WGBH-FM Adding RI Coverage?

[Ron Bello]

Didn't WGBH take over operation of Bryant University's WJMF which covers NE
Rhode Island and SW MA ?
There is CP for an increase in power for them.


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Laurence Glavin <lglavin@mail.com> wrote:

> WGBH-FM in Boston takes NPR News at the top of the hour, and throughout
> the daytime at least
> runs about two or three minutes of locally-oriented news just like
> competitor WBUR. I've noticed
> lately when I've used WGBH (I choose between WBUR's "On Point" or WGBH's
> "Diane Rehm Show"
> depending on subject and guests) that the local news segment contains a
> Rhode Island news story or
> maybe more than one. Sometimes there's a Massachusetts tie-in, like the
> recently appointed Police
> Superintendent in Portsmouth, RI who is currently a Boston Police Ossifer.
> But most Rhode
> Island stories are strictly of interest to RI denizens, like the tainted
> water in Kent County. WGBH-FM's
> transmitter of course is south of Boston with about 100K so it comes in
> well in RI. But the
> Providence market has at least two news-talk stations (WPRO-AM & WHJJ-AM);
> I don't know
> how much news intrudes into Providence FMs. Is it possible that WGBH-FM is
> hedging its bets
> by trying to appeal to a broader population base than WBUR which seems to
> "own" Boston for news?
>