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34 Hours of Christian Programming on The Zone

I'd rather have religious programming done locally than from a god-caster network far away. At least the pastor chose WWZN before Touch 106.1
 
yup he did it legit!

An old country song combining sports and religion (I heard it on XM the other day but I've known
about it for years):
Bobby Bare: "Dropkick Me Jesus From The Goalposts Of Life" :)
 
raccoonradio said:
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinio...kes_outreach_to_airwaves/srvc=home&position=3

Herald says WWZN is turning over 34 hours (...per week?) to Christian programming including local pastor
Bruce Wall ("“we have something the black community needs, something the whole city really needs")

"Victory Radio" --hey, there's a sports word for ya!
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Leave it to a boring columnist like Joe Fitzgerald (with all the layoffs of competent writers at the Herald, why has this guy hung on?) to leave out two pieces of pertinent information: (1) the station's dial position (I know, over at the Globe, they frequently get this wrong, either the call letters, frequency, or confusing AM with FM) ; (2) and the fact that WWZN has had ZERO ratings for years, so who's hearing it?
 
Laurence Glavin said:
Leave it to a boring columnist like Joe Fitzgerald (with all the layoffs of competent writers at the Herald, why has this guy hung on?) to leave out two pieces of pertinent information: (1) the station's dial position...
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That would've been a good thing to include...

Laurence Glavin said:
...and the fact that WWZN has had ZERO ratings for years, so who's hearing it?
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Why should an article say something like that? I'd imagine that Wall will do publicity in his community to build an audience for his own programming, which would not necessarily be the same audience that The Zone has largely failed to garner for their sports programming.

Though it's not true that WWZN has "zero" ratings. The listings published to the general public only include stations that get .4 (12+) or better. I've seen the full breakdowns occasionally, and WWZN usually gets around a .2 or .3 share 12+. Certainly far from being competitive or even viable on its own, but there are some people listening. Religious programming doesn't depend on high arbitron numbers to get donations from their devotees anyway.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
Laurence Glavin said:
Leave it to a boring columnist like Joe Fitzgerald (with all the layoffs of competent writers at the Herald, why has this guy hung on?) to leave out two pieces of pertinent information: (1) the station's dial position...
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That would've been a good thing to include...

Laurence Glavin said:
...and the fact that WWZN has had ZERO ratings for years, so who's hearing it?
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Why should an article say something like that? I'd imagine that Wall will do publicity in his community to build an audience for his own programming, which would not necessarily be the same audience that The Zone has largely failed to garner for their sports programming.

Though it's not true that WWZN has "zero" ratings. The listings published to the general public only include stations that get .4 (12+) or better. I've seen the full breakdowns occasionally, and WWZN usually gets around a .2 or .3 share 12+. Certainly far from being competitive or even viable on its own, but there are some people listening. Religious programming doesn't depend on high arbitron numbers to get donations from their devotees anyway.
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It's had to believe that, in the past, this signal was actually competitive with virtually all others in the market. This was the one-time "50,000 watt hit-maker, WMEX/1510". Ever since they dropped Top 40 back in 1975, this station has always languished. Even with the major league sports teams, the call-letter changes (starting with "wit-less radio", WITS), the multitude of format changes, multiple ownership changes and months of silence, this station has never recovered. When brokered programming takes a chunk of time on a 50,000 watt AM station in Top 20 market, it ain't looking too bright for the future.
 
Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:
It's had to believe that, in the past, this signal was actually competitive with virtually all others in the market. This was the one-time "50,000 watt hit-maker, WMEX/1510". Ever since they dropped Top 40 back in 1975, this station has always languished.
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It was no longer viable for 1510 to continue as Top 40 WMEX by the mid-1970s. The audience for current popular music was migrating to FM by that time. WMEX's last few years as Top 40 had slid into a deep decline by 1975 (after John H. Garabedian's last brief success with them circa 1971). The heyday of Top 40 on AM radio in the '60s had passed.

Peter Q. George (K1XRB) said:
When brokered programming takes a chunk of time on a 50,000 watt AM station in Top 20 market, it ain't looking too bright for the future.
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They're not the only one. Tune around the AM dial at night, you'll hear even some of the legendary flamethrowers airing full-length infomercial shows and brokered religion at times...
 
raccoonradio said:
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinio...kes_outreach_to_airwaves/srvc=home&position=3

Herald says WWZN is turning over 34 hours (...per week?) to Christian programming including local pastor
Bruce Wall ("“we have something the black community needs, something the whole city really needs")
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"Brother" Stair, who is on WWZN overnights (seven days a week, I believe) alone could easily account for more than 34 hours a week of air time. Stair must be really interested in proselytizing in Sweden and Finland, where WWZN reportedly has the strongest, most reliable nighttime signal of any US AM. (Easily understandable from the high frequency, high power, efficient towers, and DA pattern.) Besides Stair, WWZN must also currently program close to 35 hours per week of Black gospel, which probably isn't considered "religious" programming but probably could be.
 
No idea but WWZN is indeed putting lots of brokered stuff on, something I found a few months back when
driving back from NH and I found an Irish music show out of NY on 1510 (at first wasn't sure if it
was WWZN, but it was).

Wikipedia has some details on Bro. Stair, who's had some controversies over the years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Stair

first time I heard of him was occasional mentions of SW (or reg broadcast) stations running him
during Glenn Hauser's World of Radio
 
1510 gets Christian programming back for the first time in 12 years, at least a little bit anyway. ;)

I think that Bruce Wall will do good for the station. It should be interesting on what he says!
 
Surprised they didn't spell it Brother Stare!
The only Global I know (and only one I could really find info on online) is a long running
Canadian TV network.
 
MarcB said:
What's this "Global TV and Radio Network" listed all over the WWZN schedule posted at http://www.1510thezone.com/ ? Also look at the way they misspelled Brother Stair's name.
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The home page contains an ad for a law firm that will represent you if you believe that you're a victim of "wrongful termiantion".
 
DanStrassberg said:
"Brother" Stair must be really interested in proselytizing in Sweden and Finland, where WWZN reportedly has the strongest, most reliable nighttime signal of any US AM.
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Hah?

I can't pick them up well much father north of Wilmington, and you're telling me they're being heard in Nordic country?
 
Now doesn't 1510 have a very directional signal? I would personally wonder why anyone would want to pump out that much juice not getting beyond 495 at all.
 
Retro said:
Now doesn't 1510 have a very directional signal? I would personally wonder why anyone would want to pump out that much juice not getting beyond 495 at all.
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Yes, directional...pulling in from the North and West at night.

The increase in power years ago did not increase the coverage of their are (by much if anything at all). However, it mades the signal over Boston stronger

Retro said:
1510 gets Christian programming back for the first time in 12 years, at least a little bit anyway. ;)
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Did 1510 have religious programming 12 years ago?
 
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