From ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu Wed May 1 17:20:26 2019 From: ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu (Sean Smyth) Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 17:20:26 -0400 Subject: Podcast on payola Message-ID: ?American Scandal? is currently examining the rise of payola among DJs in the 1950s. Two episodes are out so far and there is a lot of stuff I?ve learned about Alan Freed, including the Boston Garden ?riot.? It?s worth a listen if you?re interested in that era. -- Sent from my iPhone From joe@attorneyross.com Thu May 2 01:38:40 2019 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 01:38:40 -0400 Subject: Podcast on payola In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <043f7db1-0751-463d-7f60-d818efce483c@attorneyross.com> So where can we find it? On 5/1/2019 5:20 PM, Sean Smyth wrote: > ?American Scandal? is currently examining the rise of payola among DJs in > the 1950s. Two episodes are out so far and there is a lot of stuff I?ve > learned about Alan Freed, including the Boston Garden ?riot.? It?s worth a > listen if you?re interested in that era. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From astelle.donald@gmail.com Thu May 2 01:13:18 2019 From: astelle.donald@gmail.com (Don) Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 01:13:18 -0400 Subject: Podcast on payola References: Message-ID: Links, channel, station, frequency, time? ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Smyth" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2019 5:20 PM Subject: Podcast on payola ?American Scandal? is currently examining the rise of payola among DJs in the 1950s. Two episodes are out so far and there is a lot of stuff I?ve learned about Alan Freed, including the Boston Garden ?riot.? It?s worth a listen if you?re interested in that era. -- Sent from my iPhone --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From raccoonradio@gmail.com Thu May 2 05:30:02 2019 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 05:30:02 -0400 Subject: Podcast on payola In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://wondery.com/shows/american-scandal/ Apparently at that link or via Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify or Stitcher On Thursday, May 2, 2019, Don wrote: > Links, channel, station, frequency, time? ;-) > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Smyth" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2019 5:20 PM > Subject: Podcast on payola > > > ?American Scandal? is currently examining the rise of payola among DJs in > the 1950s. Two episodes are out so far and there is a lot of stuff I?ve > learned about Alan Freed, including the Boston Garden ?riot.? It?s worth a > listen if you?re interested in that era. > -- > Sent from my iPhone > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > From martinjwaters@yahoo.com Fri May 31 15:47:53 2019 From: martinjwaters@yahoo.com (Martin Waters) Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 19:47:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Last day for WQUN, Hamden-New Haven References: <1617161517.8938822.1559332073132.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1617161517.8938822.1559332073132@mail.yahoo.com> ? ?? WQUN (AM), 1220, goes silent at 6 p.m. today. I was lucky enough to work there for several years before one of the many nibbling budget cuts took away the outside news reporter budget. ? ?? Quinnipiac University, which bought the station in 1997, announced in January it was pulling the plug after 22 years. The Board of Trustees and new president wanted to stop the subsidy that was needed to augment local ad sales -- which I wildly estimate may have been a few hundred thousand dollars a year. ? ? It's been a great little community radio station -- but, IMO, seems to show why there are hardly any small, local stations like that still standing, as the operating cost always exceeded the advertising base they were able to build. The limited signal didn't help -- 1 kW day, 305 watts night. Two years ago, the university refused to provide the money when WQUN had a good chance to get an FM translator. ? ? The axe fell only six months after former long-time Quinnipiac President John Leahy retired. The station had been one of his personal initiatives to build up the university, locally, regionally and nationally. It was purchased in conjunction with setting up an academic program in broadcasting. It also broadcast and streamed play-by-play for university sports.? Students were involved with WQUN as interns, but it was strictly a commercial, professional operation. ? ? For a long time, a faction on the Board of Trustees questioned the spending. With Leahy gone, the end was near. So it wasn't a total surprise. The university has been bombarded with thousands of people signing up to a "save the station" facebook page. The daily New Haven Register has carried many dozens of letters to the editor since January. ?? Yesterday, the reporter there who has been covering the station's demise in a long series of articles was refused entry to the station to talk to the staff for a story he put in today's paper. They all would have been respectful and professional in their comments, as they have been on the air. Instead he reported how the university PR office stonewalled him.The school says it has been in contact with a couple potential buyers for the station. ? ? For radio folk in the WQUN orbit, it's a weird, sad day. And made weirder because WPLJ (FM) goes away at 7 p.m. today. ? ? ? .?