Announcing a new service: Where Am I?.
Have you ever found yourself looking at a broadcast tower and
not having any idea what is supposed to be on it? (It happens
to us!) The Where Am I? tool does a quick lookup in the FCC
database to find all of the stations near a given set of
geographic coordinates, and displays them either as a table or
in Google Maps. If you are using a location-enabled browser,
as found in many smartphones, it can automatically determine
your location using GPS.
WBZ-FM is now “The Sports
Hub” and WBCN is now
“Mix 104.1” WBMX. Scroll down to the bottom of
the profile for audio clips of some of the flips. Minor
updates to WBZ and WZLX.
We've been remiss in announcing new photo galleries here.
From last month, a brief trip down the Mohawk Trail to
the
Berkshires, and from summer 2007, Salt Lake
City and environs.
2 April 2008:
The BostonRadio.org server was down for a while today so
that it could be moved to a new location. Thanks to CSAIL's
Anthony Zolnik for providing a new (old) rack for the server.
There will probably be another outage later this year when the
server is moved to a more permanent facility. Also of note,
some galleries of old photos have recently been added,
including Upstate
New York, June 2001, Big
Trip 2001: Louisville and Lexington, and Los
Angeles, December 2004.
Donna Halper has provided an updated version of her essay,
“Some John Shepard
History”. Coming next week in the photo
galleries: a New York City day-trip with stops at WNYC, the
new Clear Channel studios, and WPIX.
