KABOOM!!!!!,If you had a chance to Blow up a format in Providence.............

[Jacko]

We can leave WBRU alone. Almost lost the station to NPR 20 years ago. The station had a gigantic identity crisis. 9/4/81 WHJY flipped to AOR; taking 90% of BRU's audience and forcing 95.5 to repositon itself. Ratings sucked. Vultures began circling and summer 1983 brought "Jazz After Hours". JAH briefly started at 10 PM but was soon changed to 11 PM -- where it remained for the next 8 years. Meanwhile, Sun was being eaten up by various specialty programs leaving "The Sunday Morning Recovery Show" (til noon) as the only rock played on 95.5 Sun. 9/86 BRU decided to play Classical music 6 til noon Sun, thus eliminating all rock prog on Sun. 12/88 "In The Spirit" replaced the Classical and 360 has owned Sundays since. So you now had rock from 5:30AM to 11PM, Jazz overnights and 360 all of Sun. Atop all that, they brought in a CHR PD! Enter "The Dance Floor Alternative" which now effectively starts the 360 at 7PM Sat! Faced with do or die, they cleaned house. Fun for all now! DON'T F*** WITH 95.5!

I wasn't suggesting getting rid of WBRU's alternative rock format. I was suggesting giving 360 an outlet 24/7 via an HD-2 on 95.5 (which 95.5 is not in HD) and streamed online, and keeping WBRU's rock format on the main signal 24/7. I know it's probably a pipe dream given studio space and $$, but it would be nice.

Jacko

 

[iyiyi]

360 is an integral part of WBRU programming. It started as a 2 hour program October 1972 and will celebrate it's 40th anniversary on WBRU. It is a world class Black Showcase program and it's OUR baby!

Were WBRU to add HD? Current schedule, unchanged, on HD1. WBRU "indie" on HD2 -- WITH 360 also occupying the exact same current timeslots on the HD2 for "360 indie" programming. WBSR (Brown Student Radio) on the HD3. No Alt on Sundays? Tough luck! They can throw BSR out on Sundays and run their regular Alt on the HD3. WBSR has been disenfranchised since RIPR boned them out of WELH. Six days of BSR per week is better than the zero days of BSR programming currently being broadcast.

I believe that is the only Plan where WBRU can implement HD programming without recreating the chaotic circus (described in my above post) that happened 20 years ago. The only other way to maintain peace is to continue their current programming and NOT add HD at all, seeing that nothing is broken and in need of repair!

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[necrat123]

Seriously? Blow up WHJY but leave WBRU alone?

No way. That would be one of the dumbest moves in this state, with all due respect.

Leave both rockers alone. There are plenty of other signals to mess with.

There isn't much I would change in this market format wise, we have a pretty decent radio market here in Providence.

 

[iyiyi]

Seriously? Blow up WHJY but leave WBRU alone?

No way. That would be one of the dumbest moves in this state, with all due respect.

Leave both rockers alone. There are plenty of other signals to mess with.

There isn't much I would change in this market format wise, we have a pretty decent radio market here in Providence.

I agree!

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[Granite Guy]

Something that I've thought about for a long time is the fact that WBRU's Sunday programming, 360, has quite a following despite the format being on the air for only one day a week. I would have 95.5 go HD and place 360 on the HD-2 carrier. In addition, buy up all the 96.5 translators in the area (Providence, Newport, and New Bedford) a

96.5 in Providence is a LPFM, not a translator.

Up here in NH, Saga does the same thing with using TX signals as pseudo-primary signals.....94.1 W231BR Manchester and 103.1 W276BJ Concord sumulcasts WZID-FM HD-2 95.7-2 Manchester with a "Hot Hits" format, no local to my knowledge...the positioner is "Hot Hits 94.1 Manchester and 1031. Concord...only mentioning the host signal (WZID HD2) at the TOH legal ID.

Oh....and for Providence....bring back late 70s-early 80s JB-105!!!!
I don't know all the ins and outs of what's a translator, what's an LPFM, and so on. I'm going based on what I know is happening in Atlanta, where alternative 99X is being broadcast on 99.7 HD-2, but is on a terrestrial translator on 97.9, which actually serves the Atlanta area rather decently. While it would be nice for its audience to have 360 available seven days a week, it is a pipe-dream that it would actually happen. I am surprised that WBRU doesn't offer a full-time stream of the format online though--maybe studio space?

Jacko

 

[soundboard]

If I had the chance.......WNRG..............ENERGY 101. It would be where you learned what true radio was about.

 

[DG02816]

You'd need to ask WNRG 940 Grundy VA, a 5 kW Class D, if you could use those calls on 101.5.