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 changed so far.

It’s basically the same playlist (I’ve heard Death Cab, Feist, and Van Morrison over the past half hour). Their logo looks more like a radio station’s, less like that of a microbrew. Gone are the “You’re never more than 3 minutes away from the music” liners that would lead into commercial breaks. Apparently, the CD at noon is also gone, which is kind of a bummer, but they’ve kept the iPod Wedndesday bit, at least according to the website. Instead of Tad with his dry, Shatner-esque pauses, we have someone named “Rock” doing the 10-2 on-air slot.

I just hope they don’t get too much slicker – part of the unpretentious quality of WCLZ was that it didn’t sound like it was being run by sales staff, even if that meant it wasn’t always “perfect.”