RadioInsight reports the estate of Bob Bittner, who died last May has sold WJIB in Cambridge to longtime Boston-area broadcaster and DJ John Garabedian. Read more.
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Scott Fybush reports at Northeast Radio Watch, that WJIB in Cambridge, and its sister stations on the Cape and in Maine, are staying on the air for now, using owner, program manager and DJ Bob Bittner's pre-recorded programs "with Bob’s Maine engineer Bob Perry adding an hourly announcement about Bob’s death to the station automation." Read more.
No, not the seagulls-and-ship's-bell dentist-office station some of you may remember from your youth, but Bob Bittner's WCAS-successor oldies station that's been on 740 AM for awhile now. It's at 101.3 FM, but with a caveat: It's a low-power station so you may not hear it most places - and if you're south of the Fenway and hear hip hop instead, you're hearing a Dorchester pirate station that's been using the same frequency (last week in Roslindale, that's what came in, but at 2:30 p.m. today, anybody tuning into 101.3 in Roslindale instead heard soft oldies rock).
Aaron Read tells the heartwarming tale of WJIB, basically a one-person AM station that raised $88,000 over six weeks to stay on the air: Ironically, a recent rise in the station's ratings meant it had to pay more to license the dentist-office music it plays:
... There's a lesson here, one I fear too many are "brushing off": WJIB did not run an effective fundraiser, WJIB runs an effective station ...and that's why it both had the listeners and raised the funds.
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