Imus in the Morning

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: D. A.
>Sent: 11/12/13 09:44 PM
>To: Bill O'Neill, Boston Radio Group
>Subject: Re: Imus in the Morning

>>>So, Don Imus is now relegated to flea-power 1110 in Salem, NH. >Aren't they 5,000 watts? That doesn't sound flea-powered to me. >;-) .............. If you check WCCM-AM's record at fcc.gov, you'll seethat the four towers are 53 degrees, even shorter than the 199-foot towers of the Oak Hill Parktryptich. If I recall correctly, Scott once said on "Let's Talk About Radio" that the WCCM-AM 1110towers were the only ones anywhere near Boston that he had not seen or photographed. Even now,with all the trees bare, you can't see the towers on any road that goes by them. Once, after awindstorm causing WCCM-AM to be off the air for a few days, I drove over to the site to see if any or all of them had blown down. There's a footpath going by a house before you getthere, and somebody came out of a house to intercept me. Several years prior, someone cut theguy wires of one tower or more, and since then he became a vigilante to prevent people fromtrespassing on the transmitter site property, although it seemed that the path WASN'T onthe property. I told him that since WCCM had been off-the-air for several days, I was just checking to see if the towers were still up. He let me pass but watched warily. I understand that there were watchmen near Jerimoth Hill in Foster, RI to block the way  if anybody wanted to hike to the top, even years after FM 101.5 moved to Johnston. So anyway, WCCM's signal yields a little bit less than it would be if the station had a moreefficient tantenna system. From time to time, WCCM had been cited as a station providinglocal service, but recently, they take Fox News radio at the top of the hour followed immediatelyby "Imus in the Morning" from 6:00 am until 9:00 (30 minutes before authorized sign-on inNovember) with the first local content broadcast at 9:05 am.