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 Made Only A Dent...
By laurence_glavin
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 2:05pm
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).
Let's see.... WBUR and WGBH -
By NotWhitey
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 2:11pm
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.
Are you listening?... to John Funke !? Backwoods
By theszak
Sat, 03/02/2013 - 10:40am
Are you listening?... to John Funke !? Backwoods
http://wmbr.org/shows/backwoods/backwoods.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=Backwoods+John+Funke
Visual pollution?
By anon
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 10:35am
LOL ... NIMBYism at it's finest.
I'll have to remember 'Visual Pollution'. It'll come in handy.
This has been tried before
By Ron Newman
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 2:09pm
We had a station in Concord, WBNW-1120, which carried mostly Bloomberg programming. I don't think it's still on the air.
I thought so....
By Sarcastic Sam
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 1:28pm
I was about to respond 'wasn't that tried already..and failed?'
What about Andy Williams?
By JohnCostello
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 3:36pm
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.
No, XKS is currently Matty's Comedy 1200
By Wally Brown
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 4:03pm
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.
you're thinking of 740
By Sarcastic Sam
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 1:30pm
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.
We could develop a bookmark !... showing the Boston radio dial
By theszak
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 11:37am
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...
How many people have radios that can get those new channels?
By adamg
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 11:40am
We're so not in tune with today's radio market (my wife's car still has the original in-dash cassette player).
Insignia Narrator radio
By theszak
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 12:02pm
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
Damnation
By Lanny Budd
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 4:18pm
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?
We still have a comedy station in Boston
By Nancy
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 4:21pm
WRKO
WBUR sponsors announcements. WBZ commercials.
By theszak
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 9:44am
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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