[BC] Goodbye Local Radio

[SteveOrdinetz]

  Donna Halper wrote:

>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?

Nostalgia aside, will it really be much of a loss?  How much truly local 
programming and how much of an audience did this station have?  This is a 
rhetorical question...I can't hear the station where I live, but most of 
these "local" stations have very little audience and the programming is 
usually pretty hokey & amateurish.  Time has passed them by.  I would guess 
that the vast majority of Quincy-area listeners have no idea this station 
exists.  My guess is that the owner(s) wouldn't be selling it if it was 
profitable.