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Another WBRU Post

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ScottBurns

For anyone who subscribes to the BruCrew e-mail listings (it promotes WBRU events, among other things), readers were treated to the following:

THANK YOU
This may be the last e-mail you receive from us. WBRU would like to thank all of our dedicated listeners over the last 36 years. We could not have done it without you.

It looks like this is no April Fools joke...
 
I called up last night, because the DJ very subtly threw in a comment ("The last edition of the List"), and asked about the rumors that they were supposedly going. He said, "Sorry Dear, not supposedly. Check our website." He refused to give me a date, just that it was very soon.

Between the Motif Magazine article, their website, the e-mail you just posted about, and the Myspace bulletins, this would be a pretty elaborate April Fool's Day joke.

It's sad, because they've played this joke before--just on April Fool's Day--so if Saturday is in fact their last day, people may just blow it off.

I'd hate to see them go. I don't have time to listen much anymore, but I used to love going to their concerts and calling their DJs. We don't have another station like them around.
 
> Between the Motif Magazine article, their website, the
> e-mail you just posted about, and the Myspace bulletins,
> this would be a pretty elaborate April Fool's Day joke.
>
> It's sad, because they've played this joke before--just on
> April Fool's Day--so if Saturday is in fact their last day,
> people may just blow it off.

I still smell prank.Motif Magazine has the information but not the trades?There's less reason to keep it a national than a local secret.Also the student body and staff there is such that they would not hesitate to start attracting real media attention by protesting or marching or something to that effect.Besides,a sale would not be the logical stunt.An actual format change would be.The hints are all too subtle for this to be real.
 
> > Between the Motif Magazine article, their website, the
> > e-mail you just posted about, and the Myspace bulletins,
> > this would be a pretty elaborate April Fool's Day joke.
> >
> > It's sad, because they've played this joke before--just on
>
> > April Fool's Day--so if Saturday is in fact their last
> day,
> > people may just blow it off.
>
> I still smell prank.Motif Magazine has the information but
> not the trades?There's less reason to keep it a national
> than a local secret.Also the student body and staff there is
> such that they would not hesitate to start attracting real
> media attention by protesting or marching or something to
> that effect.Besides,a sale would not be the logical stunt.An
> actual format change would be.The hints are all too subtle
> for this to be real.
>

You know something? I smell a rat. I smell a free publicity stunt. <P ID="signature">______________
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts</P>
 
> You know something? I smell a rat. I smell a free
> publicity stunt.
>

Spring Book starts today... I wonder if they're hoping for diary holders to tune into 'BRU for "updates"... wbru.com now lists the going away message as well, right on the front page...
 
> You know something? I smell a rat. I smell a free
> publicity stunt.

Agreed, All Access reports pretty much everything, rumors included. If this was really happening to a hertitage rock station the trade web sites would be reporting on it.
 
Maybe this isn't "a rat" as Peter George has suggested.

On Sundays, WBRU-95.5 broadcasts urban programming, and has done so for quite a few years.

Given the rumors about "Saturday (April 1st) being the last day", perhaps it's the last day of rock, and starting Sunday (April 2nd), WBRU might become a 24/7 urban station.

There is no big-signal FM urban station in Rhode Island.

Maybe WBRU has decided that with rock music nationally being in decline, and with the popularity of urban contemporary growing, it might be time to drop rock and expand the Sunday urban music block to 24/7, especially if much of WBRU's recent ratings success has been on Sundays with the urban block.

So maybe WBRU isn't being sold, but the format may yet be changed.
 
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