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I’m SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell ya.
Dan Strassberg, a local radio expert, says: “Most likely at 12:01 AM today, WTTT 1150 AM flipped from Salem Communications’ conservative talk network to what I presume to be CCM (contemporary Christian Music) en Espanol. From what I can tell (and remember, I don’t speak Spanish, so a lot of this is pure guesswork), the programming is a simulcast of an FM 105.5 in Miami, which must call itself Radio Luz (which sounds a lot like Radio Lose to these monolingual ears). Radio Lose would be an apt moniker for the majority of the formats that have graced the Boston 1150 frequency for decades. Still, I don’t believe that, as an ideolically driven ultra-right-wing talker, WTTT managed to capture the Boston market crown for fewest listeners per watt. That award probably still goes to 50 kW WWZN 1510.”
The station did not show up in the “12 plus” ratings
but kept a conservative talk format going for awhile.
Land of liberals, state mandated Planned Parenthood run health care, flip-floppers, football cheaters, and wimps,....what do you expect???
Same thing happened in Denver recently, from Salem to Spanish on AM 1650. It really $ucks.
I rarely listen to the car radio but happened to be searching for a decent channel yesterday and couldn’t believe the amount of Mexican channels there were. The invasion has is nearly complete.
That figures. I have never seen a state or place that supports that murderer Kennedy like these people do.
“Boston’s Conservative Talk AM 1150 changes to Spanish Language Religion”
Romneys’ fault/s
Kinda tells you something about where our national identity is headed doesn’t it?
Let’s hope they’re preaching the Gospel of self-deportation to all of those illegal alien listeners in their target audience.
Nice metaphor for the Republican Party’s unstated platform transition over the last decade. ;)
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Sí se puede, con Gleem!
http://semper-fido.blogspot.com/2008/01/sadness-at-its-passing-1150-am-wttt.html
I just posted a blog-note regarding the passing 11:50 a.m., and some advice for those hungry for replacement.
semper-fido
http://semper-fido.blogspot.com/
http://semper-fido.blogspot.com/2008/01/sadness-at-its-passing-1150-am-wttt.html
my note from blog: http://semper-fido.blogspot.com/
I found this out yesterday with a sinking feeling in my heart. It’s funny, when you go to a website and it has changed, you are redirected to the newer website. If you call a telephone number that has changed, you are generally given the new telephone number, but with the radio there was this abrupt disconnect. The new “tenant” of this radio call number, Radio Luz, makes no mention of the previous, and its messages are in Spanish anyway.
Sometimes you’ll hear some background music on any of the talk radio stations and when I initially was listening to Radio Luz, it took me a few seconds to realize that the Spanish background music was the new content and message of 1150, and not just some segue-or advertisement-music. Probably many of 1150’s devotees had this silly lingering wait, followed by a search up and down the dial to see if there was a replacement/switch, à la the recent switch on the FM dial between country music and classical music over 102.5 FM/99.5 FM.
I am a (relatively) latter-day Conservative, and I found 1150’s hosts illuminating and intriguing, and quite helpful in my “growth” intellectually within the conservative movement. For those who are going through acute withdrawal from Bill Bennett, Dennis Praeger, Mike Gallagher, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt, I can recommend partial recompense, via Townhall.com’s webcasts (with the advantage of having no commercials; disadvantage of having the broadcasts’ being a few days old, and having to go through the work of downloading them, then playing them on the car radio for instance). Sean Hannity is not on Townhall.com, but can be found on XM coincident with his erstwhile 1150 broadcasts.
For those hungering for drive time conservative talk, I recommend the admixture of Townhall.com podcasts (Hugh Hewitt is quite generous in posting them), XM -166 -168 or -165, FM 96.9, and 680 a.m.. Both of the latter choices are not as fully reliable as 1150 a.m. had been.
If you are going to be doing the podcasts, please try to avoid Mozilla Firefox, use Internet Explorer, right-click on the podcast in question and do “save target as” in order to save the MP3 file for download into your MP3 device.
I will miss Bill Bennett’s drivetime-coincident epiphanies on “morning in America”. I also think that others will be missing this generous and wise interlocutor. I was only just recently finding that some of my liberal friends were listening to him and having their views (possibly still only molecularly or microscopically) changed, but changed nonetheless.
Boston needed this station more than many other cities. It is a shame that more time was not given to see if this station could grow and blossom.
What’s the best option for satellite radio (Sirius or XM) for Bennett, Hannity and Hewitt? Are the two channels going to merge?
I wish that WTKK had not gotten on the Imus bandwagon again. That man simply refuses to recognize that he is all washed up.
I only get to listen to AM radio in the morning for 10 minutes or so. I thought that Michael Graham was a lot better when he was on at that hour.
No matter, the next President will sign onto the new “fairness doctrine” and we can all have salsa music on every channel all day long.