[BC] WBIX ... and the market

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:14 AM 1/19/2006, SteveOrdinetz wrote: -------

>Well talk about shooting himself in both feet, and one 
>kneecap.  Both WBZ and WILD are well-established heritage stations 
>in Boston. WBIX (or any other incarnations of 1060) has never had 
>any programming worth listening to and it shows...to the best of my 
>knowlege they have never even showed up in the ratings..certainly 
>not in recent memory.  What's gonna happen when he turns on IBOC and 
>2 stations with audiences get splattered?  Everyone's gonna be 
>cussing some ^%$&^% Natick station that's interfering with "our" 
>station.  He'd be better off turning in the license and taking it 
>dark...that facility should never have been built.  It was 
>originally an ego project for John Garabedian if I'm not mistaken.

I might take issue with the need for WBIX, at least in it early days. 
John Garabedian is a little like Jim Gabbert of San Francisco where 
they experimented with new ideas. I believe the original call was 
WNTN. I recall John wanting to do a TV format everyone laughed at. 
Imagine doing music videos on TV. It'll never work was what I was 
told by nearly everyone when I worked in Boston. My cable system is 
full of them today. My days in Talk Radio made me impervious to huge 
egos. In fact, the bigger the better if the talent backs it up.

When Fairbanks owned WKOX-AM/FM, Framingham, they weren't happy that 
a new 10Kw station at 1060 was being built up the street to compete 
with their 1 Kw. 1190. Both have since increased power. At the time 
the transmitter site for WKOX AM and FM was on Mt. Wayte Avenue. I 
have a soft spot in my heart for WKOX. I got the job offer from WJIB, 
Boston, when they heard me on WKOX-FM.

Rich

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