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WBZ-AM, WBUR to get some competition

Clear Channel's WXKS, 1200 AM, turns into Bloomberg Radio on Friday.

In addition to national and international financial news, Bloomberg Radio says it will provide "local news, traffic, weather and sports."

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If WGBH-FM, a 98,000-watt grandfathered super-powered FM station made only as relatively minor dent in WBUR's numbers, how much will the 50,000-watt AM station with the least sizable footprint in town (directional antenna; minimum height towers so as not to provide visual pollution to the Oak Hill neighborhood in Newton)impact it? And who will notice that this change has occurred? It's an anomaly of the radio business in general that it's an advertising medium itself, but rarely uses other media to advertise its very existence, much less format changes. One of the main ways radio outlets advertise is on the back ends of buses, thus connecting their call letters with vehicular exhaust. (The most frequent advertiser on the backs of buses is WMJX-FM, and vehicular exhause is extremely appropriate for promoting what they emit).

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Let's see.... WBUR and WGBH - essentially the same station, providing the same product. Versus Bloomberg, providing, you know, not public radio. You can't imagine there's a niche there? As to your personal opinion of WMJX, I suppose you imagine the radio industry particularly cares what you think.

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LOL ... NIMBYism at it's finest.

I'll have to remember 'Visual Pollution'. It'll come in handy.

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We had a station in Concord, WBNW-1120, which carried mostly Bloomberg programming. I don't think it's still on the air.

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I was about to respond 'wasn't that tried already..and failed?'

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Is XKS AM still running the old WJIB mixed with Connie Francis and Perry Como format? What the hell will the women in Everett City hall listen to on their single speaker transistor radios now? First WODS, now this!?!

On another note there is an Evolution 101.7 billboard along I-195 in Fall River. Let's hear it for the rocket scientists running radio in Boston; a billboard for a station in Lynn that you can't pick up beyond Holbrook advertising in a market which you can't pick up the station and a market which has the purchasing power of rural Moldova. No wonder BCN died.

Go ERS/XRV.

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Replaced the old format a while ago. Too bad, I actually enjoyed having that as an option to the rest of the crap on the radio.

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the WJIB programming you speak of runs on 740...or at least it did the last time I was driving around with an AM radio on.

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We could develop a bookmark !... showing the Boston radio dial including hybrid digital HD radio channels like WZLX-HD2 100.7 HD2 Radio Mojo Blues
http://www.ibiquity.com/stationlist_hdradio.php?st...

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We're so not in tune with today's radio market (my wife's car still has the original in-dash cassette player).

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Try the Insignia Narrator HD radio
http://www.insigniaproducts.com/products/portable-...

They plan to restock the Narrator HD radio radio in a couple months manufactured by a new company with a feature for the Emergency Alert System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System

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The comedy station at 1200 is one of my three presets along with 88.9 and 90.9. Now what am I supposed to listen to when there is acapella on 88.9 and a church service on 90.9?

Damn it, can't the Boston market support one tiny station playing comedy?

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WRKO

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It's getting so that there are nearly the same amount of sponsors announcements on noncommercial WBUR as there are on commercial WBZ !

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