SONGS CARTED UP & ON THE RADIO AS THE BLIZZARD OF '78 APPROACHED

[Runrigger]

Bruce/Terry might have been doing nights at PRO-FM in 1978, but I could be off by a year or two here.
I was on air hearing "is there school today?", "is there bingo tonight?". WHY? Would you actually go???
Up until the blizzard the worst snow-related radio thing I went through was getting off the air at midnight at a weekend job about 75 miles away from home & just sleeping at the station so I'd be able to be able to be there to get back on at noon the next day.

Ironically almost 30 years later, some of the same kids who were calling asking "is there school today" were probably making phone calls about their kids being stuck on busses last December. Karma baby!!

 

[MCC]

concerning stations on air during the blizzard..

WSNE was then WRLM in Taunton, on route 44. Building there housed the station and a bowling alley.

Was the station in the building that Taunton 10 Pin Lanes still uses today?

WRLM had moved out of Taunton Ten Pin by 1976 when they increased power to 50,000 watts and went Stereo!. I remember hearing them for the first time in Northern Mass. right after the switch and for the first day the audio was out of phase. Listening on a mono radio there were no vocals in the songs and you couldn't hear the announcer. They had just built new studios in what they called "The McCarthy Professional Bldg" (named after one of the owners) on Route 44 with the tower out back. Last time I drove by that site sometime in the early 90s, the tower was still there but loaded up with two way antennas with no sign an FM had ever been there.

The programming was typical small market full service AC with jocks who did unusually short shifts for a small station..3 hour shifts..6-9, 9-12, 12-3, 3-6 etc. Possibly the announcers were also sales people or all part timers who had other jobs.