Some Pioneer Valley notes

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

No, the preacher on WLHZ-LP never stops screaming. My friend drove through a
few weeks ago and heard basically the same thing.

You mean WBNW 1120, right? 1120 and 970 are owned by Barry Armstrong, host
of Money Matters.

I have a few clips of WPLY/WWOD when there was some kind of outage at the
transmitter site but the studios and streaming were working fine.. and you
hear a weather bed and community calendar music ebd just roll on..and
on..... annnnd on.

A google search shows the WHHB Faculty advisor is Mr. Chris Murphy
http://teacherweb.com/MA/HollistonHighSchool/murphy/

Paul Walker

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>wrote:

> I took today, the last weekday this year with five hours of afternoon,
> off from work so I could drive around the Pioneer Valley.  (Is that an
> admission of having no life or what?)  Some notes:
>
> o WESO (970D Southbridge) // WBNW-590 with brokered business talk
> o WSCB (89.9A Springfield) noted on air with open carrier and stereo
> pilot.
> o WMAS (1450 Springfield) failed to ID.
> o Does that Spanish-language preacher on WLHZ-LP (107.9 Springfield)
> ever stop screaming?
> o There's no convenient place to stop between Northampton and South
> Hadley that has a decent signal from both WOZQ (91.9A N'ton) and WMHC
> (91.5A S. Hadley).
> o WOZQ did not identify.
> o WNMH (91.5A Northfield) is supposedly on 24x7 automation, but it was
> not on the air when I passed.
> o WKBK (1290B Keene) and WZBK (1220D Keene) are both now on
> translators (mounted on the WZBK tower); the hourly IDs for both
> stations identify the translators.  (WKVT-1490 is also // WZBK.)
> o The WKNE etc. studio building looks to have been completely
> remodeled since I was last there about a decade ago.
> o WEEY (93.5A Swanzey) has been running the raw WEEI feed with no
> local ID the past couple of times I've passed through Keene.
> o The former WPLY-FM (96.3A Walpole) is still simulcasting WWOD-104.3
> despite having recently changed calls.
> o Franklin Pierce College upgraded to a University but the campus
> station is still WFPC-LP.
>
> On the way home, I stopped by Holliston High School.  Sadly, whatever
> educational program the station has doesn't seem to have penetrated
> the skull of the kid who was on between 7:40 and 8:20.  Not only was
> there no legal ID, but he or she never even cracked the mic in all
> that time.  The square waves sounded like they were coming from a
> teenager's iPod on shuffle, complete with two-second pauses between
> tracks.  PICON?  It's not clear from the HHS Web site who the
> responsible adult is.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>