WJBQ Airheads and Senator Susan Collins
WJBQ is part of the dial I sweep past without noticing, up at 97.7. I use the lower octives, WMPG at 90.9 and WMEA at 90.1. The format is CHR/pop, which I can live without, and has nothing to compare with MPG's Chickens are People Too! for children's radio. I wasn't any closer to the CHR/pop wasteland when we lived in Belfast, it was WERU at 89.9 after the last musicologist staffed human operated classical station in Rockland shutdown.
Ignoring the mediocrity of the talent employed as local color by this Citadel Broadcasting property, they do well enough as happy talkers but as Republican media operatives are down-market from Jeff Gannon. They needed to do soft pitches and give Susan space and air to swing for the bleachers, but crowded her out with kwel kid me too noises.
Senator Collins forgot Dirego when the pitch was Senator Obama's health insurance plan and went straight to tax credits. She had more to say about Senator Edwards. About his private life. It is pretty underwhelming.
