiboston.com> .When Max Robbins (from Broadcasting & Cable magazine) is on the Howie Carr show, they usually wind up the hour giving out Max's web site. A site that sounds like his personal site or blog. (Not the Broadcasting & Cable magazine site). Anyone recall what it is? thanks.... From hykker@grolen.com Wed Nov 16 22:14:52 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:14:52 -0500 Subject: Hartford-related In-Reply-To: <16304-437BA83A-818@storefull-3335.bay.webtv.net> References: <16304-437BA83A-818@storefull-3335.bay.webtv.net> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20051116221321.01ba6e00@pop3.grolen.com> Howard Glazer wrote: >-- WDRC-FM has plunged headlong into a modified "Jack" format: hits (and >even some non-hits and album tracks) of the '60s through '80s. The DJs >-- yes, they've kept the DJs -- talk about "building Connecticut's >biggest music library" and say DRC-FM is "like your iPod on shuffle." > >What do you radio pros make of this apparently home-grown variation of >"Jack"? Will the playlist tighten back up with the first bad book? Will >outside consultants be hired? Hasn't 'DRC periodically experimented with a wider library before? How did it work out for them then? From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Thu Nov 17 00:08:49 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:08:49 -0500 Subject: Hartford-related Message-ID: <200511170008.AA2013790772@mail.ttlc.net> (Howard Glazer)asked: > Will the playlist tighten back up with the first bad book? >Will outside consultants be hired? The usual procedure is: 1. Search for the guilty. 2. Punish the innocent. 3. Reward the non-participants. From billings@suscom-maine.net Thu Nov 17 21:29:47 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:29:47 -0500 Subject: Amazing! WPOR plays a Johnny Cash song Message-ID: <001101c5ebe7$f1e16360$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> I was shocked this morning to hear WPOR play "Ring of Fire." It has probably been more than 20 years since Johnny Cash has been on their play list. They are doing a Johnny Cash song of the day this week as part of a promotion for the Cash bio-pic "Walk the Line." I don't know what it says about radio or popular culture when music that is not usually deemed worthy of airplay gets airplay due to a movie. Or is due to $ for the promotion? -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine From ecps92@earthlink.net Thu Nov 17 22:38:27 2005 From: ecps92@earthlink.net (Bill) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:38:27 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday References: <1fbbbced0511160005q60e786a0k94796db2a041e769@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1b7f01c5ebf1$89a89660$7001a8c0@D60NFN81> I think they went a little Early. A Friend just called and asked me if they went Today or Yesterday. Bill Dunn N1/KUG Cruise Ship Frequencies http://home.earthlink.net/~ecps92/cruise_ships.htm [Updated] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" To: ; "Bob Nelson" Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:05 AM Subject: BRW: Christmas 103.3 on Friday > http://www.bostonradiowatch.com says that Oldies 103.3 flips to > all-Christmas (well, > except for shows like Lost 45s and Elvis Only) this Friday. > From jjlehmann@comcast.net Thu Nov 17 22:56:27 2005 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:56:27 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <1b7f01c5ebf1$89a89660$7001a8c0@D60NFN81> Message-ID: <200511180356.jAI3udY0058135@rolinin.bostonradio.org> Looking at www.yes.com, they started today just before 9 AM. 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 Bill >Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:38 PM >To: Bob Nelson; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org >Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday > >I think they went a little Early. A Friend just called and asked me if >they >went Today or Yesterday. > >Bill Dunn N1/KUG >Cruise Ship Frequencies >http://home.earthlink.net/~ecps92/cruise_ships.htm [Updated] > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bob Nelson" >To: ; "Bob Nelson" > >Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:05 AM >Subject: BRW: Christmas 103.3 on Friday > > >> http://www.bostonradiowatch.com says that Oldies 103.3 flips to >> all-Christmas (well, >> except for shows like Lost 45s and Elvis Only) this Friday. >> From RBello@BelloAssoc.com Thu Nov 17 23:03:02 2005 From: RBello@BelloAssoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:03:02 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <1b7f01c5ebf1$89a89660$7001a8c0@D60NFN81> References: <1fbbbced0511160005q60e786a0k94796db2a041e769@mail.gmail.com> <1b7f01c5ebf1$89a89660$7001a8c0@D60NFN81> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20051117230134.0310c050@pop.gis.net> 9am Thursday Burl Ives Holly Jolly Christmas followed by Elvis At 10:38 PM 11/17/2005, Bill wrote: >I think they went a little Early. A Friend just called and asked me if >they went Today or Yesterday. > >Bill Dunn N1/KUG >Cruise Ship Frequencies >http://home.earthlink.net/~ecps92/cruise_ships.htm [Updated] > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" >To: ; "Bob Nelson" > >Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:05 AM >Subject: BRW: Christmas 103.3 on Friday > > >>http://www.bostonradiowatch.com says that Oldies 103.3 flips to >>all-Christmas (well, >>except for shows like Lost 45s and Elvis Only) this Friday. > From lorraine6474@usadatanet.net Fri Nov 18 09:46:47 2005 From: lorraine6474@usadatanet.net (Lorraine Smith) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:46:47 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday References: <1fbbbced0511160005q60e786a0k94796db2a041e769@mail.gmail.com> <1b7f01c5ebf1$89a89660$7001a8c0@D60NFN81> Message-ID: <004401c5ec4e$e7be2690$f3e54345@Lorraine> >I think they went a little Early. A Friend just called and asked me if they > went Today or Yesterday. They switched on Thursday...Last night a friend commented that she was done with Oldies 103 until after Christmas. I suggested that if she could stand a little interference, to tune to 1520 (KB) after sunset. I have them on a pre-set and check out the oldies when I am missing Paul Sullivan. Lorraine From brian_vita@cssinc.com Fri Nov 18 10:35:42 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:35:42 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <004401c5ec4e$e7be2690$f3e54345@Lorraine> Message-ID: <001301c5ec55$bcd3f570$6800a8c0@Andrastea> > >I think they went a little Early. A Friend just called > and asked me if > they > > went Today or Yesterday. > > They switched on Thursday...Last night a friend commented > that she was > done with Oldies 103 until after Christmas. > > I suggested that if she could stand a little interference, > to tune to > 1520 (KB) after sunset. I have them on a pre-set and check out the > oldies when I am missing Paul Sullivan. > > Lorraine > This is exactly why I switched to satellite about 4 years ago. I don't have to worry about nutty format changes. With 150 channels, the oldies channels will be the oldies channels. If I want holiday music, they've got 3 season channels for that. I don't know what's on the mind of the programmers at some of the traditional stations. They seem to be hell bent on accelerating their own demise. Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 Ofc: +1-978-538-7575 Fax: +1-978-538-7550 From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Fri Nov 18 10:44:33 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:44:33 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103 Message-ID: <200511181044.AA3360227404@mail.ttlc.net> According to Billboard Monitor, the following stations were reported to be full/partial Christmas as of 11/17. Guess their Boston correspondent missed something. Clear Channel AC WBBQ Augusta, Ga. (full) Salem contemporary Christian WFHM Cleveland, Ohio (full) Infinity AC KVIL Dallas-Ft. Worth (full) Salem contemporary Christian KLTY Dallas-Ft. Worth (full) Clear Channel AC WNIC Detroit (full) Entercom AC WSPA Greenville, S.C. (full) Infinity soft AC KSRC Kansas City, KS-Mo. (full) Entercom soft AC KUDL Kansas City, Ks.-Mo. (full) Infinity soft AC WLTE Minneapolis-St. Paul (full) Clear Channel oldies KQQL Minneapolis-St. Paul (full) Waitt Radio soft AC KLTQ Omaha, Neb. (full) Salem contemporary Christian KGBI Omaha, Neb. (full) Bonneville International soft AC KSFI Salt Lake City, Utah (full) Salem contempoary Christian KFIS Portland, Ore. (full) Radio Training Network contemporary Christian Springfield, Mo. (full) Clear Channel AC WMYI Greenville, S.C. (partial) Infinity soft AC WRCH Hartford, Ct. (partial) Black Crow Broadcasting AC Huntsville, Ala. (partial) Clear Channel hot AC WMXL Lexington, Ky. (partial) From dan.strassberg@att.net Fri Nov 18 11:30:31 2005 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan Strassberg) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:30:31 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103 References: <200511181044.AA3360227404@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <001f01c5ec5d$889e0c20$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Looks as if YOU missed something: The stations on your list normally run only two formats--AC and contemporary Christian. WODS normally runs neither. But that said, I can't believe that the list is complete or that YOU believe the list is complete. I suspect that nationwide in the US, after Thanksgiving, when Christmas goes into full swing in this country, the number of stations running all-Christmas-music all-the-time (except for other kinds of programming, such as sporting events, which some stations are contractually obligated to carry) may well exceed 1000. That would amount to only a little more than 7% of all US radio stations! Management has obviously discovered that the format pays and pays well. Last year weren't there several satellite-delivered all-Christmas services for PDs to choose from? There should be at least an equal number this year. In the true spirit of Christmas, those services allow managment to lay off stations' entire air staffs. I'm sure the staffs appreciate the time off but probably don't appreciate the "vacation" from paychecks, especially at this time of year. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rogerkirk" To: "BRI" Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Christmas 103 > According to Billboard Monitor, the following stations were > reported to be full/partial Christmas as of 11/17. Guess > their Boston correspondent missed something. From kc1ih@mac.com Fri Nov 18 12:20:09 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:20:09 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <001301c5ec55$bcd3f570$6800a8c0@Andrastea> References: <001301c5ec55$bcd3f570$6800a8c0@Andrastea> Message-ID: At 10:35 AM -0500 11/18/05, Brian Vita wrote: > >This is exactly why I switched to satellite about 4 years ago. I don't have >to worry about nutty format changes. With 150 channels, the oldies channels >will be the oldies channels. If I want holiday music, they've got 3 season >channels for that. Not always true. I'm rather P.O.ed at Sirius, which recently discontinued their folk music and swing music channels. And XM has temporarily suspended several of their music channels to put on holiday music. -- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From ehennessy@verizon.net Fri Nov 18 12:32:29 2005 From: ehennessy@verizon.net (Ed Hennessy) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:32:29 -0600 (CST) Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday Message-ID: <10718105.1132335149077.JavaMail.root@vms062.mailsrvcs.net> >From: Larry Weil > >Not always true. I'm rather P.O.ed at Sirius, which recently >discontinued their folk music and swing music channels. And XM has >temporarily suspended several of their music channels to put on >holiday music. Not this year. They are using 5 otherwise unassigned channels (103-107) for holiday music. Last year that was true, when at least 2 of the holiday music channels were reprogrammed from the usual music channels for the holidays. Ed Hennessy From brian_vita@cssinc.com Fri Nov 18 12:42:39 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:42:39 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <10718105.1132335149077.JavaMail.root@vms062.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: <003a01c5ec67$788eac90$6800a8c0@Andrastea> XM was originally set up with one "special" seasonal channel called "Special X". When they realized that this wasn't enough, they would seasonally bump some of the less popular channels (ie. Sunny) for the special needs. Apparently they've improved their codec to the point where they can now squeeze additional channels out of their bandwith. Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 (800)231-8849 Fax: (800)231-8849 > -----Original Message----- > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] > On Behalf Of Ed Hennessy > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:32 PM > To: Larry Weil; boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org > Subject: Re: RE: Christmas 103.3 on Friday > > > >From: Larry Weil > > > >Not always true. I'm rather P.O.ed at Sirius, which recently > >discontinued their folk music and swing music channels. And XM has > >temporarily suspended several of their music channels to put on > >holiday music. > > Not this year. They are using 5 otherwise unassigned > channels (103-107) for holiday music. Last year that was > true, when at least 2 of the holiday music channels were > reprogrammed from the usual music channels for the holidays. > > Ed Hennessy > From kc1ih@mac.com Fri Nov 18 12:48:54 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:48:54 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <10718105.1132335149077.JavaMail.root@vms062.mailsrvcs.net> References: <10718105.1132335149077.JavaMail.root@vms062.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: At 11:32 AM -0600 11/18/05, Ed Hennessy wrote: > >From: Larry Weil >> >>Not always true. I'm rather P.O.ed at Sirius, which recently >>discontinued their folk music and swing music channels. And XM has >>temporarily suspended several of their music channels to put on >>holiday music. > >Not this year. They are using 5 otherwise unassigned channels >(103-107) for holiday music. Last year that was true, when at least >2 of the holiday music channels were reprogrammed from the usual >music channels for the holidays. I'm reading differently (unless I mis-interperted something) on one of the XM fan sites, that they are using different channel numbers, but that still some of the channels are being put oh hiatus. Bandwidth is still bandwidth, no matter how you map the channels. In other news, the promised Canadian channels are live and available to regular subscribers on XM as of yesterday, but not available to those (including me) who only get XM via DirecTV. -- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From brian_vita@cssinc.com Fri Nov 18 14:25:28 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:25:28 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <005901c5ec75$d5f8ac60$6800a8c0@Andrastea> Bandwidth is still bandwidth but as you improve the algorithm for encoding and tweak the bandwidth requirements for the subchannels, you have more elbow room to work with. For example, the news and talk channels use up less bandwidth than the music channels since they are not full range. Likewise, I'll bet that the 40's channel is similarly clipped. About a year after they started up, they tweaked the encoding on the news and talk channels until they sounded like a bad pay phone. After complaining they cleaned up. In the last year they've added a whole ton of "seasonal" channels such as baseball, basketball, etc. Keep in mind that their channel assignment is dynamic. When they use the Boston baseball channel, it gets bandwidth. When its off season you get a low bandwidth message saying that the game is not available. Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 (800)231-8849 Fax: (800)231-8849 > >music channels for the holidays. > > I'm reading differently (unless I mis-interperted something) on one > of the XM fan sites, that they are using different channel numbers, > but that still some of the channels are being put oh hiatus. > Bandwidth is still bandwidth, no matter how you map the channels. In > other news, the promised Canadian channels are live and available to > regular subscribers on XM as of yesterday, but not available to those > (including me) who only get XM via DirecTV. > > -- > Larry Weil > Lake Wobegone, NH > From raccoonradio@gmail.com Fri Nov 18 16:38:59 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:38:59 -0500 Subject: Fw: Max Robbins blog/site? In-Reply-To: <000801c5eb27$34edaa90$0180050a@gmiboston.com> References: <000801c5eb27$34edaa90$0180050a@gmiboston.com> Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511181338t4ab9c06u24335e8094b0d7b8@mail.gmail.com> http://www.bcbeat.com is B&C's blog; not sure if he has another one but bcbeat seems to be what they mention On 11/16/05, Rob wrote: > .When Max Robbins (from Broadcasting & Cable magazine) is on the Howie Carr > show, they usually wind up the hour giving out Max's web site. A site that > sounds like his personal site or blog. (Not the Broadcasting & Cable > magazine site). > > Anyone recall what it is? > > thanks.... > > From scott@fybush.com Sat Nov 19 20:47:05 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:47:05 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103 In-Reply-To: <001f01c5ec5d$889e0c20$19eefea9@dstrassberg> References: <200511181044.AA3360227404@mail.ttlc.net> <001f01c5ec5d$889e0c20$19eefea9@dstrassberg> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051119204313.03d3b330@gwind.pair.com> >I suspect that nationwide in the US, after >Thanksgiving, when Christmas goes into full swing in this country, the >number of stations running all-Christmas-music all-the-time (except for >other kinds of programming, such as sporting events, which some stations are >contractually obligated to carry) may well exceed 1000. That would amount to >only a little more than 7% of all US radio stations! Oh dear. Joe Gallant has apparently gotten a hold of Dan's e-mail account and is posting from there :-) The real number in the last few years has been closer to 300 than 1000, and that's including stations that flip as late as 12/20 or so. (That's from our tracking at 100000watts.com, which I have reason to believe is extremely accurate.) In general, we've found that the stations that go all-Christmas are generally in large or medium markets, and it's rare to find more than one in a market. Even assuming we miss a few (and no doubt we do), I'd still doubt that the number is much above 400, and even that includes affiliates of one or another of the satellite services that go all-Christmas for a couple of weeks. It's still very much a mixed bag - for every station that does extremely well with it, there's another that finds that the listeners don't come back, or that they've inadvertently created a temporary format hole for an aggressive competitor to enter. s From RBello@BelloAssoc.com Sun Nov 20 00:08:30 2005 From: RBello@BelloAssoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:08:30 -0500 Subject: Christmas 103.3 on Friday In-Reply-To: <001301c5ec55$bcd3f570$6800a8c0@Andrastea> References: <004401c5ec4e$e7be2690$f3e54345@Lorraine> <001301c5ec55$bcd3f570$6800a8c0@Andrastea> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20051120000621.0310e270@pop.gis.net> > > >This is exactly why I switched to satellite about 4 years ago. I don't have >to worry about nutty format changes. With 150 channels, the oldies channels >will be the oldies channels. If I want holiday music, they've got 3 season >channels for that. I don't know what's on the mind of the programmers at >some of the traditional stations. They seem to be hell bent on accelerating >their own demise. > >Brian T. Vita, President Also a great opportunity to rediscover the many CDs you haven't listened to in years From raccoonradio@gmail.com Sun Nov 20 00:37:40 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:37:40 -0500 Subject: Severin off WTKK site totally? Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511192137i5d7faabh181ccc853dcc04e4@mail.gmail.com> No more mention of Jay on the WTKK site...a sign that he's heading for WBZ? Even that "Where's Jay?" page is gone (the one which said that he had signed a deal for a competing company and they were negotiating with him, and he'd be off air till a deal was struck). The "FM Talk Personalities" page had listed Graham (as 3-7 pm) and Ingraham (7-10) since Monday, but in between them it had said (as of this past week) "Jay Severin" but with no hours listed (and a link to the "Where's Jay?") page. Now, Severin's name is gone. Also there had been some pix of him on the "FM Talk Photo Album" at various events (Ingraham live broadcast, for one) but no sign of him now. Who knows, maybe he WILL be back on WTKK...but his disappearance from the site makes one go hmmm... From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Mon Nov 21 21:02:25 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:02:25 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play Message-ID: <200511212102.AA3617718348@mail.ttlc.net> According to Billboard Monitor, the record inustry is asking for performance rights payments (to artists & labels) in addition to existing payments to Composers, Arragers & Publishers. Alledgedly to defray the lost sales incurred when radio goes "HD" and consumers will be able to record music digitally from the radio with no loss of quality. Of course, they are also asking these payments from non-digital stations, too. Could this be in retribution for being called on the carpet for alleged payola-like activities? From hykker@grolen.com Tue Nov 22 07:31:12 2005 From: hykker@grolen.com (SteveOrdinetz) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:31:12 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play In-Reply-To: <200511212102.AA3617718348@mail.ttlc.net> References: <200511212102.AA3617718348@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20051122072746.01b71c60@pop3.grolen.com> At 09:02 PM 11/21/2005, rogerkirk wrote: >According to Billboard Monitor, the record inustry is asking for >performance rights payments (to artists & labels) in addition to existing >payments to Composers, Arragers & Publishers. Alledgedly to defray the >lost sales incurred when radio goes "HD" and consumers will be able to >record music digitally from the radio with no loss of quality. Of course, >they are also asking these payments from non-digital stations, too. > >Could this be in retribution for being called on the carpet for alleged >payola-like activities? It never ceases to amaze me how the music industry keeps shooting itself in the foot. All it will take to kill this is for one of the large groups (CC, Infinity) to refuse to go along. I hope they do it. On another related note, I read somewhere about Sony having put some sort of hard to detect, harder to remove spyware into their CDs that will automatically load if you try to play them in a PC. Apparently it was an attempt to make the music copy-proof. I understand that several lawsuits have been filed. From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Tue Nov 22 10:45:45 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:45:45 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play Message-ID: <200511221045.AA923926560@mail.ttlc.net> SteveOrdinetz wrote: >It never ceases to amaze me how the music industry keeps shooting >itself in the foot. All it will take to kill this is for one of the >large groups (CC, Infinity) to refuse to go along. I hope they do it. Or, they may decide to announce that all music played is "compensated" and bill each record company (legally) for having played their music. >On another related note, I read somewhere about Sony having put some >sort of hard to detect, harder to remove spyware into their CDs that >will automatically load if you try to play them in a PC. Apparently >it was an attempt to make the music copy-proof. I understand that >several lawsuits have been filed. It is true, they essentially did this. However, they initially did not inform the purchaser/user that the software was being installed. Later CDs had miniscule fine print informing the user that it would happen and that could circumvent it by not placing the CD in their computer. The hue & cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG discontinuing the practice, although there are an untold number of CDs in the retail chain that still contain this little bugger. Sony has supplied a program that will remove the offending software. From francini@mac.com Tue Nov 22 10:55:14 2005 From: francini@mac.com (John Francini) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:55:14 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play In-Reply-To: <200511221045.AA923926560@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <013e01c5ef7d$2d3cb1b0$2c05440a@myopwv.com> > > >On another related note, I read somewhere about Sony having put some > >sort of hard to detect, harder to remove spyware into their CDs that > >will automatically load if you try to play them in a PC. Apparently > >it was an attempt to make the music copy-proof. I understand that > >several lawsuits have been filed. > > It is true, they essentially did this. However, they initially did not > inform the purchaser/user that the software was being installed. Later CDs > had miniscule fine print informing the user that it would happen and that > could circumvent it by not placing the CD in their computer. The hue & > cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG discontinuing the practice, although > there are an untold number of CDs in the retail chain that still contain > this little bugger. Sony has supplied a program that will remove the > offending software. However, said program doesn't work right in many cases. Also, the original spyware has been classified as 'malicious software' by all the anti-virus software companies, such as McAfee and Symantec. Makes me all the more glad that I only use Macs for all my personally-owned computers. They're immune to every last one of the PC viruses. John Francini From sid@wrko.com Tue Nov 22 11:37:05 2005 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:37:05 -0700 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play Message-ID: >> The hue & cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG discontinuing the practice, although there are an untold number of CDs in the retail chain that still contain this little bugger.<< Sony has issued a recall of all unsold retail product which contains the software. >>Sony has supplied a program that will remove the offending software.<< ...which only works some of the time, and does nothing to plug the enormous security hole that the software opens up when it installs. Who, in some corporate executive suite, decided that treating the customers as enemies was sound business practice??? Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - 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 brian_vita@cssinc.com Tue Nov 22 11:12:14 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:12:14 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play In-Reply-To: <200511221045.AA923926560@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <002101c5ef7f$8136e270$6800a8c0@Andrastea> > It is true, they essentially did this. However, they > initially did not inform the purchaser/user that the software > was being installed. Later CDs had miniscule fine print > informing the user that it would happen and that could > circumvent it by not placing the CD in their computer. The > hue & cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG discontinuing the > practice, although there are an untold number of CDs in the > retail chain that still contain this little bugger. Sony has > supplied a program that will remove the offending software. > This is only partially true. The Sony CD's, when played on a computer, installs a program called "rootkit" that could very accurately be described as a virus. This program attaches and integrates itself into your Windows operating system and is theoretically there to prevent you from pirating CD's. It does this by telling your OS to be blind to file names that begin with a certain text string. There are then sub-programs that run to prevent illicit file copies. The problem with this scenario is that hackers can also create "programs" (viruses) that begin with the same string and your OS and most likely your anti-virus programs would not see them. The story that they are releasing a "patch" to remove the program is an outright lie for publicity spin. Once you have corrupted the OS with the program, you cannot restore the OS to its original state with anything short of a complete reformat and reinstall. Further, the amount of chutzpah exhibited by Sony by first violating the purchaser's trust in clandestinely installing their program on your computer without your consent and then asking you to voluntarily install another program is outrageous. I have had first hand contact with this program. I have a dedicated laptop that was carefully purged, reformatted and only has JockeyProLT and my music library on it for the show. This was done to insure stability and reliability. I purchase all of the music that I use for my show on WMWM (the station doesn't have a smooth jazz library). Each week I purchase one or two CD's to add to the library which is ripped and added to the drive on that machine. I personally do not condone the Napster/Grokster free download thing. Last week I purchased the new Chris Botti and Alicia Keys CD's, both of which are Sony or some variation of Sony. As soon as I put the Chris Botti CD into the drive, I knew something was wrong. The machine has been acting squirrelly since. I fear that I will now have to reformat and reload the entire music library. Sony is facing several class actions suits already on this. I'm waiting for one to appear locally. I think that Sony owes me compensation for my time and aggravation for the damages that their spyware inflicted on my equipment. A word of warning here to radio stations that are using Windows based automation for your music rotation. Do not add Sony music to your computers until such time as you are sure that it will not infect your operation systems! Some background on my comments can be found at these links: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69467,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69560,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69559,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69575,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69573,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69601,00.html Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 Ofc: +1-978-538-7575 Fax: +1-978-538-7550 From sandra.lunch@citcomm.com Tue Nov 22 11:26:56 2005 From: sandra.lunch@citcomm.com (Sandra Harris) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:26:56 -0500 Subject: Sony Rootkit References: <013e01c5ef7d$2d3cb1b0$2c05440a@myopwv.com> Message-ID: <013601c5ef81$8ed54b90$a1120a0a@ccc.ccc> > > >On another related note, I read somewhere about Sony having put some > > >sort of hard to detect, harder to remove spyware into their CDs that > > >will automatically load if you try to play them in a PC. Apparently > > >it was an attempt to make the music copy-proof. I understand that > > >several lawsuits have been filed. > > > > It is true, they essentially did this. However, they initially did not > > inform the purchaser/user that the software was being installed. Later CDs > > had miniscule fine print informing the user that it would happen and that > > could circumvent it by not placing the CD in their computer. The hue & > > cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG discontinuing the practice, although > > there are an untold number of CDs in the retail chain that still contain > > this little bugger. Sony has supplied a program that will remove the > > offending software. > > However, said program doesn't work right in many cases. Also, the original > spyware has been classified as 'malicious software' by all the anti-virus > software companies, such as McAfee and Symantec. > > Makes me all the more glad that I only use Macs for all my personally-owned > computers. They're immune to every last one of the PC viruses. > > John Francini Macs are also vulnerable to the Sony rootkit http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885915,00.asp From francini@mac.com Tue Nov 22 13:04:40 2005 From: francini@mac.com (John Francini) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:04:40 -0500 Subject: Sony Rootkit In-Reply-To: <013601c5ef81$8ed54b90$a1120a0a@ccc.ccc> Message-ID: <015e01c5ef8f$3fc45380$2c05440a@myopwv.com> Yes, but... Unlike the PC one, which just quietly installs itself with NO knowledge on the part of the user, the Mac one requires that you type in an Administrator user name and password. And it's in a separate partition. You can't install it without KNOWING that it's trying to do something that's Aministrator-privileged. Even if the software didn't show the EULA, the moment the installer tried to do anything at all that would affect the system, the system automatically generates the Admin username/password challenge screen. This happens even if you're already logged in on an account that has Administrator privileges. Most Mac users that I see (I do Mac consulting) know very well that they shouldn't type that info into their computer unless they're actively trying to do Something Important. And there's no reason on God's green earth why a bloody CD should want to install Administrator-privileged software on a computer unless it's to do something most users don't want done. Therefore, to shoot yourself in the foot on a Mac, you actually have to AIM at the foot. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandra Harris [mailto:sandra.lunch@citcomm.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:27 > To: John Francini; rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net; boston-radio- > interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org; 'SteveOrdinetz' > Subject: Sony Rootkit > > > > > > >On another related note, I read somewhere about Sony having put some > > > >sort of hard to detect, harder to remove spyware into their CDs that > > > >will automatically load if you try to play them in a PC. Apparently > > > >it was an attempt to make the music copy-proof. I understand that > > > >several lawsuits have been filed. > > > > > > It is true, they essentially did this. However, they initially did > not > > > inform the purchaser/user that the software was being installed. Later > CDs > > > had miniscule fine print informing the user that it would happen and > that > > > could circumvent it by not placing the CD in their computer. The hue > & > > > cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG discontinuing the practice, > although > > > there are an untold number of CDs in the retail chain that still > contain > > > this little bugger. Sony has supplied a program that will remove the > > > offending software. > > > > However, said program doesn't work right in many cases. Also, the > original > > spyware has been classified as 'malicious software' by all the anti- > virus > > software companies, such as McAfee and Symantec. > > > > Makes me all the more glad that I only use Macs for all my > personally-owned > > computers. They're immune to every last one of the PC viruses. > > > > John Francini > > > Macs are also vulnerable to the Sony rootkit > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885915,00.asp From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Tue Nov 22 13:21:59 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:21:59 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play Message-ID: <200511221321.AA4251910462@mail.ttlc.net> "Sid Schweiger" opined: >Who, in some corporate executive suite, decided that treating the >customers as enemies was sound business practice??? I think they prefer to consider it just their subtle, helpful way of preventing customers from becoming enemies (pirates) by narrowing the path to righteousness and helping them avoid temptation (and the near occasion of sin.) From kc1ih@mac.com Tue Nov 22 14:26:01 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:26:01 -0500 Subject: Music Industry Asking For Radio To Pay For Play In-Reply-To: <200511221045.AA923926560@mail.ttlc.net> References: <200511221045.AA923926560@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051122142415.02277560@mail.mac.com> At 10:45 AM 11/22/2005, rogerkirk wrote: >It is true, they essentially did this. However, they initially did >not inform the purchaser/user that the software was being installed. >Later CDs had miniscule fine print informing the user that it would >happen and that could circumvent it by not placing the CD in their >computer. The hue & cry over this resulted in Sony/BMG >discontinuing the practice, although there are an untold number of >CDs in the retail chain that still contain this little bugger. Sony >has supplied a program that will remove the offending software. Problem is, the removal software can mess up your computer worse than what it's trying to remove. Fortunately, none of this effects a Mac! Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From kc1ih@mac.com Tue Nov 22 14:32:16 2005 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:32:16 -0500 Subject: Sony Rootkit In-Reply-To: <013601c5ef81$8ed54b90$a1120a0a@ccc.ccc> References: <013e01c5ef7d$2d3cb1b0$2c05440a@myopwv.com> <013601c5ef81$8ed54b90$a1120a0a@ccc.ccc> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20051122142827.022a0428@mail.mac.com> At 11:26 AM 11/22/2005, Sandra Harris wrote: >Macs are also vulnerable to the Sony rootkit >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885915,00.asp A Mac running OS X will not let anything be installed unless the user's password is entered. I guess some users will be naive enough to enter their password when this CD asks for permission, but I sure as hell won't! Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From mattosborne1976@yahoo.com Wed Nov 23 08:39:28 2005 From: mattosborne1976@yahoo.com (Matthew Osborne) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:39:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sony Rootkit In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051122142827.022a0428@mail.mac.com> Message-ID: <20051123133928.45975.qmail@web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:32:16 -0500 Larry Weil wrote: > At 11:26 AM 11/22/2005, Sandra Harris wrote: > > >Macs are also vulnerable to the Sony rootkit > >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885915,00.asp > > A Mac running OS X will not let anything be > installed unless the > user's password is entered. I guess some users will > be naive enough > to enter their password when this CD asks for > permission, but I sure > as hell won't! > To the best of my knowledge, this Sony rootkit also does not affect PCs running the Linux OS either. Matt Osborne Schenectady, NY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From clambreath@hotmail.com Wed Nov 23 21:00:01 2005 From: clambreath@hotmail.com (C G) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:00:01 -0500 Subject: Sony Rootkit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Cory Doctorow, the head of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, has blogged at boingboing.net that he's heard that the uproar over the Sony Digital Restrictions Management software and rootkit has seriously discredited the proponents of DRM within Sony. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/20/sony_insider_drm_is_.html Facing lawsuits from the EFF, Texas, Italy, and several others - plus a nasty PR nightmare that is just starting, this could be a big wakeup call for Sony. additionally boingboing reports that some employers are banning ANY personal CDs at work and some libraries have banned Sony CDs. So maybe there is an upside for radio. From raccoonradio@gmail.com Fri Nov 25 12:44:19 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:44:19 -0500 Subject: Magic goes all "Cristmas" (sic) Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511250944y1e9ef651rabe35e505443f929@mail.gmail.com> http://www.magic1067.com WMJX is going all-Christmas, or all "Cristmas" (sic) according to their website. Not that I listen to them anyway. At least they waited till after turkey day. From paulcurrier@adelphia.net Fri Nov 25 18:56:57 2005 From: paulcurrier@adelphia.net (Paul B. Currier) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:56:57 -0500 Subject: Magic goes all "Cristmas" (sic) References: <1fbbbced0511250944y1e9ef651rabe35e505443f929@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <000d01c5f21b$eba14260$98803418@DG07P241> Just another turkey station. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" To: ; "Bob Nelson" Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 12:44 PM Subject: Magic goes all "Cristmas" (sic) > http://www.magic1067.com > > WMJX is going all-Christmas, or all "Cristmas" (sic) according to > their website. Not that I listen to them anyway. At least they waited > till after turkey day. > > From billo@shoreham.net Fri Nov 25 20:28:49 2005 From: billo@shoreham.net (billo@shoreham.net) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:28:49 -0500 Subject: Magic goes all "Cristmas" (sic) In-Reply-To: <1fbbbced0511250944y1e9ef651rabe35e505443f929@mail.gmail.com> References: <1fbbbced0511250944y1e9ef651rabe35e505443f929@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1132968529.4387ba517f4b4@webmail.shoreham.net> Quoting Bob Nelson : > WMJX is going all-Christmas, or all "Cristmas" (sic) according to > their website. Not that I listen to them anyway. At least they waited > till after turkey day. Cristmas? WMGX (sic) needs a slep ckecher. Christmas music on Boston radio. Poof, that's magic all right. When old Boston slips out of the top 10..... Bill O'Neill From scott@fybush.com Mon Nov 28 20:35:25 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:35:25 -0500 Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20051128202936.03b6a5b8@gwind.pair.com> Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a long article about Severin's show coming to KMOX, including two (apparently) new tidbits: it will run (at least in St. Louis) from 8-10 PM CT/9-11 PM ET, and it will be carried in "St. Louis, Washington, Philadelphia and Dallas." The DC affiliate has to be WJFK-FM. Philly could be either "Free FM" WYSP (94.1) or, more likely, WPHT (1210). Dallas could be "Free FM" KLLI (105.3) or KRLD (1080). Note the conspicuous lack of any mention of a Boston affiliate. If nothing else, it seems to me that this all but dismisses any thought of WBZ taking the show. If it is indeed live 9-11, it just doesn't fit in the schedule. What do they do - an hour of Sullivan going in and an hour coming out? It doesn't really fit well into the WTKK schedule, either. If I were programming WTKK, I suppose the logical thing to do would be to have Michael Graham do just three hours, 3-6, and then carry Laura Ingraham 6-9, Severin 9-11 and push Hannity back yet another hour to 11-2. (On the whole, I'm glad I'm not programming WTKK!) Discuss... s From rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net Mon Nov 28 21:49:23 2005 From: rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net (rogerkirk) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:49:23 -0500 Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? Message-ID: <200511282149.AA3218080036@mail.ttlc.net> Scott Fybush asked: >What do they do - an hour of Sullivan going in and an hour coming >out? And two hours of Sully playing Board Op. Ooops, I forgot about union jurisdictions. From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Nov 29 03:16:39 2005 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:16:39 -0500 Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? In-Reply-To: <200511282149.AA3218080036@mail.ttlc.net> References: <200511282149.AA3218080036@mail.ttlc.net> Message-ID: <1fbbbced0511290016l1f3813c3t524880260ec82318@mail.gmail.com> Maybe the show will be broadcast from 7-10 pm and stations may be picking it up on a tape delayed basis if need be? But yes, whether it will air on WTKK (which I doubt) or WBZ, which time slot...? Looks like the article is at http://www.stltoday.com, and type "Severin" into the search to find it. Or go here, but no guarantees it will be clickable: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/visitstlouis/story/7C916346014A38E6862570C50003B6BC?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22Severin%22 From revdoug1@verizon.net Tue Nov 29 08:07:02 2005 From: revdoug1@verizon.net (Doug Drown) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:07:02 -0500 Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? References: <200511282149.AA3218080036@mail.ttlc.net> <1fbbbced0511290016l1f3813c3t524880260ec82318@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <01dd01c5f4e5$caadc0c0$6501a8c0@pastor2> I understand WBZ has slipped a bit in the ratings of late; can anyone elaborate? Has it been in certain time slots, or overall? Given that Severin will be carried by Infinity's KMOX and possibly by WPHT, it would seem 'BZ would be the likely affiliate in Boston. But my guess would be the station is pretty committed to Paul Sullivan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" To: ; ; Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:16 AM Subject: Re: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? > Maybe the show will be broadcast from 7-10 pm and stations may be picking it up > on a tape delayed basis if need be? > But yes, whether it will air on WTKK (which I doubt) or WBZ, which time slot...? > > Looks like the article is at http://www.stltoday.com, and type > "Severin" into the search to find it. Or go here, but no guarantees it > will be clickable: > > http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/visitstlouis/story/7C916346014A38E6862570C50003B6BC?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22Severin%22 > > From brian_vita@cssinc.com Tue Nov 29 09:55:13 2005 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:55:13 -0500 Subject: Jukeboxes, DJs being pushed out by iPods Message-ID: <438C6BD1.8050103@cssinc.com> Here's an interesting article from USA Today a few days ago about how club DJ's are startng to be replaced with IPOD DJ'ing. While this doesn't yet directly apply to radio, the overtone is ominous. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-11-27-ipod-dj_x.htm -- Brian T. Vita, President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 USA Sales: (800)231-8849 Office: (978)538-7575 Fax: (978)538-7550 www.cssinc.com From scott@fybush.com Tue Nov 29 19:00:05 2005 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:00:05 -0500 Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? In-Reply-To: <000c01c5f53d$380bba30$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20051128202936.03b6a5b8@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20051129184944.0294ac60@gwind.pair.com> >>If nothing else, it seems to me that this all but dismisses any thought >>of WBZ taking the show. If it is indeed live 9-11, it just doesn't fit in >>the schedule. What do they do - an hour of Sullivan going in and an hour >>coming out? > >They could extend the news format until 9 PM. MUCH easier said than done. That would make for a brutal six-hour airshift for the afternoon team. You'd have Anthony, Diane, Tom and their support staff (editors, writers, tape ops, reporters, etc) working 1-9 PM shifts, which leaves almost no time for all the work the crew has to do before the show even hits the air. As it is, I've got to believe that Anthony's pretty crunched with just three hours before airtime to get all his business news gathered and edited, plus getting ready for the afternoon news shift. And I can't imagine that Diane, whose daughter must be almost done with high school by now and who has an hour or so commute home at the end of her shift, would be at all thrilled about getting home at 10 each night. I suppose you could use the night anchor to anchor much or all of the 8-9 PM hour, but you're still robbing Peter to pay Paul (quite literally, if you know the names of the managers there ), as the night anchor is also the sole newsperson on duty during those hours, or was in my day, anyway. You'd probably end up with an 8-9 PM hour that's little more than a repeat of the 6-7 hour, which serves nobody very well. Or you could hire another shift's worth of staff, but if you're going to do that, the logical step is to use that shift from 7-midnight and not bother with Severin or Sullivan at all. I don't think that's in the cards, especially with all the Bruins preemptions. s From billings@suscom-maine.net Tue Nov 29 18:32:52 2005 From: billings@suscom-maine.net (Daniel Billings) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:32:52 -0500 Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? References: <5.1.0.14.0.20051128202936.03b6a5b8@gwind.pair.com> Message-ID: <000c01c5f53d$380bba30$4ded05cf@yourm3vezyx8af> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" To: Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8:35 PM Subject: Severin - maybe not in Boston at all? > If nothing else, it seems to me that this all but dismisses any thought of > WBZ taking the show. If it is indeed live 9-11, it just doesn't fit in the > schedule. What do they do - an hour of Sullivan going in and an hour > coming out? They could extend the news format until 9 PM.