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WSAR News/Traffic Sounders - AUDIO

I've been accused of treating WSAR as a "hot property", so to speak, with my recent posts. But, why do you, Skynet74, post links with audio from 'SAR's sweepers and such? You've been an outspoken critic of the station and I'd like to know why.

There are plenty of stations to critique in the Providence area, yet you seem to hone in on the folks on 1 Home Street in Swansea.
 
To answer your question.....

1. I've never heard a Radio station use the soundtrack from "Queer as Folk" for their sweepers.

2. I have mental issues and I find it fun to pick on Keri.
 
Fair enough. Thanks.
 
Skynet been posting here for years and he's honest.
Boston Randy,
Why pick on him?
That link does contain music bumpers that Keri uses on WSAR.
The music is from 'Queer as Folk'.
Unlike Keri some of us are not in love with the Gay life. I have had my
issues! I just don't understand why you keep attacking a good poster.
You're always very defensive of Keri. I think it's over done here. thanks.
 
BostonRandy said:
There are plenty of stations to critique in the Providence area, yet you seem to hone in on the folks on 1 Home Street in Swansea.
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Wrong town.

One more to the east.

Somerset.
 
How funny is it that he had the exact street Number but messed up the whole town?
LOL.... I'm just joking around Randy.
 
Skynet74 said:
How funny is it that he had the exact street Number but messed up the whole town?
LOL.... I'm just joking around Randy.
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Name and number right! Two outta three ain't bad.

Especially since the exits off 195 are marked in such a way that somebody who isn't really familiar with the area finds it easy to believe he's in Swansea.
 
The best part of being employed at WSAR is that you don't have to actually drive into that dump of a city called Fall River! Somerset itself is not half bad. WSAR is lucky to have been built there.
 
Mea Culpa. It's been a while since I've been there. My apologies to the rest of the readers. I should know it's Somerset - duh.....I cut the grass at the stations when I was a kid - maybe I absorbed a little too much RF from the towers.
 
Skynet74 said:
The best part of being employed at WSAR is that you don't have to actually drive into that dump of a city called Fall River! Somerset itself is not half bad. WSAR is lucky to have been built there.
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The Home Street site was built around 1960 with four towers, later reduced to two when a Canadian station either changed frequency or was shifted to FM...can't remember which.

From around 1939 (perhaps earlier) WSAR had been located one river over; on marshy ground off to the right of Route 103, very close to The Taunton River. It was a Westinghouse turnkey facility; transmitter, boards, everything. There was a central master control with two or three "studios" in small rooms off it. That dated to days when announcers announced and engineers did al the rest, including cueing records. No, I never worked in either of those sites but did visit there a few times with Bob Bassett and Truman Taylor when they were the first "jocks". prior to their tenure the station hand been old-line block programmed with a lot of network shows.

During that era the newsroom was across the river in The Fall River Herald News building. The paper owned the station. Joe Welch, a distant relative of the family that put the station on the air in the 1920's was the news director. If I strain the memory a bit I can still hear his flat delivery. He was first a writer; only incidentally a reader.
 
Skynet,
Your email address is not working. Do you have another one??? thanks...
 
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