PAT MONTEITH, GET RID OF YOUR MUSIC MIX!

[blackgold]

Let's face it.  I admire Pat Monteith for her starting WUMB and bringing folk music to the Boston area.  However, when she changed it to "NPR's Public Music Mix," the station started taking a nosedive.  It's nothing personal; I still like her.  But the direction that the station's gone has been a catastrophe.  I want Ms. Monteith to restore WUMB's folk/roots format and get rid of its music mix!  We don't need no clunkers on that station!

[freqlost]

I liked listening to "something pleasantly different" myself.
Sad they changed it to this unexciting stuff.
Their ratings don't matter if they are fund-raising well.
Anyone know how they are doing in that area since the switch ?

[kc1ih]

I’m wondering if blackgold is an alter-ego of notlob?

[blackgold]

No, I am not.  But I'm concerned about WUMB's future.

[dadgad]

Smells like a consultant
Somebody convinced her the music that built their audience wasn't the right mix to ensure future growth. At some point you have to replace the aging hippies who have always supported the station.

[mgpt6]

Speaking of WUMB, does any know the status of their CP at 91.7 in the South Shore and 88.7 in Southern NH?  Also, they dont list WAVM 91.7 in Maynard which they time-share on their web site.

[Eli Polonsky]

Speaking of WUMB, does any know the status of their CP at 91.7 in the South Shore and 88.7 in Southern NH?  Also, they dont list WAVM 91.7 in Maynard which they time-share on their web site.

Apparently, they got a separate new license for WAVM for their simulcast times.

When it rebroadcasts WUMB, it ID's as "WUMG, Stow", though that is also not listed on their website. When Maynard HS students broadcast on it, it's still "WAVM, Maynard".

I don't know why they would license their hours as a separate station, unless perhaps they may be planning to use WUMG as a separate entity to challenge WAVM's license for only broadcasting as WAVM seven hours a day on school year weekdays only, and then take over the facility 24/7. Purely speculation.

[blackgold]

I'm not a consultant for anybody!  I don't work for any radio station groups.  I'm a former employee who worked for the station and enjoyed its eclectic folk music mix.  Those were the times when you could play anything you wanted and get away with it.  With these NPR consultants(and I'm NOT one of them), you can't do anything anymore.

[CTListener]

I'm not a consultant for anybody!  I don't work for any radio station groups.  I'm a former employee who worked for the station and enjoyed its eclectic folk music mix.  Those were the times when you could play anything you wanted and get away with it.  With these NPR consultants(and I'm NOT one of them), you can't do anything anymore.

WUMB? Play anything you wanted? Please! I liked the station before and I like it now, but the playlist has always been limited. It's a professional-sounding AAA/roots/folk station now, as oppose to the professional-sounding folk-and-pretty-much-only-folk station it was back in the "Folk Radio" days. There's certainly a wider selection of new music being played now.

A similar metamorphosis has taken place at Folk Radio UK, the British streaming site. The emphasis there has always been new music, but it used to be all British/Irish folk or derivatives thereof. Now it's all over the folk/blues/Celtic/AAA globe and a much more interesting listen.

[Jimmy128]

Too bad for WUMB. I would listen to it for Folk only. Now they are trying to be hip and cool, but people are already listening to AAA on WERS and WXRV. Bye bye WUMB.