WBOQ Carried Metropolitan Opera Feed Tuesday Night (But No Local Telecast)

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

PBS scheduled the last of this season's telecasts of Metropolitan Opera
performances for last night (06/11) at 9:00 pm.  Channel 2 didn't pick it
up then, but will run the performance of Verdi's "Nabucco" Saturday night, June 15th.
Chevron/Texaco offered stations of the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network
the opportunity to carry it at the PBS feed time, which WBOQ-FM 104.9 in 
Gloucester did;  WHRB passed.  I suspect that stations that opted to
carry the audio feed perhaps picked up a few dollars, and WBOQ was
probably eager to get ANY revenue these days.  I don't know whether 
WBOQ promoted the broadcast in any way, so I suspect that many of the
listeners to WBOQ's regular programming (and how many of them are there?) 
were probably shocked to hear a full-scale opera on a weekday night!

Laurence Glavin



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