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Nine Hours Of Jeff Santos

  • Thread starter Laurence Glavin
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WLYNgm said:
WAZN is, basically, directional due east daytime, due southeast nighttime. The
fact that it runs more power at night is very unusual for an AM station.
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You mean to the WEST during the day! There is a local minimum at 102 degrees true, which is close to due east. At that minimum, the inverse-distance filed at 1 km is less than the equivalent of 250W ND. By pattern symmetry, there is a similar minimum close to due south. There are two more local minima that are just a whisker more severe--one to the north-northeast and one to the southwest. The pattern maximum lies to the northwest (323 degrees true). There, the field is arguably equivalent to a bit more than 11 kW ND. At night, the local maximum at 323 degrees true is equivalent to an ND signal of about 21% of 11+ kW, whereas at the pattern maximum (143 degrees true) is equivalent to more than 20 kW ND.
 
WLYNgm said:
WAZN will not be making any antenna/transmitter changes.
The return on investment would not be worth the considerable added expenses.
WAZN is, basically, directional due east daytime, due southeast nighttime. The
fact that it runs more power at night is very unusual for an AM station.

As far as Santos, and "Progressive Talk" in general - once again, this appears to
be a format which some of the usual suspects advocated that Boston "needs".
It has never really made much of a dent in the market. Bring on that
Lithuanian Marching Music station! ;D ;D ;D
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"Progressive Talk" does well on an FM station near, but not in Madison, WI...a 6 kilowatt-equivalent in Sun Prairie, WI. There's a "Progressive Talk" format on a string of 6-kilowatt-equivalent FMs around Chicago plus an AM in the City, and they're doing ok. Radio-info's ratings page lists them separately for some reason while often combining AM&FM simulcasts elsewhere. The placement of TWO two-hour shows hosted by Jeff Santos (I know they're promoted as three-hour shows, but they consist of Santos's comments with very few if any calls plus one hour each of going "er", "um" and "ah") doesn't help the station draw any listeners. AND WWZN "management" makes things worse with playing exactly the same limited-number-of-spots, public service announcements and promos all day every day at exactly the same time of day at least when I'm listening. And the "general sales manager" comes on and lists advertisers who at one time DID advertise on WWZN and no loger do as still being heard. For exactly ONE ratings period, WWZN made an appearance and then never reappeared. That would seem to indicate that WWZN at least previously sent out a PPM identifier. And who's to say that some of that listenership was to Major League baseball, I mean Red Sox games en Espagnol? I wonder how well "Progressive Talk" would have been if Stephen Mindich decided to ditch mass-market recorded material on WFNX-FM and broadcast WWZN's format professionally without the Santos Media subsidy?
 
East -West axis. Semantics...

I never said "Progressive Talk" cannot work. I merely stated a fact -
that, here, in Boston, it has not really caught fire. Several years ago, WAZN was
all ready to carry the then-Dial-Global talk schedule. Right up to the last minute, we were
good to go. I would be glad to talk to Santos, or his people about pursuing this
further, on WAZN to be broadcast 24-7 and/or simulcast on the evenings with WLYN.
I will always listen to a legitimate business proposition...
 
btw in Fybush's column he does a reprise of older columns 1 yr ago, 5 yrs ago, etc. He reproduced
one from Dec. of 06 when the word spread that WKOX and WXKS would be dropping prog talk
and he mentioned WWZN was a possibility...and ultimately it did go there.

>>it’s never out of the question that a committed, deep-pocketed investor could purchase WWZN (1510) from Sporting News Radio, for instance, and move the format there.
http://www.fybush.com/category/nerw/
(Subscribers only)

Wonder if Barney Frank might do a show for them when his "last" term ends? :)
 
The question I've always had about the Santos Media Empire is......

Just exactly where is this never ending river of money coming from to subsidize Santos' enormous ego??
 
Who knows; Soros? Kerry? :)
They must be attracting advertisers, etc.; like WXKS, a blend of local and national accounts...a low budget (keep in mind Santos doesn't own the station, he's paying the owners) and they must be making a slight profit somehow.

BUT I DIGRESS, DEPT.:
One wonders if Stephen Mindich could have found a way to buy a medium-sized AM in the market (or
an FM even) and there could have been the equivalent of Boston Phoenix Radio, the news-talk model.
File under "Don't Quote Me" or "This Just In". (A perusal of the Phoenix's website shows news and opinion articles
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/
(Occupy 950? ) :)

I was a news intern for WFNX, late 1983, as the likes of Henry Santoro and the late Margie Coombs
were covering the Flynn v. King (IIRC) election, etc. Originally I was to be an intern for music or
production, but Jerry Goodwin and Russ Mottla got fired and I wound up in news. A woman named
Cindy Farias was there,too. One of my missions was to go across the street and get sandwiches
and coffee for Operations Dir. Judith Brackley (of WCAS fame..)

Ha, I still remember we had a guy named Rich Buono (since deceased) who took a Boston Herald
headline (POPE'S LAW ON SEX AND LOVE) and he rehashed it (and added an "N") to read SEX AND
LOVE ON POPE'S LAWN. The things you remember... (he also compared himself to a sub sandwich:
"A small Italian with everything")
 
raccoonradio said:
Who knows; Soros? Kerry? :)
They must be attracting advertisers, etc.; like WXKS, a blend of local and national accounts...a low budget (keep in mind Santos doesn't own the station, he's paying the owners) and they must be making a slight profit somehow.

BUT I DIGRESS, DEPT.:
One wonders if Stephen Mindich could have found a way to buy a medium-sized AM in the market (or
an FM even) and there could have been the equivalent of Boston Phoenix Radio, the news-talk model.
File under "Don't Quote Me" or "This Just In". (A perusal of the Phoenix's website shows news and opinion articles
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/
(Occupy 950? ) :)

I was a news intern for WFNX, late 1983, as the likes of Henry Santoro and the late Margie Coombs
were covering the Flynn v. King (IIRC) election, etc. Originally I was to be an intern for music or
production, but Jerry Goodwin and Russ Mottla got fired and I wound up in news. A woman named
Cindy Farias was there,too. One of my missions was to go across the street and get sandwiches
and coffee for Operations Dir. Judith Brackley (of WCAS fame..)

Ha, I still remember we had a guy named Rich Buono (since deceased) who took a Boston Herald
headline (POPE'S LAW ON SEX AND LOVE) and he rehashed it (and added an "N") to read SEX AND
LOVE ON POPE'S LAWN. The things you remember... (he also compared himself to a sub sandwich:
"A small Italian with everything")
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Thephoenix.com is advertising regularly on WWZN-AM. I hear spots for them during Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz. I'll have to check if they run during "Ring of Fire" on Sundays. If anyone was listening to Stephanie Miller today (Wednesday) and heard her read an email from "Laurence in Massachusetts, yes that was I. A few days ago, someone on the show said that unbaptized infants who die go to PURGATORY. Oops...in RC dogma, unbaptized infants who die go to LIMBO, which I related in the email Steph read.
 
Not surprising that they would advertise. btw I used to listen to Steph Miller when she was on WRKO
and she had a regular caller from the Boston area, something like "Serious Brain Injury Jim". He had been in a car crash and actually his brain activity was fine but somehow it made his speech slurred and
slowed down. Not long before the show went off the air, she did a remote from some place in Boston
and he actually showed up there. There was an interesting situation in that her LA flagship, KABC,
dropped her several weeks in advance of the show actually ending, so it was still on at WRKO etc
She was doing the show from the KABC studios I believe but actually wasn't heard on the station itself.
 
raccoonradio said:
Not surprising that they would advertise. btw I used to listen to Steph Miller when she was on WRKO
and she had a regular caller from the Boston area, something like "Serious Brain Injury Jim". He had been in a car crash and actually his brain activity was fine but somehow it made his speech slurred and
slowed down. Not long before the show went off the air, she did a remote from some place in Boston
and he actually showed up there. There was an interesting situation in that her LA flagship, KABC,
dropped her several weeks in advance of the show actually ending, so it was still on at WRKO etc
She was doing the show from the KABC studios I believe but actually wasn't heard on the station itself.
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Since this was in the days before the Affordable Care Act, he had to go to England for treatment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68GeL8PafE
 
The Boston Phoenix ads are a trade. The Phoenix runs a print ad for the afternoon show and WWZN runs radio spots for them.
 
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