The KeenerBlog

Random thoughts from the 60s and beyond.

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

In the shadow of Motown, Ann Arbor radio is evolving. WAAM's makeover continues with a new website. Not much local content remains outside of the morning show and Ted Heusel's Saturday program. Meanwhile, the old WPAG studios are again the home of a broadcasting facility where it's all about local. I stopped in to see what remained of my old haunts a while back. Gone is the second floor beauty salon and it's smelly chemicals that used to permeate the entire building. Most of the executive area of the former Washtenaw Broadcasting Company is now a yoga center. All that's radio is the large production room and the original control room area. It's Ann Arbor Alive, Jim Griffin's vision of the future, where we're all on line and the tunes come to our PCs and PDAs. Current magazine's profile tells the story of how music returned to the Hutzel Building.

1 Comments:

  • At 1:38 AM, Jim Heddle said…

    Scott,
    It's no wonder that the beauty salon is gone, since 25 years ago they didn't have a customer under the age of 80! We used to like to run down to Lucky Drugs during the network newscasts to grab a snack or pop, and invariably when you were heading back upstairs with only seconds to spare, there would be an elderly woman with a cane or a walker blocking your path and progressing at about 2 steps a minute!

     

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