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Keeping the AM passion of AM radio going

B

BTN BRI

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We are doing our part for the future of AM and Radio in general!

From the kind folks at VAB, This article from Jan 09:
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WBTN-AM GOES TO SCHOOL
Where will our future broadcasters
come from? Commercial
non-profit community station
WBTN-AM in Bennington is betting
on the North Bennington
Graded School. The station has
installed a low power Part 15
transmitter at the school and the
students are now broadcasting
their own show. The “Kids Rock
Radio” show will be re-broadcast
on the parent AM each week.
Stat ion Coordinator Brian
D. says the goal is to have
a low power transmitter at every
school in Bennington by late
2009.
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The kids are having a great time and we are adding new schools for the
next school year!
When we started.....I showed the students a small collection of AM pocket size transistor radios,
One student asked ....Is that an I-Pod?
Now he is one of our best announcers for liners and bumpers!
The studio is like a little play-land for them as they learn the basic's of
adobe audition and voice tracker.

Just wanted to "toot our horn" because right now it's the only real good thing we have
as the markets decline and ad revenue is shrinking.

Brian
 
Great story! Many of us cut our teeth on AM radio. Some of us are still there. I remember listening to 'Woo Woo' Ginsburg on my '6 transistor' radio. I'm sure many others did too. Those radios were small enough we could put them under our pillow at night and listen to the world. Lionel Cartwright had a great country song about it--"I Watched It All On My Radio". Any one else ever have one of those old Lafayette AM oscillators? That's how some of us 'got the radio bug'.

Best wishes to WBTN-AM. Keep it up!
 
Thanks so much! That is a great song!
I will play it on my new then new now country show this Sunday between 12 and 1 .
You can listen on-line wbtnam.org I'll try to get it in around 12:15 EST this Sunday! GREAT SONG and great video on You tube.
BRI
 
Thanks, Brian, for that youtube info. I didn't know it was there. It is incredible. And thanks for the website info for your station, I'll try to tune it in.
 
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