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Owned by the biggest scumbag in the game
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 04/08/2014 - 11:35pm
And it's a stout competition. Woe is anybody who seeks employment there.
Or anywhere in 'Radio' for that matter.
By Chris Rich
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 1:08am
It's another dying medium, in part doomed because it is another gatekeeper model in an increasingly open world.
Since when is Northeast
By anon
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 8:46am
Since when is Northeast Broadcasting the biggest scumbag in the game? Are you confusing Clear Channel?
Corporations aren't people too
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:49pm
When Clear Channel cans an employee, that's at the hands of a greedy investment firm. WXRV is owned by a sole proprietorship, which would thus make him the one biggest scumbag.
Is anyone left in radio not a
By dave davery
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:40pm
Is anyone left in radio not a scumbag?
Like WFNX before it, a great
By anonermus
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:57am
Like WFNX before it, a great station plagued by questionable personnel decisions
Too bad. I thought she was
By Jorie
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 8:08am
Too bad. I thought she was great. Listened to her every morning on my drive.
Petition to bring back Rita
By Denise
Sat, 04/12/2014 - 10:28am
http://www.change.org/petitions/steve-silberberg-r...
"Great" station?
By Hunter
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 9:24am
Nope. A "great" station does not adhere to playlists. Period. If I hear "Let Her Go" fewer than three times a day I'm feeling lucky. That song makes me want to cut myself. WXRV is a decent station. They surprise me with song selections now and then. Sadly, this station is the best we can do for commercial radio these days in Boston. Music radio is dying and deservedly so. There is little imagination present on the airwaves. WMBR is still the best for people who care about music.
WUMB plays a pretty eclectic
By Barry M.
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 10:42am
WUMB plays a pretty eclectic bit of music most morning and evening drive periods....definitely not playlist driven......
I remember the very first day
By SF
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 10:44am
I remember the very first day they were on air, 1996...I thought it was some type of pirate radio station.since then, I've been listening, especially the Sunday morning show.
RADIO
By bagonza joe
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 2:28pm
good point about WMBR, MIT's radio station.
For anyone unfamiliar with the station its musical programming variety is enormous. The station's web site will give you a brief idea if each program's interests.
The leftist-ist on your dial
By Belmont
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 3:33pm
88.1 FM
**Nope. A "great" station
By Lou
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 9:06pm
**Nope. A "great" station does not adhere to playlists. Period.**
What would rather have...some DJ who plays anything that comes into his/her head at any given moment?
A "playlist" is simply preparing in advance what songs will be played. Most good DJ's want to know what they are playing before they go into the studio...so they can prepare comments, etc.
Playlists...
By Hunter
Thu, 04/10/2014 - 7:35am
Playlists are "provided" by a station owner and determined by big record labels and artists who have major, international representation, in other words, the listener is being fed whatever the suits want to sell. And yes, I would rather listen to someone with good taste play whatever he or she wants to play. You can always tell when someone knows their music. If you're paying attention to any commercial radio station you will see that the same songs are played at pretty much the same time every day. And most good DJs would be ecstatic to show an audience what they know about music and not be told what to play.
It's tough to
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:54pm
compete with the kiss audience of 50+ moms.
The scary thing is that those 50+ Moms have been listening
By Nancy
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 1:17pm
to Matty in the Morning since they were in high school. I don't want to be around when those Moms go on a rampage when he retires.
It brings a
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 1:46pm
smile to my face knowing Matty wakes up every day to confront this 50+ mom hell.
Sonny Joe White was one of
By SF
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 3:07pm
Sonny Joe White was one of the founders of wxks Kiss 108 FM, If it wasn't for Sonny Joe White, there would'nt have been a " Matty in the morning" and the millions that they pay him!
**smile to my face knowing
By Lou
Wed, 04/09/2014 - 9:07pm
**smile to my face knowing Matty wakes up every day to confront this 50+ mom hell.**
You know he is number 1 in the 25-54 demo, right?
That means there are many more than simply 50+.
The age(ing)
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 04/10/2014 - 9:22am
quotient is a major factor in marketing and sales to that aspiring 25-54 demo. Still wearing yoga pants at 49, listening to Adam Levine while adoring his poster, Facebook friends with Matty's show. Yes Matty hell is lucrative but it is still hell.
Alternatives to WXRV
By Orange Crush
Wed, 06/04/2014 - 12:26pm
Thank you for your alt suggestions to The River - This 55 year old mom (who remembers Dale Dorman's morning show) is now working remotely off the west coast of Vancouver and is getting tired of listening to the same music on WXRV. Will look into WMBR.
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