And from Cape Cod.....

Paul B. Currier paulcurrier@adelphia.net
Tue Oct 3 17:23:54 EDT 2006


Not at all - the point of the article is that none of OUR LOCAL stations
provided ANY election evening coverage;  they continued broadcasting their
usual monotonous evening feeds from far, far away.

WMVY is an honest station with actual DJ's in the studio after 5pm.  They
come in loud and clear here in Sandwich and elsewhere.   They also cover the
South Coast and more with a relay in Newport.

Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Read" <readaaron@friedbagels.com>
To: "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>
Cc: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: And from Cape Cod.....


> I'm willing to stand corrected, but after reading that article I think I
> see the point: the Cape is feeling stiffed because THEIR elections
> didn't get more extensive coverage than any other local elections in the
> state.
>
> I don't begrudge them that, actually.  The Cape has lots of local radio
> outlets, including their own local NPR affiliate(s) in WCAI/NAN/ZAI.
> It's a reasonable assumption that a local station would do more local
> election coverage, and I'm a little surprised WCAI (apparently) didn't.
>
> Did anyone catch WMVY that night?  They're obviously not a news station,
> nor are they really a Cape station (signal's not big enough) but they
> are pretty good at being a "local" station.  I wouldn't have been
> surprised if they did some special coverage of Cape elections.
>
> WBUR-AM, of course, wouldn't have devoted any more time to Cape
> elections than it would for any other local election since it's a
> one-for-one repeater for WBUR-FM in Boston; they're going to cover
> everything *outside of Boston* pretty much equally. That is to say, not
> as thoroughly as they're going to cover Boston elections.
>
> Although I wouldn't be surprised if their coverage was still at least at
> the "not bad" to "pretty decent" level for Cape (and elsewhere)
> elections.  They certainly were in full election coverage mode that night.
>
>
> --
>
> --------------------------
> Aaron Read
> readaaron@friedbagels.com
> www.friedbagels.com
> Boston, MA 02246
>
>
> Paul B. Currier wrote:
> > Interesting, thanks.  How much time was dedicated solely to our local
C&I
> > elections?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
> > To: <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>;
> > "Aaron Read" <readaaron@friedbagels.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: And from Cape Cod.....
> >
> >
> >> On 27 Sep 2006 at 12:15, Aaron Read wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wasn't listening that evening, but I find it hard to believe that
> >>> WBUR wasn't carrying election results.  Their 1240AM signal from West
> >>> Yarmouth covers most of the Cape & Islands pretty well.
> >> I spent several hours at Deb Goldberg's election night party, but
> >> both before and after, I was listening to WBUR.  They definitely were
> >> carrying the election results and doing a good job of it, too.
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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