From radiotest@plymouthcolony.net Mon Nov 1 01:36:48 2010 From: radiotest@plymouthcolony.net (Dale H. Cook) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:36:48 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <007001cb7969$e54bd3f0$afe37bd0$@net> References: <20101031220345.ourkv7mhabc0k0ck@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <007001cb7969$e54bd3f0$afe37bd0$@net> Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20101101012426.028c8ae8@plymouthcolony.net> At 10:10 PM 10/31/2010, Jeff Lehmann wrote: >1460 in Brockton fits into the same category as well. It just makes >no sense at all. That change makes sense to me - the "BET" part of WBET stood for "Brockton Enterprise and Times." Dale H. Cook, Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html From bob.bosra@demattia.net Mon Nov 1 14:38:58 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:38:58 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <8CD47FF92288AF3-1714-27CD@web-mmc-m10.sysops.aol.com> References: <20101031220345.ourkv7mhabc0k0ck@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <201011010210.oA12Aqtb050413@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <8CD47FF92288AF3-1714-27CD@web-mmc-m10.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: FM Translators may ID using Morse Code by frequency shift keying between 5 kHz and 25 kHz, or by amplitude modulation of the carrier of at least 30% modulation (and some other restrictions). When they do this, they must do it hourly, but you probably wouldn't be able to hear the ID with a standard FM receiver. http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2009/octqtr/pdf/47cfr74.1283.pdf -Bob On 11/1/10, lglavin@mail.com wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Bob DeMattia >>To: Boston Radio >>Sent: Sun, Oct 31, 2010 10:17 pm >>Subject: Re: WEIM call letter change > > >>The FM is just a translator, so yes the FM content is a simulcast of the >> AM, > 24/7 > Still have trouble hearing the translator (and WROR) in the Worcester area > due to the > pirate 105.5. > -Bob > When WPKZ does its station IDs ATOH, they usually have it read WPKZ-AM 1280 > and 105.3 FM. > The ACTUAL call letters for the FM are W288CE (105.3 is actually FM channel > 287), but > I've never heard them say W288CE; non-commercial FMs with translators, > like WEVO in > in Concord, NH give their translator call letters several times a day > (although in the > case of WEVO, they NEVER announce their translator W212AF, which was its > translator > in Nashua for years until WEVS-FM 88.3 went on the air. It's still > transmitting even now, > which is why I can't get WAMC atop Mt. Greylock, MA to check out its new > antenna. Isn't this > contrary to FCC regulations?). > > From m_carney@yahoo.com Tue Nov 2 11:37:48 2010 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: New programming coming to WTIC 61 subchannel Message-ID: <22548.96646.qm@web53301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Antenna TV is schedule to start in January. WTIC is the only New England affiliate signed up so far. It's retro TV (like RTV and ThisTV) with shows out of the Sony library: http://antennatv.tv/shows/antenna/ From martinjwaters@yahoo.com Tue Nov 2 15:15:38 2010 From: martinjwaters@yahoo.com (Martin Waters) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: WEIM call letter change Message-ID: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> > On 10/31/2010 8:32 PM, Kevin Vahey > wrote: > > WILD may be second in Boston after WBZ for same calls > and freq > >And Joseph Ross wrote: > WILD got its current calls in September 1957.? WLYN > 1360, since 1947 > surpasses it on the AM band.? There are also some FM > stations that have > had their present calls and frequencies longer. ???What about WEEI? Doesn't it qualify as a continuation of the station started in 1925, merely with a frequency change? WRKO is considered a continuation of the station started as WNAC. ???For Massachusetts as a whole, WSAR may have the second-oldest calls after WBZ. IIRC, it's the second or third oldest surviving station in the state (can't remember if it started before or after WNAC/WRKO). WSAR may have had different calls briefly -- a few months to a year, maybe? -- when it started. But I can't think of any stations with original call letters that also started in 1922. Isn't WTAG from around 1924? WMAS has its original calls, but it started in 1932. From Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com Tue Nov 2 16:01:41 2010 From: Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com (Don) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:01:41 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change References: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <35CC20A9BED14CDBB86F80CDC021D450@s20035> > WRKO is considered a continuation of the station started as WNAC. Or rather as WLAW. ;-) From brian_vita@cssinc.com Tue Nov 2 16:28:14 2010 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:28:14 -0400 Subject: New programming coming to WTIC 61 subchannel In-Reply-To: <22548.96646.qm@web53301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <22548.96646.qm@web53301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <006b01cb7acc$7db17510$79145f30$@com> Subject: New programming coming to WTIC 61 subchannel Antenna TV is schedule to start in January. WTIC is the only New England affiliate signed up so far. It's retro TV (like RTV and ThisTV) with shows out of the Sony library: http://antennatv.tv/shows/antenna/ Any word if Comcast will be picking them up? Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro & Consumer AV Equipment & Supplies Brian Vita President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 brian_vita@cssinc.com AIM: btvita tel: fax: 978-538-7575 978-538-7550 From dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Nov 2 16:53:52 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:53:52 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change References: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <35CC20A9BED14CDBB86F80CDC021D450@s20035> Message-ID: Either might be correct. Which one does the FCC consider to be the progenitor of WRKO? General Tire acquired the license of WLAW, moved the WNAC calls there, and sold the license of WNAC to Vic Diehm, who changed the calls to WVDA. General also paired the WNAC studio facilities with the former WLAW frequency and transmitter site. As I understand it, Diehm acquired the WNAC transmitting facilities and the lease on the WLAW Boston studio/office location (and purchased the equipment therein). The WLAW Lawrence studio (officially the main studio even though I believe it was used for fewer hours each week than the Boston studio) went to General Tire. It was a rather complex transaction. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" To: "Martin Waters" ; "B-R-I" Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:01 PM Subject: Re: WEIM call letter change > >> WRKO is considered a continuation of the station started as WNAC. > > Or rather as WLAW. > > ;-) From scott@fybush.com Tue Nov 2 16:54:54 2010 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:54:54 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4CD07A9E.9050303@fybush.com> Martin Waters wrote: > What about WEEI? Doesn't it qualify as a continuation of the station > started in 1925, merely with a frequency change? WRKO is considered a > continuation of the station started as WNAC. Well, no...at least not in the way we categorize them at the Archives, and at least in the case of WEEI, not in the way the FCC recognizes them. We follow the FCC's facility ID numbers, and as far as the FCC is concerned, what happened in 1994 was this: Facility #1912, the station on 850, changed calls from WHDH to WEEI on 9/19/94 and changed ownership on 9/01/94. Facility #3594, the station on 590, changed calls from WEEI to WBNW on 9/8/94 and had changed ownership on 6/01/94. The FCC wasn't assigning facility ID numbers back in 1953, but I'm pretty sure the license records followed the frequencies back then, too: General Tire & Radio sold the facility on 1260, which changed calls from WNAC to WVDA, and purchased the facility on 680, which changed calls from WLAW to WNAC. Wasn't WNAC 680 initially licensed "Lawrence-Boston" after the sale? > For Massachusetts as a whole, WSAR may have the second-oldest calls > after WBZ. IIRC, it's the second or third oldest surviving station in > the state (can't remember if it started before or after WNAC/WRKO). > WSAR may have had different calls briefly -- a few months to a year, > maybe? -- when it started. But I can't think of any stations with > original call letters that also started in 1922. Isn't WTAG from > around 1924? WMAS has its original calls, but it started in 1932. You're almost certainly right about WSAR. Note that WMAS does not have its original calls; the AM station changed calls to WHLL when it changed format a year or so ago, and WMAS-FM is much more recent. s From m_carney@yahoo.com Tue Nov 2 17:21:35 2010 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: New programming coming to WTIC 61 subchannel In-Reply-To: <006b01cb7acc$7db17510$79145f30$@com> References: <22548.96646.qm@web53301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <006b01cb7acc$7db17510$79145f30$@com> Message-ID: <367365.53781.qm@web53303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Probably only if a local station puts them on a subchannel. Haven't heard any rumors yet. WBZ and WSBK?won't do it (CBS doesn't allow their O&Os to have digital subchannels), WHDH has ThisTV and I have no idea if either WCVB, WFXT or WLVI are interested. From martinjwaters@yahoo.com Tue Nov 2 17:50:51 2010 From: martinjwaters@yahoo.com (Martin Waters) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: WEIM call letter change Message-ID: <255972.72662.qm@web112116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> --- On Tue, 11/2/10, Scott Fybush wrote: > Well, no...at least not in the way we categorize them at > the Archives, and at least in the case of WEEI, not in the > way the FCC recognizes them. > > We follow the FCC's facility ID numbers, and as far as the > FCC is concerned, what happened in 1994 was this: > ? ? REGARD-less of the FCC -- after all, why start holding them in high regard now :)) -- I disagree here. Perhaps Ms. Halper can help on this. ???IMO, it's better -- more meaningful -- to follow the business/ownership/programming history rather than only the facilities. For example, I've always had the notion that WRKO is "generally" considered to be the continuation of the station John Shepard started in 1922 in Boston -- not a continuation of WLAW. Like WHDH, WLAW was purchased for its transmitting/antenna facilities and the station, as a business and broadcasting enterprise, was discontinued, while the purchasing stations, WNAC and WEEI, respectively, began broadcasting their existing programming over the newly purchased transmitting/antenna facilities.??? ???If this other method is used, how about WBZ in Boston? Wouldn't it have to be categorized as a continuation of WBZA, the station Westinghouse established in Boston several years after WBZ in Springfield was built, rather than the continuation of WBZ? The facility that originally was WBZ in Springfield was discontinued in 1962. Or -- to avoid the issue of a synchronous station -- I'd point to WNBC. WFAN is not a continuation of WNBC. It just took over the facility. Well ... my $0.02. And . . . I'm so proud of myself. I discussed the WEEI/WHDH case at some length without ever bringing up the flushing-down-the-toilet sign-off of WHDH in support of my position that WHDH disappeared at that moment and WEEI, founded in 1925 -- same year as WHDH, BTW -- carried on. I would never stoop to that sort of c!!p. :))) From scott@fybush.com Tue Nov 2 18:10:34 2010 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:10:34 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <255972.72662.qm@web112116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <255972.72662.qm@web112116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4CD08C5A.6040008@fybush.com> Martin Waters wrote: > IMO, it's better -- more meaningful -- to follow the > business/ownership/programming history rather than only the > facilities. For example, I've always had the notion that WRKO is > "generally" considered to be the continuation of the station John > Shepard started in 1922 in Boston -- not a continuation of WLAW. Like > WHDH, WLAW was purchased for its transmitting/antenna facilities and > the station, as a business and broadcasting enterprise, was > discontinued, while the purchasing stations, WNAC and WEEI, > respectively, began broadcasting their existing programming over the > newly purchased transmitting/antenna facilities. > > If this other method is used, how about WBZ in Boston? Wouldn't it > have to be categorized as a continuation of WBZA, the station > Westinghouse established in Boston several years after WBZ in > Springfield was built, rather than the continuation of WBZ? The > facility that originally was WBZ in Springfield was discontinued in > 1962. In this particular case, actually, no. Westinghouse did swap licenses in 1931 - the WBZ license was in fact moved from Springfield to Boston upon the dedication of the new transmitting facility at Millis, while the Boston license was moved to Springfield. > Or -- to avoid the issue of a synchronous station -- I'd point to > WNBC. WFAN is not a continuation of WNBC. It just took over the > facility. > > Well ... my $0.02. And you're entitled to your interpretation, of course. But I think that way lies chaos, because it at least carries with it the implication that ANY change of callsign/ownership constitutes a "new station." Emmis bought WNBC in its entirety. Aside from the callsign (which at the time legally had to stay with NBC), Emmis was free to retain WNBC's format and staff - and indeed, they did keep the morning show, Don Somebody, as I recall . But they chose instead to use the facility - the "station," if you will - to carry different programming under a new identity. So by those standards, was "Sports Hub" a new station when WBMX 98.5 became WBZ-FM 98.5 last summer? Were WCOZ and WZOU and WJMN each separate stations? My sense is that to go that route is to put one at the mercy of the marketers who are often more interested in short-term station promotion than in any sort of history. My own station, WXXI 1370 in Rochester, invariably portrays itself as having signed on "July 2, 1984." Indeed it did, under those calls and this ownership, but it's very hard to argue that the WXXI that signed on in July 1984 doesn't share license continuity (not to mention transmitter and studio location) with the station known as WSAY and then WRTK, which operated from 1936 until being sold in June 1984. It was in WXXI's interest to separate itself from some of the questionable history and business practices of its predecessors, but it's not necessarily in the interest of broadcast history to do so. Mind you, it's certainly *possible* to trace broadcasting history that way. My colleagues who wrote "Airwaves of New York" in the 90s did that with New York City AM radio - they treated WHN and WMGM and the second WHN each as separate stations, for instance, and that's how they came up with a history of "160 stations on the New York AM dial." And of course there's great value in following the continuity of "WNAC" from 1230/1260 to 680 and into today's WRKO, and of "WEEI" from 590 to 850; in writing the Archives history of each station, we were careful to provide links for those wanting to follow those paths. But in the end, it seems to me that the station license is often the only unquestionable thread that remains unbroken across eight or more decades of a station's history, and the availability of records to trace those licenses (via the old FCC card files, now on microfilm, and more recently through CDBS) makes the license history the most consistent way to track any given station's legacy. s From dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Nov 2 20:55:38 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:55:38 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change References: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD07A9E.9050303@fybush.com> Message-ID: When I arrived in Boston in May of 1956, I'm pretty sure that WNAC was IDing as Boston-Lawrence. I can believe that immediately after General bought it (and before I arrived), it IDed as Lawrence-Boston (or maybe Lawrence AND Boston). It's possible that the ciy of license part of the ID initially remained unchanged from what it had been when the station was WLAW and was owned by Hildreth and Rogers. But maybe not, because I'm not by any means sure that Boston was ever a part of WLAW's legal IDs, notwithstanding that WLAW maintaned a studio in Boston and may have originated more programming from Boston than from Lawrence. Not having Boston in its legal ID would mean that before it became WNAC, the station was never licensed to Boston in any way. When I think about it, that seems likely. However, at some point not too long after my arrival in Boston, WNAC obtained the FCC's blessing for closing the Lawrence studio and dropping Lawrence from the legal ID. It would be interesting to know how WLAW got control of the 680 frequency. Between its intitial sign-on (in 1937, I think) and its move to Burlington and increase to 50 kW, it went though quite a series of facility improvments, going from (I believe) 500W-D to 5 kW-U in a series of steps that included (IIRC) 1 kW-D, 1-kW-D/500W-N, maybe 5 kW-D/1 kW-N, and 5 kW-U. All that time, it was licensed to Lawrence and I believe that the transmitter remained in Andover. Finally, after World War II, in 1947, the transmitter was moved to Burlington and the power was increased to 50 kW DA-1. I forget the year when it changed from DA-1 to DA-2, but it was very shortly before the calls were changed to WRKO and the format went from talk/variety to top-40. Anyhow, it must have been obvious to the owners long before the move to Burlington that the station could be relicensed to Boston. I'd be surprised if Hildreth and Rogers hadn't been approached by owners of Boston stations that wanted to swap frequencies in much the way that WNAC ultimately did. In fact, didn't CBS have the idea of swapping 680 with 590 so that the old WEEI would move to 680 in Boston and WLAW would move to 590 in Lawrence? Or was what became WGIR already on 610 in Manchester, which might have been too close to Lawrence for a second-adjacent under the tighter rules that existed in those days? ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" To: "Martin Waters" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:54 PM Subject: Re: WEIM call letter change > > The FCC wasn't assigning facility ID numbers back in 1953, but I'm > pretty sure the license records followed the frequencies back then, > too: General Tire & Radio sold the facility on 1260, which changed > calls from WNAC to WVDA, and purchased the facility on 680, which > changed calls from WLAW to WNAC. Wasn't WNAC 680 initially licensed > "Lawrence-Boston" after the sale? > From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 3 00:01:17 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:01:17 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4CD0DE8D.6080809@attorneyross.com> On 11/2/2010 3:15 PM, Martin Waters wrote: > What about WEEI? Doesn't it qualify as a continuation of the station started in 1925, merely with a frequency change? WRKO is considered a continuation of the station started as WNAC. The thread began with the statement that WILD may be second after WBZ for the same calls and frequency. On that criterion, WEEI doesn't qualify. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 3 00:05:42 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:05:42 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <4CD07A9E.9050303@fybush.com> References: <824867.40653.qm@web112107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD07A9E.9050303@fybush.com> Message-ID: <4CD0DF96.6070906@attorneyross.com> On 11/2/2010 4:54 PM, Scott Fybush wrote: > The FCC wasn't assigning facility ID numbers back in 1953, but I'm > pretty sure the license records followed the frequencies back then, > too: General Tire & Radio sold the facility on 1260, which changed > calls from WNAC to WVDA, and purchased the facility on 680, which > changed calls from WLAW to WNAC. Wasn't WNAC 680 initially licensed > "Lawrence-Boston" after the sale? I don't know about the license, but I know they ID'd that way. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 3 00:15:49 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:15:49 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <4CD08C5A.6040008@fybush.com> References: <255972.72662.qm@web112116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD08C5A.6040008@fybush.com> Message-ID: <4CD0E1F5.1030005@attorneyross.com> On 11/2/2010 6:10 PM, Scott Fybush wrote: > My sense is that to go that route is to put one at the mercy of the > marketers who are often more interested in short-term station > promotion than in any sort of history. My own station, WXXI 1370 in > Rochester, invariably portrays itself as having signed on "July 2, > 1984." Indeed it did, under those calls and this ownership, but it's > very hard to argue that the WXXI that signed on in July 1984 doesn't > share license continuity (not to mention transmitter and studio > location) with the station known as WSAY and then WRTK, which operated > from 1936 until being sold in June 1984. It was in WXXI's interest to > separate itself from some of the questionable history and business > practices of its predecessors, but it's not necessarily in the > interest of broadcast history to do so. And sometimes they don't need a call letter change to say they signed on later than they did. WBCN for many years insisted that their station started in 1969. That was when the "progressive rock" format started, but WBCN actually began,. with those calls, in 1958 with a classical music format. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From Jibguy@aol.com Wed Nov 3 01:52:41 2010 From: Jibguy@aol.com (Jibguy@aol.com) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:52:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: WHIL remembered Message-ID: <83f32.757bb2bc.3a0252a9@aol.com> During WJIB's fundraising this year, I get my usual checks made out to WGBH, WJBH, WGIB, WJDA, WJDB, but a new one this year: WHIL. Both the check and outer envelope: "WHIL". ----BB From HeritageRadio@msn.com Wed Nov 3 03:15:26 2010 From: HeritageRadio@msn.com (Thomas Heathwood) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 03:15:26 -0400 Subject: Repair Message-ID: Anyone here know of a reliable auto radio repair facility in the Newton area that is reasonably priced? Thanks <> From walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com Wed Nov 3 05:53:49 2010 From: walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com (Paul B. Walker, Jr.) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 04:53:49 -0500 Subject: Station addresses confused! (Was Re: WHIL remembered) Message-ID: Wow, Bob. How can people get your call letters so horribly wrong if they listen to your station? And I am assuming they listen since they mailed you a check. One time, in the short time I worked for the infamous Brian Dodge at WWNH 1340, we got a piece of mail...addressed to WSEW Radio, PO Box 69, Dover, NH. (Yes, I really DID work there, and yes, we really did have PO Box 69...the station has had that PO Box for YEARS!). WSEW's address was PO Box 398 New Durham, NH so I don't know how anyone could confuse the two! Paul Walker On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:52 AM, wrote: > During WJIB's fundraising this year, I get my usual checks made out to > WGBH, WJBH, WGIB, WJDA, WJDB, but a new one this year: WHIL. Both the > check > and outer envelope: "WHIL". > > ----BB > > From hmglaz@att.net Wed Nov 3 12:45:00 2010 From: hmglaz@att.net (Howard Glazer) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Station addresses confused! Message-ID: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Paul B. Walker Jr. wrote: >Wow, Bob. How can people get your call letters so horribly wrong if they >listen to your station? And I am assuming they listen since they mailed >you a check. I remember listening to WVBF back in the '70s and hearing listener calls played back -- contests, requests, whatever -- with many of those listeners answering the jock's end-of-call "What station plays the most hit music?" with an enthusiastic "WBBF!!!" Howard From Jibguy@aol.com Wed Nov 3 13:10:10 2010 From: Jibguy@aol.com (Jibguy@aol.com) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:10:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Station addresses confused! Message-ID: <5453d.2f9ffe45.3a02f171@aol.com> In a message dated 11/3/2010 11:48:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, hmglaz@att.net writes: I remember listening to WVBF back in the '70s and hearing listener calls played back -- contests, requests, whatever -- with many of those listeners answering the jock's end-of-call "What station plays the most hit music?" with an enthusiastic "WBBF!!!" ---------------------------------- I wonder what it was like for a WVBF newscaster (in the 1980's) who also used to work at top-40 WBBF-950 in Rochester NY. Forget his name right now, but his resume included WBBF and WVBF. If he accidentally mis-spoke on WVBF, would anyone notice? ---BB From bob.bosra@demattia.net Wed Nov 3 14:03:37 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:03:37 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <5453d.2f9ffe45.3a02f171@aol.com> References: <5453d.2f9ffe45.3a02f171@aol.com> Message-ID: I know one particular DJ slipped up a few times when Country 99.5 changed to Country 102.5. He had said "99.5" so many times that it must have been difficult to unlearn... On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:10 PM, wrote: > > In a message dated 11/3/2010 11:48:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, > hmglaz@att.net writes: > > I remember listening to WVBF back in the '70s and hearing listener calls > played back -- contests, requests, whatever -- with many of those listeners > answering the jock's end-of-call "What station plays the most hit music?" > with > an enthusiastic "WBBF!!!" > > ---------------------------------- > > I wonder what it was like for a WVBF newscaster (in the 1980's) who also > used to work at top-40 WBBF-950 in Rochester NY. Forget his name right now, > but his resume included WBBF and WVBF. If he accidentally mis-spoke on > WVBF, > would anyone notice? > > ---BB > From kvahey@gmail.com Wed Nov 3 18:57:34 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:57:34 -0400 Subject: Wonder if the Red Sox will do this? Message-ID: <51C0211B-FFC1-40C8-8CBA-F813FD95165F@gmail.com> The White Sox in partnership with CBS will soon have their own HD channel 24/7 on WJMK HD3. The Chicago Bulls NBA team which is co-owned will also be involved. http://alturl.com/7pn7d Sent from my iPhone From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 3 23:38:38 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:38:38 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com> On 11/3/2010 12:45 PM, Howard Glazer wrote: > I remember listening to WVBF back in the '70s and hearing listener > calls played back -- contests, requests, whatever -- with many of > those listeners answering the jock's end-of-call "What station plays > the most hit music?" with an enthusiastic "WBBF!!!" Didn't WCLB become WKLB because they felt that too many of their listeners were confusing them with WCRB when they answered ratings questions? I know there was a lawsuit between WBCN and WBCS once over fears of such confusion. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Nov 3 23:41:28 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:41:28 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: References: <5453d.2f9ffe45.3a02f171@aol.com> Message-ID: <4CD22B68.1090006@attorneyross.com> On 11/3/2010 2:03 PM, Bob DeMattia wrote: > I know one particular DJ slipped up a few times when > Country 99.5 changed to Country 102.5. He had said > "99.5" so many times that it must have been difficult > to unlearn... When I did news announcing at WMUA at UMass back in the early1960s, I once mis-read a news item on President Johnson presenting Medals of Freedom, saying it was President Kennedy. This was a few weeks after the assassination. I felt bad about it until a few days later, when I heard a professional announcer on WHYN make the same mistake. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From sean.smyth@yahoo.com Thu Nov 4 02:45:07 2010 From: sean.smyth@yahoo.com (Sean Smyth) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 23:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Wonder if the Red Sox will do this? In-Reply-To: <51C0211B-FFC1-40C8-8CBA-F813FD95165F@gmail.com> Message-ID: <414162.52495.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> On Wed, 11/3/10, Kevin Vahey wrote: > The White Sox in partnership with CBS > will soon have their own HD channel 24/7 on WJMK HD3. The > Chicago Bulls NBA team which is co-owned will also be > involved. > > http://alturl.com/7pn7d How much longer does the Entercom/Sox deal run? And I wonder how the Bulls will leverage this to be effective, seeing WMVP has their rights for a couple more years. From dan.strassberg@att.net Thu Nov 4 07:03:52 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:03:52 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> And something similar when Vic Diehm bought what had been WNAC and changed the calls to WVDA. WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from Braintree). In New York, WNYC, which had been WNYC forever, complained when WEAF became WNBC. In that case, though, there were several major stations on the dial between WNBC and WNYC and, in those days, WNYC's signal was so poor in nearly all of New York that it's hard to imagine how anyone could have confused it with WNBC. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Joseph Ross" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:38 PM Subject: Re: Station addresses confused! > > I know there was a lawsuit between WBCN and WBCS once over fears of > such confusion. > > -- > > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 > Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com > From m_carney@yahoo.com Thu Nov 4 08:16:55 2010 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 05:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Wonder if the Red Sox will do this? In-Reply-To: <414162.52495.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <414162.52495.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <295608.52749.qm@web53304.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sox signed an extension with Entercom recently, in part to spread out payments and partially to keep them away from Sports Hub. From kvahey@gmail.com Thu Nov 4 08:27:17 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 08:27:17 -0400 Subject: Wonder if the Red Sox will do this? In-Reply-To: <295608.52749.qm@web53304.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <414162.52495.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <295608.52749.qm@web53304.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <56918C81-43F1-40F1-BDD1-7C22DD6FB358@gmail.com> Any idea how much the rights are going for now? It was about $14m a season when they signed the ten year deal. Safe to say the Red Sox are the longest running local show on Boston radio. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Maureen Carney wrote: > Sox signed an extension with Entercom recently, in part to spread out payments > and partially to keep them away from Sports Hub. > > > > From bob.bosra@demattia.net Thu Nov 4 09:37:45 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:37:45 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com> <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: > > WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was > the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from > Braintree). I thought WJDA transmits from a location off of Sea St. in Quincy. Did they move their transmitter at some point? -Bob From revdoug1@myfairpoint.net Thu Nov 4 09:57:13 2010 From: revdoug1@myfairpoint.net (=?utf-8?b?RG91ZyBEcm93bg==?=) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:57:13 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! Message-ID: <20101104095713.1nttbdyuss744gk0@webmail.myfairpoint.net> When I first read of WVDA, I wondered about the potential confusion with WJDA. Not surprising that they changed their call letters to WEZE. I read once that when GE was preparing to put WGY on the air in 1922, they went through quite a process trying to determine what the call letters should be. "WGE" was their first and most obvious choice, but somehow it just didn't sound right. They finally settled on W (for Wireless [supposedly]), G (for General Electric) and Y (the last letter in Schenectady). Then, after figuring all that out and deciding on it, they wrung their hands wondering whether people would confuse the station with WJY, a station already operating in New York City. -Doug Quoting Bob DeMattia : > > > > WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was > > the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from > > Braintree). > > > > I thought WJDA transmits from a location off of Sea St. in Quincy. Did they > move > their transmitter at some point? > > > -Bob > From dan.strassberg@att.net Thu Nov 4 12:00:13 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:00:13 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com><43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: I could have been wrong. FWIW, though, I would swear that I once read that the location was in Braintree. I was under the impression that the site was on a small neck of land that juts into Mass Bay. The salt water gives WJDA a remarkable signal for 1 kW at 1300. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob DeMattia" To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:37 AM Subject: Re: Station addresses confused! > > >> WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was >> the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from >> Braintree). > > > > I thought WJDA transmits from a location off of Sea St. in Quincy. > Did they > move > their transmitter at some point? > > > -Bob From bob.bosra@demattia.net Thu Nov 4 12:40:08 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:40:08 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com> <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: OK, that sounds like Hough's Neck, which is where they are now, which is in Quincy. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=42.25972,+-70.97667+(WJDA-AM)&om=1 -Bob On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > I could have been wrong. FWIW, though, I would swear that I once read > that the location was in Braintree. I was under the impression that > > the site was on a small neck of land that juts into Mass Bay. The salt > water gives WJDA a remarkable signal for 1 kW at 1300. > > > ----- > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) > eFax 1-707-215-6367 > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob DeMattia" > > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:37 AM > > Subject: Re: Station addresses confused! > > > > >> >>> WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was >>> >>> the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from >>> Braintree). >>> >> >> >> >> I thought WJDA transmits from a location off of Sea St. in Quincy. >> Did they >> move >> their transmitter at some point? >> >> >> -Bob >> > > From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Nov 4 15:50:26 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:50:26 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com> <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: <4CD30E82.2000302@attorneyross.com> On 11/4/2010 7:03 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > And something similar when Vic Diehm bought what had been WNAC and > changed the calls to WVDA. WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was > the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from > Braintree). In New York, WNYC, which had been WNYC forever, complained > when WEAF became WNBC. In that case, though, there were several major > stations on the dial between WNBC and WNYC and, in those days, WNYC's > signal was so poor in nearly all of New York that it's hard to imagine > how anyone could have confused it with WNBC. I think my favorite example of call-letter confusion was when my family moved to Albany when I was 8 1/2 years old, and I noticed there was a WPTR and a WTRY. I got over my confusion, but one day at school, the principal, in his morning announcements, referred to "WPTRY." -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Nov 4 16:12:41 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:12:41 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com><43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> On 11/4/2010 12:00 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > I could have been wrong. FWIW, though, I would swear that I once read > that the location was in Braintree. I was under the impression that > the site was on a small neck of land that juts into Mass Bay. The salt > water gives WJDA a remarkable signal for 1 kW at 1300. Well, I tried to look it up in the Boston Radio Archives, but WJDA doesn't seem to be there. Does it have new calls? -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From dan.strassberg@att.net Thu Nov 4 17:21:06 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:21:06 -0400 Subject: Station addresses confused! References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com><43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <3AEE44CDF0154D228E44CFF47005F6EA@SatU205S5044> I don't believe so. Principal seems to keep the calls of the stations they buy even though the formats always change (to brokered ethnic and brokered religion--usually in foreign languages). The first station they bought, the one on 1530 in Bridgeport--still has its original calls--WDJZ. And their most expensive station, for which they paid $14 million not that long ago (so station values had already tanked) still has the calls it had before Principal bought it--WLIE. I don't know what languages WLIE is programmed in now. It was an English-language talk station before Principal bought it. A good slogan might have been "WLIE, where you can always believe what you hear." Actually, WLIE was named after the Long Island Expressway. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Joseph Ross" To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 4:12 PM Subject: Re: Station addresses confused! > On 11/4/2010 12:00 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: >> I could have been wrong. FWIW, though, I would swear that I once >> read >> that the location was in Braintree. I was under the impression that >> the site was on a small neck of land that juts into Mass Bay. The >> salt >> water gives WJDA a remarkable signal for 1 kW at 1300. > > Well, I tried to look it up in the Boston Radio Archives, but WJDA > doesn't seem to be there. Does it have new calls? > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 > Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com > From kvahey@gmail.com Thu Nov 4 18:02:22 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:02:22 -0400 Subject: Bob Lobel and Upton Bell join 1200 Message-ID: <81F058E9-5074-4C84-9984-018108ECD6B0@gmail.com> http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/83250/upton-bell-bob-lobel-join-rush-radio-1200-boston Bob and Upton together again. I may actually listen to 1200 for this. I was actually surprised WBZ-FM never used Lobie. Sent from my iPhone From brscomm@yahoo.com Thu Nov 4 20:21:47 2010 From: brscomm@yahoo.com (Bill Smith) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fw: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com><43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Wouldn't it be WMKI? Disney radio. Bill ________________________________ From: A Joseph Ross To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 3:12:41 PM Subject: Re: Station addresses confused! On 11/4/2010 12:00 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > I could have been wrong. FWIW, though, I would swear that I once read > that the location was in Braintree. I was under the impression that > the site was on a small neck of land that juts into Mass Bay. The salt > water gives WJDA a remarkable signal for 1 kW at 1300. Well, I tried to look it up in the Boston Radio Archives, but WJDA doesn't seem to be there.? Does it have new calls? -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700? ? ? ? ? Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004? ? http://www.attorneyross.com From bob.bosra@demattia.net Thu Nov 4 21:47:03 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:47:03 -0400 Subject: Fw: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com> <43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: WMKI is 1260, with three towers in the Neponset River saltmarsh on the Milton/Quincy line. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=42.27444,+-71.04222+(WMKI-AM)&om=1 WJDA is 1300, with a single tower off of Sea St/ Hough's Neck in Quincy http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=42.25972,+-70.97667+(WJDA-AM)&om=1 On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Bill Smith wrote: > Wouldn't it be WMKI? Disney radio. > > > Bill > > > ________________________________ > From: A Joseph Ross > To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org > Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 3:12:41 PM > Subject: Re: Station addresses confused! > > On 11/4/2010 12:00 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > > I could have been wrong. FWIW, though, I would swear that I once read > > that the location was in Braintree. I was under the impression that > > the site was on a small neck of land that juts into Mass Bay. The salt > > water gives WJDA a remarkable signal for 1 kW at 1300. > > Well, I tried to look it up in the Boston Radio Archives, but WJDA doesn't > seem > to be there. Does it have new calls? > > -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 > Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com > From brian_vita@cssinc.com Thu Nov 4 21:51:30 2010 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:51:30 -0400 Subject: Magic music Message-ID: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it again. Does anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a magic convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. Thanks in advance. Brian Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro & Consumer AV Equipment & Supplies Brian Vita President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 brian_vita@cssinc.com AIM: btvita tel: fax: 978-538-7575 978- From irw@well.com Thu Nov 4 22:02:14 2010 From: irw@well.com (Blaine Thompson) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blaine Thompson Indiana RadioWatch irw@well.com http://www.indianaradio.net AOL Instant Messenger: indianaradio5 From mike_ed@msn.com Thu Nov 4 22:11:51 2010 From: mike_ed@msn.com (Mike G) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:11:51 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: " Magic " by the Cars " Magic Man " by Heart " Magical Mystery Tour " by the Beatles " Magic" by Olivia Newton John > From: brian_vita@cssinc.com > To: > Subject: Magic music > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:51:30 -0400 > > I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it again. Does > anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a magic > convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. > > Thanks in advance. > > Brian > > > Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro & Consumer AV Equipment & Supplies > > > Brian Vita > President > Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. > 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 > Peabody, MA 01960-5691 > brian_vita@cssinc.com > AIM: btvita > tel: > fax: > 978-538-7575 > 978- > > From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Nov 4 22:18:00 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:18:00 -0400 Subject: Fw: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com><43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4CD36958.2010603@attorneyross.com> On 11/4/2010 8:21 PM, Bill Smith wrote: > Wouldn't it be WMKI? Disney radio. No, that's the former WNAC/WVDA/WEZE/WPZE -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From paulranderson@charter.net Thu Nov 4 22:28:21 2010 From: paulranderson@charter.net (Paul Anderson) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:28:21 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: "Magic" by Pilot From Cdsull502@aol.com Thu Nov 4 22:32:14 2010 From: Cdsull502@aol.com (Cdsull502@aol.com) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:32:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Magic Message-ID: <6baa4.35080f1d.3a04c6ae@aol.com> "You Can Do Magic" by America 1982 Chris Sullivan CdSull502@aol.com From mike_ed@msn.com Thu Nov 4 22:35:18 2010 From: mike_ed@msn.com (Mike G) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:35:18 -0400 Subject: Magic In-Reply-To: <6baa4.35080f1d.3a04c6ae@aol.com> References: <6baa4.35080f1d.3a04c6ae@aol.com> Message-ID: Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf > From: Cdsull502@aol.com > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:32:14 -0400 > Subject: Magic > To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org > > "You Can Do Magic" by America 1982 > > Chris Sullivan > CdSull502@aol.com From rogerkirk@ttlc.net Thu Nov 4 22:57:15 2010 From: rogerkirk@ttlc.net (Roger Kirk) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:57:15 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: <4CD3728B.2020209@ttlc.net> "Magic" by Pilot "Strange Magic" by E.L.O. "This Magic Moment" by Jay & The Americans "Magic Bus" by The Who "Black Magic Woman" by Santana "Puff The Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow "That Old Black Magic" by Louis Prima and Keely Smith "Magic Moments" by Perry Come "The Magic Flute" composed by Mozart On 11/4/2010 9:51 PM, Brian Vita wrote: > I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it again. Does > anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a magic > convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. > > Thanks in advance. > > Brian > > > Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro& Consumer AV Equipment& Supplies > > > Brian Vita > President > Cinema Service& Supply, Inc. > 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 > Peabody, MA 01960-5691 > brian_vita@cssinc.com > AIM: btvita > tel: > fax: > 978-538-7575 > 978- > > > > > From atolz@comcast.net Thu Nov 4 23:04:38 2010 From: atolz@comcast.net (Alan Tolz) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 23:04:38 -0400 Subject: Magic music References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: <0E4CDE601A99466B82D2B5BCDD114AD1@mediacenter> That Old Black Magic - Frank Sinatra My Baby Must Be a Magician - Martha & the Vandellas Black Magic Woman - Santana Could It Be Magic - Barry Manilow Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles (or Cheap Trick) It's Magic - Doris Day (or the Platters) Strange Magic - E.L.O. This Magic Moment - Kenny Vance (I forget the original artist) Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police (You've got) The Magic Touch - The Platters Little Miss Magic - Jimmy Buffett Magic Bus - The Who I'm sure there are more.... Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Vita" To: "'Boston Radio Group'" Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:51 PM Subject: Magic music >I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it again. Does > anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a magic > convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. > > Thanks in advance. > > Brian > > > Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro & Consumer AV Equipment & Supplies > > > Brian Vita > President > Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. > 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 > Peabody, MA 01960-5691 > brian_vita@cssinc.com > AIM: btvita > tel: > fax: > 978-538-7575 > 978- > > > From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Nov 4 23:09:16 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:09:16 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <4CD3728B.2020209@ttlc.net> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> <4CD3728B.2020209@ttlc.net> Message-ID: <4CD3755C.6080707@attorneyross.com> On 11/4/2010 10:57 PM, Roger Kirk wrote: > "Magic" by Pilot > "Strange Magic" by E.L.O. > "This Magic Moment" by Jay & The Americans > "Magic Bus" by The Who > "Black Magic Woman" by Santana > "Puff The Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary > "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf > "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police > "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow > "That Old Black Magic" by Louis Prima and Keely Smith > "Magic Moments" by Perry Come > "The Magic Flute" composed by Mozart "Do You Believe in Magic?" by ? -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From paul@derrynh.net Thu Nov 4 23:17:32 2010 From: paul@derrynh.net (Paul Hopfgarten) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 23:17:32 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: <942997718D13472E8C5916312EB005C7@PaulPC> Strange Magic-ELO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blaine Thompson" To: "Brian Vita" Cc: "'Boston Radio Group'" Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Magic music > The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Blaine Thompson Indiana RadioWatch > irw@well.com http://www.indianaradio.net > AOL Instant Messenger: indianaradio5 From brscomm@yahoo.com Thu Nov 4 23:53:51 2010 From: brscomm@yahoo.com (Bill Smith) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <942997718D13472E8C5916312EB005C7@PaulPC> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> <942997718D13472E8C5916312EB005C7@PaulPC> Message-ID: <158637.6061.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Magic Man by Heart ________________________________ From: Paul Hopfgarten To: Blaine Thompson ; Brian Vita Cc: Boston Radio Group Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 10:17:32 PM Subject: Re: Magic music Strange Magic-ELO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blaine Thompson" To: "Brian Vita" Cc: "'Boston Radio Group'" Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Magic music > The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic? > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > Blaine Thompson? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Indiana RadioWatch > irw@well.com? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.indianaradio.net >? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? AOL Instant Messenger: indianaradio5 From dlh@donnahalper.com Fri Nov 5 01:12:04 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:12:04 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <158637.6061.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> <942997718D13472E8C5916312EB005C7@PaulPC> <158637.6061.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <201011050512.oA55CPmP066307@tsornin.bostonradio.org> Magic Town, by the Vogues This Magic Moment, by Jay & the Americans Magic Power, by Triumph and I assume we got That Old Black Magic by Louis Prima and Keely Smith From sid@wrko.com Thu Nov 4 21:36:31 2010 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 01:36:31 +0000 Subject: Station addresses confused! In-Reply-To: <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <703077.26219.qm@web180308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com><4CD22ABE.2030505@attorneyross.com><43394FD7AB9C4F1D8ED64F66A40DC155@SatU205S5044> <4CD313B9.8040205@attorneyross.com> <993987.105.qm@web62404.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA055592@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> "Wouldn't it be WMKI? Disney radio." No, that's on 1260. "I tried to look it up in the Boston Radio Archives, but WJDA doesn't seem to be there.? Does it have new calls?" According to the FCC, the 1300 licensed to Quincy is still WJDA. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom New England 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Brighton MA 02135-2040 From wilkinsmg@hotmail.com Fri Nov 5 08:04:01 2010 From: wilkinsmg@hotmail.com (Michael Wilkins) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:04:01 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: "Abracadabra" by Steve Miller Band > From: brian_vita@cssinc.com > To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org > Subject: Magic music > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:51:30 -0400 > > I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it again. Does > anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a magic > convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. > > Thanks in advance. > > Brian > > > Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro & Consumer AV Equipment & Supplies > > > Brian Vita > President > Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. > 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 > Peabody, MA 01960-5691 > brian_vita@cssinc.com > AIM: btvita > tel: > fax: > 978-538-7575 > 978- > > From nostaticatall@charter.net Fri Nov 5 08:47:43 2010 From: nostaticatall@charter.net (Dave Tomm) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:47:43 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: <3B679928-ECF2-4871-A519-2B0FA487DD60@charter.net> There's a current Top 40 hit using the word. "Magic" by B.o.B. -Dave On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Michael Wilkins wrote: > > "Abracadabra" by Steve Miller Band > > >> From: brian_vita@cssinc.com >> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org >> Subject: Magic music >> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:51:30 -0400 >> >> I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it >> again. Does >> anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a >> magic >> convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Brian From dan.strassberg@att.net Fri Nov 5 09:57:08 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 09:57:08 -0400 Subject: Magic music References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com><942997718D13472E8C5916312EB005C7@PaulPC><158637.6061.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <201011050512.oA55CPmP066307@tsornin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <8E057AB16FD949D6B17979B0F68CF38B@SatU205S5044> Why is it that most people who mentioned the Cole Porter standard, "That Old Black Magic" referred to the Louis Prima-Keely Smith rendition? I'm sure that particular recording rose higher on the charts than most others--maybe even higher than the Frank Sinatra rendition that somebody did mention, but I would be surprised if fewer than 50 versions of the song achieved some degree of success. I mean it's a Cole Porter song, for heavens' sake. As they say on Tin Pan alley, "that's not exctly chopped liver." And BTW, nobody on this list bothered to give credit to the composer/lyricist. I mean, the Prima-Smith version deserves credit for being a "droll sendup" of a classic popular song, but it was the genius of Cole Porter that made the whole thing possible. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Halper" To: "Bill Smith" ; Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:12 AM Subject: Re: Magic music > Magic Town, by the Vogues > This Magic Moment, by Jay & the Americans > Magic Power, by Triumph > and I assume we got That Old Black Magic by Louis Prima and Keely > Smith From tony.abruzzese@gmail.com Fri Nov 5 09:59:55 2010 From: tony.abruzzese@gmail.com (Anthony Abruzzese) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:59:55 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> Message-ID: Could this be Magic - the Dubs You could also try a search of the iTunes (or other online music store) on "Magic" The B.o.B. Song showed up on iTunes, as well as a song by Colbie Caille (sp?) On 11/4/10 9:51 PM, "Brian Vita" wrote: >I know that this question has come up before but I'll ask it again. Does >anyone have a list of songs that reference "magic"? I'm working a magic >convention this weekend and I'm looking for background music. > >Thanks in advance. > >Brian > > >Pro Cinema - Pro Audio - Pro & Consumer AV Equipment & Supplies > > >Brian Vita >President >Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. >77 Walnut St - Ste 4 >Peabody, MA 01960-5691 >brian_vita@cssinc.com >AIM: btvita >tel: >fax: >978-538-7575 >978- > > From dlh@donnahalper.com Fri Nov 5 12:12:14 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:12:14 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <8E057AB16FD949D6B17979B0F68CF38B@SatU205S5044> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> <942997718D13472E8C5916312EB005C7@PaulPC> <158637.6061.qm@web62401.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <201011050512.oA55CPmP066307@tsornin.bostonradio.org> <8E057AB16FD949D6B17979B0F68CF38B@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: <201011051612.oA5GCV9J074423@tsornin.bostonradio.org> At 09:57 AM 11/5/2010, Dan.Strassberg wrote: >Why is it that most people who mentioned the Cole Porter standard, >"That Old Black Magic" referred to the Louis Prima-Keely Smith >rendition? Because if you grew up (as I did) listening to top-40, that was the version you heard. From raccoonradio@mail.com Fri Nov 5 12:13:45 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:13:45 -0400 Subject: Wonder if the Red Sox will do this? In-Reply-To: <414162.52495.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CD4B1B8E53BEB8-153C-B8FB@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> The deal was made in '06 and was for 10 years but a post recently here on b-r-i said that Entercom got an extension (don't know for how long) in which they could spread out payments, and also this helps keep them away from any poss. deal with, say, CBS and 98.5 Unless the contract can be broken somehow along the line. From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 5 12:30:17 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:30:17 -0400 Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ Message-ID: His last day will be November 30th Makes one appreciate what Gary LaPierre accomplished. The Herald has the press release from 1030 http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/mediaBiz/?p=1055&srvc=home&position=recent From raccoonradio@mail.com Fri Nov 5 14:00:16 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:00:16 -0400 Subject: (WSNE) It's Nov 5. Merry Christmas! Message-ID: <8CD4B2A6FC481C4-153C-C2BD@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> http://www.wsne.com/main.html It isn't Christmas/holidays till Clear Channel says it is! From dan.strassberg@att.net Fri Nov 5 15:40:41 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:40:41 -0400 Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ References: Message-ID: <194DE543222A4897AF4658A3DB7F6FE5@SatU205S5044> Huh? ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" To: "bri" Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 12:30 PM Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ > Makes one appreciate what Gary LaPierre accomplished. From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 5 15:43:08 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:43:08 -0400 Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ In-Reply-To: <194DE543222A4897AF4658A3DB7F6FE5@SatU205S5044> References: <194DE543222A4897AF4658A3DB7F6FE5@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: <26FFBB2A-ED2E-451F-BE62-2BC88A8FF462@gmail.com> Gary lasted over 40 years Dan We will never see that again Sent from my iPhone On Nov 5, 2010, at 3:40 PM, "Dan.Strassberg" wrote: > Huh? > > ----- > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) > eFax 1-707-215-6367 > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" > To: "bri" > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 12:30 PM > Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ > > >> Makes one appreciate what Gary LaPierre accomplished. > > From s.bingham@comfortzonescomm.com Mon Nov 1 09:03:51 2010 From: s.bingham@comfortzonescomm.com (Scott Bingham) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:03:51 -0400 Subject: WEIM Call Letter Change (Scott Bingham) Message-ID: ?New to the Digest and hoping that this is submitted correctly... When Central Broadcasting (former owner of WINQ-FM, Winchendon) acquired WEIM several years ago, major changes were implemented. Leominster native, Ben Parker, was soon installed as Station Manager. Various format incarnations have ensued and from what we hear on the street, in an effort to distance themselves from the old format and politics ? and to convey an ?all-new? image, WPKZ was born. WPKZ?s current formatting duplicates much of what can be heard on Boston and other outlets ? the major exception being in AM Drive where local news, interviews and events are featured. Staffing has been a bit of a revolving door ? ?a big local radio shocker? in these challenging economic times and fragmented/evolving media marketplace. Opinions? The migration of 105.3 FM from Gloucester to Fitchburg was a stroke of genius. The abandonment of the WEIM heritage call letters? Probably nope, perhaps revealing the ?station powers? to perhaps be more led by inexperience, emotion and political leanings than solid business sense, research and objective intuition. Scott Bingham, President & Creative Director (formerly on-air at 66 WNBC, New York) ComfortZones Communications, Inc. Marketing From lglavin@mail.com Mon Nov 1 13:15:52 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:15:52 -0400 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: References: <20101031220345.ourkv7mhabc0k0ck@webmail.myfairpoint.net><201011010210.oA12Aqtb050413@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <8CD47FF92288AF3-1714-27CD@web-mmc-m10.sysops.aol.com> >-----Original Message----- >From: Bob DeMattia >To: Boston Radio >Sent: Sun, Oct 31, 2010 10:17 pm >Subject: Re: WEIM call letter change >The FM is just a translator, so yes the FM content is a simulcast of the AM, 24/7 Still have trouble hearing the translator (and WROR) in the Worcester area due to the pirate 105.5. -Bob When WPKZ does its station IDs ATOH, they usually have it read WPKZ-AM 1280 and 105.3 FM. The ACTUAL call letters for the FM are W288CE (105.3 is actually FM channel 287), but I've never heard them say W288CE; non-commercial FMs with translators, like WEVO in in Concord, NH give their translator call letters several times a day (although in the case of WEVO, they NEVER announce their translator W212AF, which was its translator in Nashua for years until WEVS-FM 88.3 went on the air. It's still transmitting even now, which is why I can't get WAMC atop Mt. Greylock, MA to check out its new antenna. Isn't this contrary to FCC regulations?). From sonnyradio@gmail.com Tue Nov 2 10:15:54 2010 From: sonnyradio@gmail.com (Sonny Daye) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:15:54 -0400 Subject: Heritage Call Letters Message-ID: <<<< Why give up heritage call letters?>>>> One possibility comes to mind. If your wife runs off with a guy whose initials are "EIM", that would be sufficient reason to change the call letters. Sorry...couldn't resist! -Sonny Daye -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > At 10:03 PM 10/31/2010, Doug Drown wrote: > >> I never did understand why WEIM changed its call letters after 71 years. >> I still don't. Makes no sense. -Doug >> From rjoc04679@gmail.com Wed Nov 3 14:22:47 2010 From: rjoc04679@gmail.com (Rod O'Connor) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:22:47 -0400 Subject: WRMO 93.7 Milbridge ME off air Message-ID: Sorry to see/hear/read that little WRMO 93.7 Milbridge Maine has signed off. They were a great-sounding station, but only got out about 10 miles. Check their website www.937wrmo.com Rod O'Connor Southwest Harbor, Maine From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 5 22:10:16 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:10:16 +0000 Subject: Union NJ men's clothier In-Reply-To: <86323.18023.qm@web30107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <86323.18023.qm@web30107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1969278960-1289009416-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2099650281-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> The website www.musicradio77.com has a couple of Dennison's commercials. I underestimated how many people in Boston listened to WABC overnight until the morning that Roby Young went nuts on the air concerning the rumor that Beatle Paul was dead. Word spread like wildfire until WABC security had to escort him out of the building. Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: Robert Paine Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:25:39 To: Subject: Union NJ men's clothier That could have been Dennison's, which I think was in Union. I should remember because I listened to WABC all night. All of you north of Waterford CT had better reception for the Boston stations; while you heard Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg, Bud Ballou and the rest, I could only get WMCA and Musicradio 77 WABC (ding). The overnight guy was Charlie Greer and he did Dennison's commercials. I can't recall if their spots began with "Is this the place? It's gotta be the place, 'cause there's no other place like this place". After the first line, the jock would slap the desk - ba-dum-dum-dum-dum or whatever SFX fits. I am pretty certain that Dennison's ads had an end tag, "Dennison's, Route __, Union, New Jersey. Dennison's, where money talks, nobody walks." I sometimes use that line today. Of course, no one has the foggiest notion of the significance but I just smile and let them wonder what I'm up to...... Bob Paine From joe@attorneyross.com Fri Nov 5 22:41:01 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:41:01 -0400 Subject: Magic music In-Reply-To: <3B679928-ECF2-4871-A519-2B0FA487DD60@charter.net> References: <01e001cb7c8b$fb6f8800$f24e9800$@com> <3B679928-ECF2-4871-A519-2B0FA487DD60@charter.net> Message-ID: <4CD4C03D.2050303@attorneyross.com> "Magic Moments," by Perry Como -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From sid@wrko.com Fri Nov 5 22:59:45 2010 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:59:45 +0000 Subject: Union NJ men's clothier In-Reply-To: <86323.18023.qm@web30107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <86323.18023.qm@web30107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA05681F@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> "I can't recall if their spots began with "Is this the place? It's gotta be the place, 'cause there's no other place like this place". After the first line, the jock would slap the desk - ba-dum-dum-dum-dum or whatever SFX fits." That was Cousin Brucie doing live reads for, IIRC, Gimbel's. "I am pretty certain that Dennison's ads had an end tag, "Dennison's, Route __, Union, New Jersey. Dennison's, where money talks, nobody walks." ...usually followed by "Open 5AM until 3 the next morning...open right now!" (It was Route 22, Union NJ.) Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom New England 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Brighton MA 02135-2040 From sid@wrko.com Fri Nov 5 23:09:16 2010 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 03:09:16 +0000 Subject: WEIM call letter change In-Reply-To: <8CD47FF92288AF3-1714-27CD@web-mmc-m10.sysops.aol.com> References: <20101031220345.ourkv7mhabc0k0ck@webmail.myfairpoint.net><201011010210.oA12Aqtb050413@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <8CD47FF92288AF3-1714-27CD@web-mmc-m10.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA056842@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> "Isn't this contrary to FCC regulations?" The FCC rules for FM translator ID's state that the legal ID can be made by either: 1) Voice announcements, a minimum of three per day. One between 7 and 9 AM, one between 12:55 and 1:05 PM, and one between 4 and 6 PM. Or... 2) International Morse code, transmitted once per hour (if voice ID's aren't used) by either FSK (with carrier shift between 5 and 25 kHz) or AM of the FM carrier (with at least 30% modulation and avoiding the audio frequencies used for EAS). Ref. 47 CFR ?74.1283. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom New England 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Brighton MA 02135-2040 From Jibguy@aol.com Fri Nov 5 23:51:55 2010 From: Jibguy@aol.com (Jibguy@aol.com) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:51:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? Message-ID: <3f2c7.d3b0440.3a062ada@aol.com> Commercially-licensed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 watts; the latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia Park, Maine to different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on the coast of Maine. If interested, please contact Mike - _mmcsorley@maineline.net_ (mailto:mmcsorley@maineline.net) Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor acting as a broker. ------BB From paul@derrynh.net Sat Nov 6 01:20:33 2010 From: paul@derrynh.net (Paul Hopfgarten) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 01:20:33 -0400 Subject: Manchester NH Pirate In-Reply-To: <194DE543222A4897AF4658A3DB7F6FE5@SatU205S5044> References: <194DE543222A4897AF4658A3DB7F6FE5@SatU205S5044> Message-ID: <6FC63CE57DC04FFAACFBBD87F7D1A434@PaulPC> Apparently 105.1 is boradcasting a low power (I'm guessing 10w) signal in Manchester NH for a group called "Liberty Radio Network" (Liberatarians) and actually at lrn.fm is giving instructions for transmitting an LPFM signal for their broadcast product and even includes a section on "dealing with the FCC". So my guess is this is a Pirate station. -Paul Hopfgarten -Concord NH From revdoug1@myfairpoint.net Sat Nov 6 07:31:20 2010 From: revdoug1@myfairpoint.net (=?utf-8?b?RG91ZyBEcm93bg==?=) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:31:20 -0400 Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? Message-ID: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> I wish I had the money, alas. Someone could buy this little station and do some really creative things with it. Down East Maine has an eclectic populace that encompasses a thriving artistic and musical culture. One thing that Maine doesn't have at all, and which I would love to hear, is a good jazz station. MPBN and WBACH have some great jazz programs, but with each it's only a little more than one evening a week. -Doug Quoting Jibguy@aol.com: > Commercially-licensed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering > study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 watts; the > latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia Park, Maine to > different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on the coast of Maine. If > interested, please contact Mike - _mmcsorley@maineline.net_ > (mailto:mmcsorley@maineline.net) > Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor > acting as a broker. > > ------BB > From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 6 08:10:21 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 08:10:21 -0400 Subject: Union NJ men's clothier In-Reply-To: <288918.38387.qm@web30105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <288918.38387.qm@web30105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1011A84A-89F3-487D-BCF4-AF0728F0617C@gmail.com> Yes the musicradio77.com site has a clip of Chuck Leonard on the air after King died. Locally 950 when it was WRYT would do transmitter testing on Monday mornings and played music and took calls from all over. Geoff Fox who is now a weatherman at channel 8 in New Haven lived at the transmitter in Saugus and was responsible for the show until the FCC said enough as WPEN wasn't pleased. Geoff got the idea from a station in Lookout Mountain,Tennessee that did that for months and came into Boston like a local. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 6, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Robert Paine wrote: > I remember that night. I listened until he stopped talking for whatever reason and Les Marshak came on. He said that they weren't taking any more calls about the Paul thing. Often wondered just what had transpired until I glanced through Rick Sklar's book, I think. He described how he's been alerted, called Marshak to come in and they met in the lobby before going upstairs. I think that's pretty accurate. Anyway, he wrote that Yonge understood, took it calmly and cooperated in leaving the station. That's the jist of it as I understand it. > > Another thing happened that I don't think anyone remembers. At least, no one has responded when I wrote about it somewhere. One Sunday night/Monday morning, the station signed off for transmitter maintenance. I listened to it because even in high school I had insomnia. They ran the usual tones and took the transmitter on and off the air, and so on. After the carrier came back on, this deep voice intoned, "From deep within the echo chambers of the Blue Network. Hahhahahahahahhahha", approximating The Shadow's laugh. I never heard anything like it again....curious. :) Wish I had been able to tape that....it would be priceless today. > > Thanks so much for the message. It's great to connect with others who share the same memories from that time. One more thing - do you know if there is any audio from WABC from the JFK and/or Bobby Kennedy assassinations? I was listening to the station when Bobby was shot...what a time.... I'd really like to hear some of the audio if it exists as I've never heard any of the station's coverage of the JFK shooting. > > Thanks again, > Bob Paine > > --- On Fri, 11/5/10, Kevin Vahey wrote: > >> From: Kevin Vahey >> Subject: Re: Union NJ men's clothier >> To: "Robert Paine" , boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org, boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org >> Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 7:10 PM >> The website www.musicradio77.com has >> a couple of Dennison's commercials. >> >> I underestimated how many people in Boston listened to WABC >> overnight until the morning that Roby Young went nuts on the >> air concerning the rumor that Beatle Paul was dead. >> >> Word spread like wildfire until WABC security had to escort >> him out of the building. >> Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny >> keys >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Paine >> Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org >> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:25:39 >> To: >> Subject: Union NJ men's clothier >> >> That could have been Dennison's, which I think was in >> Union. I should remember because I listened to WABC all >> night. All of you north of Waterford CT had better reception >> for the Boston stations; while you heard Arnie "Woo-Woo" >> Ginsburg, Bud Ballou and the rest, I could only get WMCA and >> Musicradio 77 WABC (ding). The overnight guy was Charlie >> Greer and he did Dennison's commercials. I can't recall if >> their spots began with "Is this the place? It's gotta be the >> place, 'cause there's no other place like this place". After >> the first line, the jock would slap the desk - >> ba-dum-dum-dum-dum or whatever SFX fits. I am pretty certain >> that Dennison's ads had an end tag, "Dennison's, Route __, >> Union, New Jersey. Dennison's, where money talks, nobody >> walks." I sometimes use that line today. Of course, no one >> has the foggiest notion of the significance but I just smile >> and let them wonder what I'm up to...... >> >> Bob Paine >> From tlmedia@triad.rr.com Sat Nov 6 08:09:00 2010 From: tlmedia@triad.rr.com (Ted Larsen) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 08:09:00 -0400 Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ References: <194DE543222A4897AF4658A3DB7F6FE5@SatU205S5044> <26FFBB2A-ED2E-451F-BE62-2BC88A8FF462@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1B0A646A4E784CE198E9129EF8EB57A6@YOURbcbbe822ed> Gary also started in the mailroom right out of college. Something else we're not likely to see again. The mailroom is not mentioned in this old Herald piece, but there is a two year gap from being hired and made anchor. He nostalgically talked about the mailroom gig often http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/12/gary_lapierre_g.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" To: "Dan.Strassberg" Cc: "bri" Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ > Gary lasted over 40 years Dan We will never see that again > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 5, 2010, at 3:40 PM, "Dan.Strassberg" > wrote: > >> Huh? >> >> ----- >> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) >> eFax 1-707-215-6367 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" >> To: "bri" >> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 12:30 PM >> Subject: Ed Walsh retiring at WBZ >> >> >>> Makes one appreciate what Gary LaPierre accomplished. >> >> > > From kc1ih@mac.com Sat Nov 6 12:28:34 2010 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:28:34 -0400 Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? In-Reply-To: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> Message-ID: At 7:31 AM -0400 11/6/10, Doug Drown wrote: >I wish I had the money, alas. Someone could buy this little station >and do some really creative things with it. Down East Maine has an >eclectic populace that encompasses a thriving artistic and musical >culture. One thing that Maine doesn't have at all, and which I >would love to hear, is a good jazz station. MPBN and WBACH have >some great jazz programs, but with each it's only a little more than >one evening a week. -Doug That probably would have been easier to do years ago, but by now probably quite a few of the true Jazz aficionados have bought satellite radio, so you might have a hard time weaning those people away to your station. -- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From TVNETDUDE@aol.com Sat Nov 6 13:15:16 2010 From: TVNETDUDE@aol.com (TVNETDUDE@aol.com) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:15:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Union NJ men's clothier Message-ID: <19d61.7868dca7.3a06e724@aol.com> Reelradio.com has hundreds of airchecks including the entire Crusin series. It's 15 bucks a year but hey have entire Charlie Greer overnight shows and plenty of Denisson commercials. They even have quite few Boston airchecks from the 60's tjrough the 80's. I used to listen to WPTR and WABC in Revere when I was a kid. mainly because Boston pulled the plug in music at ten until RKO came along. Mike In a message dated 11/5/2010 11:11:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, boston-radio-interest-request@tsornin.BostonRadio.org writes: >>>The website www.musicradio77.com has a couple of Dennison's commercials. I underestimated how many people in Boston listened to WABC overnight until the morning that Roby Young went nuts on the air concerning the rumor that Beatle Paul was dead.<<< From sid@wrko.com Sat Nov 6 13:26:24 2010 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:26:24 +0000 Subject: Union NJ men's clothier In-Reply-To: <19d61.7868dca7.3a06e724@aol.com> References: <19d61.7868dca7.3a06e724@aol.com> Message-ID: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA056A6D@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> "Reelradio.com has hundreds of airchecks including the entire Crusin series." It should be emphasized that what ReelRadio has are the *original* Cruisin' albums, the ones released on LP, not the chintzy remakes that were released on CD. By the time Increase Records was ready to release the albums on CD, their rights to use a lot of the songs had expired, and rather than try to renew them they substituted other songs, the result being some rather sloppy edits. If you're any kind of aircheck freak, $15 a year is well worth it. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom New England 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Brighton MA 02135-2040 From sid@wrko.com Sat Nov 6 13:29:13 2010 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:29:13 +0000 Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? In-Reply-To: References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> Message-ID: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA056A87@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> "That probably would have been easier to do years ago, but by now probably quite a few of the true Jazz aficionados have bought satellite radio, so you might have a hard time weaning those people away to your station." With or without satellite radio in the picture, jazz formats on radio have always had a difficult time sustaining themselves economically, even in the big cities where you'd expect to find enough of an audience to keep the format running. The "smooth jazz" formats of the late 1908s and 1990s always had some other non-jazz genres mixed in to broaden their appeal, but even those stations are for the most part gone now. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom New England 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Brighton MA 02135-2040 From markwats@comcast.net Sat Nov 6 20:33:51 2010 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:33:51 -0400 Subject: JC Golden Oldies On WFEA Message-ID: <1BB9C12E5BBD4416AE7370FA2936D825@Mark> The "JC Golden Oldies Show" is back on the radio, on WFEA (1370 Manchester) Saturday nights from 6 to 9 PM. Someone mentioned this to me the other day, the person told me he heard the show a couple of weeks ago. On my way home in the car just after 6 this evening (Tewksbury & Lowell), I tuned in and was able to hear JC (a/k/a Jim Camilli) amongst one or two other stations battling it out. IMHO this may be a brokered time show, JC mentioned the show being sponsored by a car dealership in Nashua and the only spot heard in the 20 minutes I was listening was for that dealership. Jim Camilli was PD of WFEA from 1962 to 1965. After WFEA, his next radio stop was WLLH, from March 1966 to July 1990. Mark Watson From gary@garysicecream.com Sat Nov 6 20:40:47 2010 From: gary@garysicecream.com (Gary's Ice Cream) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:40:47 -0400 Subject: JC Golden Oldies On WFEA In-Reply-To: <1BB9C12E5BBD4416AE7370FA2936D825@Mark> References: <1BB9C12E5BBD4416AE7370FA2936D825@Mark> Message-ID: <06f501cb7e14$6bf07ec0$43d17c40$@com> I listened to a few minutes.....some people just don't know when to hang up the headphones. -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Watson Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:34 PM To: Boston Radio Subject: JC Golden Oldies On WFEA The "JC Golden Oldies Show" is back on the radio, on WFEA (1370 Manchester) Saturday nights from 6 to 9 PM. Someone mentioned this to me the other day, the person told me he heard the show a couple of weeks ago. On my way home in the car just after 6 this evening (Tewksbury & Lowell), I tuned in and was able to hear JC (a/k/a Jim Camilli) amongst one or two other stations battling it out. IMHO this may be a brokered time show, JC mentioned the show being sponsored by a car dealership in Nashua and the only spot heard in the 20 minutes I was listening was for that dealership. Jim Camilli was PD of WFEA from 1962 to 1965. After WFEA, his next radio stop was WLLH, from March 1966 to July 1990. Mark Watson From dlh@donnahalper.com Sun Nov 7 17:00:13 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:00:13 -0500 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> Message-ID: <201011072159.oA7Lxdb5080203@tsornin.bostonradio.org> I don't know how many of you saw this article by Beverly Beckham in today's Boston Globe, about a time not that long ago when waiting for a phone call was a BIG deal... It made me think back to when I was waiting to hear if I got a certain job, or waiting to hear from somebody I loved... or waiting to hear if I was getting called in to work an extra airshift... Yeah, the telephone could sometimes be annoying, but like Beverly, I sort of miss it. I am not trying to be a luddite-- I'm on Twitter and Facebook and all that; but somehow getting a text message seems really impersonal compared to hearing somebody's voice... Remember the Telephone? By Beverly Beckham, Boston Globe Columnist, November 6, 2010 It was magical, the old telephone. It rang and you raced to it and picked it up and said "Hello?" and someone, a friend, a neighbor, sometimes someone far away in another state said "Hello" back. And you got excited, hearing a certain voice, thrilled and surprised when it was your best friend calling, or a boy you just met, because the phone ringing was like a knock on a door or a gift-wrapped present. Always a mystery. Remainder of article is here: http://tinyurl.com/37d875a From dave@skywaves.net Sun Nov 7 17:15:43 2010 From: dave@skywaves.net (Dave Doherty) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 17:15:43 -0500 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: <201011072159.oA7Lxdb5080203@tsornin.bostonradio.org> References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <201011072159.oA7Lxdb5080203@tsornin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: Nice article, Donna. Thanks for passing it along. I wonder how many of us remember party lines? After he retired, my grandfather lived in New Hampton, NH. He was on an eight-party line. You could always tell who got a call by the ring pattern - a sequence of short and/or long rings. His ring was three shorts. One neighbor was a long and two shorts, another was two shorts and a long, and so on. It was not unusual to pick up the phone and hear somebody else using the line, because you generally did not get an indication when another party was dialing out. But if you sat right next to the phone, sometimes you could hear the clapper moving with another party's dialing pulses. It was all magical, back in the day. -d > From revdoug1@myfairpoint.net Sun Nov 7 18:18:40 2010 From: revdoug1@myfairpoint.net (=?utf-8?b?RG91ZyBEcm93bg==?=) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:18:40 -0500 Subject: telephone memories Message-ID: <20101107181840.x34nq0tlai6ssscw@webmail.myfairpoint.net> I don't go back as far as the days of crank phones, but I do remember our dialless wall phone, whose receiver we would pick up, click the cradle once or twice, and get "Central." Dial phones came to Ashburnham around 1962, IIRC. TAlbot was our prefix. DIamond was Fitchburg. I think KEystone was Athol. Gardner, oddly, was the last community around to get dial phones --- it wasn't until 1965 or '66 or thereabouts, thus the city never had an alphabetized prefix. It's always been 632. I remember party lines very well. When I was in seminary in Bangor in the '70s, my landlady was still part of a party line that she joined in 1929. Gradually, one by one, the other parties withdrew and sought private lines. She wound up still paying a much less expensive rate for a party line, even though she was, by then, the only person on it. That's what you call Beating the System. An acquaintance of mine was the head attorney for NET&T, and was the person whom AT&T hired to work out the breakup of the company in the late '70s. His own son has never quite forgiven him for it, nor, I think, has anyone else. Life was MUCH simpler when Ma Bell ran the whole shebang, even if it was a monopoly. And yes, I still have home phones, including a dear, old, heavy, early-'60s dial phone that has been in the bedroom since the day it was installed. I love it. -Doug Quoting Dave Doherty : > Nice article, Donna. Thanks for passing it along. > > I wonder how many of us remember party lines? > > After he retired, my grandfather lived in New Hampton, NH. He was on an > eight-party line. > > You could always tell who got a call by the ring pattern - a sequence of > short and/or long rings. His ring was three shorts. One neighbor was a long > and two shorts, another was two shorts and a long, and so on. > > It was not unusual to pick up the phone and hear somebody else using the > line, because you generally did not get an indication when another party was > dialing out. But if you sat right next to the phone, sometimes you could > hear the clapper moving with another party's dialing pulses. > > It was all magical, back in the day. > > -d > > > > > From bob.bosra@demattia.net Sun Nov 7 19:20:04 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:20:04 -0500 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: <20101107181840.x34nq0tlai6ssscw@webmail.myfairpoint.net> References: <20101107181840.x34nq0tlai6ssscw@webmail.myfairpoint.net> Message-ID: > When I was growing up, we had a party line with the neighbors across the > street. > At some point, they decided they could afford a line of their own. We got party line rates with no one else for a short period, then the phone company paired us with somebody else in town that we did not know. In our town, we had OXford-6 and OXford-8, though this had nothing to do with the town of Oxford or for that matter, anything to do with anything in the town of Milton. I remember in the mid 1985 living in Hudson, MA. Touch tone service was NOT available, but we were still able to dial 5 digits to call other people in town. That switch wasn't replaced until 1999. They knocked a big hole in the side of the central office. It looked like the whole a cartoon character makes when he goes through a wall. In front of the hole, they put a dumpster then started throwing equipment into it. When they were done, they rebricked the wall. I imagine there's a lot of empty space in that building now. -Bob From joe@attorneyross.com Sun Nov 7 21:24:23 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:24:23 -0500 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <201011072159.oA7Lxdb5080203@tsornin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <4CD75F57.6000204@attorneyross.com> On 11/7/2010 5:15 PM, Dave Doherty wrote: > Nice article, Donna. Thanks for passing it along. > > I wonder how many of us remember party lines? > > After he retired, my grandfather lived in New Hampton, NH. He was on > an eight-party line. > > You could always tell who got a call by the ring pattern - a sequence > of short and/or long rings. His ring was three shorts. One neighbor > was a long and two shorts, another was two shorts and a long, and so on. I remember all that. We had a 4-party line when we first moved to Bedford in 1957. We were desperately trying to get a 2-party line because you needed that to get Suburban Service. And we needed that to call my grandparents in Brighton without it being a toll call. Even earlier, when I was a small child in Newburyport, I remember phones without dials, where we would pick up the phone and get an operator, who would answer "Number, please." I think I made my first phone call on one of those, with my mother telling me what to say to call my father at work. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From brian_vita@cssinc.com Sun Nov 7 21:39:15 2010 From: brian_vita@cssinc.com (Brian Vita) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 21:39:15 -0500 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <002f01cb7eee$2618d930$724a8b90$@com> Thanks to everyone who sent me their ideas for "magic music". I was able to pull about 30 songs to use at the convention. Brian Vita President Cinema Service & Supply, Inc. 77 Walnut St - Ste 4 Peabody, MA 01960-5691 brian_vita@cssinc.com From rogerkirk@ttlc.net Sun Nov 7 22:58:59 2010 From: rogerkirk@ttlc.net (Roger Kirk) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:58:59 -0500 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: <201011072159.oA7Lxdb5080203@tsornin.bostonradio.org> References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <201011072159.oA7Lxdb5080203@tsornin.bostonradio.org> Message-ID: <4CD77583.4040508@ttlc.net> For more telephone memories check out http://www.thetelephonemuseum.org They're closed for the winter, but definitely worth the trip. Their displays are fully functional and range from early primitive switchboards all the way up through the Strowger, relay and electronic switching systems. They also have many different types of (working) telephones on display & connected to the switching systems. From newsltr@southstation.org Sat Nov 6 08:23:09 2010 From: newsltr@southstation.org (Larry Lovering) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 08:23:09 -0400 Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? In-Reply-To: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> Message-ID: <067001cb7dad$630de3e0$2929aba0$@southstation.org> I'm with Doug, no money, no station. They did have an interesting mix, aimed at that 35+ demo, and yes, I would love to program Jazz on a station like that. Oh well, I guess I'm going to have to wait on that retirement to Maine... -Larry -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Doug Drown Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 7:31 AM To: =?utf-8?b??=; =?utf-8?b??= Subject: Re: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? I wish I had the money, alas. Someone could buy this little station and do some really creative things with it. Down East Maine has an eclectic populace that encompasses a thriving artistic and musical culture. One thing that Maine doesn't have at all, and which I would love to hear, is a good jazz station. MPBN and WBACH have some great jazz programs, but with each it's only a little more than one evening a week. -Doug Quoting Jibguy@aol.com: > Commercially-licensed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering > study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 > watts; the latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia > Park, Maine to different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on > the coast of Maine. If interested, please contact Mike - > _mmcsorley@maineline.net_ > (mailto:mmcsorley@maineline.net) > Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor > acting as a broker. > > ------BB > From raccoonradio@mail.com Mon Nov 8 12:35:46 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:35:46 -0500 Subject: Silly Season on Boston talk radio Message-ID: <8CD4D82829278E7-DC0-3B2B@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> First the WRKO morning show was inundated with callers saying that they heard Tom & Todd would be cancelled and Joe Malone and Steve Sweeney would be taking their place. The hosts played along, saying the program director could be called and people could call Howie's show or start a Net group to get them back. Then we found out...it wasn't true. Malone and Sweeney were on WTKK last Fri and joked about getting a show of their own on "a different station". Maybe true, but probably not. In the meantime Blue Mass Group blog picked up on it and reported it as fact. The WRKO facebook fan page had many outraged comments. Then Michael Graham says a "big programming announcement" would occur today at noon. Just before noon he amended it to "a big announcement about the Michael Graham show". Turns out this massive, important breaking news was...he's getting married. Well, good luck to him and his bride to be, but a bit of bait and switch,no? In politics they call it silly season. This is talk radio silly season... From tlmedia@triad.rr.com Mon Nov 8 13:15:35 2010 From: tlmedia@triad.rr.com (Ted Larsen) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:15:35 -0500 Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <067001cb7dad$630de3e0$2929aba0$@southstation.org> Message-ID: <4D88DB2FB44343C1984FB77609BA1DF6@YOURbcbbe822ed> Hi Gang: Does anyone know his asking price? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lovering" To: "'Doug Drown'" ; "''" ; "''" Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 7:23 AM Subject: RE: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? > I'm with Doug, no money, no station. They did have an interesting mix, > aimed at that 35+ demo, and yes, I would love to program Jazz on a station > like that. Oh well, I guess I'm going to have to wait on that retirement > to Maine... > > -Larry > > -----Original Message----- > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf > Of Doug Drown > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 7:31 AM > To: =?utf-8?b??=; =?utf-8?b??= > Subject: Re: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? > > I wish I had the money, alas. Someone could buy this little station and > do some really creative things with it. Down East Maine has an eclectic > populace that encompasses a thriving artistic and musical > culture. One thing that Maine doesn't have at all, and which I would > love to hear, is a good jazz station. MPBN and WBACH have some great jazz > programs, but with each it's only a little more than one evening a > week. -Doug > > > > Quoting Jibguy@aol.com: >> Commercially-licensed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering >> study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 >> watts; the latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia >> Park, Maine to different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on >> the coast of Maine. If interested, please contact Mike - >> _mmcsorley@maineline.net_ >> (mailto:mmcsorley@maineline.net) >> Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor >> acting as a broker. >> >> ------BB >> > > > > > > From bob.bosra@demattia.net Mon Nov 8 15:59:48 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 15:59:48 -0500 Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? In-Reply-To: <4D88DB2FB44343C1984FB77609BA1DF6@YOURbcbbe822ed> References: <20101106073120.ljobxam4zuo04ko8@webmail.myfairpoint.net> <067001cb7dad$630de3e0$2929aba0$@southstation.org> <4D88DB2FB44343C1984FB77609BA1DF6@YOURbcbbe822ed> Message-ID: Aren't Nassau's WNNH 99.1 Henniker and WWHQ 101.5 Laconia in a similar predicament (i.e. off the air until somebody buys them)? These are 2.8 and 6kW stations in more populated areas. They've been off the air since March. -Bob On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ted Larsen wrote: > Hi Gang: Does anyone know his asking price? > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lovering" < > newsltr@southstation.org> > To: "'Doug Drown'" ; "''" < > boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>; "''" > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 7:23 AM > Subject: RE: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? > > > > I'm with Doug, no money, no station. They did have an interesting mix, >> aimed at that 35+ demo, and yes, I would love to program Jazz on a station >> like that. Oh well, I guess I'm going to have to wait on that retirement to >> Maine... >> >> -Larry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto: >> boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Doug >> Drown >> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 7:31 AM >> To: =?utf-8?b??=; =?utf-8?b??= >> Subject: Re: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? >> >> I wish I had the money, alas. Someone could buy this little station and >> do some really creative things with it. Down East Maine has an eclectic >> populace that encompasses a thriving artistic and musical >> culture. One thing that Maine doesn't have at all, and which I would >> love to hear, is a good jazz station. MPBN and WBACH have some great jazz >> programs, but with each it's only a little more than one evening a >> week. -Doug >> >> >> >> Quoting Jibguy@aol.com: >> >>> Commercially-licensed. It's only 130 watts, but it has an engineering >>> study saying it could upgrade to 6,000 watts, and perhaps 25,000 >>> watts; the latter two which would cover Ellsworth & Bar Harbor/Acadia >>> Park, Maine to different degrees. A chance to do your own thing on >>> the coast of Maine. If interested, please contact Mike - >>> _mmcsorley@maineline.net_ >>> (mailto:mmcsorley@maineline.net) >>> Disclaimer: I'm just a messenger, without any financial interest, nor >>> acting as a broker. >>> >>> ------BB >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > From dave@skywaves.net Mon Nov 8 16:11:38 2010 From: dave@skywaves.net (Dave Doherty) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:11:38 -0500 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: <010201cb7f7d$dc7b51a0$9571f4e0$@com> References: <9519463.117956.1289172386874.JavaMail.root@m05> <010201cb7f7d$dc7b51a0$9571f4e0$@com> Message-ID: > And the few years when the phone company tried the eliminate letters on > the touch tone pads? If they had been successful we might not have text My BlackBerry has the numbers 1-9 superimposed over the letters WERSDFZXC. Zero got its own key. It works OK until somebody hawks "call 1-800-buy-more" - that just doesn't relate on a BB. :-) -d -------------------------------------------------- From: "Linc Reed-Nickerson" Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 2:48 PM To: "'Doug Drown'" ; "''" ; "'Donna Halper'" ; "'Dave Doherty'" Subject: RE: telephone memories > > When we moved from Maynard to Acton in December 1952 (just after the > Wilson School in Maynard burned), Acton had just converted to dial. But > in Maynard it was still "Number Please" and our number was 1061-R, our > neighbor was 1097-J. In Acton, now dial, may maternal grandparents were > 5540 and my paternal grandparents were 5504. My dada had to ask my mom > every time, oh 4 or 4 oh. Our exchange was Colonial 3, or CO3, which made > for lots of problems with people dialing C0 rather than CO when you had to > dial all 7 from neighboring towns or parts of Acton that had Maynard > numbers. > > Does anyone remember the beginning of "Direct Distance Dialing?" "First > you dial the magic one one then two letters, five figures as you've always > done." > > And how could forget "How Many Cookies did Andrew eat, Andrew eat eight > thousand, what number do you call to get you rugs clean? Call Andrew > 8-8000." > > And the few years when the phone company tried the eliminate letters on > the touch tone pads? If they had been successful we might not have text > messaging. > > Linc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf > Of Doug Drown > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:19 PM > To: =?utf-8?b??=; Donna Halper; Dave Doherty > Subject: Re: telephone memories > > I don't go back as far as the days of crank phones, but I do remember > our dialless wall phone, whose receiver we would pick up, click the > cradle once or twice, and get "Central." Dial phones came to > Ashburnham around 1962, IIRC. TAlbot was our prefix. DIamond was > Fitchburg. I think KEystone was Athol. Gardner, oddly, was the last > community around to get dial phones --- it wasn't until 1965 or '66 or > thereabouts, thus the city never had an alphabetized prefix. It's > always been 632. > > I remember party lines very well. When I was in seminary in Bangor in > the '70s, my landlady was still part of a party line that she joined in > 1929. Gradually, one by one, the other parties withdrew and sought > private lines. She wound up still paying a much less expensive rate > for a party line, even though she was, by then, the only person on it. > That's what you call Beating the System. > > An acquaintance of mine was the head attorney for NET&T, and was the > person whom AT&T hired to work out the breakup of the company in the > late '70s. His own son has never quite forgiven him for it, nor, I > think, has anyone else. Life was MUCH simpler when Ma Bell ran the > whole shebang, even if it was a monopoly. > > And yes, I still have home phones, including a dear, old, heavy, > early-'60s dial phone that has been in the bedroom since the day it was > installed. I love it. > > -Doug > > > > Quoting Dave Doherty : >> Nice article, Donna. Thanks for passing it along. >> >> I wonder how many of us remember party lines? >> >> After he retired, my grandfather lived in New Hampton, NH. He was on an >> eight-party line. >> >> You could always tell who got a call by the ring pattern - a sequence of >> short and/or long rings. His ring was three shorts. One neighbor was a >> long >> and two shorts, another was two shorts and a long, and so on. >> >> It was not unusual to pick up the phone and hear somebody else using the >> line, because you generally did not get an indication when another party >> was >> dialing out. But if you sat right next to the phone, sometimes you could >> hear the clapper moving with another party's dialing pulses. >> >> It was all magical, back in the day. >> >> -d >> >> >> > >> > > > > > > From ncn86@hotmail.com Mon Nov 8 11:07:02 2010 From: ncn86@hotmail.com (Nickolas Noseworthy) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:07:02 -0500 Subject: Best HD Reciever Message-ID: Hello all, was wondering if anyone could help me out. My parents live in Merrimack NH, and have had the same stereo reciever for over 20 years. Its an old Pioneer SX-2600, and the radio reception in the living room has never been that good. I am looking into getting them an HD reciever for christmas, but I need to know what the best one would be for them. I dont want to spend more then $800.00 either. Heres what they need. 1. Better Radio Reception: Having a tabletop HD radio, I know the advantages and want them to have those advantages as well. It must be HD ready. They constantly complain that one of the few stations that comes in well is ZID, so good FM reception is crucial. 2. Multi room: They want to expand with speakers outside, so seperate zoning is needed. 3. 7.1 surround: They want to expand the 2 speaker system they have, so 7.1 surround sound is crucial so they can expand the system well.4. I also want to run the TV, CD player, Playstation 3, and Wii through the reciever, so it needs to have enough inputs. A fully functioning Home Theatre Reciever with HD radio and Multi room capability. Any thoughts? (Oh, and a new indoor antenna)-Nick NH From linc@reed-nickerson.com Mon Nov 8 14:48:04 2010 From: linc@reed-nickerson.com (Linc Reed-Nickerson) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:48:04 -0800 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: <9519463.117956.1289172386874.JavaMail.root@m05> References: <9519463.117956.1289172386874.JavaMail.root@m05> Message-ID: <010201cb7f7d$dc7b51a0$9571f4e0$@com> When we moved from Maynard to Acton in December 1952 (just after the Wilson School in Maynard burned), Acton had just converted to dial. But in Maynard it was still "Number Please" and our number was 1061-R, our neighbor was 1097-J. In Acton, now dial, may maternal grandparents were 5540 and my paternal grandparents were 5504. My dada had to ask my mom every time, oh 4 or 4 oh. Our exchange was Colonial 3, or CO3, which made for lots of problems with people dialing C0 rather than CO when you had to dial all 7 from neighboring towns or parts of Acton that had Maynard numbers. Does anyone remember the beginning of "Direct Distance Dialing?" "First you dial the magic one one then two letters, five figures as you've always done." And how could forget "How Many Cookies did Andrew eat, Andrew eat eight thousand, what number do you call to get you rugs clean? Call Andrew 8-8000." And the few years when the phone company tried the eliminate letters on the touch tone pads? If they had been successful we might not have text messaging. Linc. -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Doug Drown Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:19 PM To: =?utf-8?b??=; Donna Halper; Dave Doherty Subject: Re: telephone memories I don't go back as far as the days of crank phones, but I do remember our dialless wall phone, whose receiver we would pick up, click the cradle once or twice, and get "Central." Dial phones came to Ashburnham around 1962, IIRC. TAlbot was our prefix. DIamond was Fitchburg. I think KEystone was Athol. Gardner, oddly, was the last community around to get dial phones --- it wasn't until 1965 or '66 or thereabouts, thus the city never had an alphabetized prefix. It's always been 632. I remember party lines very well. When I was in seminary in Bangor in the '70s, my landlady was still part of a party line that she joined in 1929. Gradually, one by one, the other parties withdrew and sought private lines. She wound up still paying a much less expensive rate for a party line, even though she was, by then, the only person on it. That's what you call Beating the System. An acquaintance of mine was the head attorney for NET&T, and was the person whom AT&T hired to work out the breakup of the company in the late '70s. His own son has never quite forgiven him for it, nor, I think, has anyone else. Life was MUCH simpler when Ma Bell ran the whole shebang, even if it was a monopoly. And yes, I still have home phones, including a dear, old, heavy, early-'60s dial phone that has been in the bedroom since the day it was installed. I love it. -Doug Quoting Dave Doherty : > Nice article, Donna. Thanks for passing it along. > > I wonder how many of us remember party lines? > > After he retired, my grandfather lived in New Hampton, NH. He was on an > eight-party line. > > You could always tell who got a call by the ring pattern - a sequence of > short and/or long rings. His ring was three shorts. One neighbor was a long > and two shorts, another was two shorts and a long, and so on. > > It was not unusual to pick up the phone and hear somebody else using the > line, because you generally did not get an indication when another party was > dialing out. But if you sat right next to the phone, sometimes you could > hear the clapper moving with another party's dialing pulses. > > It was all magical, back in the day. > > -d > > > > > From linc@reed-nickerson.com Mon Nov 8 17:15:57 2010 From: linc@reed-nickerson.com (Linc Reed-Nickerson) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:15:57 -0800 Subject: telephone memories In-Reply-To: <32577222.127847.1289251111607.JavaMail.root@m05> References: <9519463.117956.1289172386874.JavaMail.root@m05> <010201cb7f7d$dc7b51a0$9571f4e0$@com> <32577222.127847.1289251111607.JavaMail.root@m05> Message-ID: <014001cb7f92$853f9300$8fbeb900$@com> Yep, my Blackberry and other similar QWERTY hand held devices have that issue, a bit of a pain. Lin -----Original Message----- From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 1:12 PM To: Linc Reed-Nickerson; 'Doug Drown'; ''; 'Donna Halper' Subject: Re: telephone memories > And the few years when the phone company tried the eliminate letters on > the touch tone pads? If they had been successful we might not have text My BlackBerry has the numbers 1-9 superimposed over the letters WERSDFZXC. Zero got its own key. It works OK until somebody hawks "call 1-800-buy-more" - that just doesn't relate on a BB. :-) -d -------------------------------------------------- From: "Linc Reed-Nickerson" Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 2:48 PM To: "'Doug Drown'" ; "''" ; "'Donna Halper'" ; "'Dave Doherty'" Subject: RE: telephone memories > > When we moved from Maynard to Acton in December 1952 (just after the > Wilson School in Maynard burned), Acton had just converted to dial. But > in Maynard it was still "Number Please" and our number was 1061-R, our > neighbor was 1097-J. In Acton, now dial, may maternal grandparents were > 5540 and my paternal grandparents were 5504. My dada had to ask my mom > every time, oh 4 or 4 oh. Our exchange was Colonial 3, or CO3, which made > for lots of problems with people dialing C0 rather than CO when you had to > dial all 7 from neighboring towns or parts of Acton that had Maynard > numbers. > > Does anyone remember the beginning of "Direct Distance Dialing?" "First > you dial the magic one one then two letters, five figures as you've always > done." > > And how could forget "How Many Cookies did Andrew eat, Andrew eat eight > thousand, what number do you call to get you rugs clean? Call Andrew > 8-8000." > > And the few years when the phone company tried the eliminate letters on > the touch tone pads? If they had been successful we might not have text > messaging. > > Linc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf > Of Doug Drown > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:19 PM > To: =?utf-8?b??=; Donna Halper; Dave Doherty > Subject: Re: telephone memories > > I don't go back as far as the days of crank phones, but I do remember > our dialless wall phone, whose receiver we would pick up, click the > cradle once or twice, and get "Central." Dial phones came to > Ashburnham around 1962, IIRC. TAlbot was our prefix. DIamond was > Fitchburg. I think KEystone was Athol. Gardner, oddly, was the last > community around to get dial phones --- it wasn't until 1965 or '66 or > thereabouts, thus the city never had an alphabetized prefix. It's > always been 632. > > I remember party lines very well. When I was in seminary in Bangor in > the '70s, my landlady was still part of a party line that she joined in > 1929. Gradually, one by one, the other parties withdrew and sought > private lines. She wound up still paying a much less expensive rate > for a party line, even though she was, by then, the only person on it. > That's what you call Beating the System. > > An acquaintance of mine was the head attorney for NET&T, and was the > person whom AT&T hired to work out the breakup of the company in the > late '70s. His own son has never quite forgiven him for it, nor, I > think, has anyone else. Life was MUCH simpler when Ma Bell ran the > whole shebang, even if it was a monopoly. > > And yes, I still have home phones, including a dear, old, heavy, > early-'60s dial phone that has been in the bedroom since the day it was > installed. I love it. > > -Doug > > > > Quoting Dave Doherty : >> Nice article, Donna. Thanks for passing it along. >> >> I wonder how many of us remember party lines? >> >> After he retired, my grandfather lived in New Hampton, NH. He was on an >> eight-party line. >> >> You could always tell who got a call by the ring pattern - a sequence of >> short and/or long rings. His ring was three shorts. One neighbor was a >> long >> and two shorts, another was two shorts and a long, and so on. >> >> It was not unusual to pick up the phone and hear somebody else using the >> line, because you generally did not get an indication when another party >> was >> dialing out. But if you sat right next to the phone, sometimes you could >> hear the clapper moving with another party's dialing pulses. >> >> It was all magical, back in the day. >> >> -d >> >> >> > >> > > > > > > From sid@wrko.com Mon Nov 8 22:31:17 2010 From: sid@wrko.com (Sid Schweiger) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 03:31:17 +0000 Subject: Best HD Reciever In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA05994E@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> "1. Better Radio Reception: Having a tabletop HD radio, I know the advantages and want them to have those advantages as well. It must be HD ready. They constantly complain that one of the few stations that comes in well is ZID, so good FM reception is crucial." Almost all of the HD radios I've played with are relatively deaf, with one exception: the Sony XDR-F1HD. It has won almost universally stellar reviews, although it has two drawbacks IMO: Its build quality is variable (lots of reports of bad ones out of the box), and it's only a tuner...no amp or speakers. "2. Multi room: They want to expand with speakers outside, so separate zoning is needed." Just about any amp can do that, but none of the HD radios I've seen will do that. "3. 7.1 surround: They want to expand the 2 speaker system they have, so 7.1 surround sound is crucial so they can expand the system well." To my knowledge there's no HD radio which will produce 5.1 or 7.1. (They're having enough trouble getting 2.0 off the ground at the moment.) WZLX was experimenting with 5.1 HD, but I don't know if they're still doing that, and in any event there still aren't any radios available to consumers which will reproduce it. "4. I also want to run the TV, CD player, Playstation 3, and Wii through the reciever, so it needs to have enough inputs." Same comment as #2. "(Oh, and a new indoor antenna)" There's your FM reception problem. Especially in the hilly terrain of NH, to get more than just a tiny number of stations, an outdoor antenna is critical. Your parents' complaint (in #1) that they only receive a few stations well tells the story. The best tuner in the world is worthless without a good antenna. Sid Schweiger IT Manager, Entercom New England 20 Guest St / 3d Floor Brighton MA 02135-2040 From irw@well.com Mon Nov 8 23:52:07 2010 From: irw@well.com (Blaine Thompson) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:52:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Best HD Reciever In-Reply-To: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA05994E@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> References: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA05994E@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Sid Schweiger wrote: > Almost all of the HD radios I've played with are relatively deaf, with > one exception: the Sony XDR-F1HD. It has won almost universally > stellar reviews, although it has two drawbacks IMO: Its build quality > is variable (lots of reports of bad ones out of the box), and it's only > a tuner...no amp or speakers. I purchased a "refurbished" Sony XDR-F1HD from the Sony website, and the unit they sent was physically damaged, and didn't power on. I returned it, and received full credit, but that was a month wasted of ordering, shipping, complaining, returning, and finally receiving credit. I went elsewhere (some website) and purchased the same model (New), and it works well. I paid probably $10 more, though. The frustration, as usual, is priceless. :-) - Blaine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blaine Thompson Indiana RadioWatch irw@well.com http://www.indianaradio.net AOL Instant Messenger: indianaradio5 From wollman@bimajority.org Mon Nov 8 23:56:59 2010 From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:56:59 -0500 Subject: Best HD Reciever In-Reply-To: References: <6D618EE163582E43B00A6455F34B29EA05994E@ENTCOREXMB04.etmcorad.com> Message-ID: <19672.54427.5411.78320@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> < said: > I purchased a "refurbished" Sony XDR-F1HD from the Sony website, and the > unit they sent was physically damaged, and didn't power on. > I returned it, and received full credit, but that was a month wasted of > ordering, shipping, complaining, returning, and finally receiving credit. > I went elsewhere (some website) and purchased the same model (New), and it > works well. I paid probably $10 more, though. The frustration, as usual, > is priceless. :-) But oh, so typical of "the new Sony". What would Akio Morita think, to see his company brought so low by his successors. -GAWollman From peterwmurray@gmail.com Tue Nov 9 14:05:59 2010 From: peterwmurray@gmail.com (Peter Murray) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:05:59 -0500 Subject: Best HD Reciever In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Nickolas Noseworthy wrote: > > Hello all, was wondering if anyone could help me out. My parents live in Merrimack NH, and have had the same stereo reciever for over 20 years. Its an old Pioneer SX-2600, and the radio reception in the living room has never been that good. I am looking into getting them an HD reciever for christmas, but I need to know what the best one would be for them. I dont want to spend more then $800.00 either. Heres what they need. 1. Better Radio Reception: Having a tabletop HD radio, I know the advantages and want them to have those advantages as well. It must be HD ready. They constantly complain that one of the few stations that comes in well is ZID, so good FM reception is crucial. 2. Multi room: They want to expand with speakers outside, so seperate zoning is needed. 3. 7.1 surround: They want to expand the 2 speaker system they have, so 7.1 surround sound is crucial so they can expand the system well.4. I also want to run the TV, CD player, Playstation 3, and Wii through the reciever, so it needs to have enough inputs. > A fully functioning Home Theatre Reciever with HD radio and Multi room capability. Any thoughts? > (Oh, and a new indoor antenna)-Nick NH I own several of the Sony XDR-F1HD tuners, and each of them is an excellent tuner. I have not experienced any issues with the units I have. I too have looked around for a good all-in-one unit - but I have not found a reasonably-priced receiver that fulfills the specifications above, and it is the lack of HD Radio capability that is the stumbling block. Consider just buying whatever receiver satisfies the multi-room, surround sound and other specifications, and add the Sony to the unit as an aux-in device. You did not specify what your parents will try to hear with the new receiver/tuner, but anything coming from the Pru is about 40 miles from the center of Merrimack. WGBH is almost 50 miles away. A good antenna will make all the difference between full quieting and unlistenable. Do everything you can to avoid an indoor amplified antenna. There are far too many sources of noise inside. If an outside antenna is impossible, try an attic antenna. If that is not possible, put the antenna in a window facing towards the desired signal(s). Extend the run to the antenna with coax if necessary. Interesting experience at my parents' house in Harrisburg: They have a fairly omni-directional attic antenna connected to a Sony XDR-F1HD tuner, and if one tunes it to 97.9 I hear the programming from the nearby FM translator for WIOO (AM 1000 in Carlisle, PA). This translator is not running any HD carrier, but the HD signal indicator flashes for a few seconds, and the radio then locks onto the digital subcarriers being broadcast by WIYY (97.9 - Baltimore). It is quite a switch from classic country to rock! -Peter -- Peter Murray (N3IXY) Oak Hill, VA From TVNETDUDE@aol.com Tue Nov 9 14:41:55 2010 From: TVNETDUDE@aol.com (TVNETDUDE@aol.com) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:41:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Wanna buy WRMO(FM)? Message-ID: Bob, you took the words right out of my mouth. If you follow the FCC Digest you will see that they are handing in LPFMs almost on a daily basis because they can't afford to operate them. This station is just a commercial LPFM and unless you are going to operate it from your house as a hobby, I don't think it is commercially viable in this economy. Cranking up the power merely cranks up your electric bill. In a message dated 11/9/2010 11:19:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, boston-radio-interest-request@tsornin.BostonRadio.org writes: >>>Aren't Nassau's WNNH 99.1 Henniker and WWHQ 101.5 Laconia in a similar predicament (i.e. off the air until somebody buys them)? These are 2.8 and 6kW stations in more populated areas. They've been off the air since March.<<< From raccoonradio@mail.com Thu Nov 11 03:13:09 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:13:09 -0500 Subject: WTKK will not renew McPhee contract Message-ID: <8CD4F8F693641BE-F2C-2627@web-mmc-d05.sysops.aol.com> http://bostonherald.com/business/media/view/20101111wtkk_to_drop_radio_host_michele_mcphee_also_tv_reporter_finds_missing_boys/srvc=home&position=also WTKK's Michele McPhee will be leaving next month as Greater Media will not renew her contract due to creative differences. Don't know whom they will put in her slot; a local show (hosted by whom?) or syndicated...meanwhile I wonder if she may wind up at WRKO in some capacity (fill ins at least) though she may turn her attention more toward writing. From gallen2@nescaum.org Thu Nov 11 08:45:28 2010 From: gallen2@nescaum.org (George Allen) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:45:28 -0500 Subject: radio history at Tufts and claims of being the first broadcast station Message-ID: An interesting history of radio at Tufts is in the current alum mag. They say: "Not only did Tufts' radio station make the first continuous radio transmission in history. It may well have been the first broadcast station in the country." http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2010/planet-tufts/good-morning.html And then there's the "legend" of the train-track antenna back in the late 60's with their 10 watt AM station. Sounds a bit fishy to me... altho the license did get pulled by the FCC for some now undocumented reason. And let's not forget Tuft's Amos Dolbear, a professor at Tufts in 1874: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Dolbear who's patent prevented the Marconi Company from operating in the United States. ["Dolbear [...] appears to have successfully sent and received signals using Hertzian waves over a distance of 13 miles - more than a decade before Marconi did".)] george Tufts '74 EE From dlh@donnahalper.com Thu Nov 11 12:29:35 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:29:35 -0500 Subject: radio history at Tufts and claims of being the first broadcast station In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201011111729.oABHTBY8094876@tsornin.bostonradio.org> At 08:45 AM 11/11/2010, George Allen wrote: >An interesting history of radio at Tufts is in the current alum >mag. They say: "Not only did Tufts' radio station make the first >continuous radio transmission in history. It may well have been the >first broadcast station in the country." >http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2010/planet-tufts/good-morning.html Umm, absolutely true on the first broadcasting station claim-- although they are contesting it with 8MK (WWJ) and KDKA and the Madison station later know as WHA. We may never know for a fact which station was really first, but we do know it was NOT KDKA, contrary to their massive publicity dept. As the champion of our little pioneering radio station 1XE (later WGI), I know for a fact that they were broadcasting music concerts in January 1916 (there are newspaper reports of it) and on the air sporadically from 1917 onward. I'll betcha that article in the alum mag didn't credit any of my research, but that's okay... 1XE/WGI was an amazing little station and we should all be proud of it. It had the first woman announcer in New England, the late great Eunice Randall, the first African-American performers including the legendary stage actor Charles Gilpin, the first rabbi on the air (the equally late and great Harry Levi), and the first economist on the air (Roger Babson), in addition to a large amount of other important firsts. From markwats@comcast.net Fri Nov 12 18:34:38 2010 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:34:38 -0500 Subject: Fall 2011 Daytime Changes At WCVB & WHDH Message-ID: <98533E3FE13D4B10BD38054520FC0210@Mark> WCVB has announced that "Ellen" (Ellen deGeneres) will take over the 4PM slot currently occupied by "Oprah" when Ms. Winfrey's show ends it's 24-plus year run in Sept. 2011. Moving into Ellen's current 9AM slot in Sept. 2011 is "Live With Regis & Kelly", which currently airs on WHDH, Sunbeam Television, owners of WHDH had already told the syndicator it was not going to renew the show after this season. WHDH will add a 9AM local newscast in Sept. 2011. More details from the Boston Herald: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20101112ellen_to_fill_oprahs_void/ Mark Watson From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 12 19:52:40 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:52:40 -0500 Subject: Fall 2011 Daytime Changes At WCVB & WHDH In-Reply-To: <98533E3FE13D4B10BD38054520FC0210@Mark> References: <98533E3FE13D4B10BD38054520FC0210@Mark> Message-ID: <03D07F38-F741-406A-95B5-CB641472924C@gmail.com> 7 is running into the same problem that WNEV had with syndicated programs as Sunbeam only has two markets while other owners are in many markets. Ansin doesn't care just roll out more news like WSVN Sent from my iPhone On Nov 12, 2010, at 6:34 PM, "Mark Watson" wrote: > WCVB has announced that "Ellen" (Ellen deGeneres) will take over the 4PM slot currently occupied by "Oprah" when Ms. Winfrey's show ends it's 24-plus year run in Sept. 2011. Moving into Ellen's current 9AM slot in Sept. 2011 is "Live With Regis & Kelly", which currently airs on WHDH, Sunbeam Television, owners of WHDH had already told the syndicator it was not going to renew the show after this season. WHDH will add a 9AM local newscast in Sept. 2011. > > More details from the Boston Herald: > > http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20101112ellen_to_fill_oprahs_void/ > > Mark Watson > From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 12 21:35:20 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:35:20 +0000 Subject: FM 128 question Message-ID: <417488770-1289615720-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-502269178-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> When driving by the old Ch 5 stick today I wondered why 38 years later no other major Boston TV ever elected to move there. Is the WBZ tower that much better overall? For that matter 27, 66 or 68 as well would improve signal overall. It still amazes me that the Herald-Traveler was so pig headed about not dealing with BBI but my understanding was they wanted BBI to go broke waiting for the courts and almost pulled it off. Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From jjlehmann@comcast.net Fri Nov 12 22:54:01 2010 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:54:01 -0500 Subject: FM 128 question In-Reply-To: <417488770-1289615720-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-502269178-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <417488770-1289615720-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-502269178-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <003801cb82e6$68bc4910$3a34db30$@net> > For that matter 27, 66 or 68 as well would improve signal overall. 68 is there, as well as 62. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 12 22:58:59 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:58:59 +0000 Subject: FM 128 question Message-ID: <1435086685-1289620740-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-278713258-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> I stand corrected - I thought 68 was still on the Pru and 62 at 1 Beacon I haven't watched 62 since they cancelled Morgan and his late night trivia show :) ------Original Message------ From: Jeff Lehmann To: Kevin Vahey To: Boston Radio Subject: RE: FM 128 question Sent: Nov 12, 2010 10:54 PM > For that matter 27, 66 or 68 as well would improve signal overall. 68 is there, as well as 62. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From bob.bosra@demattia.net Fri Nov 12 23:47:42 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:47:42 -0500 Subject: FM 128 question In-Reply-To: <1435086685-1289620740-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-278713258-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <1435086685-1289620740-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-278713258-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: I would think 27 would have trouble covering it's COL (Worcester) from a transmitter in Needham. -Bob On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > I stand corrected - I thought 68 was still on the Pru and 62 at 1 Beacon > > I haven't watched 62 since they cancelled Morgan and his late night trivia > show :) > ------Original Message------ > From: Jeff Lehmann > To: Kevin Vahey > To: Boston Radio > Subject: RE: FM 128 question > Sent: Nov 12, 2010 10:54 PM > > > For that matter 27, 66 or 68 as well would improve signal overall. > > 68 is there, as well as 62. > > Jeff Lehmann > Hanson, MA > > > > Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys > > From ncn86@hotmail.com Sun Nov 14 07:34:49 2010 From: ncn86@hotmail.com (Nickolas Noseworthy) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:34:49 -0500 Subject: 87.9 Pirate? Message-ID: Turned on my radio this morning at 7:30 to find 87.9 the Beat coming in loud and clear, with full display! Seems to be overmodulating on the bass, but it sounds good otherwise. Is this the pirate they thought was coming from lowell? -Nick From lglavin@mail.com Sun Nov 14 15:27:50 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:27:50 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming Message-ID: <8CD52518AC5CE43-DC0-2EC41@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> After a few quixotic shifts of programming in the past two weeks (replacing its entire morning schedule), WNSH-AM 1570 in Beverly has discontinued its English-language programming and has begun simulcasting WNNW-AM 800/W221CH 92.1 in Lawrence. The station's website, wnsh.com, now reflects these changes without identifying the source of the programming. From Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com Mon Nov 15 12:18:48 2010 From: Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com (Don) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:18:48 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming References: <8CD52518AC5CE43-DC0-2EC41@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <9D28F5D54BAC4222AB46C0015883BFC2@s20035> >> After a few quixotic shifts of programming in the past two weeks (replacing its entire morning schedule), WNSH-AM 1570 in Beverly has discontinued its English-language programming and has begun simulcasting WNNW-AM 800/W221CH 92.1 in Lawrence. The station's website, wnsh.com, now reflects these changes without identifying the source of the programming. << I'm wondering if the expense to upgrade WNSH was worth it! From walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com Mon Nov 15 16:08:26 2010 From: walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com (Paul B. Walker, Jr.) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: <9D28F5D54BAC4222AB46C0015883BFC2@s20035> References: <8CD52518AC5CE43-DC0-2EC41@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> <9D28F5D54BAC4222AB46C0015883BFC2@s20035> Message-ID: To broker time, yes. To sell blocks of time or lease the station out 24/7, 30KW looks way better then 500W O > > I'm wondering if the expense to upgrade WNSH was worth it! > > > From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Nov 16 03:07:38 2010 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:07:38 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: References: <8CD52518AC5CE43-DC0-2EC41@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> <9D28F5D54BAC4222AB46C0015883BFC2@s20035> Message-ID: And Keating does say on his site that he still owns the station (but is leasing it). Who knows if this will be permanent but it could last awhile.. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: > To broker time, yes. To sell blocks of time or lease the station out 24/7, > 30KW looks way better then 500W From radiojunkie3@yahoo.com Tue Nov 16 09:30:24 2010 From: radiojunkie3@yahoo.com (Peter Q. George) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:30:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <423712.8261.qm@web114702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Considering that most time-brokerage operations fail, it doesn't seem to be worth the upgrade. It was a shame that the only local service for Taunton (WPEP/1570) was discontinued because of the WNSH upgrade. Peter Q. George (K1XRB) Whitman, Massachusetts "Scanning the bands since 1967" radiojunkie3@yahoo.com *********************************************************** --- On Mon, 11/15/10, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: > From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. > Subject: Re: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming > To: "Don" > Cc: "B-R-I" > Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:08 PM > To broker time, yes. To sell blocks > of time or lease the station out 24/7, > 30KW looks way better then 500W > > > > O > > > > > I'm wondering if the expense to upgrade WNSH was worth > it! > > > > > > > From dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Nov 16 10:39:14 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:39:14 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming References: <423712.8261.qm@web114702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: But by the FCC's definition, WPEP was not Taunton's only local broadcast service; WSNE 93.3 is licensed to Taunton. Everybody may think of 93.3 as a Providence station but it is officially licensed to Taunton. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Q. George" To: "Don" ; " Jr.Paul B. Walker" Cc: "B-R-I" Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:30 AM Subject: Re: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming > Considering that most time-brokerage operations fail, it doesn't > seem to be worth the upgrade. It was a shame that the only local > service for Taunton (WPEP/1570) was discontinued because of the WNSH > upgrade. From paulranderson@charter.net Tue Nov 16 11:33:43 2010 From: paulranderson@charter.net (Paul Anderson) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:33:43 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: References: <423712.8261.qm@web114702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8A2F5307-9CF4-4235-A1F4-594B1D944606@charter.net> On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > But by the FCC's definition, WPEP was not Taunton's only local > broadcast service; WSNE 93.3 is licensed to Taunton. Everybody may > think of 93.3 as a Providence station but it is officially licensed to > Taunton. I'll make sure to tune in WSNE to hear the Taunton school lunch menus and notices of lost dogs in Taunton, then. Paul P.S. Oh, sorry, wrong decade. From bob.bosra@demattia.net Tue Nov 16 13:30:46 2010 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:30:46 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: <8A2F5307-9CF4-4235-A1F4-594B1D944606@charter.net> References: <423712.8261.qm@web114702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8A2F5307-9CF4-4235-A1F4-594B1D944606@charter.net> Message-ID: Our 'local' station was WSRO / Marlborough (not to be confused with the WSRO now on 650) . They took down the 1470 towers due to eminent domain. Now there's a brand-new vacant office building on the site. Some of the local school websites still direct people to listen to WSRO 1470 for school closings. I guess no one has noticed it's gone. -Bob On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Paul Anderson wrote: > On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > > > But by the FCC's definition, WPEP was not Taunton's only local > > broadcast service; WSNE 93.3 is licensed to Taunton. Everybody may > > think of 93.3 as a Providence station but it is officially licensed to > > Taunton. > > I'll make sure to tune in WSNE to hear the Taunton school lunch menus and > notices of lost dogs in Taunton, then. > > Paul > > P.S. Oh, sorry, wrong decade. > From lglavin@mail.com Mon Nov 15 17:08:11 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:08:11 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: References: <8CD52518AC5CE43-DC0-2EC41@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com><9D28F5D54BAC4222AB46C0015883BFC2@s20035> Message-ID: <8CD5328BA317B25-1280-2666@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. >To: Don >Cc: lglavin@mail.com; B-R-I >Sent: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 4:08 pm >Subject: Re: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming >To broker time, yes. To sell blocks of time or lease the station out 24/7, 30KW looks way better then 500W >O I'm wondering if the expense to upgrade WNSH was worth it! Not this time of year; they run only 85 watts at night and pre-sunrise. Good coverage of Endicott College though. From zymrgist@comcast.net Tue Nov 16 14:20:21 2010 From: zymrgist@comcast.net (John) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:20:21 -0500 Subject: Who is broadcasting at 87.7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> I've heard a hip-hop format with a lot of urban chatter at 87.9 (although sometimes it is clearer at 87.7). I've heard them say 'broadcasting from Yonkers to Boston', which would make it a pretty powerful pirate. They also, apparently, sell ad time. I've heard a spot (forget the product though). I thought it might be 'skip' at first but they called themselves Radio 87.9. (John Lee) From m_carney@yahoo.com Tue Nov 16 16:33:02 2010 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:33:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: Uri Berenguer off of NESN Daily? Message-ID: <725153.26547.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> There was a report on the New England TV board of Radio-Info.com that Uri Berenguer is no longer the co-host of NESN Daily and that Jade McCarthy will host solo. I cannot find confirmation anywhere - does anyone know if this indeed is true? NESN recently did not renew Cole Wright's contract so I wonder what other changes are in store. From dave@skywaves.net Tue Nov 16 16:42:08 2010 From: dave@skywaves.net (Dave Doherty) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:42:08 -0500 Subject: Who is broadcasting at 87.7 In-Reply-To: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> References: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> Message-ID: <463F7EB1FEEE4FC6BAC67DF731E8CC9A@dave> The only *licensed* analog service on those frequencies anywhere in New England or eastern New York is WNYZ-LP in New York City. They were running a radio format for a while. Scott probably knows what they're doing now. Channel 6 audio is on 87.75, which would explain why 87.7 would sound better. They are supposed to modulate +/- 25 kHz instead of the +/- 75 kHz used by FM stations, so if they're playing by the rules, they would not sound as loud. Last time I listened to WNYZ-LP, they sounded like they were modulating +/- 75 kHz. But that was some time ago. And there's little chance that you are hearing this station in the Boston area with any degree of consistency. From mike_ed@msn.com Tue Nov 16 17:01:11 2010 From: mike_ed@msn.com (Mike G) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:01:11 -0500 Subject: Uri Berenguer off of NESN Daily? In-Reply-To: <725153.26547.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <725153.26547.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/articles/2010/11/12/berenguer_is_out_of_the_mix/?p1=Well_Sports_links > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:33:02 -0800 > From: m_carney@yahoo.com > Subject: Uri Berenguer off of NESN Daily? > To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org > > There was a report on the New England TV board of Radio-Info.com that Uri > Berenguer is no longer the co-host of NESN Daily and that Jade McCarthy will > host solo. I cannot find confirmation anywhere - does anyone know if this indeed > is true? NESN recently did not renew Cole Wright's contract so I wonder what > other changes are in store. > > > From jjlehmann@comcast.net Tue Nov 16 17:24:40 2010 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:24:40 -0500 Subject: Who is broadcasting at 87.7 In-Reply-To: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> References: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> Message-ID: <001201cb85dd$0fbb4970$2f31dc50$@net> > I've heard a hip-hop format with a lot of urban chatter at 87.9 > (although sometimes it is clearer at 87.7). > I've heard them say 'broadcasting from Yonkers to Boston', > which would make it a pretty powerful pirate. > They also, apparently, sell ad time. I've heard a spot (forget > the product though). > I thought it might be 'skip' at first but they called themselves > Radio 87.9. > (John Lee) There are two different pirates, the big one is "Hot 97 Boston" on 87.7 in Boston (www.hot97boston.com). There is also supposedly a new 87.9 The Beat (http://www.879thebeat.com/) in Nashua, NH, but I haven't heard that one myself yet. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA From dan.strassberg@att.net Tue Nov 16 17:39:31 2010 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:39:31 -0500 Subject: Who is broadcasting at 87.7 References: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> <001201cb85dd$0fbb4970$2f31dc50$@net> Message-ID: Don't one or more of the 87.x "FMs" around the country (licensed as Channel 6 LPTVs) call themselves "the Beat"? I thought the company behind the NYC and Chicago stations was aiming to make "the Beat" its national trademark and dance or disco its national format. Of course, the FCC then turned around and said that these stations had only six months or a year or something like that to live. After that, they will have to stop transmitting an analog signal (whose audio can be picked up on most standard FM receivers) and convert to digital, which probably won't even come in on DTV receivers. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Lehmann" To: "'John'" ; Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:24 PM Subject: RE: Who is broadcasting at 87.7 >> I've heard a hip-hop format with a lot of urban chatter at 87.9 >> (although sometimes it is clearer at 87.7). >> I've heard them say 'broadcasting from Yonkers to Boston', >> which would make it a pretty powerful pirate. >> They also, apparently, sell ad time. I've heard a spot (forget >> the product though). >> I thought it might be 'skip' at first but they called themselves >> Radio 87.9. >> (John Lee) > > There are two different pirates, the big one is "Hot 97 Boston" on > 87.7 in > Boston (www.hot97boston.com). There is also supposedly a new 87.9 > The Beat > (http://www.879thebeat.com/) in Nashua, NH, but I haven't heard that > one > myself yet. > > Jeff Lehmann > Hanson, MA > From jjlehmann@comcast.net Tue Nov 16 18:03:08 2010 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:03:08 -0500 Subject: Who is broadcasting at 87.7 In-Reply-To: References: <4CE2D975.4090201@comcast.net> <001201cb85dd$0fbb4970$2f31dc50$@net> Message-ID: <001c01cb85e2$6fd0d050$4f7270f0$@net> > Don't one or more of the 87.x "FMs" around the country (licensed as > Channel 6 LPTVs) call themselves "the Beat"? I thought the company > behind the NYC and Chicago stations was aiming to make "the Beat" its > national trademark and dance or disco its national format. Of course, > the FCC then turned around and said that these stations had only six > months or a year or something like that to live. After that, they will > have to stop transmitting an analog signal (whose audio can be picked > up on most standard FM receivers) and convert to digital, which > probably won't even come in on DTV receivers. You're thinking of "Pulse 87" which was on the 87.7 in NYC. I believe they had plans to go on the Chicago and DC 87.7s as well, but it all fell apart, and even the NYC one has moved on to something else. Jeff Lehmann Hanson, MA From paul@derrynh.net Tue Nov 16 22:21:53 2010 From: paul@derrynh.net (Paul Hopfgarten) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:21:53 -0500 Subject: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming In-Reply-To: <8A2F5307-9CF4-4235-A1F4-594B1D944606@charter.net> References: <423712.8261.qm@web114702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8A2F5307-9CF4-4235-A1F4-594B1D944606@charter.net> Message-ID: Probably have to go back to the WRLM days.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Anderson" To: "B-R-I" Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: WNSH Officially Discontinues English-language Programming > On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > >> But by the FCC's definition, WPEP was not Taunton's only local >> broadcast service; WSNE 93.3 is licensed to Taunton. Everybody may >> think of 93.3 as a Providence station but it is officially licensed to >> Taunton. > > I'll make sure to tune in WSNE to hear the Taunton school lunch menus and > notices of lost dogs in Taunton, then. > > Paul > > P.S. Oh, sorry, wrong decade. > From kvahey@gmail.com Thu Nov 18 00:34:09 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:34:09 -0800 Subject: Frank Mallicoat leaving FOX25 Message-ID: Good guy Frank Mallicoat is leaving Boston to anchor the early morning news at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. He has been in flux ever since the Chicago Tribune bailed on WLVI-TV and has been at FOX weekends for 3 years, http://bostonherald.com/business/media/view.bg?articleid=1297214 From raccoonradio@mail.com Thu Nov 18 11:59:24 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:59:24 -0500 Subject: ROR, ODS to Christmas/holiday today Message-ID: <8CD5559162208EA-1098-E4BB@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> WROR at 8:11 am, WODS 11 minutes later according to Boston Radio Watch. Too early for me, audiobook time; but the cash register bells are ringing. File under (song from "Mame") We Need A Little Christmas, Right This Very Minute From rbello@belloassoc.com Thu Nov 18 12:09:19 2010 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:09:19 -0500 Subject: ROR, ODS to Christmas/holiday today In-Reply-To: <8CD5559162208EA-1098-E4BB@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD5559162208EA-1098-E4BB@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: It appears that WROR moved regular programing to their HD2 channel WODS still has The Cove on HD2 and now has Christian religious music on HD3 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bob Nelson wrote: > > > > WROR at 8:11 am, WODS 11 minutes later according to Boston Radio Watch. > Too early for me, > audiobook time; but the cash register bells are ringing. File under (song > from "Mame") We Need > A Little Christmas, Right This Very Minute > > > From kvahey@gmail.com Thu Nov 18 09:34:48 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:34:48 +0000 Subject: Ho Ho Ho Message-ID: <1861474711-1290090892-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-317109738-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> WROR switched to holiday music at 8:11, WODS 11 minutes later... Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 19 20:17:43 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:17:43 -0800 Subject: It is now Professor RD Sahl Message-ID: RD Sahl is leaving NECN to join the faculty of Boston University. RD has been at NECN for 13 years after leaving Channel 7 where the WSVN format was a bad fit for him. http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/11/sahl_is_leaving.html?p1=Upbox_links From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 20 12:11:37 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:11:37 +0000 Subject: Anybody remember this 'great' idea Message-ID: <1072232872-1290273098-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1010965615-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> I know WNRI in Woonsocket had these lovely machines that Gates introduced in 1960 - http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/101.htm I never saw them anywhere else Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From TVNETDUDE@aol.com Sun Nov 21 08:59:30 2010 From: TVNETDUDE@aol.com (TVNETDUDE@aol.com) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:59:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: It is now Professor RD Sahl Message-ID: <103abf.6f21952c.3a1a7fc2@aol.com> Before all of all of that he was the chief anchor at the ABC / Westinghouse Satellite News Channel. _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9Lr_SyGGo_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9Lr_SyGGo) Mike In a message dated 11/20/2010 12:01:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, boston-radio-interest-request@tsornin.BostonRadio.org writes: >>RD Sahl is leaving NECN to join the faculty of Boston University. RD has been at NECN for 13 years after leaving Channel 7 where the WSVN format was a bad fit for him.<<< From tlmedia@triad.rr.com Sun Nov 21 12:06:54 2010 From: tlmedia@triad.rr.com (Ted Larsen) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:06:54 -0500 Subject: Anybody remember this 'great' idea References: <1072232872-1290273098-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1010965615-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: I remember that. WESX, Salem had one the 60's. A high school friend of mine was working there. He was the one who got me interested in radio. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" To: "Boston Radio" Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:11 PM Subject: Anybody remember this 'great' idea >I know WNRI in Woonsocket had these lovely machines that Gates introduced >in 1960 - > > http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/101.htm > > I never saw them anywhere else > Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys > > > From TVNETDUDE@aol.com Sun Nov 21 14:36:19 2010 From: TVNETDUDE@aol.com (TVNETDUDE@aol.com) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:36:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: It is now Professor RD Sahl Message-ID: I don't know what they are doing up there these days. I haven't been up there since Ascent took over about ten years ago. The last time I was there they tore out the large control rooms and replaced them with one smaller one. They were running master control for some of the cable networks. Mike In a message dated 11/21/2010 9:08:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, kvahey@gmail.com writes: >>>>Doesn't the YES network and Versus use the old SNS studios in Stamford now?<<<< From keithlavon@gmail.com Tue Nov 16 16:52:16 2010 From: keithlavon@gmail.com (Keith Lavon) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:52:16 -0600 Subject: Uri Berenguer off of NESN Daily? In-Reply-To: <725153.26547.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <725153.26547.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: It was in the Globe a few days ago. Chad Finn had the story, I don't have a link handy on my phone but its there. Boston Sports Media Watch likely has a link somewhere too. Keith On 11/16/10, Maureen Carney wrote: > There was a report on the New England TV board of Radio-Info.com that Uri > Berenguer is no longer the co-host of NESN Daily and that Jade McCarthy will > host solo. I cannot find confirmation anywhere - does anyone know if this > indeed > is true? NESN recently did not renew Cole Wright's contract so I wonder what > other changes are in store. > > > > -- Sent from my mobile device From zymrgist@comcast.net Fri Nov 19 13:10:19 2010 From: zymrgist@comcast.net (John) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:10:19 -0500 Subject: Ho Ho Ho Message-ID: <4CE6BD8B.40709@comcast.net> > WROR switched to holiday music at 8:11, WODS 11 minutes later... Can do without the Christmas tunes, but I do miss Jerry Williams reading 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'. (John Lee) From kvahey@gmail.com Sun Nov 21 09:08:22 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:08:22 +0000 Subject: It is now Professor RD Sahl In-Reply-To: <103abf.6f21952c.3a1a7fc2@aol.com> References: <103abf.6f21952c.3a1a7fc2@aol.com> Message-ID: <189040313-1290348502-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-340472414-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Doesn't the YES network and Versus use the old SNS studios in Stamford now? Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: TVNETDUDE@aol.com Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:59:30 To: ; Subject: Re: It is now Professor RD Sahl Before all of all of that he was the chief anchor at the ABC / Westinghouse Satellite News Channel. _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9Lr_SyGGo_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9Lr_SyGGo) Mike In a message dated 11/20/2010 12:01:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, boston-radio-interest-request@tsornin.BostonRadio.org writes: >>RD Sahl is leaving NECN to join the faculty of Boston University. RD has been at NECN for 13 years after leaving Channel 7 where the WSVN format was a bad fit for him.<<< From wilkinsmg@hotmail.com Mon Nov 22 19:17:20 2010 From: wilkinsmg@hotmail.com (Michael Wilkins) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:17:20 -0500 Subject: Ho Ho Ho In-Reply-To: <4CE6BD8B.40709@comcast.net> References: <4CE6BD8B.40709@comcast.net> Message-ID: btw, if there's anyone on the list who'd like a copy of my annual Christmas-themed compilation (of the not-your-average variety) from last year, please reply to me off-list, and I'll send along a copy from last year, as soon as I come back from my Thanksgiving travels. (The bonus cd last year was Truman Capote reading his "A Christmas Memory;" transferred right off a promotional UAL 9001 record. Sure, it's not Jerry, but...) Mike > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:10:19 -0500 > From: zymrgist@comcast.net > To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org > Subject: re: Ho Ho Ho > > > WROR switched to holiday music at 8:11, WODS 11 minutes later... > Can do without the Christmas tunes, but I do miss Jerry Williams > reading 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'. > (John Lee) > From markwats@comcast.net Fri Nov 26 22:12:35 2010 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:12:35 -0500 Subject: Gary LaPierre To Fill In On WBZ Radio Dec.6th-10th Message-ID: <475B34B0A3EF4A72AD3E09AAAC3753C8@Mark> Retired WBZ Radio news anchor Gary LaPierre will be returning to the air the week of Dec.6th to anchor the WBZ morning news. Current anchor Ed Walsh's last day is Tuesday, and except for the week of Dec.6th, Rod Fritz will anchor mornings until a replacement is found. Saw this on the Boston Herald's website, second story in the article (after Bob Lobel's new WTPL gig): http://www.bostonherald.com/business/media/view/20101125bob_lobel_lands_new_hampshire_radio_station_gig/ Mark Watson From markwats@comcast.net Fri Nov 26 22:30:20 2010 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:30:20 -0500 Subject: Dean Of State House Press Corps Kevin McNicholas Passes Away Message-ID: Kevin McNicholas, who covered the Massachusetts State House for many years and was considered the dean of the State House Press Corps passed away on Thursday at the age of 61. His reports aired on stations throughout the state, including WATD Marshfield, according to the Boston Herald: http://www.bostonherald.com/business/media/view/20101126kevin_mcnicholas_radio_reporter_dies_at_61/ Mark Watson From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Nov 26 22:12:26 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:12:26 +0000 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? Message-ID: <1986824434-1290827546-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1509108823-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> The Weekly Dig Media Farm column in the print edition strongly hints Entercom is about to make the move to put EEI on FM Entercom buys WFNX and then moves Mike-FM to 101.7 with EEI moving to 93.7 Unclear what happens to 850 but a simulcast could be in works. Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From markwats@comcast.net Sat Nov 27 08:04:04 2010 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:04:04 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? References: <1986824434-1290827546-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1509108823-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: Kevin Vahey wrote: > The Weekly Dig Media Farm column in the print edition strongly hints > Entercom is about to make the move to put EEI on FM > > Entercom buys WFNX and then moves Mike-FM to 101.7 with EEI moving to 93.7 Would Entercom also buy the other Phoenix owned radio stations: the 92.1's in Peterborough NH & Sanford that simulcast WFNX and 1220 in Sanford which I believe is ESPN radio 24/7. If Enterccom buys the FM's and simulcasts WEEI or Mike: the Peterborough 92.1 would give them coverage in Nashua, North Central MA (Townsend/Fitchburg/Leominster/Gardner) and out towards Keene. Until Costa Communications signed on the translator for WNNW Lawrence, Peterborough put a decent signal into Lowell, now the co-channel signals battle it out. I'm not familiar with how much coverage the 92.1 in Sanford gets, I'll guess it covers Rochester & Dover OK, maybe not as well in Portsmouth. Mark Watson From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 09:13:34 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:13:34 +0000 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? Message-ID: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Media Farm suggests BZ-FM winning key demos in both AM and PM put EEI in crisis mode ------Original Message------ From: Mark Watson To: Kevin Vahey To: Boston Radio Subject: Re: Entercom to buy WFNX? Sent: Nov 27, 2010 8:04 AM Kevin Vahey wrote: > The Weekly Dig Media Farm column in the print edition strongly hints > Entercom is about to make the move to put EEI on FM > > Entercom buys WFNX and then moves Mike-FM to 101.7 with EEI moving to 93.7 Would Entercom also buy the other Phoenix owned radio stations: the 92.1's in Peterborough NH & Sanford that simulcast WFNX and 1220 in Sanford which I believe is ESPN radio 24/7. If Enterccom buys the FM's and simulcasts WEEI or Mike: the Peterborough 92.1 would give them coverage in Nashua, North Central MA (Townsend/Fitchburg/Leominster/Gardner) and out towards Keene. Until Costa Communications signed on the translator for WNNW Lawrence, Peterborough put a decent signal into Lowell, now the co-channel signals battle it out. I'm not familiar with how much coverage the 92.1 in Sanford gets, I'll guess it covers Rochester & Dover OK, maybe not as well in Portsmouth. Mark Watson Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From jjlehmann@comcast.net Sat Nov 27 09:27:14 2010 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:27:14 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> I certainly hope this is just a rumor. If it does happen, it will mean that Entercom has taken away 2 choices in Boston radio, the first being WILD-FM. I would miss Mike FM if it ends up on 101.7, down here in 101.5 WWBB IBOC land. Jeff Lehmann On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:13 AM, "Kevin Vahey" wrote: > Media Farm suggests BZ-FM winning key demos in both AM and PM put EEI in crisis mode >> > From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 12:20:28 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:20:28 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>Media Farm suggests BZ-FM winning key demos in both AM and PM put EEI in crisis mode Pay no attention to that huge FM station behind the curtain! Just like I'm sure WEEI tightening up their brakes and moving the Sox to EEI full time had nothing, oh NOTHING to do with 98.5's presence. As the recent "Greater Boston/Beat The Press" edition said, 98.5 has become competitive very quickly and I'd suspect they're winning or at least even in key demos. Some of the media columnists like the Herald's Jessica Heslam have pointed out how they have compared show vs. show. >>Would Entercom also buy the other Phoenix owned radio stations: the 92.1's in Peterborough NH & Sanford Also interesting..the 92.1 in Peterborough may do well in Manchester as well --Bob From lglavin@mail.com Wed Nov 24 12:56:34 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:56:34 -0500 Subject: WNSH-AM Roller-Coaster Ride Continues Message-ID: <8CD5A181137712F-1514-12F54@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> As of Wednesday morning and noontime, Thnxgvg Eve, WNSH-AM 1570 in Beverly is back to broadcasting in English. Before noon, it was the G. Gordon Liddy show and at noon, Dr. Joy Brown. Later today, romorrow? Who knows? Perhaps the connection to WNNW-AM 800 was broken. From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 09:42:46 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:42:46 +0000 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> Message-ID: <2034022165-1290868967-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-529738673-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> No secret the Phoenix is hurting for cash. Big problem is 93.7 is spotty on a lot of tuners 2 or 3 miles from the Pru. No getting around the fact listeners under 40 ignore AM for the most part. I think EEI's biggest problem is they are stale Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lehmann Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:27:14 To: kvahey@gmail.com Cc: Mark Watson; Boston Radio Subject: Re: Entercom to buy WFNX? I certainly hope this is just a rumor. If it does happen, it will mean that Entercom has taken away 2 choices in Boston radio, the first being WILD-FM. I would miss Mike FM if it ends up on 101.7, down here in 101.5 WWBB IBOC land. Jeff Lehmann On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:13 AM, "Kevin Vahey" wrote: > Media Farm suggests BZ-FM winning key demos in both AM and PM put EEI in crisis mode >> > From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 12:32:39 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:32:39 +0000 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <426075673-1290879159-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-898832874-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> 98.5 has 2 things WWZN and WAMG didn't - hassle free signal and two anchor teams in Pats and Bruins WWZN had Celtics when they stunk 985 also does not promote callers like Frank from Gloucester Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: Bob Nelson Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:20:28 To: ; ; Subject: Re: Entercom to buy WFNX? >>Media Farm suggests BZ-FM winning key demos in both AM and PM put EEI in crisis mode Pay no attention to that huge FM station behind the curtain! Just like I'm sure WEEI tightening up their brakes and moving the Sox to EEI full time had nothing, oh NOTHING to do with 98.5's presence. As the recent "Greater Boston/Beat The Press" edition said, 98.5 has become competitive very quickly and I'd suspect they're winning or at least even in key demos. Some of the media columnists like the Herald's Jessica Heslam have pointed out how they have compared show vs. show. >>Would Entercom also buy the other Phoenix owned radio stations: the 92.1's in Peterborough NH & Sanford Also interesting..the 92.1 in Peterborough may do well in Manchester as well --Bob From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 12:14:47 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:14:47 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <1986824434-1290827546-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1509108823-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <1986824434-1290827546-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1509108823-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <8CD5C6DBA3F40B5-1744-15B7C@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> I haven't seen the Weekly Dig yet in any form but this is interesting if true. WMKK 93.7 has a fairly good signal though perhaps not in some areas; moving the Mike format to 101.7 would still retain a lot of listeners (is the stick in Medford?) while sports talk and Sox, Celts would be on a fairly powerful FM. I think if you entered "Lakeland Park Dr. Peabody" and downtown Boston into google maps you'd see it's approx. 18 miles away from downtown (would they keep 850 as a simulcast? or treat it as "main signal at 850 but also now on 93.7?") Would be great for me, working one town away from the 93.7 stick...hearing Sox games, etc. (Though bad news for some people at work who use boomboxes and tune to Mike 93.7...on the workroom floor there aren't too many FM signals that can be picked up; are they going to tune to classical 99.5 instead? :) As for WFNX if this were to pass I'd expect WBOS to try and pick up the audience somehow, or at least air some of the music. Perhaps Mindich's operation isn't bringing in the bucks. I was a news intern for FNX in late 83 for college credit, working with Margie Coombs, Henry Santoro, and Cindy Farias. Back then WLYN was confined to a couple rooms on the same floor; recent (few yrs ago) visit to FNX studios with a radio fan from Ohio seemed to indicate they have a good chunk of that floor and LYN is elsewhere. Interesting... From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 12:16:14 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:16:14 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> Message-ID: <8CD5C6DEE28F324-1744-15B8B@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>I would miss Mike FM if it ends up on 101.7, down here in 101.5 WWBB IBOC land Maybe Entercom could buy a station down there and put the Mike format on, or someone else could. If you like Mike FM you would love being up here in Beverly (or N. Reading where I work) where the signal is ultra-strong and I can make jokes about picking it up on my fillings. From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 13:10:59 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:10:59 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <8CD5C6DBA3F40B5-1744-15B7C@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> References: <1986824434-1290827546-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1509108823-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <8CD5C6DBA3F40B5-1744-15B7C@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CD5C75945FA0B1-1744-15E1B@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>(is the stick in Medford?) I have since been reminded that the WFNX tower is atop One Financial Place, with it pointing away from Prov to protect B-101 at 101.5 = From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 13:16:27 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:16:27 +0000 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) Message-ID: <1087739070-1290881787-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-28097436-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Donna I know many who will not listen to D&C because of the politics - heck make them the RKO morning show :) I do agree fans switch back and forth but PPM is indicating Felger is holding audience. Yes there are good people at EEI but the problem lies with the top - Jason is clueless in stopping the bleeding. EEI is still breathing but RKO is a complete wreck. ------Original Message------ From: Donna Halper To: Bob Nelson To: Kevin Vahey To: Mark Watson To: Boston Radio Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) Sent: Nov 27, 2010 12:55 PM At 12:20 PM 11/27/2010, Bob Nelson wrote: >Pay no attention to that huge FM station behind the curtain! Just >like I'm sure WEEI tightening up their brakes and moving the Sox to >EEI full time had nothing, oh NOTHING to do with 98.5's presence. As >the recent "Greater Boston/Beat The Press" edition said, 98.5 has >become competitive very >quickly and I'd suspect they're winning or at least even in key demos. In this case, I am not persuaded that it's about AM versus FM. Boston has a history of successful AM stations (WBZ is a prime example) that are beloved and relied upon by people of all demographics. WEEI has for many years had no serious competition, and even in the best of times, a station without seriously competition can become self-indulgent or self-referenetial (the same callers, the same "inside jokes", etc). When the Sports Hub came along, I think it not only put sports on FM in a bigger way (the Patriots games had already been on FM for a while) but it provided a new and fresh opportunity to talk sports, gave younger listeners a chance to be heard, and provided a new opportunity to be part of a sportsfan community. For those listeners unfamiliar with WEEI and its history (people who did not grow up here and have no idea who Butch from the Cape or the Man on the Way Up were, or why the guy calling Glenn Ordway a "fat bastard" on the Whiner Line is supposed to be amusing), the Sports Hub became a good choice. I think the Sports Hub's listeners perceive it as more modern and up-to-date than WEEI. But I'd hesitate to write WEEI's obit just yet. There are a lot of professionals at that station, and I think they will devise some ways to keep or expand their listener base. Research I've seen suggests that many sports fans can't get enough sports-talk, and they flip back and forth between both stations. Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 13:18:57 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:18:57 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <2034022165-1290868967-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-529738673-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> <2034022165-1290868967-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-529738673-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <8CD5C76B0D92AF3-1744-15E60@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>Big problem is 93.7 is spotty on a lot of tuners 2 or 3 miles from the Pru. Being just down 128 a few miles from Mike's antenna, I tend to forget this :) In which case they could poss. broadcast still on 850 as well--at least maybe for Sox-Celts games? If so the theory of "ESPN 850" --most of the time--would show up, but again they would effectively be competing against themselves. >>No getting around the fact listeners under 40 ignore AM for the most part. You have an mp3 player with you, like the Sansa Fuze Plus I bought recently. It has radio...FM only. You may be in luck if you're near WBOQ or WEEI-FM, but otherwise, if the Sox game's on, you're out of luck. Do people these days buy AM-FM Walkman radios, or mp3 players that also have FM?...As for listeners under 40 ignoring radio, perhaps the only ones who aren't are foreign language listeners (yet there is some of that on FM--97.3 in New Bedford, 92.1 nr Lawrence) or kids (Radio Disney, 1260--though RD has left the building in Hartford and Prov recently) >>I think EEI's biggest problem is they are stale And now as Donna said people can switch back and forth between EEI and BZ-FM and maybe they like the personalities on 98.5 better. Perhaps the folks on 98.5 are not only appealing to younger listeners they may be younger themselves--and WEEI could be soon seen, if it isn't already, as "Dad's radio station" while 98.5 could be more hip and young From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 13:28:31 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:28:31 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CD5C78069C44A6-1744-15ECC@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>98.5 has 2 things WWZN and WAMG didn't - hassle free signal and two anchor teams in Pats and Bruins ...WWZN had Celtics when they stunk 985 also does not promote callers like Frank from Gloucester Very true--better signal and those anchor teams. Even before the move to 98.5 was announced some wondered if CBS could take a signal like WZLX and make it Bruins, Pats, and sports talk. It did happen, just not on that frequency For the hardcore whiner-liners, it's either still fun or maybe losing its appeal. Yeah, there's Frank boosting his Yankees and doing a kind of imitation of Joe Castiglione in the process (calls in: "Can you believe it. The Yanks are in the playoffs again Can you believe it...Ciao!") And some groan and push the button for 98.5 From dlh@donnahalper.com Sat Nov 27 12:55:38 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:55:38 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <201011271831.oARIVkM0088408@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> At 12:20 PM 11/27/2010, Bob Nelson wrote: >Pay no attention to that huge FM station behind the curtain! Just >like I'm sure WEEI tightening up their brakes and moving the Sox to >EEI full time had nothing, oh NOTHING to do with 98.5's presence. As >the recent "Greater Boston/Beat The Press" edition said, 98.5 has >become competitive very >quickly and I'd suspect they're winning or at least even in key demos. In this case, I am not persuaded that it's about AM versus FM. Boston has a history of successful AM stations (WBZ is a prime example) that are beloved and relied upon by people of all demographics. WEEI has for many years had no serious competition, and even in the best of times, a station without seriously competition can become self-indulgent or self-referenetial (the same callers, the same "inside jokes", etc). When the Sports Hub came along, I think it not only put sports on FM in a bigger way (the Patriots games had already been on FM for a while) but it provided a new and fresh opportunity to talk sports, gave younger listeners a chance to be heard, and provided a new opportunity to be part of a sportsfan community. For those listeners unfamiliar with WEEI and its history (people who did not grow up here and have no idea who Butch from the Cape or the Man on the Way Up were, or why the guy calling Glenn Ordway a "fat bastard" on the Whiner Line is supposed to be amusing), the Sports Hub became a good choice. I think the Sports Hub's listeners perceive it as more modern and up-to-date than WEEI. But I'd hesitate to write WEEI's obit just yet. There are a lot of professionals at that station, and I think they will devise some ways to keep or expand their listener base. Research I've seen suggests that many sports fans can't get enough sports-talk, and they flip back and forth between both stations. From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 13:09:33 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:09:33 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><8CD5C6E85A17186-1744-15BB0@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CD5C7560DEAAEE-1744-15E0F@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Agreed about how WEEI has had no serious competition: 890 (One on One Sports, later ESPN), 1510 (Sporting News Radio which still may be heard perhaps a couple hrs on the weekend!) And yes, WBZ, WEEI (on two sep.frequencies over the yrs), WRKO, etc. have built up followings over the years on AM. Agreed about the younger appeal WBZ-FM is going for and we could well have two very strong sports outlets in town for some time, with WEEI doing some adjusting--the possible FM signal a part of that. (Some AMs elsewhere have been adding FM simulcasts--WTAG, WPRO) It was noted earlier that the Sox and Entercom re-did their deal to perhaps extend payments over a period of years and it would also extend it past 2016. Entercom must have feared that CBS would try to grab the rights away! And these days some people may have mp3 players with a radio included and it's FM only. Yes, the Sox are on FM in Gloucester/Beverly and in RI, but for many others, what if you have your mp3 player/radio with you and you want to hear the Sox? You're out of luck, but now... From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 13:24:43 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:24:43 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) Message-ID: <8CD5C777F2DF0E1-1744-15EA1@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>I know many who will not listen to D&C because of the politics - heck make them the RKO morning show :) When the subject of EEI vs. 98.5 comes up in articles in the Globe or Herald, check out the comments online (or maybe some show up on Facebook too)--"I'm sorry I can't listen to John and Gerry, the politics turns me off..." Various people weigh in on preferring WEEI or 98.5 ("they shoulda kept Pete Sheppard"..."I listen to 98.5 in morning, then EEI, then back to 98.5, then..." etc.) They could indeed do the RKO morning show but when does Finneran's contract run out? >>Jason is clueless in stopping the bleeding. He will defend EEI's shows and try to throw in numbers of the Prov. station to indicate they're even stronger than you think >>EEI is still breathing but RKO is a complete wreck. They may not know what else to do with the station; perhaps they make money in some demos but I can imagine morning show, Manning, and even Howie's ratings are really starting to tank as some age out of the demo or lose interest in the offerings. From dlh@donnahalper.com Sat Nov 27 13:43:11 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:43:11 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) Message-ID: <201011271921.oARJLZpm088744@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> At 01:16 PM 11/27/2010, Kevin Vahey wrote: >Donna I know many who will not listen to D&C because of the politics >- heck make them the RKO morning show :) I can't listen to them either, not just due to the politics but also some of the rampant sexism and the history of making racist remarks. Sorry if this offends some on the list, but I'm old-school. I don't mind being cutting edge, I don't even mind if your politics are different from mine, as long as you are entertaining about it. But I do mind announcers who feel they have to turn their show into a vehicle for insulting various ethnic groups or making rude remarks about the current president. It's supposed to be a SPORTS talk show, so hey, talk about sports, why don't ya? From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 14:30:16 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:30:16 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <245012.87310.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CD5C80A781B57B-1744-161B8@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >>With the advent of smartphones, I don't think this is a big deal True but not everyone has smartphones. Right now not even everybody has cellphones (shocking!) but yes things change. Meanwhile the full article is up on Weekly Dig http://digboston.com/think/2010/11/whos-your-santa/ From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 14:32:52 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:32:52 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> This may go back to the days when they had Imus in the morning and the thought was, have sports AND other stuff on. It may be a luring device: people pick up the sports-and-politics talk in morning then stay tuned for other shows later. >>or making rude remarks about the current president. Gee, I can't remember liberal talk radio making rude remarks about Mr Bush... :) From marklaurence@mac.com Sat Nov 27 13:33:56 2010 From: marklaurence@mac.com (Mark Laurence) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: <426075673-1290879159-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-898832874-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: 98.5 has 2 things WWZN and WAMG didn't - hassle free signal and two anchor teams in Pats and Bruins WWZN had Celtics when they stunk 985 also does not promote callers like Frank from Gloucester I'm not a regular listener to sports talk, but when I've listened to WEEI I've heard a lot of political rants. Of course it's more irritating when I don't agree, but they all act like it's us-against-them and assume that we in the audience agree with their alleged common-sense view of the world I don't know why the hosts would take 30-70% of their potential audience who might disagree and make them feel excluded. Unlike the sports opinions, the politics are often poorly thought out and unconvincing. When I've heard The Sports Hub I've heard more sports and no politics...although I haven't listened to the morning show which seems to be where these stray topics are more likely to show up. From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 13:39:59 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:39:59 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? In-Reply-To: References: <426075673-1290879159-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-898832874-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: The Dig finally put the article in question online - it is the second part of the story http://digboston.com/think/2010/11/whos-your-santa/ From sean.smyth@yahoo.com Sat Nov 27 13:55:34 2010 From: sean.smyth@yahoo.com (Sean Smyth) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:55:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <8CD5C7560DEAAEE-1744-15E0F@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <245012.87310.qm@web110512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> On Sat, 11/27/10, Bob Nelson wrote: > And these days some people may have mp3 players with a > radio included and it's FM only. Yes, the Sox are on FM in > Gloucester/Beverly and in RI, but for many others, what if > you have your mp3 player/radio with you and you want to hear > the Sox? You're out of luck, but now... With the advent of smartphones, I don't think this is a big deal -- especially in a heavily urbanized market such as Boston. Even if I want to listen to WEEI in Pittsfield, I can, on my BlackBerry. From dlh@donnahalper.com Sat Nov 27 15:02:42 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:02:42 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> At 02:32 PM 11/27/2010, Bob Nelson wrote: >Gee, I can't remember liberal talk radio making rude remarks about >Mr Bush... :) Different conversation. Liberal talkers are not doing SPORTS. They are, like conservatives, doing politics, and they are paid to be outrageous or to at least get the conversation heated up for their partisans. D&C are allegedly doing SPORTS TALK and as such, racist comments or comments about the president (any president, unless it is related to sports) are annoying, in my view. From wollman@bimajority.org Sat Nov 27 15:12:42 2010 From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:12:42 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> <201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> < said: > partisans. D&C are allegedly doing SPORTS TALK and as such, racist > comments or comments about the president (any president, unless it is > related to sports) are annoying, in my view. So if they wanted to get into his position on a national college football championship, that's fair game, right? (He cosponsored a bill when he was a senator which would have prohibited advertising any game as a "national championship" unless it was the championship game of a playoff.) -GAWollman From dlh@donnahalper.com Sat Nov 27 15:19:45 2010 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:19:45 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> <201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> At 03:12 PM 11/27/2010, Garrett Wollman wrote: >So if they wanted to get into his position on a national college >football championship, that's fair game, right? (He cosponsored a >bill when he was a senator which would have prohibited advertising any >game as a "national championship" unless it was the championship game >of a playoff.) I have no issue with talking about Bush or Obama or anybody else for that matter if it's related to sports. Bush owned a baseball team, Obama loves to play basketball, all certainly fair game. My issue is when talkers on a sports station take the conversation into political rants that are often hateful and in no way connected to sports. (I was consulting a country station a few months ago and heard a syndicated talk show duo get off on a rant about the "fact" that Obama is a Muslim-- now, please tell me what that has to do with sports.) From sean.smyth@yahoo.com Sat Nov 27 14:29:21 2010 From: sean.smyth@yahoo.com (Sean Smyth) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <201011271831.oARIVkM0088408@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <51041.93785.qm@web110516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> By the way, I must hand it to Kevin, who predicted that the Sox deal would kill WEEI. I thought he was nuts at the time, but it turns out he was right -- the debt alone from that contract has to make it difficult for Entercom to make many moves. As far as programming, WEEI's schtick was worn out 10 years ago. Ordway is a good interviewer and when on his own (or namely, without Fred Smerlas) can put on a good show. I was listening to him and DeOssie talk football a couple years ago and I actually learned something -- then Smerlas showed up and it turned into the traditional chuckle fest. From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 17:02:19 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:02:19 +0000 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com><201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <895113213-1290895340-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1414444736-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> I will grant that D&C started as an Imus replacement - the thinking for years was sports would not work in AM drive and WFAN was the gold standard. The Metco flap 10 years ago should have ended it but Entercom just laughed it off. AM while dying will still have one or two signals in every market that will be fine - WBZ will always dominate here. WRKO is in an awful situation now for local talk as they really can't exploit the probation scanda as Finnerian may be implicated and Howie will dance around it because the Globe broke the story. I also think Howie doesn't understand most are tired of him berating his employer. Sure he didn't like being forced to stay at WRKO but he is also being paid very well. What WEEI needs badly is fresh voices - there really hasn't been anything new since Mike Holley replaced Nemie. Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: Donna Halper Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.orgDate: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:19:45 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Subject: Re: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) At 03:12 PM 11/27/2010, Garrett Wollman wrote: >So if they wanted to get into his position on a national college >football championship, that's fair game, right? (He cosponsored a >bill when he was a senator which would have prohibited advertising any >game as a "national championship" unless it was the championship game >of a playoff.) I have no issue with talking about Bush or Obama or anybody else for that matter if it's related to sports. Bush owned a baseball team, Obama loves to play basketball, all certainly fair game. My issue is when talkers on a sports station take the conversation into political rants that are often hateful and in no way connected to sports. (I was consulting a country station a few months ago and heard a syndicated talk show duo get off on a rant about the "fact" that Obama is a Muslim-- now, please tell me what that has to do with sports.) From lglavin@mail.com Sat Nov 27 15:25:01 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:25:01 -0500 Subject: WNSH-AM Roller-Coaster Ride Continues In-Reply-To: <8CD5A181137712F-1514-12F54@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD5A181137712F-1514-12F54@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CD5C884DB03313-1514-247EE@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> >-----Original Message----- >From: lglavin@mail.com >To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org >Sent: Wed, Nov 24, 2010 12:56 pm >Subject: WNSH-AM Roller-Coaster Ride Continues >As of Wednesday morning and noontime, Thnxgvg Eve, WNSH-AM 1570 in Beverly is back to broadcasting in English. Before noon, it was the G. Gordon Liddy show and at noon, Dr. Joy Brown. Later today, romorrow? Who knows? Perhaps the connection to WNNW-AM 800 was broken. It was mentioned elsewhere that WNSH returned to a WNNW simulcast later the same day and has been doing so ever since. What was spooky about the interruption in Spanish-language broadcasting was the return to exactly what was on WNSH earlier: the conservative talks hows, the daily weather forecast voiced by the same person, and a commercial for a card and gift shop (promoting Hallowe'en merchandise!) as if it's the default fare in case the connection to Costa-Eagle breaks down. = From lglavin@mail.com Sat Nov 27 15:43:30 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:43:30 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <51041.93785.qm@web110516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8CD5C8AE244E733-1514-24881@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> >-----Original Message----- >From: Sean Smyth >To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org >Sent: Sat, Nov 27, 2010 2:29 pm >Subject: Re: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) >By the way, I must hand it to Kevin, who predicted that the Sox deal would kill WEEI. I thought he was nuts at the time, but it turns out he was right -- the debt alone from that contract has to make it difficult for Entercom to make many moves. As far as programming, WEEI's schtick was worn out 10 years ago. Ordway is a good interviewer and when on his own (or namely, without Fred Smerlas) can put on a good show. I was listening to him and DeOssie talk football a couple years ago and I actually learned something -- then Smerlas showed up and it turned into the traditional chuckle fest. When the WEEI-AM/WBZ-FM rivalry was the subject of channel 19's "Beat the Press" show two weeks ago, Dan Kennedy, curator of the Media Nation blog, mentioned how terrible WEEI-AM's signal is. His home is in Danvers, but his day job is at Northeastern Univ, so he might have been talking about both his home reception and car-radio reception. He said that Entercom HAD to get an FM outlet or it would eventually be toast ( a toast metaphor has emerged several times on this thread). I posted to the "Beat the Press" website that Entercom's hands are tied because it has no FM that is specifically a BOSTON station, but signals licensed to Lawrence and Westborough with transmitting antennas outside of route 128. CBS and Greater Media would NEVER sell one of their intown FM's of course. But is there any chance Clear Channel, which has major debt obligations after the takeover, would be willing to sell one or both of its FMs (plus AM 1430 and 1200) and vacate the Boston market? From lglavin@mail.com Sat Nov 27 16:37:16 2010 From: lglavin@mail.com (lglavin@mail.com) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:37:16 -0500 Subject: You Say "Skizzum", I Say "Sizz-um"... Message-ID: <8CD5C9265946172-11FC-1A3C7@web-mmc-m06.sysops.aol.com> So far nobody at the B.R.I.G. has commented about the technical operation of WQOM-AM 1060 in Natick/Boston. When we last commented on the doings near Sewell Street in Ashland, longtime tenant of the 1060 frequency, WBIX, had ceased operations, and many were wondering if the new Catholic-themed format would sign on weeks later with full power, or WBIX-AM's old nighttime facilities. Well, on November 1st itself, WQOM appeared, and with just a flicker of a signal during the daytime, way short of its CP for 50K. Using my radio with a relative display of signal strength, I noted that for the first week, its signal where I live, Methuen, MA just short of 30 miles north of Boston, WQOM came in with less signal strength than WILD-AM 1090 at full power. Well into the second week, WQOM seemed at certain times of day to be close to or slightly stronger than WILD at full power. Then voila, there was one afternoon when it eclipsed WILD and seemed to have the same signal strength as WBIX did with 40K from Framingham. The odd thing, and maybe it's understandable while work was being done on its transmitter/antenna system, you could never tell when it would be at full power, and never seemed to come up to that level until mid-morning, as if it was necessary to have engineers at the transmitter site rather than use remote control from the studio (wherever that is). Now, as November ends, it appears that the signal can reliably be received from early in the morning until sunset, as if it's settled on the parameters of its CP. While I've listened for the past few days, one can tell how it differs from stations like WEZE-AM 590, which is more Protestant in its outlook (nothing invidious intended). Speakers at WEZE-like stations seem always to be using the Bible as reference; speakers on WQOM refer constantly to bishops, the Pope, who after all is a bishop, then the Bible. But the real divider: on WQOM, the word spelled "schism" is pronounced SKIZZ-UM; just about everywhere else these days, people pronounce it SIZZ-UM. Their website claims that the signal will reach 5.5 million people, nearly the whole population of Massachusetts. Considering that it will generate about 300 mv westward, about the same as non-directional WILD-AM at full power, this seems unlikely. Maybe the call letters could stand for We Quote Outsize Metrics. From wollman@bimajority.org Sat Nov 27 17:57:57 2010 From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:57:57 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <8CD5C8AE244E733-1514-24881@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> References: <51041.93785.qm@web110516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8CD5C8AE244E733-1514-24881@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <19697.36085.249508.888361@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> < But is there any chance Clear Channel, which has major debt > obligations after the takeover, would be willing to sell one or > both of its FMs (plus AM 1430 and 1200) and vacate the Boston > market? Doubtful. Boston is still market #11, and they have major clusters in all of the surrounding markets which share some services. I'd say Boston is well within their strategy. -GAWollman From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Nov 27 18:01:23 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:01:23 +0000 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) Message-ID: <552614823-1290898883-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1126185767-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> When Steve and Fred come on I go elsewhere. The numbers for the Sox deal didn't make sense for EEI - Greater Media was toying with going all sports but dropped out so EEI should have told the Sox it is worth X dollars. How do you think WBEN Buffalo felt when they had to make cuts because of WEEI? Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys From Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com Sat Nov 27 17:43:19 2010 From: Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com (Don) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:43:19 -0500 Subject: Entercom to buy WFNX? References: <2069820383-1290867215-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1759259971-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <4DDE3D39-DC78-44D8-AC25-FDBF103096A7@comcast.net> Message-ID: <6BC90E26A40342ADB3EAF5EAA79A12E3@s20035> On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:13 AM, "Kevin Vahey" wrote: > Media Farm suggests BZ-FM winning key demos in both AM and PM put EEI in > crisis mode Do you think it really makes financial sense for Entercom to be buying up these other properties? i.e...do you think having 97.7 added enough to the bottom line of WAAF to justify the purchase? How about those stations entercom bought for the WEEI Sports Radio Network? DO you think they pull enough advertising out of Springfield to justify the amount spent for the signal there? Etc. From marklaurence@mac.com Sat Nov 27 19:07:33 2010 From: marklaurence@mac.com (marklaurence@mac.com) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:07:33 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <19697.36085.249508.888361@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <51041.93785.qm@web110516.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8CD5C8AE244E733-1514-24881@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> <19697.36085.249508.888361@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: <62A6CCE0-2D3C-4DB8-8FFF-B99698635E0B@mac.com> On Nov 27, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Doubtful. Boston is still market #11, and they have major clusters in > all of the surrounding markets which share some services. I'd say > Boston is well within their strategy. Actually, Boston is radio market #10 according to Arbitron. Mark From rac@gabrielmass.com Sat Nov 27 19:17:14 2010 From: rac@gabrielmass.com (Richard Chonak) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:17:14 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub In-Reply-To: <895113213-1290895340-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1414444736-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com><201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <895113213-1290895340-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1414444736-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <4CF19F8A.9040009@server4.gabrielmass.com> On 11/27/2010 05:02 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > WRKO [...] really can't exploit the probation scanda as Finnerian may be implicated and Howie will dance around it because the Globe broke the story. Actually, Howie had special master Paul Ware on the show by phone a few days ago, in the 6 o'clock hour, for an interview and some listener calls. --RC From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Nov 27 20:46:57 2010 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:46:57 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <8CD5C8AE244E733-1514-24881@web-mmc-d03.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8CD5CB546FFD2A1-1744-17021@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> >channel 19's "Beat the Press" Ah, you're using the actual digital channel in your post, right? I still think of them as "Ch 2" or "WGBH" of course, and Comcast cable has them on Ch 2. What is Ch 7 technically, Ch 42? (They had intended to move to 7, problems arose, got back to 42 etc.) They still say "7 News" etc. and, yes, Comcast has them on Ch 7 on my cable.... From joe@attorneyross.com Sat Nov 27 23:28:54 2010 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:28:54 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub In-Reply-To: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <4CF1DA86.30607@attorneyross.com> On 11/27/2010 2:32 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: >>> or making rude remarks about the current president. > > Gee, I can't remember liberal talk radio making rude remarks about Mr Bush.... :) Liberal talk shows weren't supposed to be sports talk. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From marklaurence@mac.com Sun Nov 28 00:37:37 2010 From: marklaurence@mac.com (Mark Laurence) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:37:37 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub In-Reply-To: <4CF19F8A.9040009@server4.gabrielmass.com> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> <201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <895113213-1290895340-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1414444736-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <4CF19F8A.9040009@server4.gabrielmass.com> Message-ID: <17B99CE2-B389-4F27-B124-82B2BD4406EC@mac.com> On Nov 27, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Richard Chonak wrote: > On 11/27/2010 05:02 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >> >> WRKO [...] really can't exploit the probation scanda as Finnerian may be implicated and Howie will dance around it because the Globe broke the story. > > Actually, Howie had special master Paul Ware on the show by phone a few days ago, in the 6 o'clock hour, for an interview and some listener calls. And, today's Herald had the front page banner headline "I DEMAND A PULITZER...How Howie broke the Probation story." Nobody noticed it? I don't see very many people reading the Herald these days either. From kvahey@gmail.com Sun Nov 28 06:27:00 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:27:00 +0000 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub In-Reply-To: <17B99CE2-B389-4F27-B124-82B2BD4406EC@mac.com> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com><201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu><895113213-1290895340-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1414444736-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><4CF19F8A.9040009@server4.gabrielmass.com><17B99CE2-B389-4F27-B124-82B2BD4406EC@mac.com> Message-ID: <1725293144-1290943621-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-649303102-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> I don't know where the Herald is selling papers anymore - on the subway all you see is the Metro. Clerk at a Harvard Sq newsstand says he sells more NY Daily News and NY Posts now than the Herald as they both give more bang for the $1. On a related note - it will be curious to see how the media will be portrayed in the suicide of the Middlesex County sheriff. FOX25 broke the story on how he may have been misusing campaign funds but he told Howie it was no big deal. The Globe the day before broke the story about the pension scam he was involved in. Sent on from my BlackBerry? so typos are because of tiny keys -----Original Message----- From: Mark Laurence Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.orgDate: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:37:37 To: Richard Chonak Cc: Subject: Re: WEEI versus The Sports Hub On Nov 27, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Richard Chonak wrote: > On 11/27/2010 05:02 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >> >> WRKO [...] really can't exploit the probation scanda as Finnerian may be implicated and Howie will dance around it because the Globe broke the story. > > Actually, Howie had special master Paul Ware on the show by phone a few days ago, in the 6 o'clock hour, for an interview and some listener calls. And, today's Herald had the front page banner headline "I DEMAND A PULITZER...How Howie broke the Probation story." Nobody noticed it? I don't see very many people reading the Herald these days either. From kc1ih@mac.com Sun Nov 28 12:11:40 2010 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:11:40 -0500 Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub In-Reply-To: <1725293144-1290943621-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-649303102-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> References: <8CD5C810446D2D4-1744-161D3@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> <201011272002.oARK2q89089269@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <19697.26170.483507.53751@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <201011272019.oARKJtfP089386@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <895113213-1290895340-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1414444736-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <4CF19F8A.9040009@server4.gabrielmass.com> <17B99CE2-B389-4F27-B124-82B2BD4406EC@mac.com> <1725293144-1290943621-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-649303102-@bda268.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <000601cb8f1f$5786a0b0$0693e210$@com> > -----Original Message----- > From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org > [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On > Behalf Of Kevin Vahey > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:27 AM > To: Mark Laurence; boston-radio-interest- > bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org; Richard Chonak > Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org > Subject: Re: WEEI versus The Sports Hub > > > On a related note - it will be curious to see how the media will be > portrayed in the suicide of the Middlesex County sheriff. FOX25 broke > the story on how he may have been misusing campaign funds but he told > Howie it was no big deal. The Globe the day before broke the story > about the pension scam he was involved in. And in Saturday's Globe there was a letter-to-the-editor from someone demanding that the sheriff refund all his campaign contributions. I wonder (rhetorically) if this was the last straw that drove him over the edge. From m_carney@yahoo.com Sun Nov 28 19:18:15 2010 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:18:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: Dean Of State House Press Corps Kevin McNicholas Passes Away In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45922.57815.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I'm so sad to hear this. I had a great rapport with Kevin when I was with WSRO and he was filing reports for us. From m_carney@yahoo.com Sun Nov 28 19:28:32 2010 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:28:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: WEEI versus The Sports Hub (was: Entercom to buy WFNX?) In-Reply-To: <8CD5C777F2DF0E1-1744-15EA1@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD5C777F2DF0E1-1744-15EA1@web-mmc-m05.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <177167.79079.qm@web53301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I have to agree that they have a bigger problem with WRKO. Howie sounds like he's on autopilot while waiting for his contract to expire. Even his attempts to provoke management sound half-hearted. I do flip back and forth, but not in the morning. I can't take the frat-boy antics of Toucher and Rich. I really liked Tony Maz's Baseball Reporters show last season and hope it comes back. From dcassell@gmail.com Mon Nov 29 18:23:30 2010 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:23:30 -0500 Subject: 1690 Lynn area. Message-ID: This evening while waiting at the Swampscott commuter rail station I logged "Radio Torrente de Vida" on 1690 KHz using my car radio. Station plays pop music (in Spanish) and "Radio Torrente de Vida" identifications. I searched the list archives but didn't see a reference to this station. http://www.radiotorrente.com/ My reception location was about 2 miles from the address on the website, fairly solid signal. This frequency was once apparently occupied by WRCI R.Creole Inter*. Damon * Source: http://www.bamlog.com/bostonlp.htm From aerie.ma@comcast.net Tue Nov 30 09:11:46 2010 From: aerie.ma@comcast.net (Jim Hall) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:11:46 -0500 Subject: WMKK-HD? Message-ID: Has WMKK-HD been off the air the last few days, or do I need to move my antenna? After WCRB they are the closest signal to me, and I usually have no problems with them at all in HD. Or are they off air preparing for the simulcast? Hehe From tlmedia@triad.rr.com Tue Nov 30 10:29:21 2010 From: tlmedia@triad.rr.com (Ted Larsen) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:29:21 -0500 Subject: The Herald's Peter Gelzinis Wrote A Fine Piece On Kevin McMcNicholas Message-ID: <3CC2D463DDBE4E20A6782BF1C095A44B@YOURbcbbe822ed> Very nice piece in today's Herald.WELL DONE. http://www.bostonherald.com//news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1299753&utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SitewideUpdate_DATE_11-30-2010--07.00 From tlmedia@triad.rr.com Tue Nov 30 10:29:21 2010 From: tlmedia@triad.rr.com (Ted Larsen) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:29:21 -0500 Subject: The Herald's Peter Gelzinis Wrote A Fine Piece On Kevin McMcNicholas Message-ID: <3CC2D463DDBE4E20A6782BF1C095A44B@YOURbcbbe822ed> Very nice piece in today's Herald.WELL DONE. http://www.bostonherald.com//news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1299753&utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SitewideUpdate_DATE_11-30-2010--07.00 From kvahey@gmail.com Tue Nov 30 11:31:59 2010 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:31:59 -0800 Subject: WEEI gets robbed Message-ID: Of course nothing is more worthless than a stolen ticket as the teams can void the barcode - but anybody who buys the ticket won't know that http://www.wickedlocal.com/allston/news/police_and_fire/x1384139180/Allston-Brighton-crime-A-whole-lot-of-Celtics-tickets-missing-at-WEEI From jjlehmann@comcast.net Tue Nov 30 11:10:21 2010 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:10:21 -0500 Subject: WMKK-HD? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <61038B23-9C0C-4049-A26F-A1A0C2618F43@comcast.net> I noticed last Wednesday in the afternoon that the time alignment between the analog and HD was way off. Later that night it was off completely, and I haven't noticed it back on since. I was like old times this morning driving up the expressway hearing 93.9 from Lewiston, ME. Too bad the format isn't exactly tolerable anymore. I also have heard 93.9 WMXR (apparently on their new site) and 93.5 WEEY from home at times. Jeff Lehmann On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:11 AM, "Jim Hall" wrote: > Has WMKK-HD been off the air the last few days, or do I need to move my > antenna? > > > > After WCRB they are the closest signal to me, and I usually have no problems > with them at all in HD. > > > > Or are they off air preparing for the simulcast? Hehe > From stevesnow1@gmail.com Mon Nov 29 12:12:34 2010 From: stevesnow1@gmail.com (Steve Snow) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:12:34 -0500 Subject: You Say "Skizzum", I Say "Sizz-um"... Message-ID: You're looking in the wrong direction to justify their claims. If their directional pattern is anything like WRKO's (or others in the market) the people cited may be in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Canada's maritimes depending on the co-channel and adjacent channel protections they need. The main object is to put just enough signal over Boston without "feeding the fishes" with extra precious signal and to put the rest somewhere it will do some good. Did I understand that the daytime pattern would be generated with two towers only? That would result in some kind of modified "figure eight" plus or minus some parasitic re-radiation from the other towers and the local high tension power lines. Not as neat as what you can get with three live towers, I suppose. But if the FCC signed off on it... Oh, wait, I retract that. >Their website claims that the signal will reach 5.5 million people, nearly the whole population of >Massachusetts. Considering that it will generate about 300 mv westward, about the same as >non-directional WILD-AM at full power, this seems unlikely. Maybe the call letters could stand >for We Quote Outsize Metrics.