Lowell Sunset?

[Bill O'Neill]

Laurence Glavin wrote:

>Any chance that the Lowell contingent could weigh in with actual
>information about this?
>  
>
I'm certainly not geographically closest to that (and out of earshot) 
but you can file most of this under the idiocy of the UMass beaurocracy 
and failed attempts to partner with a politically-laden, increasingly 
irrelevant broadsheet.  The state employs former longtime news guy and 
PBP guy at WLLH, Bob Ellis. Full-time state salary, full benefits, 
pension, and no heavy lifting. Bob was the state employee hosting the 
Sunrise show which was an aural incarnation of the Lowell Sun newspaper, 
replete with <cough> underwriting and <cough> opportunity for students 
to learn <cough> how the big boys do it.

You might want to consider that this is the same school who is paying 
Christopher Lydon about $150K per year for a one hour talk show, four 
days a week, that is actually produced at WGBH Boston, live at night, 
and is actually on WUML delayed to 0900 the next day.

The college kids may have a maximum level at which they can lift the 
station up during any given school cycle. But if it is MONEY that the 
state is in short supply of, then the all-student option, on it's worst 
day, costs less.  Just the combined salaries of Lydon and Ellis dwarf 
the operating costs of the station many times over.

Your tax dollars at work.

Bill O'Neill