October 17, 2005

The #7 train was lousy today.  I missed my connection at Penn Station and got to work at NJIT about 1/2 hour late.  I gave my seminar on how to find technical information to the Civil Engineering graduate students.  You never know how effective these seminars are.  I got home and checked the New York City radio ratings.  WCBS-FM which unceremoniously dropped the oldies format on June 3rd dropped to 1.5 in the Arbitron ratings.  Most listeners of oldies in NYC were quite irate when the station changed its format.  It gives us a sense of satisfaction that radio listeners snubbed their nose at the new format.  Hopefully the radio executives learned their lesson.