Comments on: WMUB to become Cincinnati Public Radio station http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/2009/01/wmub-to-become-cincinnati-public-radio-station.html A podcast from Richmond, Indiana about media, news and opinion from a different perspective. Sat, 19 May 2012 17:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: James Reiss http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/2009/01/wmub-to-become-cincinnati-public-radio-station.html#comment-61069 James Reiss Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:49:10 +0000 http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/?p=110#comment-61069 What a huge loss for public radio! WMUB’s local programs were superb, unequaled. The area will lose John Hingsbergen’s “Free Advice” and “Mary Jo’s Kitchen,” not to mention “Interconnect” and “Forum.” Miami University now has the dubious distinction of being the only major Ohio institution of higher education without a public radio station. Surely Miami’s president and board of trustees could have developed a plan to save WMUB. Instead mega-infusions of money will continue to go to athletics and construction. Umpteen thanks to WMUB for the gifts it has given us over the decades. What a huge loss for public radio! WMUB’s local programs were superb, unequaled. The area will lose John Hingsbergen’s “Free Advice” and “Mary Jo’s Kitchen,” not to mention “Interconnect” and “Forum.”

Miami University now has the dubious distinction of being the only major Ohio institution of higher education without a public radio station. Surely Miami’s president and board of trustees could have developed a plan to save WMUB. Instead mega-infusions of money will continue to go to athletics and construction.

Umpteen thanks to WMUB for the gifts it has given us over the decades.

]]> By: Marymary http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/2009/01/wmub-to-become-cincinnati-public-radio-station.html#comment-61061 Marymary Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:55:01 +0000 http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/?p=110#comment-61061 My understanding is that WMUB will become a repeater for WVXU and will lose all (or almost all) of its local programming. IIRC, WVXU itself went through a similar change in 2005, turning over its operations to CPR and eventually giving up its WVXR New Paris/Richmond repeater (and all of its far-flung repeater frequencies). Almost all of WVXR/WVXU's local programming ceased shortly after CPR took over. With a few exceptions, WVXU broadcast the NPR feed and stopped making locally produced talk shows, music shows, call-in shows, etc. The WVXR frequency that supplied the WVXU signal to this area was sold to a Christian radio station several months after WVXU was taken over by CPR. The Christian station often bleeds over into WMUB's frequency, at least in my house. I can't get WVXU (the Cincinnati frequency) at all. Frankly, I don't care, because WVXU is no longer the station I knew and loved. WMUB was never as eclectic as WVXU, but it did have some good local programming. I am sorry to see it go the way of WVXU. My understanding is that WMUB will become a repeater for WVXU and will lose all (or almost all) of its local programming.

IIRC, WVXU itself went through a similar change in 2005, turning over its operations to CPR and eventually giving up its WVXR New Paris/Richmond repeater (and all of its far-flung repeater frequencies). Almost all of WVXR/WVXU's local programming ceased shortly after CPR took over. With a few exceptions, WVXU broadcast the NPR feed and stopped making locally produced talk shows, music shows, call-in shows, etc. The WVXR frequency that supplied the WVXU signal to this area was sold to a Christian radio station several months after WVXU was taken over by CPR.

The Christian station often bleeds over into WMUB's frequency, at least in my house. I can't get WVXU (the Cincinnati frequency) at all. Frankly, I don't care, because WVXU is no longer the station I knew and loved.

WMUB was never as eclectic as WVXU, but it did have some good local programming. I am sorry to see it go the way of WVXU.

]]> By: Thomas Kemp http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/2009/01/wmub-to-become-cincinnati-public-radio-station.html#comment-61038 Thomas Kemp Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:54:49 +0000 http://www.richmondnewsreview.com/?p=110#comment-61038 I'm sure that CPR will do a fine job of it, but what they will not be able to do is pay any attention to events in the "rural" listening area served by WMUB (geese, since when did our city become a cow pasture?). Lots of Richmond organizations use WMUB to communicate events. It was a stretch, but worked for Richmond to call WMUB a local mainstay. I cannot fathom any such feelings about sending dollars down to Cinci . . . but who knows. Media consolidation, from the paper-to-Indy to the radio-to-Cincinnati, it's what's for dinner. Probably, folks in the big time media outfits see that they have no chance to compete with a small and nimble media storm like the RNR, and are in full retreat. Step into the void, Chris! I'm sure that CPR will do a fine job of it, but what they will not be able to do is pay any attention to events in the "rural" listening area served by WMUB (geese, since when did our city become a cow pasture?). Lots of Richmond organizations use WMUB to communicate events. It was a stretch, but worked for Richmond to call WMUB a local mainstay.

I cannot fathom any such feelings about sending dollars down to Cinci . . . but who knows. Media consolidation, from the paper-to-Indy to the radio-to-Cincinnati, it's what's for dinner.

Probably, folks in the big time media outfits see that they have no chance to compete with a small and nimble media storm like the RNR, and are in full retreat. Step into the void, Chris!

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