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VOTE FOR BEST LOCAL AM

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My vote goes to 1420AM WBSM in New Bedford. "LIVE & LOCAL" is their solgan...they do a great job informing and entertaining their community.

What's you vote and why? It can be any local AM in New England
 
There's an old saying that goes something like: "In the land of the blind...the one eyed man is the King".

In the Providence market...the "King" would be 630-WPRO...not because they're so great....but because no other AM in the market even approaches WPRO's level of mediocrity.

If you subtract the AM's in the market that are religion or foreign language....or silent...that leaves you with LITERALLY a handful...and of that pathetic handful....that leaves 630 by default.

Sad......sad.
 
And DEV was praised for its work during Hurricane Irene.

btw on weekend afternoons duing the baseball season, a guy named Joel Najman does a little
music and news/sports/weather before and after the games on WDEV. He also is the longtime
host on VPR of a nice little Sat. night show called My Place. (And on a recent trip to Vermont
as I scanned the dial I thought I heard Najman on Stowe's classical WCVT 101.7...)

My Place
http://www.vpr.net/episode/52845/popular-songs-about-houses/
 
Gotta agree that WDEV fields an excellent local station. I'd like to add: WMRC 1490 Milford, WBLQ 1230 Westerly, RI, WOON 1240 and WNRI 1380 Woonsocket, RI. I believe WJIB (and sister 730 in Maine) is the best local AM around.


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WNBP, 1450 Newburyport. Best music. Most local dedication. Close follow up - WCAP, 980, Lowell.
 
WBZ's Joe Mathiew's (and mine) old Alma Mater WINY 1350 in Putnam, CT. Still live and local since it's infancy as WPCT. It does offer some bird feed nights and weekneds though.
 
(The Other) Big John said:
WBZ's Joe Mathiew's (and mine) old Alma Mater WINY 1350 in Putnam, CT. Still live and local since it's infancy as WPCT. It does offer some bird feed nights and weekneds though.
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I believe he spells it Matthieu. I'm pretty sure about the u (no w); less sure about the double t.
 
Lowell Radio - You've got to be kidding. WCAP was birdfeed during the October snowstorm. Not one local newscast or announcement......tens of thousands of people with no power but WITH transistor radios. WCAP should have been ashamed of themselves. Didn't Poulten say time and time again "we want news on the air 5 minutes after it happens". He blew it that weekend - and because of that I haven't turned it on since then...and have told every advertiser they had why I don't listen anymore.
 
During the October storm I think WCAP and almost most Merrimack Valley stations were off the air due to no power, WCAP like WLLH Lowell have generators but they were always troublesome and did not come up. WLLH's was serviced over and over before being declared realistically unrepairable and was never replaced.
 
Another one to consider is WROL-AM 950. The home of "The Irish Hit Parade," "The Bailey Ceili," and "A Feast Of Irish Music." Not to mention the best Catholic programming in Boston, as well as Don Giovanni's Italian Oldies.
 
I like WARE 1250 Ware, MA. (oldies, high school sports some eves. and weekends, local talk Fridays 9am-1pm and Saturdays, Ron Norwood's oldies show Sunday afternoons). Does WIZZ-1520 Greenfield, MA. program their own music 24/7? Phil D. is live weekdays until 9am.
 
paulfromlowell said:
Lowell Radio - You've got to be kidding. WCAP was birdfeed during the October snowstorm. Not one local newscast or announcement......tens of thousands of people with no power but WITH transistor radios. WCAP should have been ashamed of themselves. Didn't Poulten say time and time again "we want news on the air 5 minutes after it happens". He blew it that weekend - and because of that I haven't turned it on since then...and have told every advertiser they had why I don't listen anymore.
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I agree with you. While WCAP eventually did succumb to the power outage, they were on the air long after most in the MV had lost power and back on long before most had their power restored. It really was disgraceful.
 
Sam Poulten seems to have a new weekly show of his own of WCAP Sunday nights now.
I guess it's called "Your Mother Should Know", and it's nostalgic music from before the rock and roll era.
 
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