Re: Re: Boston's Newsradio Void

["Terrence M. Wood" <TERRY_WOOD@prodigy.net>]

Is that why he keeps putting them down?


- -----Original Message-----
From: Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>
To: TVHD@aol.com <TVHD@aol.com>; boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
<boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Boston's Newsradio Void


>I hate to generalize about the current Boston Radio situation, but....
>1) WBZ will never be what it once was, a locally run full-time news and
>information station, because the GM lacks the authority (or is it
backbone?)
>to go to a "Storm Center" during times of emergency. The people at
>CBS/Infinity only see the bottom line. I was surprised they extended news
on
>weekends to 5 PM. Their "Everyday" campaign must mean the WBZ day ends at
>5PM on weekends. Just as undergraduate required courses pay for most of the
>instruction costs of the graduate courses at most universities; why doesn't
>the income from drive time pay the cost of the "sparse" listening periods?
>
>2) Given WBZ's impressive numbers I am surprised a competitor (who's left?)
>doesn't try to eat away at those numbers instead of chasing formats that
>don't work (read: don't produce double-digit numbers). It's a perfect time
>to have an FM news and information station in Boston playing AC-type music
>interspersed with news every twenty minutes, 24/7. I am sure it would blow
>WBZ out of the water (at least the water that fell this past weekend!). Why
>not team up with WB56, Fox25, (Ch. 5(?), Ch. 7(?)), or even NECN to enhance
>their stature by promoting their full-time commitment to news?
>
>My 3 cents (sorry I went over budget!)
>
>BTW, For all you Dr.Laura foes, David Brudnoy has a PhD. in African
Studies!!
>

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