"MELLOW MADDNESS" AND "FOR YOUR PLEASURE" (YOUR THOUGHTS?)

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

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Hello, thank you very much for your time, and responces. I hope everything is good with all you.

"Mellow Maddness" and "For Your Pleasure" is on 88.1 WMBR (WMBR.ORG). Both shows plays the BEST r&b slow jams/love songs. "Mellow Maddness" is on Saturday night Midnight-2am Sunday morning and is hosted by PJ Porter. PJ has been hosting this show for, (???? for a good while now) He's the man, it is well worth it to stay up late to listen to his show if you like that music.
"For Your Pleasure" is a simular show which is on Sunday Nights 10pm-Midnight. I notice they play a little more Classic Soul Love Songs. This one is hosted by Re Antoine. This show, as well, is well worth it to listen to. The Request Line Phone Operator "Rob" is madddd cool. You've got to check out these two shows when you have a free moment. You can listen live online and well as on your free time by listenning to their "Archives"
Go on WMBR.ORG
Once you are on their site, all your menus will be on the left.

If you know about these two shows, your thoughts?


I'll give you one example how excelent PJ Porter is. When Luther Vandros passed away three years ago in July, PJ Porter played Luther Vandros music ALLLLLLLLLLL NIGHT LONG!!!!!! in Tribute to his passing. It was so nice of him to do. I listened that whole night. PJ Porter is the MAN!!!!

All these Radio Announcers on there does not get paid. They volunteer!!!


Thank you for your time and your thoughts?


Lauro Jr

 

[Eli Polonsky]

"Mellow Maddness" and "For Your Pleasure" is on 88.1 WMBR (WMBR.ORG). Both shows plays the BEST r&b slow jams/love songs. "Mellow Maddness" is on Saturday night Midnight-2am Sunday morning and is hosted by PJ Porter. PJ has been hosting this show for, (???? for a good while now) He's the man, it is well worth it to stay up late to listen to his show if you like that music.
"For Your Pleasure" is a simular show which is on Sunday Nights 10pm-Midnight. I notice they play a little more Classic Soul Love Songs. This one is hosted by Re Antoine. This show, as well, is well worth it to listen to.

P.J. and Re have been dedicated volunteers at WMBR for nearly thirty years, and hosting those two shows for close to 25 years. Before that, they joined the station as members of a weeknight urban program block that was called "The Ghetto" that ran through the 1970s to the early '80s.

When "The Ghetto" block didn't survive the increases in MIT student programming necessary to meet MIT requirements in the mid-'80s (MIT requires that the station must be at least 50% MIT students), Re and P.J. started their own weekend shows, and they have had dedicated followings for their slots ever since.

Also on WMBR, I suggest "R&B Jukebox" Sunday evenings 6-8 PM with Capt. Al Franklin, for a great weekly dose of upbeat Classic Soul and R&B. Al has been with WMBR for close to twenty years as well.

I'll give you one example how excelent PJ Porter is. When Luther Vandros passed away three years ago in July, PJ Porter played Luther Vandros music ALLLLLLLLLLL NIGHT LONG!!!!!! in Tribute to his passing. It was so nice of him to do. I listened that whole night. PJ Porter is the MAN!!!!

I remember that well. Unfortunately, that would no longer be allowed due to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which restricts the number of songs by any one artist allowed to be played during any time period on broadcast stations that also stream their audio on the web. The DMCA specifies that no more than four tracks by any one artist, and no more than three tracks from the same album/CD, may be played during any three hour time period. Exceeding those limits could leave WMBR open to a huge massive fine, if they're caught.

The only way they could do a show like that again would be to shut off the web stream and the digital archives and only broadcast the show over the air. Then, they could play as many tracks by any one artist as they want. The DMCA restrictions govern only stations that also stream on the web.

All these Radio Announcers on there does not get paid. They volunteer!!!

No one is paid at WMBR from management (which must be students per MIT) on down. It's not a business. It's an all-volunteer student-built college station defined by MIT as an on-campus activity for students, which has just happened, at times, to allow some outside community volunteers to become involved, and through the efforts of past students and alumnai, it happens to have a signal that can be heard quite well within all of Route 128, and beyond in certain areas.

Over the past twenty-five years, the station has had to slowly become increasingly strict about enforcing MIT's requirement for at least 50% students. The amount of new outside community volunteers currently allowed to join is now limited to maybe just a few per year at the most, while they're trying to increase student programming, and also maintain slots on the schedule for their longtime dedicated community volunteers.

The great thing about the station is that it allows the hosts who are on the air to serve niche audiences in ways that no professional station in the area, whether commercial or public, allows. Operating with no payroll and relatively low overhead, WMBR does not need to maximize Arbitron ratings or qualify for public broadcasting grants, or raise huge amounts of donor pledges many times a year. One yearly fundraising week in the fall does it, and the small but very appreciative audience for their unique programming always comes through with sufficient funding to keep the station on the air.

 

[SonicOverload]

and this is why stations like WMBR and other college outlets are so necessary...

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

thank you for your reply thus far. I agree 100% with both of you

 

[rapking]

I Love College Radio !

 

[ZRXOA 5248]

I wish WUML had the same requirement. The station sounds like leased time ethnic when it used to be rock.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I wish WUML had the same requirement. The station sounds like leased time ethnic when it used to be rock.

Looking at the WUML schedule, it looks like the ethnic programming takes up just most of the weekends. Weekdays still look like mostly student produced rock and other student variety shows (after the University produced morning show). It looks like there's still plenty of rock on weekdays, day and night.

There are large ethnic populations in their listening area. It's good that they're serving them and giving them a legitimate outlet, rather than having more pirate stations appear with the programs because there's nowhere else for them to go.

WMBR has some ethnic programming too. They don't lease time. They're all produced by dedicated volunteers.

Sundays on WMBR are ethnic/world music throughout the day, except 10 AM - Noon:

6-8 AM "Compas Sur FM"
8-10 AM "Haiti Focus"
10 AM-12 "Radio With A View" (progressive/left-wing talk and related music)
12-2 PM "World Beat"
2-4 PM "Jam Session" (reggae/soca/calypso)
4-6 PM "Africa Kabisa"

There are a few other ethnic shows, some produced by MIT students, scattered through their schedule during the week. Just because WMBR requires that the station be 50% students doesn't mean that they all do rock shows.