And from Cape Cod.....

[Doug Drown]

Didn't Mariner own WLW at one time?

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Don A."
<Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com>; "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>;
"A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Aaron Read"
<readaaron@friedbagels.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: And from Cape Cod.....


> It probably had something to do with the fact that the station was very
> poorly financed and had colossal operating costs. Mariner Communications,
> the Cincinnati-based owner that applied for and at least started to build
> the very expensive Waltham facility went belly up (I think before the
> Waltham plant was completed) and the high rent on the Waltham land has
made
> it pretty much impossible for any owner to show positive cash flow since
the
> Waltham move.
>
> The short version of the story of why the station has to be at the Waltham
> site is that there was no other site from which it could cover Boston at
> night and not cause objectionable interference to some other station or
> stations. That story has been rehashed here many, many times. If you are
> interested, you can probably find more than a dozen threads in the
archives.
>
> I believe that before the station went dark (IIRC, the calls were WITS at
> the time, but I could be wrong), one of the air personalities, Dana
Hersey,
> was considering buying it out of bankruptcy. He may personally have had
the
> dough, but he (wisely) was going to do it with other people's money. The
way
> I heard the story, he ran out of other people.
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Don A."
> <Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com>; "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>;
> "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>;
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Aaron Read"
> <readaaron@friedbagels.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: And from Cape Cod.....
>
>
> > We don't get WBUR up here in Maine, of course (except perhaps through
the
> > Web --- I haven't checked).
> > But the discussion about competition between news/talk stations raises a
> > question I thought about the other day: Why was WITS (the late '70s
> > reincarnation of WMEX as a news/talk outlet) a failure?  This was at a
> time
> > when such formats, offered 24/7, were something of an innovation.
> >
> > -Doug
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> > To: "Don A." <Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com>; "Paul B. Currier"
> > <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>; "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>;
> > <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Aaron Read"
> > <readaaron@friedbagels.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: And from Cape Cod.....
> >
> >
> > > >From what I hear of the ratings, although "some" people may not think
> of
> > > WBUR as "real," the number of such people must be minuscule. As I
> > understand
> > > it, WBUR, though a news/talk as opposed to an all news station (as is
> WBZ
> > > during the day), is neck and neck with WBZ in listenership--at least
in
> > the
> > > dayparts when both stations broadcast news. That may be less true when
> > WBUR
> > > is broadcasting BBC news than when WBUR broadcasts Morning Edition or
> all
> > > Things Considered with local cut-ins. Also, when WBUR sells
underwriting
> > > credits, the fact that its listeners are willing to pay to have the
> > station
> > > on the air must be a powerful tool when the advertiser must decide how
> to
> > > allocate its budget between commercial and public stations.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> > > eFax 707-215-6367
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Don A." <Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com>
> > > To: "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>; "A. Joseph Ross"
> > > <joe@attorneyross.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>;
"Aaron
> > > Read" <readaaron@friedbagels.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:27 PM
> > > Subject: Re: And from Cape Cod.....
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > I think we are coming up against the idea that many people (not me!)
> > don't
> > > > think of WBUR as a 'real' radio station.
> > > >
> > > > Some people (even talkradio and news junkies) would never think to
go
> to
> > > > WBUR.
> > > >
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