Is WBRU on the brink?

[Don]

>>> They're students, but they're hand-picked by management and they do what
>>> they're told to do. That's not college radio as I understand the term.

Well, it's college and it's radio...and the students are on the air.    ;-)

Semantics I suppose.

So, does "college radio" mean it has to be student run, produced, managed
programmed....total freedom and freeform programming?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Landry" <011010001@interpring.com>
To: "Don" <astelle.donald@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eli Polonsky" <elipolo881@gmail.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Is WBRU on the brink?


>
>
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Don wrote:
>
>>>> 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).
>
> They're students, but they're hand-picked by management and they do what
> they're told to do. That's not college radio as I understand the term.
>
>
> Rob