Re: Here & Now now heard hither & yon

[Scott Saloway <saloway@bu.edu>]

And if I could bother you all for a small favor...

Anyone who's now listening to Here and Now, let me know what you think of
it in the upper reaches of New England...

I'm kind of curious what the northern response will be...

--Scott--


On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David W. Harris wrote:

> For public radio listeners in Maine and New Hampshire, Here & Now is now
> here.  MPR & NHPR started carrying WBUR-FM's noontime magazine today.
> As WBUR has carried very little in the way of strictly local programs in
> recent years (I believe the schedule currently has but 3 local programs,
> all on Sunday: the Marsh Chapel service, Con Salsa, and Boston
> University's World of Ideas), I expected when the station put a lot of
> resources into Here & Now that they'd try to syndicate it.  Sure enough,
> in addition to the Massachusetts and Rhode Island stations run from BU,
> WTTT Amherst (soon to be or possibly already WPNI) is on board with the
> Maine and New Hampshire stations.
> 
> NHPR's classical fans lose yet another hour of music with this move, but
> it's no major change for MPR, which attempted a full hour of news at
> noon back in 1997.  No sooner did they get it going than MonitoRadio,
> the chief source of material for that hour, bit the dust.  Since then
> they've used BBC material and public affairs shows like Cambridge Forum
> to fill out the hour.
> 
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