Small-town news

[Cooper Fox]

We (Mt Washington Valley, Western Maine, Berlin/Gorham NH) are generally lucky enough to have at least one or two hard news stories each day.  Sometimes that luck turns unlucky...  Army Barracks killing, the rash of fires in Berlin a couple years ago, this summer's tornado, etc...



--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> Subject: Small-town news
> To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>, "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 12:00 PM
> This might make an interesting (and fun) thread.  Lead
> stories on a small-city and small-town broadcasting stations
> could sometimes be pretty amusing.  I remember one 11 PM
> newscast on Channel 5 in Bangor years ago in which the lead
> story was the opening of a new bowling alley in Brewer.
> 
> To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "You know you live in
> Maine when . . ."
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
> >> Quite a number of smaller stations also had talk
> shows and actual newsrooms. I remember in the late 60's
> visiting a friend at WNBP and the lead story was how the
> fire department rescued a cat from a tree.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey"
> <kvahey@gmail.com>
> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> Cc: "Dan.Strassberg"
> <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "A. Joseph Ross"
> <joe@attorneyross.com>; "Mark Watson"
> <markwats@comcast.net>; "Boston Radio Group"
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: The importance of local talk radio
> 
> 
> > We have talked about this before but before satellite
> programming took
> > hold New England had a baseball like farm system for
> radio.
> > 
> > Bangor, Burlington, Pittsfield were class A
> > Manchester, Portland, Worcester, Springfield were AA
> > 
> > Providence and Hartford AAA  and then Boston
> > 
> > Of course Boston became a feeder not so much for New
> York but Chicago.
> > 
> > I remember Springfield having 2 great Top 40 stations
> WHYN and WTXL.
> > Worcester WORC and WAAB, Providence WPRO and WICE and
> Hartford WPOP
> > and WDRC.
> > 
> > Quite a number of smaller stations also had talk shows
> and actual
> > newsrooms. I remember in the late 60's visiting a
> friend at WNBP and
> > the lead story was how the fire department rescued a
> cat from a tree.