Is WBRU on the brink?

[Don]

>>WERS really belongs in the category with WUMB and WBUR, stations owned by
universities and run by professionals.<<

Except for the fact the WERS airstaff is all students (except for 1 person 
on the morning show).

Students never get on the air at WBUR and WUMB.

D


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Landry" <011010001@interpring.com>
To: "Eli Polonsky" <elipolo881@gmail.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: Is WBRU on the brink?


>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, Eli Polonsky wrote:
>
>> ​WERS Boston (Emerson College) appears to be making a listener-supported 
>> success out of what sounds like a modern rock based AAA ​format during 
>> weekday daytime hours (it has other specialty formats nights and 
>> weekends). It is much slicker sounding than most "college" radio, with a 
>> morning host from Boston commercial radio (George Knight) and students 
>> playing from pre-programmed playlists during the rest of the daytime.
>
> WERS really belongs in the category with WUMB and WBUR, stations owned by 
> universities and run by professionals. It's not a student-run station 
> like, say, Boston College's WZBC.
>
>
> Rob