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The only good thing about WPLM is

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Jack Black

They don't play that Kars 4 Kids commercial.

There is so much wrong with that station in so many ways. Everything about it is dumb--from the same over-played songs nobody cares about to the dumb liners and sweepers -- to the dry personalities.

What is so hard about finding a great P.D. who can program a station and hire real talent? Is upper management listening or too busy doing nothing? There is greatness to be heard from them but for some reason they choose to fail. WPLM is broken. Please try to fix it.
 
Agreed. Maybe they should try a WBCN FFR format.

It would be an improvement.
 
A few years ago, I thought it was a great station. But then it went downhill when they backed away from the "easy listening/soft AC" format and went more mainstream, and then added Delilah. Last year, they actually started to add more older songs, and I think they've done a decent job with that, and even played a lot of "oh wow" songs. It seems like they still do to an extent, but not as much as they could. I may be in the minority, but I'm kind of glad they dropped Strictly Sinatra. It was starting to be very out of place.
 
What they should do is sell the FM to WGBH and let them operate it as a sister station to WCRB-FM 995. I wonder, how far north could the transmitter be moved before it interfered with WNNH?
 
Laurence Glavin said:
What they should do is sell the FM to WGBH and let them operate it as a sister station to WCRB-FM 995. I wonder, how far north could the transmitter be moved before it interfered with WNNH?
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With WFCC, WJMF, and WCRB, it seems like the classical format is adequately under-control. Then again, so is the AC market that WPLM is trying to go after.

Even though the signal is so-so, and it seems extremely unlikely under current ownership, I'd love to see 99.1 go CHR and go head-to-head with WXKS, hitting them on the younger end. Granted, when you consider the monotonous Boston radio landscape, 99.1 would probably become a dull simulcast (WRKO-FM?) if it were ever sold.
 
Laurence Glavin said:
What they should do is sell the FM to WGBH and let them operate it as a sister station to WCRB-FM 995. I wonder, how far north could the transmitter be moved before it interfered with WNNH?
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In a perfect world, WGBH would buy WPLM and WFNX for Classical New England.

Then you would have: WCRB for points north, WPLM for points south, and WFNX for the city.
 
encarta95 said:
With WFCC, WJMF, and WCRB, it seems like the classical format is adequately under-control. Then again, so is the AC market that WPLM is trying to go after.
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In a perfect world...and for purely selfish reasons...I would have 99.1 sold off to Worcester's non-comm WICN on 90.5, to be used as a repeater for WICN's mostly jazz music format.
http://www.wicn.org/

The move would make sense since it would expand WICN's reach into Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts...where WICN's signal gets destroyed by a religious broadcaster co-channel station on 90.5
 
encarta95 said:
Even though the signal is so-so, and it seems extremely unlikely under current ownership, I'd love to see 99.1 go CHR and go head-to-head with WXKS, hitting them on the younger end. Granted, when you consider the monotonous Boston radio landscape, 99.1 would probably become a dull simulcast (WRKO-FM?) if it were ever sold.
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I think if they’d really want to break into the Boston-Providence markets,
99.1 would be a prime signal for something like Air1 or The Fish franchise.
 
From what I have been told from people who worked at PLM, when Jack Campbell's died his daughter inherited the station. She is a Veterinarian who doesn't take much interest in the station as long as it makes some money and she doesn't have to do much to get t.
 
Yeah, I remember the days when they had the best in "big band and easy listening sounds around the towns," as Steven Horatio Coleman would say. Especially its 30 minute blocks of Christmas music and their 19 hour St. Patrick's Day show with Dennis Day, the Irish Rovers and the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Ah, those were the days.
 
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
I think if they’d really want to break into the Boston-Providence markets,
99.1 would be a prime signal for something like Air1 or The Fish franchise.
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Thus, proving my "99.1 would probably become a dull simulcast" true :)

K-LOVE has a nice Providence-area translator on 104.7, licensed to Warwick, that has a lot of that state covered, along with 91.1 WTKL, so it wouldn't be as much of an addition there. But it is a bit surprising that Boston is yet to have a Christian contemporary outlet - when even New York City has two.
 
It seems we've all been dancing around what the real problem is with WPLM. What we're dealing with here is a station that's been suffering from an identity crisis......one it's been having for what seems like DECADES now.

The last time I can remember WPLM having a distinct identity was back when they were playing Big Band music, and had the contract as "flagship station" for the Red Sox.

Unfortunately....the demo for Big Band music at this point is probably somewhere between 70 and death.

The other problem is that WPLM is a little too far from either Boston or Providence to be a player in either market.

Ultimately....my opinion is that the best long term route for 99.1 is for it to serve as a gigantic repeater for something else...whether it be the WGBH family of stations, or the idea I came up with back in reply #8 for 99.1 to serve as a relay for Worcester's non-comm 90.5 WICN.
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
It seems we've all been dancing around what the real problem is with WPLM. What we're dealing with here is a station that's been suffering from an identity crisis......one it's been having for what seems like DECADES now.

The last time I can remember WPLM having a distinct identity was back when they were playing Big Band music, and had the contract as "flagship station" for the Red Sox.

Unfortunately....the demo for Big Band music at this point is probably somewhere between 70 and death.

The other problem is that WPLM is a little too far from either Boston or Providence to be a player in either market.

Ultimately....my opinion is that the best long term route for 99.1 is for it to serve as a gigantic repeater for something else...whether it be the WGBH family of stations, or the idea I came up with back in reply #8 for 99.1 to serve as a relay for Worcester's non-comm 90.5 WICN.
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You've gotta be kidding me... the best solution for a full 50,000 class B FM is to make it a repeater??

There are 100 watt translators out there making money on their own with their own formats.
 
ssetta said:
A few years ago, I thought it was a great station. But then it went downhill when they backed away from the "easy listening/soft AC" format and went more mainstream, and then added Delilah. Last year, they actually started to add more older songs, and I think they've done a decent job with that, and even played a lot of "oh wow" songs. It seems like they still do to an extent, but not as much as they could. I may be in the minority, but I'm kind of glad they dropped Strictly Sinatra. It was starting to be very out of place.
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Yeah, I liked them when they were truly Easy!
 
You've gotta be kidding me... the best solution for a full 50,000 class B FM is to make it a repeater??

There are 100 watt translators out there making money on their own with their own formats.
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But What kind of money is being made at WPLM? "boston needs Urban AC and new Freddy Jackson, any Freddy Jackson"
 
Dude- you are on crack. WPLM is the best station around- I have a yagi aimed at the station so I can receive it off air as I am on the fringe of it. They play the great music that nobody else plays. It's wonderful. That background music for the traffic reports is kind of annoying though. But besides that the station is fantastic...! oh- and Ron Dela Chiasa on the weekends! dude--!!! GREAT STATION!!!!

Jack Black said:
They don't play that Kars 4 Kids commercial.

There is so much wrong with that station in so many ways. Everything about it is dumb--from the same over-played songs nobody cares about to the dumb liners and sweepers -- to the dry personalities.

What is so hard about finding a great P.D. who can program a station and hire real talent? Is upper management listening or too busy doing nothing? There is greatness to be heard from them but for some reason they choose to fail. WPLM is broken. Please try to fix it.
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Ron Della Chiasa.....that's the best thing about WPLM but does anyone know what happened to his long time producer Jeanne Grant ? She left the show about 6 months to a year ago , I was wondering if she is working elsewhere in the Boston market.

Maybe Talk 1200 should consider her to replace Jeff Katz.....
 
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