Re: news on the weekend re-visited

[Bob Nelson <bluesradio_99@yahoo.com>]

- ---Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
>I noticed tonight that WBZ Radio pre-empted "Calling All Sports" to
continue to cover the Presidential impeachment issue

Though they had the Bruins game starting at 6:30 pm, and their
contract with the Bruins means they must
carry the game...

> do you assume that if people
> wanted news, they would be listening to a news station?    

I'd guess that many sports and music stations feel
that way. I think I remember WEEI having top-of-the-
hour news and sports during their sportsradio days
at 590, but now it's strictly sports, sports talk,
and sports headlines (other than the occasional
reference or joke about current events on one of
their talk shows, Imus included).

Not sure if there were brief mentions of the
impeachment on music stations, but I'd doubt that
much was made of recent news events on the oldies,
rock, country, smooth jazz, or other music stations.
NPR, to their credit, did do coverage (at least
WBUR had coverage of the historic votes on
Saturday afternoon). Again, "you want news, turn
to news radio".

And hope that the Bruins aren't playing.  :)
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