List?

[Rob Landry]

Bob Bittner bought WBAS (not named for the nearby Bass River, despite 
seller Alex Langer's love of bass fishing; the call letters stood for 
"Brasil") 1240 AM and its translator at 106.5.


Rob

On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Paul Currier wrote:

> Hello Garrett and all,
>
> I’ve had this empty feeling:  Is the list still alive?   We’ve had some action here on Cape Cod recently – John H Garabedian sold his 4 stations and Bob Bittner has joined the cape with an AM and FM.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Currier, radio nut who still misses AM and real radio in general.
>
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>
> From: Garrett Wollman<mailto:wollman@bimajority.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 10:51 PM
> To: billohno@gmail.com<mailto:billohno@gmail.com>
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org<mailto:boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Re: Matty in the Morning
>
> <<On Fri, 21 May 2021 07:30:34 -0400, "billohno@gmail.com" <billohno@gmail.com> said:
>
>> I just listened to the audio and read the Boston.com story. It
>> appears that, prev, he had capitulated, softened due to prior
>> pushbacks to tone-down his rhetoric on President Trump, and wasn’t
>> going down that path with his opinion about a celebrity announcing
>> their newfound non-binary status.  That third rail triggered the bat
>> phone and that triggered Matt. I suspect they’ll kiss and make up.
>
> I hate to be asking on this of all mailing-lists, but is the radio
> morning show still relevant?  To 18-to-34-year-olds?  Anecdotally, no
> one I know under 30 will admit to listening to the radio at all.
>
> My parents are in their 70s now and they have the local country
> station on whenever they're awake and not watching TV.  Young people I
> know get their music from Spotify and their spoken-word from podcasts
> and audiobooks.  (Traffic and weather from smartphone apps, and news
> on social media or Google News.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
>