WSRO AM 650 HD

[Rob Landry]

Here's the story of "Real Jazz 1410" in a nutshell:

Several years ago, Alex bought a defunct AM in Brockton tbat had gone 
silent after losing the lease on its transmitter site. He had a friend put 
it on the air temporarily on a longwire while he looked for a new site. 
He called me and asked me to find something to put on it in the meantime, 
so I borrowed 5,000 jazz cuts from WHRB and created a format using them on 
a computer I had in a closet. It ran for about a year before Alex built 
the Hyde Park site and put the Brazilians on 1410.

Fast forward a few years, and the pandemic struck. Alex lost all his 
brokers and had me turn both 650 and 1410, along with 1240 on Cape Cod, 
off. Then a few months later he had me put 650 and 1410 back on, and I 
dragged the jazz computer out of my closet to feed both stations. 1240 on 
the Cape was sold to Bob Bittner, and 650 eventually went classical, but 
the jazz stayed on 1410 until the end. I copied the format to one of 
Alex's machines and took mine back home.

So, if whoever's nowbin charge wants to go om the air, it could be done 
very easily.


Rob




On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, A Joseph Ross wrote:

> Does that format come from some service somewhere that they
> can subscribe to?  Or would they have to have someone on-air
> playing the music or at least programming it into a computer?
> 
> On 3/16/2023 12:01 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
>
>       They could run the jazz format that was on WZBR
>       for the past couple years.
> 
>
>       Rob
>
>       On Thu, 16 Mar 2023, A Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>             So they turn the stations on.  Then
>             what content do they broadcast?
>
>             On 3/15/2023 10:51 AM, Rob Landry
>             wrote:
> 
>
>                   On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, A Joseph
>             Ross wrote:
>
>                         I hope that whoever
>             administers the estate knows
>                         about the deadline.
> 
>
>                   Everything is still there to
>             turn the stations back on, if it
>                   starts to look like the
>             deadline won't be met.
> 
>
>                   Rob
> 
>
>             --
>             A. Joseph Ross
>             Brookline, MA
>
>             ===
>             "The problem with quotes on the
>             internet is that it is difficult to
>             determine whether or not they are
>             genuine."
>             -- Abraham Lincoln
> 
> 
> 
> --
> A. Joseph Ross
> Brookline, MA
> 
> ===
> "The problem with quotes on the internet is that it is
> difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine."
> -- Abraham Lincoln
> 
>