Valley 98.9 (1110) WMVX has made some changes. I used to tune in via Tune-in every Sunday from 8AM-Noon to listen to Dick Bartley's Classic Hits show. Today I tuned in at 9:30AM and a show called "Powerline" from the Tom Kent Radio Network was on. That ended at about 9:53AM and then there were commercials including a minute long promo for the all new Valley 98.9 your "24/7 Fun Station". That just happens to be the slogan of the Tom Kent Radio network, which tells me they're running a lot of programming from The Tom Kent Radio Network. However the show that was on at 10AM was an 80's Countdown hosted by a female. Maybe Nina Blackwood?
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Valley 98.9 (1110) WMVX making changes
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Maybe a different show but in 80s and maybe 90s there was a syndicated show called Powerline with some pop music and advice (religious) from "Brother Jphn".
Brother John, yeah I remember that show. There was a country equivalent around that time, maybe a little earlier, called "Country Crossroads." I remember tuning in once in the late '70s and hearing a couple of down-home cheatin' songs I liked, one being Joe Stampley's "If You've Got Ten Minutes, Let's Fall in Love," but they were only being played as a set-up for the host's Christian message about the sin of adultery. Still, for a country fan living in the South, as I was at that time, "Country Crossroads" was the only way to hear any country music on Sunday mornings, as all the other country stations on the dial had Southern gospel music, local church services or "swap shop"-type programs on.
Could it be that their facility and execution is being affected by the Corona virus safety practices?
(i.e...low staffing, mis-programming, etc...)
WMWM ran Powerline in the mid 80s on Scott Merrill's pop-oldies show.Indeed, a Christian message show though Merrill was Jewish.Brother John would offer advice..."well, that's where Jesus comes in..."
One memorable glitch happened due to an error at a vinyl pressing plant where what was supposed to be Powerline turned out to be an album by punk's Dead Kennedys.One song began, "God told me to skin you alive..."
One memorable glitch happened due to an error at a vinyl pressing plant where what was supposed to be Powerline turned out to be an album by punk's Dead Kennedys.One song began, "God told me to skin you alive..."
Boston/Manchester is a TV market. The cities are separate radio markets. Not sure which one Salem is in.
Salem is in the Manchester radio market, although I bet more people listen to Boston stations than Manchester ones in Salem.
https://ratings.****************/content/arb267
This would seem to indicate the Manchester market prefers local radio, but obviously, Salem, on the state line, is not broken out separately here. And only the insiders would know if Boston stations are being listened to but their Manchester numbers are not publicly available.
Salem is basically a Boston suburb (full of people who are former mass folks). I would venture that more people listen to Boston radio, Boston TV and the Boston Globe than their media counterparts in New Hampshire.
LOL !!
The current Powerline show is a classic hits version of the 80's and early 90's show with "Brother" John Rivers. It has much the same approach as the original and is hosted by Brother John himself. It's targeted to the people who grew up listening to the original show.
Ah good, that's gotta be him.
The MHT market as a whole prefers their local stations (ZID, FNQ, GIR, JYY, even OKQ) but listeners near the state line definitely are split between NH and MA stations. I attend school north of Boston, and several NH students attend (including some from Salem, Windham and Pelham — most of them, in my experience, primarily listen to Kiss, Mix, Amp, Magic, etc.
Tom Kent does have a female persnality on his network. Perhaps, the 80s countdown was hosted by Jackie Newton?
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