Radio WX

[Mike Thomas <nostatic@earthlink.net>]

I'm curious as to what happened to the New England Weather Service.  It was
started by the Chase family when they owned WTIC-AM & FM in Hartford.  It
was supposed to be an alternative to Accuweather with more of a regional
focus.  It's forecasts were on WTIC-AM and WTIC-TV (Fox 61.)  The service
was looking to syndicate to other New England stations.  I was approached by
them when I was PD at WLIS-Old Saybrook, but chose to stay with Connecticut
Radio Networks "Weathercenter" with Bob Harris.  Did Infinity/CBS/whatever
buy this service when it bought ARS (former owners of WTIC AM & FM?)  Do
they still even exist?  If they do, BZ could pick up the service to keep it
in house, much like they did when they dumped Metro Traffic for co-owned
Shadow.

Mike Thomas
WXLO & Mediabase 24/7

"Larry A. Lovering" wrote:

> On David Brodnoy's program last night, there was a discussion about BZ's
> decision to drop a sports show for more news on the weekends.  A caller
> asked this same question about Accu-Weather, and the response was that:
> 1. BZ would have to hire at least three more meteorologists to cover the
> weekends and nights and 2. Elliot Abrams is a long time (20 years plus)
> recognized name in the Boston area, and is known by name by most
> everybody (!) and 3: Accu-Weather provides weather 24 hours a day,
> localized for the Boston area (further response to no. 1).  Suits me.
>
> -Larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of A.
> > Joseph Ross
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 11:38 PM
> > To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: Re: Mind if I call you Bruce?
> >
> >
> > On 23 Mar 99,  Bill O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > > Speaking of which, I am still unclear as to why WBZ (radio)
> > doesn't use
> > > the TV meteorologists, opting for College City, PA's weather window.
> >
> > Aren't WBZ and WBZ-TV under nominally separate ownership now?
> > Infinity for radio and CBS for television?  Would that have
> > anything to
> > do with it?
> >
> >
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