[BC] Goodbye Local Radio

[Donna Halper]

At 11:19 PM 11/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>East Liverpool, Ohio is an old pottery town on the banks of the Ohio River.
>The eastern border of the town is the Pennsylvania state line.  West Virginia
>is across the Ohio.
>
>The town once had 2 AM stations.  One went silent decades ago.  The other has
>survived for 57 years.  The facilities of WOHI-AM were once featured in the
>RCA magazine.  As a kid it was my local station.

I will have an essay in tomorrow's Boston Globe about exactly that-- we are 
losing our only live and local radio station, WJDA, which has served this 
community (Quincy MA) since 1947.  It was sold to a couple of guys who are 
going to turn it into yet another brokered religion station--  no offence 
to any of the religious broadcasters on the list, but the market already 
receives a lot of religious programming, and now it will not have any local 
news or local content, nothing that is unique to our city.  I feel kind of 
badly to see yet another local station and another local owner depart.  Is 
this really what progress is about?