WXBR staff all sent packing

[Cueburn]

the results of no changes are in,,, everyone shown the door,

http://edlozama.com/2012/08/03/azure-media-takes-over-bostons-wxbr/

 

[WNTIRadio]

What a shame, another local station bites the dust, and more radio folks are out of work. But it's hard to hang on as a standalone AM anywhere... as evidenced by the eviction from their studios in May.

Maybe the new owners will hire some folks to keep it local, albeit with a different target audience. Seems like they're spending money to upgrade the studio and RF plant.

 

[jlehmann]

I'm guessing they changed their minds about keeping the station English?

http://mobile.boston.com/news/local...o_station_will_continue_to_focus_on_brockton/

RIP... What a shame. The station is off the air now, like the article said it would be.

 

[WNTIRadio]

They could focus on Brockton in another language too... but whatever the result, it sounds like there will be local programming aimed at the community, which is never a bad thing.

 

[jlehmann]

They could focus on Brockton in another language too... but whatever the result, it sounds like there will be local programming aimed at the community, which is never a bad thing.

True... Maybe it'll cut down the number of Haitian pirates...

 

[WNTIRadio]

If they were smart they would sell block time to them, and stipulate in the contract that they can't operate an illegal station.

Worth a try to both serve a population and clean up the dial a little bit.

 

[DG02816]

Agreed with WNTI. Hey, if keeping it live and local works to get the Haitian prates onto legit radio, then go for it.

 

[Fenway1912]

Agreed with WNTI. Hey, if keeping it live and local works to get the Haitian prates onto legit radio, then go for it.

Except the vast majority of Haitians in the market are in places like Somerville and Cambridge and other pockets 5 miles from downtown.

The Haitians are hard working people who have taken jobs nobody else wanted. They now control the taxi industry in Cambridge and the women work in every nursing home in the area.

The best AM signal for a Haitian audience would be 1150.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Except the vast majority of Haitians in the market are in places like Somerville and Cambridge and other pockets 5 miles from downtown.

Brockton also has a significant Haitian population of its own. If it didn't, there wouldn't have been a number of Haitian pirate stations in Brockton over the past decade.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Brockton also has a significant Haitian population of its own. If it didn't, there wouldn't have been a number of Haitian pirate stations in Brockton over the past decade.

Well, Alex Langer just closed on his purchase of WMSX. Given that Langer has had considerable success with programming in Portuguese on WSRO 650 Ashland-Framingham, it doesn't seem at all far-fetched that he would try to replicate that success with Haitian Creole on his newly acquired Brockton station. I imagine he will first try to establish connections with prominent members of the Haitian community in Brockton. I imagine that some pirates are considered to be prominent members of that community.

 

[jlehmann]

Except the vast majority of Haitians in the market are in places like Somerville and Cambridge and other pockets 5 miles from downtown.

Brockton also has a significant Haitian population of its own. If it didn't, there wouldn't have been a number of Haitian pirate stations in Brockton over the past decade.

There is definitely a significant Haitian population in Brockton and also Randolph. There aren't any Haitian pirates in Somerville or Cambridge, so maybe the population there isn't as high as you think? Dorchester/Mattapan in addition to Brockton/Randolph have the highest number of pirates.