More changes at WERS

[Bob Nelson]

The Globe has this article about the apparent cancellations:

http://www.boston.com/culturedesk/2013/08/20/has-wers-cancelled-rockers-and-night-two-late-night-music-programs/2clT0JqTiUaAy0zjyqOgIJ/story.html

It mentioned Rockers goes back to 1978...and that it's the longest running
college radio show in the nation. I wonder though; wasn't HIllbilly at
Harvard, WHRB, on even before
then?

I believe I remember seeing Rockers listed in such places as the Globe
(remember the radio page in TV Week, or the daily radio listings?), the
Phoenix, and even a short lived publication called Radio Waves..which I'd
buy at a newsstand in Lynn during my high school years.


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Mark Watson <markwats@comcast.net> wrote:

> A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>  I hope it isn't a move to take over the station the >way Boston
>> University did many years ago with WBUR.
>>
>
> I wonder if any of the students at Emerson will organize a group to
> protest the changes. I recall several years ago when WUML Lowell partnered
> with the Lowell Sun for a news and information morning show plus the plan
> to have a talk show with Christopher Lydon produced there. Many students
> and alumni of U Mass Lowell (and U Lowell/Lowell Tech alums too) who
> worked/enjoyed WUML/WLTI spoke up about these changes and the fear of
> losing those hours and more. Both the morning show and the Lydon show
> didn't last too long and for now all is well at WUML. Only person who
> remained on the U Mass Lowell payroll from that fiasco is Bob Ellis, the
> morning show host. After the show ended, he became the assistant sports
> press relations person and still calls U Mass Lowell hockey games on WUML
> (also simulcast on WCAP) as he has for several years.
>
> Mark Watson
>
>