Re: AM radio does live news!!!

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

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> From: Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>
> To: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>;
boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: AM radio does live news!!!
> Date: Tuesday, April 01, 1997 3:31 PM
> 
> At 06:36 PM 4/1/97 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> >Bob Raleigh just rips and reads overnight, I guess...
> 
> No. 'BZ carries the ABC Info news feed on the hour. I don't know if 'BZ
> carries local news during Raleigh's show, but several years ago, the
> overnight local news was prerecorded each night before the news crew
left. 
> 

Scott, you have the word on this?  I thought news was live after ABC feed
on top hour. I remember being confused as to why they would bury local
talent behind a network feed that listeners have come to perceive as *in
place of* local/live...

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