Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Kevin Vahey]

It is really hard to say goodbye to this list

I spent 99% of my professional career on the TV side of the business but I
had roots in radio simply because I had a First Ticket which I did the work
with the Cleveland Institute of Electronics and not a FCC diploma mill
which were infamous. Late '60s into the '70s a FCC First Phone was more
valuable than a college degree to get your foot in the door.

Over the years we have lost long-time posters -  I think of Dan and
Lawrence in particular but there were many others.

If you were a night owl as I have always been radio was a big part of your
life. I can type WO9-8989 and many of you know exactly what I am referring
to.

I remember being dumbfounded as a teen at a prep school in Woonsocket and
unable to hear WICE Providence which was 13 miles away. I had to learn why.
I remember JJ Jeffrey on WRKO in the winter at pattern change saying
'Goodbye Framingham'. Why did WTOP in Washington and WKBW Buffalo make WMEX
unlistenable at night in Harvard Sq.

I will always cherish the banter we have had here and maybe it will
continue at another location.

Radio as we knew it is not dead but it is on life support.

Garrett thank you for being the caretaker of this list.



On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 12:19 PM ~Bill <ecps92@earthlink.net> wrote:

> The link below, should bring you right to the Groups Home page, after
> creating an account, re-click on the link
>
> > https://groups.io/g/Boston-Radio-Interest <
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:
> boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of A
> Joseph Ross
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2023 4:47 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list
>
> I tried to join and got a message from lists.io inviting me there. I got
> on there, created a password, but I couldn't find the new radio group
> anywhere to join it.  For some reason I also haven't gotten a copy of my
> most recent post to this list, either.
>
> On 12/2/2023 9:14 PM, Bob DeMattia wrote:
> > OK, it seems like there is enough interest from what I see in this
> > thread and also some DM's I received, so I've gone ahead and created
> > the group.  For the people that have participated in this latest
> > thread, I've taken the liberty of sending an personal invitation via
> > email.
> >
> > For those who don't receive the invitation, you can join the group here:
> >
> > https://groups.io/g/Boston-Radio-Interest
> >
> >
> > Thanks to Garrett for the many years keeping this list together, and
> > to everyone that participated and providing interesting content.
> > Let's hope the new platform will continue to have value.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 6:53 PM Tim Gordon<tgordo49@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, please do! FB is awful. Groups.io is simple and clean.
> >> Bless you!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 9:52 PM Bob DeMattia<bob.bosra@demattia.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> IMHO, Facebook is bloatware.  Way too much additional content.  Not
> >>> too crazy about all the personal information they collect either.
> >>>
> >>> groups.io is a simple mailing list much like what we have here.
> >>>
> >>> Garrett: I wouldn't try to export the current list.  I'd simply
> >>> create
> >> the
> >>> group over there and send the instructions on this list on how to join.
> >>> People who want to do it can, the others will ride off into the sunset.
> >>>
> >>> But if we do this, we want to make sure we only make one....
> >>>
> >>> I'll volunteer to set it up  if the group here wants me to.
> >>>
> >>> -Bob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 8:30 PM Ted Larsen<tlmedia9@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This may be too simplistic, but why not more this entire platform
> >>>> to Facebook? There are already several Facebook Groups dedicated to
> >>>> radio; WBZ, WMEX, NEW ENGLAND RADIO STATIONS and probably many more.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway, that's my suggestion.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:28 PM Garrett Wollman
> >>>> <wollman@bimajority.org
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> <<On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 17:21:02 -0500, Bob DeMattia <
> >>> bob.bosra@demattia.net>
> >>>>> said:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Is there any interest in restarting the function of the list on
> >>>>> groups.io?
> >>>>>> I'm on that platform for bunch of other lists, and it seems to be
> >>> clean.
> >>>>>> Management of a groups.io group takes very little effort.
> >>>>> If anyone wants to do that, they're welcome to.  I will not share
> >>>>> the subscriber list, however, because (1) I was never given
> >>>>> permission to do so, and (2) there are a lot of unattended or
> >>>>> invalid mailboxes on it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My own interest remains at this point pretty firmly in the history
> >>>>> and not the present; I can't remember the last time I
> >>>>> intentionally put on live radio, and that's a big part of why I am
> >>>>> trying to wind down the most high-effort, low-reward part of
> >>>>> bostonradio.org.  (Only a month ago I had to shut down the "where
> >>>>> am I?" service when the FCC discontinued publishing its database
> >>>>> in the format the site depended on -- before that point, the daily
> >>>>> database updates were the highest-effort part of the site, but
> >>>>> keeping mail delivery working in today's Internet is a very close
> >>>>> second.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -GAWollman
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
>
> --
> A. Joseph Ross
> Brookline, MA
>
> ===
> “Books, minds, and umbrellas only work if they’re open.”
> /– Anonymous/
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