WCVT (101.7 Stowe, VT)

[Bill O'Neill]

WCVT (101.7 Stowe) will be flipping the switch to the new tower and 
XMTR on Mt. Mansfield on Friday at 1:01 p.m. The morning host Brian 
Harwood, mentioned it in passing this morning. Found it interesting (in 
a geeky sort of way) that while they aren't hyping the event, the are 
flipping it at a time that lines up with their frequency, 101.7. 
  
Harwood is a very good "listen" in the morning. Very low key and yet 
funny in the sense that he seems to thoroughly enjoy what he is doing.  
I suspect that is a critical piece missing from many jocks today; they 
either sound like they would rather be somewhere else, or they ARE 
somewhere else.  
  
Harwood is a radio (and advertising) legend in Vermont and is well 
known in classical music circles; he recently replaced Ken Squier as 
Chairman of the Vermont VSO board. He is retired from his HMC 
advertising in Stowe around '06. He's been with WDEV/WCVT for decades. 
A bio I found online mentions his having worked as a reporter for 
WCAX-TV years ago. 
  
With all that time in with the station, it must be a thrill for Harwood 
and others there to be able to kick up the juice on classical music in 
Vermont. With VPR Classical and now a broader reaching WCVT, the state 
certainly has a solid terrestrial radio base of classical music.
  
Bill O'Neill

  
------ Original Message ------
From: "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
Sent: 12/13/2011 11:26:09 PM
Subject: Re: WCVT (101.7 Stowe, VT)
>On 12/13/2011 1:36 AM, Scott Fybush wrote: 
>
>>It was a terrible system, really - imagine the poor New Yorkers 
>>trying 
>>to differentiate between "W67NY" and "W71NY" and "W75NY"! 
>>
>>There were at least some two-letter suffixes - Binghamton was W49BN, 
>>for instance, but the system would not have scaled up very well, for 
>>sure. 
>
>Which raises the question, what idiot put it into effect in the first 
>place? 
>
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