For those of you who don't get this regional section, I urge you to go to the link:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/03/wuml_struggles_to_get_its_signal_straight/
WUML struggles to get its signal straight
By Alexander Reid, Globe Staff | December 3, 2006
With Christopher Lydon's show set to leave the airwaves of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell's radio station, programmers and staffers at student-run WUML are happy.
Now the students are worried about what comes next.
Lydon's hiring last year -- and the $38,000-a-month paid to him and his staff -- spawned protests, angering critics who believed that the university's administration was interfering too much in the station's operations and management.
"It was a bad idea, especially to pay him and his staff that much money," WUML general manager Nate Osit, a senior at UMass-Lowell, said of Lydon and his "Open Source" program. "It's what we have been saying all along."
Still, Lydon's departure on Dec. 31 spawns other long-range questions about the station's management
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Also in that paper, Page 3 Globe North West
MEDFORD: CABLE STATION FACES INQUIRIES
- After months of complaining about Medford's cable access station, it appears that Joseph Viglione is finally getting local officials to pay attention. Viglione says the people who run the station are violating their mandate ...Viglione...met with Mayor Michael McGlynn. Then last week, City Councilor Robert Penta requested a look into TV3's finances. At a council meeting last week Penta asked the cable access board's members to account for all the money the organization has received and spent in the last three years. TV 3 officials did not respond to requests for comment.
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How does this apply to Boston radio? One of the allegations is that Mark Parenteau, former WBCN and WRKO disc jockey, may have utilized the facility and its van to make a tape for the "Oedipus Roast Highlight Reel",
when Oedipus was feted by the T.J. Martell foundation in New York. The tape, allegedly, had a van going up to the door of WBCN and unloading promo copies which - allegedly - went out the back door of WBCN. It was, of course, meant to be a "gag".
However, what is needed to know is:
a)was TV 3 paid for this taping & editing
b)if TV 3 wasn't paid, was the use of the TV 3 van a violation - since the van is co-owned by the City of Medford and WBCN is a Boston station (meaning - if all this did take place, which I'm told it did, why didn't
WBCN use the BNN van or the BNN studios - Boston Neighborhood Network - instead of utilizing Medford resources for a non-Medford production?)
There's also an allegation the van was used to tape exotic dancers by a Somerville resident (Y'see, it is ok for Medford residents to tape exotic dancers...but Somerville? They've got SCAT and are supposed to use THAT equipment, not Medford equipment) but that is not radio; the WBCN allegations are.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/03/wuml_struggles_to_get_its_signal_straight/
WUML struggles to get its signal straight
By Alexander Reid, Globe Staff | December 3, 2006
With Christopher Lydon's show set to leave the airwaves of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell's radio station, programmers and staffers at student-run WUML are happy.
Now the students are worried about what comes next.
Lydon's hiring last year -- and the $38,000-a-month paid to him and his staff -- spawned protests, angering critics who believed that the university's administration was interfering too much in the station's operations and management.
"It was a bad idea, especially to pay him and his staff that much money," WUML general manager Nate Osit, a senior at UMass-Lowell, said of Lydon and his "Open Source" program. "It's what we have been saying all along."
Still, Lydon's departure on Dec. 31 spawns other long-range questions about the station's management
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Also in that paper, Page 3 Globe North West
MEDFORD: CABLE STATION FACES INQUIRIES
- After months of complaining about Medford's cable access station, it appears that Joseph Viglione is finally getting local officials to pay attention. Viglione says the people who run the station are violating their mandate ...Viglione...met with Mayor Michael McGlynn. Then last week, City Councilor Robert Penta requested a look into TV3's finances. At a council meeting last week Penta asked the cable access board's members to account for all the money the organization has received and spent in the last three years. TV 3 officials did not respond to requests for comment.
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How does this apply to Boston radio? One of the allegations is that Mark Parenteau, former WBCN and WRKO disc jockey, may have utilized the facility and its van to make a tape for the "Oedipus Roast Highlight Reel",
when Oedipus was feted by the T.J. Martell foundation in New York. The tape, allegedly, had a van going up to the door of WBCN and unloading promo copies which - allegedly - went out the back door of WBCN. It was, of course, meant to be a "gag".
However, what is needed to know is:
a)was TV 3 paid for this taping & editing
b)if TV 3 wasn't paid, was the use of the TV 3 van a violation - since the van is co-owned by the City of Medford and WBCN is a Boston station (meaning - if all this did take place, which I'm told it did, why didn't
WBCN use the BNN van or the BNN studios - Boston Neighborhood Network - instead of utilizing Medford resources for a non-Medford production?)
There's also an allegation the van was used to tape exotic dancers by a Somerville resident (Y'see, it is ok for Medford residents to tape exotic dancers...but Somerville? They've got SCAT and are supposed to use THAT equipment, not Medford equipment) but that is not radio; the WBCN allegations are.
