tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post7701002307221600994..comments2024-02-24T15:19:02.095-08:00Comments on SPARK NEWS: READER COMMENTSKen Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-3276557012541769972018-06-20T23:42:24.042-07:002018-06-20T23:42:24.042-07:00Excellent article. Very interesting to read. I rea...Excellent article. Very interesting to read. I really love to read such a nice article. Thanks! keep rocking.<br /><a href="https://onlineitguru.com/big-data-hadoop-online-training-placement.html" rel="nofollow">Big data hadoop online Course Bangalore</a><br />Tejutejuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536889753125110390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-32615156340115192242018-04-27T15:13:45.801-07:002018-04-27T15:13:45.801-07:00FWIW, I wish I knew how WHRB was doing in the rati...FWIW, I wish I knew how WHRB was doing in the ratings. That would be a fascinating case study against WERS. WHRB is strongly affiliated with Harvard University; not owned, but the parent org is, by its charter, run exclusively by Harvard alums and most, if not all, their DJ's are Harvard students or graduates. They have a lot of what you'd call "college radio" music on their signal but for the most part they're a classical music station. And they have a comparable signal to WERS's, too. <br /><br />It'd be fascinating since WERS routinely competes with WUMB and several other commercial stations in town, while WHRB routinely competes with WGBH-owned WCRB. Both are strongly aligned with colleges and have many students involved, but neither really have what you'd think of as a "college radio" format to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-85034274399535518192018-04-27T15:10:08.344-07:002018-04-27T15:10:08.344-07:00Well, we can also get into a discussion of "i...Well, we can also get into a discussion of "is WERS really college radio"?<br /><br />I think it's a valid question. "College radio" is more of a format and a management structure than anything else. After all, ownership means nothing: there are dozens of college-owned NPR stations out there. Or college-owned music stations that nobody would suggest are "college radio". Conversely, if you listen to WBSU in Brockport/Rochester NY you'd often be hard-pressed to know it's almost 100% student-operated (they have a professional GM who splits his FT status between running the station and teaching classes as a professor). They are highly formatted and tightly operated. It's a well-run outlet, indeed.<br /><br />WERS is different. They have a LOT of full-time staff for a "college radio" station (eight, including a FT morning show host) http://www.wers.org/behind-the-mic/the-team/<br /><br />And they don't really play the "underground alternative rock" or "freeform" formats typical to "college radio"...they're pretty much formatted as triple-A with a handful of specialty shows (they eliminated a lot of the block formatting back in 2013).<br /><br />OTOH, the station is part of a formal radio broadcasting curriculum at one of the best educational institutions for learning radio broadcasting in the country. So definitely there are quite a few students working there. While they may not always be in charge, they are usually involved with most aspects of the station's operations.<br /><br />Obviously I don't mean to take anything away from WERS. They're a great station.<br /><br />But I don't think it's really fair to just call them "college radio". They sound nothing like several other stations, even in Boston, that everyone agrees are "college radio": WMBR, WZBC, WBRS, WMFO, WUML, WZLY, WRBB, WMLN, WSHL, WBIM, etc etc etc. To say they're the "best college radio station" is a little unfair to all the other stations more commonly thought of as "college radio" and it makes WERS into a gigantic fish in a very small pond. WERS is a lot more like a WXPN or a KEXP. To judge by those standards, which may be more harsh but fair, they're not doing nearly as well. In fact, they're arguably underperforming.<br /><br />But again, they're unique. They MUST have students involved in a lot of their operations, so you gotta float them a handicap going up against major Triple-A outlets like WXPN or KEXP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-26422779859079182512018-04-27T14:53:18.256-07:002018-04-27T14:53:18.256-07:00Oh I'm such a moron. My apologies, Ken, you a...Oh I'm such a moron. My apologies, Ken, you are 100% right. I was confusing KCBI, which is a straight CCM station, with KTCU, which is more a college radio outlet (albeit at Texas Christian University and I believe they mostly are a CCM station, too).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com