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Got Dem Last Bastion Station Trust Blues…

Not that any­one but me cares, but here’s some recent news on the WCLZ/WCYI sale front. Via Fybush:

One more Maine note: WCYI (93.9 Lewis­ton), still for sale by the Citadel-spinoff Last Bas­tion Sta­tion Trust, has dropped its simul­cast of WCLZ (98.9 Brunswick), as that sta­tion heads for Saga own­er­ship. WCYI’s now run­ning an auto­mated all-blues for­mat while Last Bas­tion seeks a buyer. And the “Greet­ings from Area Code 207″ local-music show that was heard on WCLZ under Citadel own­er­ship is stay­ing with the com­pany; it’s moved to WBLM (102.9 Portland).

I actu­ally heard this “auto­mated all-blues for­mat” on 93.9 the other night on the way back from work. There were no DJ’s no voice track­ing, hardly any sta­tion pro­mos aside from announc­ing the fre­quency and call let­ters at the top of the hour. It was like lis­ten­ing to a blues fan’s iPod on shuf­fle or some­thing. It’s a shame it most likely won’t stay that way, because it’s really cool to hear some­thing dif­fer­ent on the radio.

Between that, the full moon clearly vis­i­ble in the pre-sunset sky, and my impend­ing change of job/career/industry, the car­pool home Wednes­day night felt like some­thing alto­gether new, alien, and exciting.

Oh, and…RED SOX FTW! ‘Nuff said.

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12 Responses to “Got Dem Last Bastion Station Trust Blues…”

  1. Jim Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 10:11 am

    I read a com­ment on WLCZ’s blog that implied that the sta­tion had gone off the air, but I think the poster just mis­in­ter­preted the post. Any­way, I went search­ing for more infor­ma­tion on the impend­ing WCLZ sale and came across your site. I’ll have to check out the new, albeit tem­po­rary WCYI while I can. I haven’t really enjoyed WMPG’s Evening Sun block lately, per­haps this will be dif­fer­ent? I hope so. Thanks for the information!

  2. Meet the new WCLZ « Isn’t the Light OK? Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 11:56 am

    […] by Andrew under Uncat­e­go­rized | Tags: radio, WCLZ |   Only days after 93.9 FM switched to an auto­mated, announcer-free blues playlist, WCLZ appears to have been taken over by Saga Communications/Portland Radio Group. Not much has […]

  3. The Sounds Inside My Mind » Blog Archive » Radio Ga-Ga Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    […] sil­ver lin­ing: I dis­cov­ered through this blog post that because of the new own­er­ship tak­ing con­trol of WCLZ, the simul­cast on WCYI is no more.  That […]

  4. Angie Says:
    November 6th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    About a week ago, I came across 93.9 WCYI and my radio has, for the most part, stayed on that sta­tion. I love it. I wouldn’t mind if it stayed just how it is. Prob­a­bly not practical.…but, I can wish.

  5. Chris Says:
    November 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    It’s about time! Finally there is a radio sta­tion worth lis­ten­ing to. I have not changed my radio sta­tion, or lis­tened to a CD since I’ve dis­cov­ered the new for­mat of WCYI.

  6. Ed Says:
    November 18th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    It’s great to hear a radio sta­tion that plays noth­ing but the blues. It’s about time Maine had a stickly blues sta­tion. Keep it going.

  7. Bub Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    A great for­mat! Can’t change the sta­tion. Hope it stays.

  8. Rich Smith Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    As I was seach­ing for some music early Sun­day morn­ing a few weeks back I came across a blues tune and my dial hasn’t changed since. A wish come true — The BLUES on the radio. It’s so good I wouldn’t com­plain even if there were com­mer­cials. Too bad it’s not going to last. I can only hope I’m wrong.

  9. Mary Boothby Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

    can you lis­ten to this fan­tas­tic radio sta­tion online? I keep get­ting sent to CYY

  10. Mike Lange Says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    I picked up WCYI almost by acci­dent about a month ago, and I’m hooked. I live at least 75 miles from Lewis­ton and the recep­tion up here is fine. Their playlist is a bit short but they’re play­ing some great music that no other sta­tion in Maine is doing on a reg­u­lar basis. Will the for­mat sur­vive? I can only hope.

  11. Dr. R.A. Lautenschlager Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Based on the post­ing dates, it looks like I’m late, but like oth­ers I was dri­ving along (return­ing from a gig with an old band in CT), on my way back to Canada when I found Blues at 93. 9 fm. (I picked it up north of Port­land and lost it quite a ways easst of Augusta. I loved it! The no com­mer­cials was great — but even with com­mer­cials it would have been wonderful.

    As a singer/songwriter and a guy who plays a bunch of Blues, both alone and with a four piece band called “8 Ball” — I was hop­ing I could get them to play some of my stuff — selected tunes (includ­ing “Kill My Axe”) avail­able at http://www.myspace.com/ralautens . So, maybe some of you Blues fans could tell me where to send some of my music so it might show up on sta­tions that you hear.

    It would trulely be won­der­ful if this sta­tion was around when I made my next trip to the US.

    Later — R.A.

  12. Dr Peter Hayward Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    WCYI is for sale; it is owned by The Last Bas­tion Sta­tion Trust, LLC, which bought it from Citadel Broad­cast­ing when Citadel Broad­cast­ing had to divest itself of 12 sta­tions to sat­isfy FCC requirements.

    Each of the 12 plays auto­mated music, in the case of 93.9, it is blues, except from 6–9 when, iron­i­cally con­sid­er­ing who cre­ated the blues, WCYI (93.9) broad­casts the homo­pho­bic and some­times racist Opie and Anthony show.

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