Re: those who covered the memorial

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In a message dated 12/09/1999 1:18:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
dlh@donnahalper.com writes:

> It was interesting to note that WRKO, WTKK 96.9, and WBZ, all of which you 
>  would expect to do so, covered the entire memorial for the firefighters in 
>  Worcester, as did the major TV stations-- which you would expect.  BUT, 
>  WEEI stopped down to carry a portion of the memorial as well, which was a 
>  surprise to me.  They don't usually stop what they are doing for news 
>  stories.  On the other hand, as Eddie Andelman commented, it was the right 
>  thing to do... (WEEI only carried a part of it and continued to run their 
>  commercials, while WRKO and WBZ suspended everything to cover the 
>  ceremonies wall to wall... but as I said, there have been other local 
>  tragedies they did not cover, so it was interesting that they covered 
>  this...)  And I commend WBZ radio for actually DESCRIBING things, rather 
>  than just relying on the TV feed.
>  
>  
WSRS 96.1 FM (Worcester) also covered some if not all of the memorial which i 
found interesting. did a good job what i heard of it. Wtic 1080 (hartford,CT) 
did not even if they are the news station. Though This was not a Connecticut 
story.


Good day...